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• Genevieve Ferrari Is an Undisputable Champion of Comedy

  03-04-2025 23:45 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger Presents: The 2025 Undisputable Champions of Comedy!, Saturday April 5, at Washington Hall.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 delightf
  
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• The Women’s Work at Drumlin

  03-04-2025 23:00 via thestranger.com
  This Light ‘n’ Lovely Cocktail Foreshadows the Sunshineby Meg van HuygenWelcome to The Last Word, a monthly column about craft cocktails. Meg van Huygen talks about her cocktail faves—both alcoholic and not—their histories and their components, to lure you to Seattle’s dive bars and cocktail lounges that deserve your attention.Despite having lived in Seattle my whole life, I know mortifyingly little about Shoreline. There’s great food in Shoreline, of course,
  
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• How Do You Lose 3,200 Dead People?

  03-04-2025 21:45 via thestranger.com
  If you dropped dead in the middle of the city with no identification, the potter’s field would likely be your last stop.by Bess LovejoyPhotos by Billie Winter
  Cari Simson first heard the rumor in the early 2000s.
  Amid the dark, comfortable bars of Georgetown, and in other places where the neighborhood’s old-timers gathered, there were stories about a cemetery. It was a place that didn’t last, the old-timers said—a place where
  one day, all the bodies were dug up, and 
  
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• Keep Digging

  03-04-2025 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  If you ever feel like you’re trapped in a hostile environment, scrabbling around in a mountain of unforgiving rock and wondering how you can ever possibly make a difference, remember the poor, frightened gophers of Mount St. Helens.by Margaret HarrisClick here to open the comic in a new window or download it as a PDF. A version of this story was first published by Margaret Harris on Bluesky. Follow her at @drmlharris. The study, 'Microbial community structure in recovering forests of
  
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• New Music You Shouldn’t Miss

  03-04-2025 20:00 via thestranger.com
  British Neo-Krautrockers and an Ex-Seattleite's Sublime Balladryby Dave SegalEvery day, Dave Segal sifts through the hundreds of tracks that bombard his inbox. On a biweekly basis, he tells you about the two artists whose music most impressed him. This time, British neo-krautrockers Beak> flex their soundtrack muscles and ex-Seattle singer-songwriter Eliana Glass makes stripped-down, confessional balladry sublime again.Beak>, “SOS 5” (Invada)
  Over the last 16 years, Bristol, En
  
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• Cliff Barnes Is an Undisputable Champion of Comedy

  03-04-2025 19:50 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger Presents: The 2025 Undisputable Champions of Comedy!, Saturday, April 5 at Washington Hall.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 del
  
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• Slog AM: Will Trump's Tariffs Destroy the American Economy? Will Trump's Tariffs Save the Planet? Will Amazon Buy TikTok?

  03-04-2025 17:46 via thestranger.com
  Seattle's only news roundup.by Charles MudedeLiberation Day? According to Trump, yesterday, April 2, 2025, shall always "be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America's destiny was reclaimed and the day that we began to make America wealthy again." (So, America is poor?) What this comes down to, according to the ABC News report, is a "minimum baseline tariff of 10% on all trading partners and further, more targeted levies on certain countries like China, the European Uni
  
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• Stalled Out

  03-04-2025 00:00 via thestranger.com
  Do you need to get something off your chest? Submit an I, Anonymous and we'll illustrate it!by AnonymousShared bathrooms are appropriate for some public spaces! Actually, bars are one of the only places that I have truly enjoyed a shared bathroom experience because I get to chat with girls and if I have to poop at the bar I’m calling it a night. 
  Anyway, I do not want to share a bathroom with my coworkers or, god forbid, my boss! Imagine you have to take a dump at work, so you stealth
  
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