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• Negative Creep

  04-03-2026 23:00 via thestranger.com
  Smoke anywhere else.by AnonymousHey, '90s throwback guy: Your cigarette smoke is gross. And I hate having to walk through it to get my coffee.
  You’ve been asked—politely—by staff and customers to move. There is signage. There are coughs. There are stares. Yet you remain.
  It’s peak Hill. A neighborhood that prides itself on being considerate—but when it comes to shared air, asking someone not to hotbox the doorway is apparently a controversial take.We all share the s
  
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• A Cut Above

  04-03-2026 22:00 via thestranger.com
  Meaty finger waves.by Meg van HuygenIt’s prep shift at Hamdi, and the room smells like fire. Winter sunlight filters in, and there’s a faint hum of spices in the charred air. Chef Berk Güldal is giving a private tutorial on making Turkish Adana-style kebap—aka kebab—a meticulous, laborious two-day process that plumps up these peppery lamb skewers.
  Hand-mincing kebap is considered an art form in Southwest Asia, but this time-consuming process is being practiced less a
  
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• Why Workers at One of Seattle’s Hottest Restaurants Went on Strike

  04-03-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  Court documents show that behind the scenes, Sophon and chef Karuna Long struggled financially for years, resulting in bounced paychecks, late payments to vendors, unpaid rent, and lawsuits.by Harry CheadleOn February 10, Sophon—one of Seattle’s hottest, hippest restaurants—announced on its Instagram stories that it would be canceling its dinner service that night. It stayed closed through Valentine’s Day weekend, one of the industry’s busiest stretches, because of
  
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• Permanent Records

  04-03-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  Local Physical Media Producers Defy the Algorithmic Overlordsby Todd HammIn 1984, American science fiction writer William Gibson defined “cyberspace” (a term he coined) as “a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators” in the near-future world of his novel, Neuromancer, where human consciousness drifts through a blinding data-world of corporate geometries.
  More than three decades later, the English documentarian Adam Curtis traced
  
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• Slog AM: Remembering Lilli Moreno, US Military Is Bloated With Overpriced Weapons, Beacon Hill Station’s Pigeon Has an Instagram Account

  04-03-2026 18:49 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's Morning News Roundupby Charles MudedeLilli Moreno, I did not know it was you who was killed by a car on February 16, 2026, until a friend showed me a photograph at a bar not far from where you died. I instantly saw the Lilli who once asked me to explain the actual meaning of Schrodinger’s cat. A few months later, I also saw you operating a table at the late night art market at Bad Bar. We were, in time, close to the final hour of August 11, 2024. I bought one of your small m
  
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• What We Can Fix 

  04-03-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  Hanging on by a Thread with the Capitol Hill Tool Library’s Mending Circleby Nathalie GrahamThe four people at my table had their heads down, needles and threads in their hands. Behind me, books like How to Fix Almost Everything, Basic Electricity, and, fittingly, Successful Shelves and Built-ins filled one shelf in a shelving unit full of everything from surge protectors and spare keyboards to at least four different types of inductors. Down the lime-green wall, sewing machines weighed do
  
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• Ground Hum Fest Strives to Draw You Into an Alternate Reality

  04-03-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  It's an 11-Hour Extravaganza of Experimental Music, Visual Art, and Workshopsby Dave SegalIn a mere four years, Ground Hum has risen from an experimental multimedia festival at makeshift warehouses with infrastructure issues and strictly local performers to a full-fledged Happening™ at a legit venue (Washington Hall) with international artists. That's due to organizers Hans Anderson, Bobby Azarbayejani ('no hup'), and Alex Markey (Archivist) being savvy electronic musicians with deep
  
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