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• Backpack Beware

  11-02-2026 20:25 via thestranger.com
  Signed, a former New Yorker, just trying to get home.by AnonymousSeattle, I know you are relatively new to the public transit game, but I am BEGGING YOU to learn some basics about rush hour travel. You're relatively okay at standing to the right so people can walk by on the left on escalators, but for god's sakes, TAKE OFF YOUR BACKPACKS ON THE TRAIN!!Picture this: It's 5 p.m., you're leaving the office. The train is packed full of tired, overworked, and underpaid people. You manage to squeeze o
  
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• Slog AM: Ten are Dead After Mass Shooting in Canada, the Trump Administration Can’t Make Up Its Mind About the El Paso Airport, and It’s Super Bowl Parade Day in Seattle

  11-02-2026 19:01 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Megan SelingToday, Seattle Celebrates: It’s parade day for the Seattle Seahawks, who defeated the New England Patriots 29–13 in Sunday’s Bad Bunny Bowl. The morning begins with a trophy ceremony at Lumen Field at 10 a.m., and the parade will start at Fourth Avenue and Washington Street at 11 a.m. Officials say it should take approximately two hours for the parade to make its way down Fourth Avenue to Cedar Street. SPD is expecting about a
  
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• SPD Policy Undermines Rivera’s Immigrant-Protecting Bill

  11-02-2026 02:05 via thestranger.com
  Unfortunately, nothing in government is that simple, and the Seattle Police Department (SPD) exists.by Micah YipCouncilmember Maritza Rivera has done something right. 
  This morning, the Public Safety Committee passed her bill that protects immigrants from our own municipal code. It strikes language that says city employees (including police) must “cooperate with, not hinder” federal immigration enforcement, and adds a section clarifying that they are not to collect or share pers
  
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• Pacific Science Center’s Boeing IMAX Theater to Be Sold to Space Needle

  11-02-2026 00:45 via thestranger.com
  The question of what that “IMAX experience” entails will now be top of mind for Seattle movie lovers. Many consider the Boeing IMAX to be one of the best places to go see the biggest releases of the year, but staff who spoke to The Stranger are concerned that this new buyer isn’t interested in screening first-run releases of Hollywood films, like Christopher Nolan’s upcoming The Odyssey.by Chase HutchinsonThe Boeing IMAX theater, the biggest IMAX theatre in the state, has
  
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• Pacific Science Center’s Boeing IMAX Theater Sold to Space Needle

  11-02-2026 00:45 via thestranger.com
  The question of what that “IMAX experience” entails will now be top of mind for Seattle movie lovers. Many consider the Boeing IMAX to be one of the best places to go see the biggest releases of the year, but staff who spoke to The Stranger are concerned that this new buyer isn’t interested in screening first-run releases of Hollywood films, like Christopher Nolan’s upcoming The Odyssey.by Chase HutchinsonThe Boeing IMAX theater, the biggest IMAX theatre in the state, has
  
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• Beneath the Mask

  11-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  Shapiro’s journey through the art world is a storied one.by Amanda ManitachSomewhere in Manhattan, sometime in the mid 1980s: a friend invited Ann Leda Shapiro to a clandestine gathering of nameless, faceless women at an artist’s loft. “Come to this meeting,” she was told. “We’re pissed off. We’re going to do something.” It turned out to be the beginning of the Guerrilla Girls.
  Shapiro kept the secret of her involvement for 40 years; she will still
  
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