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• Two Anti-ICE Bills, One Public Safety Committee Meeting

  16-03-2026 23:30 via thestranger.com
  Kettle’s bill would ban ICE from staging operations on city-owned or city-controlled property, essentially codifying and broadening an executive order from Mayor Katie Wilson. Rinck’s bill would put a 60-day pause on automated license plate readers (ALPRs) immediately if the federal government made a legal demand to access the data to track immigrants or abortion seekers.by Micah YipSeattle City Council continued its crusade against ICE last week.
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• How in the World Are They Making That Sound?

  16-03-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  The Seattle Opera’s Analog Amplification, Explainedby Audrey VannIn January, I attended my first opera, Strauss’s Daphne at McCaw Hall. The experience was everything I wished it to be, though far less intimidating than I anticipated due to a lifetime of being inundated with stereotypes suggesting that opera was stuffy and old. My best friend and I used the occasion to dress up—both wearing black velvet dresses and fur-trimmed coats with updos and our fanciest costume jewelry.
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• Stranger Suggests: Star-Crossed Gay Love, Spring Flowers, and an Indie Synth-Pop Casanova

  16-03-2026 18:00 via thestranger.com
  One Really Great Thing to Do Every Day of the Weekby Julianne BellMONDAY 3/16  
  Conan Gray, Esha TewariTexas-raised pop star Conan Gray will bring his romantic '90s vibes to Climate Pledge Arena on Monday, March 16. THEO WARGO VIA GETTY IMAGES(MUSIC) If you can’t get enough of Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo, I hope you’re also listening to Conan Gray—he shares their songwriter and producer, the pop Midas hitmaker Dan Nigro (previously the lead vocalist in the indie
  
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• Slog AM: We’re Still at War, Mayor Wilson Benches an AI Program, and Anti-Vaxxers Are Still in the Government

  16-03-2026 17:33 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Hannah Murphy WinterWe’re in week three of the US-Israel war in Iran, and we’re deploying 2,500 additional Marines into the Middle East. As of this weekend, more than 2,100 people have been killed since the start of the war, including 13 Americans and at least 1,348 civilians. None of Trump’s options are good at this point: Continue the war, and energy prices will keep rising while escalating the death count and continuing to piss off his
  
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