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• Stranger Suggests: Protest the Trump Administration, Bake Bread with a TikTok Star, and Dance Your Shoes Off with Remi Wolf

  02-04-2025 22:26 via thestranger.com
  
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Megan SelingWEDNESDAY 4/2  
  Seattle Restaurant Week
  (FOOD) This biannual event, run by Seattle Good Business Network’s Good Food Economy program, is here to help you break out of your takeout rut and find your new favorite restaurant. Here's how it works: A slew of participating restaurants, bars, cafes, food trucks, caterers, and pop-ups across the greater Seattle area serve up to two special menus for $20, $35, $50, and $65
  
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• Could the LA Fires Happen Here?

  02-04-2025 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Could a disaster like January’s wildfires happen here in Seattle?by Hannah Murphy WinterOn January 1, 2025, a fire sparked outside of Los Angeles, near the Temescal Ridge Trail. It was a minor fire, only burning eight acres of wilderness. Most of us in Seattle didn’t hear about that one. Then six days later, the Pacific Palisades fire started tearing through the LA hills. The same day, about 30 miles away, the Eaton Fire ignited. From 1,100 miles north, Seattleites watched for more t
  
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• Welcome to The Stranger's 2025 Climate Issue

  02-04-2025 19:38 via thestranger.com
  Ultimately, if this issue does anything, I hope it reminds you that our future is still ours to imagine.by Hannah Murphy WinterWe started imagining this issue last year, before Donald Trump won the election; before he started dismantling FEMA, the EPA, NOAA, and every other agency that’s trying to help us stave off the climate crisis.
  And while the country has changed in drastic ways since last year, our approach to this issue didn’t. From the beginning, we knew we couldn’t loo
  
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• Emma Schmuckler Is an Undisputable Champion of Comedy

  02-04-2025 19:22 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger Presents: The 2025 Undisputable Champions of Comedy!, Saturday, April 5.by Megan SelingOn Saturday, April 5, some of Seattle’s funniest comedians will take the stage as part of The Stranger’s annual Undisputable Champions of Comedy showcase. It’ll be hilarious! The lineup was curated with help from everyone’s comedy bestie, Emmett Montgomery, co-host of Joketellers Union at Clock-Out Lounge and purveyor of all things delightfully weird. And thi
  
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• Slog AM: Cory Booker Is a Badass, Trump Calls Today "Liberation Day," and Bob Ferguson Shoots Down a Wealth Tax

  02-04-2025 18:25 via thestranger.com
  Seattle's Only News Roundup.by Hannah Murphy WinterGood morning! We’re getting some sun this afternoon, and the temps will get up into the 50s. I’m sure April will pull the rug out from under us soon, so enjoy it today!
  It’s April 2: Did you fall for anything stupid yesterday? My local favorite was the NRDC’s “narwhal spotting.”
     
   
   
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• Vivian Blaxell Worries She'll Disappoint You

  02-04-2025 02:21 via thestranger.com
  But 'Worthy of the Event' is Worthy of Your Attentionby Katie Lee EllisonOn page 230 of her new book, Worthy of the Event, Vivian Blaxell writes, “steer clear of Suicides.” To that I say, whoopsie daisy! My life has been rife with ’em. Still, this book gripped me and stole my attention. Though Blaxell said that some have worried about her over it, that they hear nihilism in it, to this reader, there is humor, resilience, and a learned fearlessness of death, or perhaps pain (tho
  
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• City Council Passes a Nonbinding Resolution Decrying SPD Defunding That Never Happened

  02-04-2025 02:17 via thestranger.com
  This afternoon, City Council passed a nonbinding resolution denouncing the Defund SPD movement and acknowledging the city’s actions to reform our police department under the federal consent decree. The vote passed by 6- 0, with councilmembers Alexis Mercedes Rinck, Dan Strauss, and Cathy Moore absent from today’s council meeting.by Tobias Coughlin-BogueThis afternoon, City Council passed a nonbinding resolution denouncing the Defund SPD movement and acknowledging the city’s act
  
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• Mary Lou Gamba Is an Undisputable Champion of Comedy

  02-04-2025 00:35 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger Presents: The 2025 Undisputable Champions of Comedy!, Saturday, April 5.by Megan SelingOn Saturday, April 5, some of Seattle’s funniest comedians will take the stage as part of The Stranger’s annual Undisputable Champions of Comedy showcase. It’ll be hilarious! The lineup was curated with help from everyone’s comedy bestie, Emmett Montgomery, co-host of Joketellers Union at Clock-Out Lounge and purveyor of all things delightfully weird. And thi
  
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