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• Pop Loser: Music News, This Week's Events, and the First Song Sera Cahoone Learned on Guitar

  18-12-2025 23:40 via thestranger.com
  by Audrey Vann
  Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, we’ll dive into the luminaries we’ve lost, Brian Eno’s newest project, and my nightmare blunt rotation. I get to rant and rave about underrated ‘70s singer-songwriter Dory Previn. And in this edition of First Times, Sera Cahoone shares the first song she learned on guitar.Get Pop Loser in your inbox every week.This Week in Music:
  This week has been filled with loss. Singer-songwriter Joe Ely, who was known as
  
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• Ticket Alert: Alex G, CupcakKe, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  18-12-2025 22:10 via everout.com
  Plus, Ladytron and More Event Updates for December 18by EverOut StaffWe're wrapping up a final batch of tickets for you in 2025. Multi-instrumentalist and singer Alex G plays two nights at Showbox SoDo next May. Chicago-hailing rapper CupcakKe returns to Seattle with raunchy rhymes from her recently released album The Bakkery. Plus, British synthpop band Ladytron crosses the pond in support of their eighth studio album. Read on for details on those and other newly announced events.
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• Sugar Daddy

  18-12-2025 21:00 via thestranger.com
  Do you need to get something off your chest? Submit an I, Anonymous and we'll illustrate it!by AnonymousI didn’t mean to steal, truly. I stopped by a new downtown bagel shop this past weekend, elated to have a Sunday option for coffee, etc., as many coffee shops are closed on weekends in the CBD. The very friendly and helpful young lady at the window took my order—two bagels, a cold brew, and a tub of scallion schmear—then I stood to the side and waited.She called my name, I gr
  
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• Slog AM: The President Yells at Us, Power Outage in Snohomish County, Rep. Dan Newhouse Won’t Seek Reelection

  18-12-2025 19:00 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Micah YipLights Out: 400,000 residents lost power in yesterday’s high winds, and nearly 50,000 remain in the dark. The Snohomish Public Utilities District said it could take multiple days for power to be restored due to “extensive and spread out” damage in the service area. Snohomish County is also one of the areas hit hardest by the floods.
  The King’s Speech: President Donald Trump spoke loud, fast and angry during his 18-minute add
  
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• Seattle Music Scene Gut Check

  18-12-2025 18:48 via thestranger.com
  Smaller Venues Keep Closing Even Though They're Vital to Our City's Nightlifeby Dave SegalMusic venue operators still booking live music and DJs are miracle workers. So many factors are working against them. The cost of everything is rising and music aficionados' wages mostly aren't keeping up. Clubbing has become an infrequent luxury for many. 
  When the venerable Crocodile announced plans to shutter in mid-December its two downstairs rooms—the 300-capacity Madame Lou's and the 100-ca
  
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• Sara Nelson’s New Political Consultant Regulations Have No Teeth

  18-12-2025 01:21 via thestranger.com
  The Bill Is “Meaningless,” Says One Consultantby Micah YipFor the past few months, outgoing City Council President Sara Nelson has been pushing her final agenda: a bill to regulate political consultants. It made it to full Council on Tuesday and passed as Nelson’s last act on the dais. But by the time it reached the full council, the bill had been so heavily amended that it barely did, well, anything.
  Under the bill that council passed, political consultants must register with
  
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