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• Welcome to the 2025 SIFF Issue!

  08-05-2025 22:10 via thestranger.com
  We watched more than 100 films in the last month (which, if we’d watched them all back-to-back, adds up to about a week’s worth of film. YOU’RE WELCOME).by Hannah Murphy WinterThis paper marks the return of The Stranger’s SIFF Notes: an absolutely (maybe manically?) exhaustive rundown of what’s happening at the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival. We watched more than 100 films in the last month (which, if we’d watched them all back-to-back, adds up to ab
  
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• The Return of The Stranger’s SIFF Notes

  08-05-2025 22:10 via thestranger.com
  HELLO and welcome to The Stranger’s 2025 SIFF Guide!by Stranger StaffHELLO and welcome to The Stranger’s 2025 SIFF Guide! We have returned to our tradition of “attempting to watch every single SIFF film,” and are proud/exhausted to say that we made it through every single screener that was made available to us, so that you, dear reader, could be a little more informed about what rules, what sucks, what is beautiful, and what is incomprehensibly boring.  
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• SPD Chief Tells Denny Blaine Beachgoers Legal Nudity Is Legal

  08-05-2025 20:15 via thestranger.com
  It wasn’t the meeting the Leschi Community Council thought it would be.by Vivian McCallIt wasn’t the meeting the Leschi Community Council thought it would be.
  Council President Ashley Martin stood nervously at the front of the crowded room at Grace United Methodist Church, wringing a copy of the council’s newsletter, The Leschi News, in her hands.
  “So to address the elephant in the room…” Martin began, explaining that this was originally planned as a neighbor
  
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• Slog AM: Cops Who Killed Tyre Nichols Walk Free, Gates Foundation Plans to Close, Ferguson Signs Rent Cap

  08-05-2025 18:34 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's Morning News Roundupby Marcus Harrison GreenWeather: Today will be mostly sunny with a high of 63 degrees. Enjoy it while it lasts, because the rain’s just backstage, doing vocal warm-ups for its big return in the next few days.
  Gates Foundation Calls It Quits: Mark your calendars for December 31, 2045. That’s when the Gates Foundation will be shutting its doors for good. Since 2000, they’ve thrown over $100 billion at public health and claimed to have cut worldw
  
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• Pooh-Poohing No Pooping Signs

  08-05-2025 01:40 via thestranger.com
  Do you need to get something off your chest? Submit an I, Anonymous and we'll illustrate it!by AnonymousPeople who have signs on their lawn “no peeing” or “no poo zone” and write on their garbage cans “no dog poop” are bad neighbors.
  I understand having a nice garden and wanting to protect that, but my dog has to go somewhere, and I don’t want it to be the sidewalk!! The small strip between the road and sidewalk should be fair game, and maybe plant flowe
  
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