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• Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Signs Order on Traffic Safety

  26-08-2026 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Last week Seattle politicians spent a whole lot of time talking about public safety, but one actually did something about it.The big news came on Friday when Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson signed an executive order on Vision Zero, the city’s goal to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries to zero by 2030. Numbers have been trending the wrong way for years—19 pedestrians died on the city’s streets in 2025, compared to six in 2016.Safe street advocates have said the Seattle D
  
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• Seattle Copes with Dolly Parton’s Death

  26-08-2026 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Around 10:53 am on Tuesday, August 25, news broke that Dolly Parton, the Queen of Country, died in Nashville at 80. I raced to Scarecrow Video and scrambled upstairs to the Musicals section to grab a copy of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas before it was gone. On the television above the register, Rhinestone, the 1984 romcom in which Parton stars opposite Sylvester Stallone, was on. Her angelic cloud of platinum curls glittered in a dark bar on screen.I wasn’t the only one in a rush fo
  
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• Pop Loser: RIP ZZ Top Drummer Frank Beard, Sub Pop Expands Retail Empire, a Troubling Exposé of Ex-Maktub Frontman Reggie Watts

  26-08-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Welcome back to Pop Loser. I’m filling in for Audrey Vann again. In this week’s column, we mourn the sad passing of ZZ Top’s drummer since 1969, Frank Beard, note the expansion of Sub Pop Records’ retail empire, discuss King Youngblood leader Cameron Lavi-Jones’s newly launched youth voter outreach program, and recoil in horror at a recent Rolling Stone article that reveals some disturbing aspects of former Seattle musician/comedian Reggie Watts.
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• Slog AM: Dolly Parton Died, Tim Curry Died, I’m Too Sad to Do the Real News

  26-08-2026 18:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Yesterday, Dolly Parton died. I can’t think of another person who was so widely beloved. It felt like a global day of mourning as thousands of tributes poured in from every direction. I loved her, too. So yes, we’ll do the news this morning, but let’s also remember just a few of the ways in which Dolly Parton was an anomaly, an angel, a once-in-a-lifetime talent, and a once-in-a-lifetime human being. She maneuvered sexism in the music and film industry with humor and grace, an
  
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