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• The Stranger’s Cookie Countdown: Day 24

  24-12-2024 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  We're counting down to 2025 by sharing some of our favorite cookies on Slog every day in December!by Megan SelingMeringues
  Coyle’s Bakeshop
  It’s easy upon walking into Coyle’s Bakeshop to make a beeline for the display of croissants, danishes, cookies, and cake at the counter, but if you turn to the left just as you walk in the door, you will also see a small selection of coffee, jams, and other pantry items. It’s there, on the top shelf, where today’s cookie lives,
  
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• Slog AM: Christmas Eve Edition

  24-12-2024 18:42 via thestranger.com
  Seattle's only news roundup.by Hannah Murphy WinterIt’s Christmas Eve! Misty and in the 50s today, rainy and in the 40s (with an atmospheric river, as a treat) tomorrow. To anyone who didn’t grow up here it might feel woefully un-festive, but this is Seattle Christmas, damnit. 
  Who wants news on the holidays? No one, so we’ll keep it brief, give you some holiday recs, and then you can pretend your phone is just for Wordle for the rest of the day. (But if you need an excuse
  
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• Ninety Hands on Deck

  24-12-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  Just a few steps from the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s stage, sits an ordinary office building filled with extraordinary people: One who specializes in custom stockings, another who is a dye expert, one who’s deeply knowledgeable about period gowns, and another about tiaras. This is the Ballet’s costume department, and this fall, they’re taking on the company’s biggest show ever: A brand new production of Tchaikovsky&r
  
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• Mayor Harrell Seems Unbeatable Because His Old Political Opponents Aren’t Trying to Beat Him

  24-12-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  Mayor Bruce Harrell recently announced his bid to keep his job as “CEO of Seattle,” aiming to break a nearly 15 year curse in which no Seattle mayor has secured a second term. Despite several high profile departures during his tenure, Harrell has managed to avoid scandals as damaging as those that ended the careers of his predecessors —Ed Murray’s child sex abuse allegations and Jenny Durkan’s missing texts. But now, even in a historically precarious office, the int
  
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• King County Metro Bus Driver Shawn Yim’s Death is a Tragedy

  24-12-2024 00:36 via thestranger.com
  On Saturday, Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers arrested a man suspected of killing King County Metro bus driver Shawn Yim, a tragedy marked over the weekend with a vigil at the scene of his death in the University District. The attack represented the first killing of a Metro bus driver in 26 years.by Ashley NerbovigOn Saturday, Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers arrested a man suspected of killing King County Metro bus driver Shawn Yim, a tragedy marked over the weekend with a vigil
  
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