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• Bust a Move

  07-05-2025 21:35 via thestranger.com
  Crouch and bounce that thing God gave you.by Daudi AbeIllustrations by Naomi Likayi
  We live in a time where cruelty has become the dominant passion. How do we, to use the words of Hole, “live through this”? By, for one, countering cruelty with a passion that has been central to Black culture, dancing: the passion of joy.
  More to the point, dancing is one of the four original elements of hip-hop. In fact, between the show-stealing Rock Steady Crew scene from the movie Flashdance,
  
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• Seattle’s Prettiest Book Fair, a Newly Restored Queer Arthouse Classic, and the Legendary Nick Cave

  07-05-2025 21:12 via thestranger.com
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Audrey VannWEDNESDAY 5/7  
  Pink Narcissus (New 4K Restoration)
  (FILM) Watching James Bidgood's 1971 queer arthouse classic Pink Narcissus is like opening up a gaudy pop-up valentine—it’s an explosion of candy colors, glitter, and idealized romance. The story, which follows the fantasies of a gay male sex worker, isn't as much about the plot as it is about the aesthetics of the whole thing: surreal sets, extrava
  
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• UW Cries Antisemitism in Wake of Pro-Palestine Protest

  07-05-2025 21:03 via thestranger.com
  Monday's protest marked the first significant pro-Palestine on-campus demonstration since Donald Trump took office and began targeting, detaining, and deporting international students involved in last spring’s protest encampments. Thanks to this administration, the landscape for protesting in general, and especially protesting against the war in Gaza, has changed. And our local responses show diverging paths: those who parrot the Trump administration’s propaganda, and those who resis
  
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• Slog AM: India Attacks Pakistan, the Conclave Has Begun, and Rite Aid Can Burn in Hell for All I Care

  07-05-2025 18:13 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Megan SelingMore War: Yesterday, India launched missiles into Pakistan and Kashmir. India says it was in response to Pakistan killing “at least 26 people, mostly tourists, in Pahalgam in April,” according to the BBC. Pakistan says 26 people are dead, including a child, and 46 people are injured. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called the attack “an act of war,” and vowed to respond. . Pakistan also says they shot down five In
  
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• Bumbershoot 2025 Music Lineup Features Bright Eyes, Janelle Monaé, Car Seat Headrest, and Weezer

  07-05-2025 16:01 via thestranger.com
  Early bird tickets are on sale now.by Julianne BellWhat are you doing Labor Day weekend? Today, the organizers of Bumbershoot revealed the highly anticipated lineup for the 52nd edition of the annual music and arts festival, and it’s a pretty well-rounded list: Headliners include emo-tinged indie sad boys Bright Eyes, Seattle sensation Car Seat Headrest, Afrofuturist-inspired star Janelle Monaé (who stunned in Thom Browne and a monocle at Monday’s Met Gala), electropop duo Syl
  
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• Save Our VHS Tapes

  07-05-2025 02:27 via thestranger.com
  Libby Hopfauf and Annalise Nicholson are in a race against time, and against tape.by Vivian McCallPhotos by Billie Winter.
  Libby Hopfauf and Annalise Nicholson are in a race against time, and against tape.
  It’s a spring afternoon, and we’re sitting in the office of the Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS), a narrow rectangular room at City Hall. Old audiovisual technology is stacked to the high ceiling. In the corner by the door, there’s a reel-to-reel dictaphone f
  
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