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• Slog AM: Beloved Ave Resturant Might Be Replaced by a McDonald's, Beacon Hill Trees at Risk, King County is Growing Fast Again

  12-03-2025 23:50 via thestranger.com
  Seattle's only news roundup.by Charles MudedeSay it ain't so. According to U District Advocates, Cedars of Lebanon, "the oldest restaurant on The Ave," might be replaced by, of all things, a McDonald's. True, this is something rather new in this city, where the normal running of things is to give small businesses the boot for luxury towers that offer hoity-toity dining. In this case, it's the other way around: instead of going up, we are going down to a joint that basically doesn't really serve
  
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• Sandwich, Don't Kill My Vibe

  12-03-2025 23:15 via thestranger.com
  Do you need to get something off your chest? Submit an I, Anonymous and we'll illustrate it!by AnonymousThe state of breakfast sandwiches in Seattle is abysmal. Why am I paying $15 for a bacon, egg, and cheese? As a native of the NY tristate area and a former resident of NYC, it absolutely pisses me off to no end.This is not a luxury sandwich. This is not a sandwich you wake up at 7 a.m. to wait in line for 45 minutes to get. This is a sandwich for the people. It’s a sandwich for the const
  
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• Stranger Suggests: mxmtoon, Roq La Rue’s Grand Re-Opening, Lemon Boy, Nosferatu with Radiohead

  12-03-2025 23:00 via thestranger.com
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Julianne BellWEDNESDAY 3/12  
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  (MUSIC) I recently discovered the Nashville-based singer-songwriter mxmtoon via the adorable video game Dave the Diver, in which the player splits their time between catching seafood and managing a sushi restaurant—and in which mxmtoon, aka Maia, makes a cameo as a pixelated version of herself. It wasn’t long before I found myself enamored of her charmingly confessional lyrics and fl
  
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• A Film About Beating the Shit Out of a Billionaire

  12-03-2025 20:30 via thestranger.com
  See Swept Away at the Beacon Cinema, March 9–12.by Charles MudedeNow that class warfare is in the open, thanks to a certain billionaire, it is a good time to talk about Swept Away.
  In the 1974 film directed and written by the late, brilliant, Italian director Lina Wertmüller, when the “puttana ricca” Raffaella Pavone Lanzetti (played by Mariangela Melato) gets knocked around by the deckhand, Gennarino Carunchio (played by Giancarlo Giannini, a regular in the Wertmülle
  
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• Katie Wilson Wants to Be Your Mayor

  12-03-2025 18:25 via thestranger.com
  Katie Wilson, the General Secretary of the Transit Riders Union and long-time local progressive organizer, is running for Seattle mayor.by Hannah Murphy WinterKatie Wilson, the General Secretary of the Transit Riders Union and long-time local progressive organizer, is running for Seattle mayor. 
  This is Wilson’s first run for office, but she’s already well known in Seattle’s political spheres as an organizer and policy advocate, fighting for—and winning—campaig
  
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• Slog AM: UW Declares Hiring Freeze, Canada Announces Retaliatory Tariffs, and Gov. Ferguson Might Cut Food Bank Funds

  12-03-2025 17:23 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Marcus Harrison GreenWeather: Imagine a day of sunshine, butterflies, birds, and bees harmonizing in rapturous melody as blue fills the sky on the cusp of spring. Forget about it. Just like yesterday, today will be cloudy and soggy, with a high of 50 degrees. 
  Ukraine Ceasefire (Maybe): The US lifted its suspension of military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine after the country said it was open to an immediate 30-day ceasefire with Russia. The
  
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