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• Where to Eat for Valentine's Day 2026

  03-02-2026 23:00 via everout.com
  Heart-Shaped Pizza, Romantic Dinners, and Moreby Janey WongWhatever your Valentine's Day plans may be, we've gathered a bouquet of swoon-worthy options around town, from Big Mario’s pizzagrams to food lover's tasting menus at Marjorie and Taylor Shellfish, plus sweet treats from Ben’s Bread. For more ideas, check out our food and drink guide.
  Big Mario’s Pizza
  The year was 2001 when I first discovered the genius move of sending someone a message via pizza (see: The Princess Dia
  
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• Julie Kang Is Running for City Council District 5 

  03-02-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  Immigrant and advocate Julie Kang thinks she's the best City Council candidate for Seattle's "neglected child," District 5. But can she make up her mind on how she'd handle surveillance, homelessness and policing?by Micah YipJulie Kang slid a small plastic bag across the table at the downtown library coffee shop. It was an ICE alert kit containing a whistle and a short pamphlet, the kind she helps assemble with Common Power every Friday. 
  “It’s one thing to share information,&rd
  
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• Slog AM: ICE Body Cams, Washington’s Millionaire Tax, Good Seattle Movie Theater News  

  03-02-2026 18:26 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallICE Cams: In an attempt to save her head, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that DHS will strap a body camera to every federal agent in Minneapolis, and expand that program nationwide when “funding becomes available.” President Donald Trump is in favor. “They generally tend to be good for law enforcement because people can’t lie about what’s happening,” said the President, who ha
  
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• Remembering Judith Arcana 

  03-02-2026 17:00 via thestranger.com
  Portland’s own underground abortionist-turned-poet was a legend. She was also my friend.by Megan BurbankThis story was originally published in our sister paper, Portland Mercury.
  In 2017, Judith Arcana sent a postcard to the old Mercury offices in Old Town/Chinatown. I was the arts editor at the time—it was my first real journalism job—and after many stories covering local theater (I still think about the plays I saw at Shaking the Tree) and books (a reading at Powell&rsqu
  
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• Easy Street Records Owner Defends, Then Apologizes For, Sympathetic ICE Comments 

  03-02-2026 01:30 via thestranger.com
  As Easy Street Records owner Matt Vaughan has demonstrated, posting is almost always a mistake.by Audrey VannIt really didn’t have to go down like this. On Friday, the long-running West Seattle record shop and cafe, Easy Street Records, posted on Instagram that it’d donate 10 percent of its sales through the weekend to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. This was the store’s way to support Friday’s sort-of “general strike” without cutting staff hours. All d
  
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• February Things to Do: Visual Art

  03-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  The best February visual art events in Seattle.by Amanda ManitachWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.
  Timothy Siciliano: The Lunch Before the Détente
  THROUGH FEB 28
  It’s kinky, it’s neon, it’s fascism. Timothy Siciliano spent the past three years creating a suite of paintings that hold a mirror to our times—a campy hot take on corruption and carnival rendered in luscious h
  
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• February Things to Do: This & That

  03-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  The best culture and community events in Seattle in February.by Julianne BellWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.
  Tết in Seattle
  FEB 14–15
  Gallop into the Year of the Horse with the Tết Festival, a free, family-friendly event hosted at Seattle Center as part of the Festal World Cultural Program. Browse vendors and health-related booths with free screenings and services, check out lion
  
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• February Things to Do: Performance

  03-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  The best performance events in February in Seattle.by Julianne BellWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, and Food.
  Next Exit
  FEB 5–21
  Meet j. chavez, a Seattle theatre maven who won the KCACTF (Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival)’s National Undergraduate Playwriting Award (whew), for their opus how to clean your room (and remember all your trauma). Their new play Next Exit deals passionately, yet sym
  
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• February Things to Do: Music

  03-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  The best February music events in Seattle.by Julianne BellWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.
  Jade: That’s Showbiz Baby! Tour
  FEB 6
  I constantly annoy everyone I know by bragging that I was three years early to knowing about Chappell Roan, so I need you to believe me when I say that former Little Mix singer Jade Thirlwall is going to be a main pop girlie within the next couple of years. She&
  
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• February Things to Do: Literature

  03-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  The best book events in February in Seattle.by Julianne BellWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.
  Chuck Klosterman
  FEB 4
  Chuck Klosterman bucked himself up from tiny-town obscurity all the way to toast of Manhattan and staff position at the Gray Lady itself (though he’s since moved to Portland). Music scribing put him on top, but he’s branched out into broader cultural criticism, plus the occ
  
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• February Things to Do: Food

  03-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  The best food and drink events in Seattle in February.by Julianne BellWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.
  Polina Chesnakova, ‘Chesnok’
  FEB 5
  Local author (and former Book Larder culinary director) Polina Chesnakova returns with her third and latest cookbook Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora: Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, a love letter to the food
  
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• February Things to Do: Film

  03-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  The best film events in February in Seattle.by Audrey VannWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.
  The Pacific Northwestern
  TUESDAYS THROUGH FEB 24
  Despite the Western genre being associated with images of cowboys in dusty deserts, there are, surprisingly, a large number of Western films set in the lush Pacific Northwest, and SIFF’s Pacific Northwestern series is bringing these gorgeous movies to the
  
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