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• Four Things I Learned at the Katy Perry Concert 

  22-07-2025 23:15 via thestranger.com
  A review of last night's Katy Perry concert at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle.by Audrey VannPhotos by West Smith
  I walked into Climate Pledge Arena on Monday night with extremely low expectations. I’ve never been a Katy Perry fan—songs like “I Kissed a Girl” and “Ur So Gay” rubbed me the wrong way even as a 12-year-old girl. Between her Christian fundamentalist beginnings, out-of-touch depictions of queerness, online jabs at other pop stars (which appear to b
  
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• Slog AM: Palestinians Are Starving, Trump and His Cronies Continue to Avoid the Epstein Issue, Betelgeuse Has a Celestial BFF

  22-07-2025 18:58 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Megan SelingPalestinians Are Starving to Death: This morning, Reuters is reporting that at least 101 Palestinians, including 80 children, have died of starvation. Doctors and humanitarian workers are also “fainting on duty in Gaza due to hunger and exhaustion.” Not only is food scarce, but Israeli soldiers have killed dozens of people as they attempted to access food stations over the weekend. Yesterday, 25 countries demanded Israel end the war,
  
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• PHOTOS: Everything You Missed at Capitol Hill Block Party This Weekend

  22-07-2025 01:11 via thestranger.com
  by Stranger StaffCapitol Hill Block Party swept through the hill for the 27th time this weekend. After the festival was blindsided by the Chappell Roan crowds last year ("at one point, the mob compressed suddenly, and I had a moment of realizing just how fragile my internal organs and ribs really are and how little it would take to crush me," Stranger Staff Writer Julianne Bell wrote at the time), it was a day shorter and 21+ for the first time ever. But for those of us who were of age
  
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