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• Closing Time

  10-03-2026 23:00 via thestranger.com
  Why Recession-Era Art Is My Favorite Kindby Amanda ManitachIn November 2024, cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun paid $6.24 million at Sotheby’s to purchase Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian—the iconic banana duct-taped to a wall. Nine days later he ate said banana during a press conference in Hong Kong.
  If that reads like an inside joke with no punchline, you aren’t wrong. Mischievous Cattelan must have been laughing that day as the bids rolled in, but who was laughing to
  
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• The Old Rite Aid Building on Broadway Could Be Anything

  10-03-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  Are We Sure We Want It to Be a McDonald’s? by Emily NokesOn December 6, 1911, the Seattle Times announced: “The new Society Theatre, a photo playhouse, opens at Broadway and John next Friday night, with four reels of new films … music will be furnished by a three-piece orchestra.” (Next to an ad for 15-cent mechanical toy mice, and the “permanently useful gift” of an electric iron.)
  Nearly 80 years later, on January 11, 1990, the paper reported: “T
  
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• Poly Under Duress

  10-03-2026 18:32 via thestranger.com
  Got problems? Yes, you do! Email your question for the column to [email protected]!by Dan SavageDear Readers: I’m off this week. To tide you over until I’m back, the tech-savvy, at-risk youth pulled some classic “PUD” questions from the archives. A PUD, of course, is someone who is “poly under duress.” Because while some of us start out poly and some of us achieve poly, others have poly thrust upon ’em. These are their stories. — Dan I&rsquo
  
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• Slog AM: Schrödinger’s War, Grounded Planes, and Snow? 

  10-03-2026 17:30 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallMorning: House lawmakers in Olympia debated the millionaires’ tax late into the night and into this morning. Republicans have filed dozens of amendments to derail the bill, but Dems say they have the votes. And Gov. Bob Ferguson has signaled he’d sign the latest version if it crossed his desk.
  What, No Baby Sheriffs? A bill that would strengthen standards for Washington’s elected sheriffs and make it easier to boot those
  
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