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• The View From the Cheap Seats

  20-07-2026 21:17 via thestranger.com
  
  We have looked forward for years to the World Cup coming to Seattle, and it finally swept through the city this summer. Much of Seattle’s effort to become “game ready” felt like putting makeup on a pig—a spectacle more than a transformation—but we were excited nonetheless.
  We hit the streets to document the tournament the way most fans actually experienced it: not from stadium seats, but from sidewalks, bars, and community hosted events. We followed the crowds
  
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• Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, July 20–July 26

  20-07-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  MONDAY 7/20Vanishing Seattle +  Collide-o-Scope(FILM) Two beloved institutions team up at Clock-Out Lounge for a celebration of Seattle’s weird and wonderful past. Pop-culture conservators/video wizards Shane Wahlund and Michael Anderson of Collide-O-Scope are back with Vanishing Seattle curator/documentarian Cynthia Brothers for a night of civic memory and warped entertainment promising “an all-new special concoction of vintage video, freaky film, and found-footage fun in cele
  
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• Slog AM: Spain Wins the World Cup, the Iran War Keeps Escalating, and Diarrhea Lettuce Mystery Continues

  20-07-2026 18:38 via thestranger.com
  Good Morning! After another weekend of perfect weather, the late summer nonsense is officially upon us this week: Temps will be in the 80s and 90s at least until Thursday, and we’re expecting a blanket of wildfire smoke from the Canadian wildfires to finally hit Western Washington. Now is an excellent time to dust off that portable AC unit, check the filters in your air filters, and remind yourself that this only happens for a couple weeks out of the year. In the meantime, let’
  
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