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• When Will Seattle Reckon with Its Own Racism? 

  11-03-2025 22:47 via thestranger.com
  On a cold February night, Mary Jane Pepper Lawson was walking outside an apartment building on Union Street on Seattle’s First Hill. According to charging documents from the King County Prosecutor’s office, Lawson heard a man hurling the N-word at her. Lawson described him leaping over a railing and running toward her. Before she could react, she told first responders, the man hit her, knocking her to the ground. While she was down, she said, he continued to punch and kick her before
  
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• Our Favorite Cosplay From Emerald City Comic Con 2025

  11-03-2025 19:16
  “I made this myself out of cardboard and tape last summer.”by West SmithPhotos by West Smith
  This weekend, when I walked into Emerald City Comic Con at the Seattle Convention Center to pick up my badge, I heard a girl behind me say to her friend, “Welcome to my homeland.”
  The convention center is just a series of escalators held together by a Taco Del Mar and a Gyro Stop in the basement, but I get what she’s saying. If this is your first time attending a convention
  
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• Unstable Foundation

  11-03-2025 18:20
  
  Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei will be on display at Seattle Art Museum March 12–September 7.by Charles MudedeThis story appears in our Spring Art + Performance 2025 Issue, published on March 5, 2025.
  The title of Seattle Art Museum’s Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei has Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot as its inspiration. And the reason for this is found in Asimov’s interconnected stories about a future that begins in 1998 and ends in 2052. I, Robot
  
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• Slog AM: Trump Cracks Down on Colleges, Some Good Karen Energy, and the Tariff's Escalate. Again. 

  11-03-2025 17:29
  The Stranger's morning news roundupby Hannah Murphy WinterGood Morning! It’s winter again, but the normal Seattle-y winter we’re used to. High around 50, rain in the evening. It’s the kind of weather you can get used to. Which is good—we’ve got the same forecast for at least the next 10 days. Settle in!
  College Crackdown: Yesterday, the Department of Education sent warning letters to 60 US colleges and universities, letting them know that they could face repercussio
  
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• Slog AM: Trump Cracks Down on Colleges, Some Good Karen Energy, and the Tariff's Escalate Again

  11-03-2025 17:29
  The Stranger's morning news roundupby Hannah Murphy WinterGood Morning! It’s winter again, but the normal Seattle-y winter we’re used to. High around 50, rain in the evening. It’s the kind of weather you can get used to. Which is good—we’ve got the same forecast for at least the next 10 days. Settle in!
  College Crackdown: Yesterday, the Department of Education sent warning letters to 60 US colleges and universities, letting them know that they could face repercussio
  
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• Runaway, Bride!

  11-03-2025 16:56 via thestranger.com
  Got problems? Yes, you do! Email your question for the column to [email protected]!by Dan SavageI’m a 28-year-old woman married to my husband, a 29-year-old man, for almost two years, and we still haven’t had sex. We met through mutual friends, dated for less than a year, and we knew pretty quickly that we wanted to get married. Things between us felt right. We genuinely liked each other, and everything felt pretty great. On our wedding night, we decided to leave the hotel ear
  
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• Watch Where You Step

  11-03-2025 00:00 via thestranger.com
  
  See 'artists & poets' at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery through April 19.by Rachel KesslerThis story appears in our Spring Art + Performance 2025 Issue, published on March 5, 2025.
  GALLERY A: Cauleen Smith The Wanda Coleman Songbook, 2024
  Oh shit, it is that time of year. Dead of grey-gloom winter, freezing rain, and everybody falling dowwn on the tightly packed bricks of the University of Washington’s Red Square. Slippery, so slippery in the rain because it was designed that way in t
  
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