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• St. Rat, An Artistic Critique

  13-08-2025 23:58 via thestranger.com
  St. Rat, of the Cal Anderson Park's Hot Rat Summer mosaic in Seattle, Washington, mimics a religious object. The Stranger asked Seattle University art historian Ken Allen and Dr. Kristen Doll of the school's Department of Theology and Religious Studies about what it meant. Allen told The Stranger it reminded him of the Rat Bastard Protective Association, a mid-50s art movement on the West Coast, as well as beat writers like Jack Kerouac. Doll said mosaics are common in religious art, but St. Rat
  
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• Floor Plan Frustration

  13-08-2025 23:00 via thestranger.com
  Do you need to get something off your chest? Submit an I, Anonymous and we'll illustrate it!by AnonymousSo, renting in Seattle and the surrounding areas? A masterclass in financial masochism. Imagine shelling out over $3,000 a month for a two-bedroom apartment—and no, it doesn’t come with gold-plated sinks or a rooftop champagne fountain. Instead, you get the thrilling experience of living in a time capsule from 1994, complete with white and honey oak cabinets and laminate countertop
  
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• Are Seattle’s Arsonists High on Pyro?

  13-08-2025 20:45 via thestranger.com
  Everywhere I look, I see Octavia Butler.by Charles MudedeEverywhere I look, I see Octavia Butler. For example, not too long ago, a prominent funeral home in my part of town, Columbia City, was almost completely destroyed by an arsonist who was caught in the act by a video camera that was monitoring traffic on the intersection of Rainier and Alaska. Footage shows that he threw some fiery thing into the building’s window, it exploded, and he fled the scene with an air that can only be descri
  
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• Slog AM: The National Guard Is in DC, Seattle Eyes More Cop Cameras, and Laura Loomer Explains the Roast Beef Euphemism

  13-08-2025 18:58 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Megan SelingThe National Guard Has Landed: US troops arrived in Washington DC last night on Trump’s orders to put a stop to “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse” in a city where crime is at a 30-year low. According to known liar Karoline Leavitt, “...850 officers and agents were surged across the city. They made a total of 23 arrests, including multiple other contacts.” At least one of those arrests was for “fa
  
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• Fire at Ballard Collective Burns Businesses, Studios, and Gallery

  13-08-2025 02:23 via thestranger.com
  The Seattle Fire Department estimates the fire caused $70,000 worth of damage.by Vivian McCallGraham Franciose, owner of Get Nice Gallery at the Ballard Collective, says the fire that destroyed his gallery Friday night started in the dumpster outside the window of his studio. Then it crawled up to the roof and filled the building with thick smoke, rendering every studio inside totally unusable, and displacing more than a dozen local artists.
  Franciose’s photos show the aftermath at Get Nic
  
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