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• Drag Race Episode Five: Return of Rate-A-Queen

  02-02-2026 21:11 via thestranger.com
  Episode Five tapped the brakes on Season 18 with the Rate-A-Queen Talent Show. This two-episode story arc suspends the conventional Drag Race challenges and culminates in only a single elimination, but we get to see the queens in a solo performance format.After last week’s “Faintgate,” I am absolutely ready for a gay-ass variety show.by Mike KohfeldEpisode Five tapped the brakes on Season 18 with the Rate-A-Queen Talent Show. This two-episode story arc suspends the convent
  
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• Stranger Suggests: A Surreal Queer Western, Nose Poems, and The Next Main Pop Girlie

  02-02-2026 19:55 via thestranger.com
  One Really Great Thing to Do Every Day of the Weekby Julianne BellMONDAY 2/2  
  Rituals of Mine with LabRats & Rose PeakSee Rituals of Mine play her brand of electronic-influenced alt-R&B at Baba Yaga. JEFFREY LATOUR(MUSIC) Terra Lopez has been making electronic-influenced alt-R&B since 2010—first under the moniker Sister Crayon, then changing the project’s name to Rituals of Mine in 2016. That year was a landmark one for the group, touring with alternative metal
  
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• Slog AM: Everyone Protested ICE This Weekend, Liam Ramos Is Home, and the Department of Homeland Security Is Afraid of Memes

  02-02-2026 18:43 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Hannah Murphy WinterGood Morning and Happy Groundhog Day! Phil saw his shadow this morning, so the fates have promised us another six weeks of winter. Which makes sense. It’s February. 
  ICE Out: From New York to Kansas City to Portland to Seattle, everyone hit the streets this weekend. The marches came out of an amorphous social media call for a “general strike” on Friday, but after spending the entirety of January watching
  
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