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• 23 Movies Worth Watching in Seattle This Weekend: Nov 2-5, 2017

  02-11-2017 22:56 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's film critics' picks.by Stranger Things To Do Staff500 Years plays Saturday as part of Indigenous Showcase's Resistance Saga.
  Nights are starting to come earlier and earlier, but the cinemas are a-glow with new releases and special events, including the Seattle Turkish Film Festival, God's Own Country, and the Indigenous Showcase's Resistance Saga. Follow the links below for complete showtimes and trailers for all of our critics' picks, or, if you're looking for even more options,
  
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• Tour de Triomphe

  07-07-2026 20:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Zookraught is one of the most exciting bands in Seattle. With every show, they pull more people aboard the Zooktrain, luring curious onlookers in with their in-your-face punky, funky dance rock. Three songs into their two-night album release party in May, the Sunset’s walls started to drip with sweat from the relentless mess of moshing, dancing, and crowdsurfing for an hour straight. I love Zookraught! And I know you will, too. So, as Zookraught prepared to head out on a month-long Europe
  
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• Harbor Island Studios Has New Operators

  07-07-2026 19:19 via thestranger.com
  
  Harbor Island Studios, the region’s only publicly-owned stage, has new operators. Kirk Nordenstrom and Kris Flink, the Executive Director and Director of Operations of the local film nonprofit CREATE48, will officially oversee facilities, operations, and productions. The news was officially announced on Tuesday morning by  King County Executive Girmay Zahilay, providing another temporary reprieve for the studio. However, how long the duo can operate the space is still in li
  
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• Third Railed

  07-07-2026 18:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Cis het woman here. I got extremely angry today because a guy I’ve been seeing (let’s call him “Cam”) in a MFM triad for the past ten years started to film me giving head to my other male partner (call him “Stan”) without asking. I only have two “third rail” boundaries, Dan, and one of them is no photography. This happened one other time, a few years ago, when Cam started videotaping Stan fucking me. Stan noticed and told Cam to stop. Both ti
  
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• Slog AM: A New Tar Sands Pipeline Is Slated for Washington’s Shores, Graham Platner May Drop Out over Sexual Assault Allegations, and the US National Team Ends Seattle’s World Cup with a Whimper

  07-07-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Boeing Lost Another Major Defense Contract: The Boeing Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), the radar-dished plane you may remember smoldering on a Middle Eastern tarmac after the US Air Force gravely underestimated their Iranian counterparts, is on the way out for NATO, Reuters reports. The US-dominated alliance chose Swedish manufacturer Saab as a replacement for their aging fleet of flying radar bases. Sweden abandoned its long history of neutrality (they didn’t fight the Nazis
  
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• The Stranger’s Summer Drinking Guide!

  07-07-2026 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle’s full of places to drink and lounge in the sun, but if you’re thinking it’s a nice day to chill on a patio, chances are so is everyone else. Patios, rooftop bars, back decks—they all fill up fast around here, so we cobbled together some of our reliable favorites for the next time you end up patio hopping. And, because this is Seattle, we’ve also included a selection of anti-patios for you sun-loathing, Vitamin D-deprived vampires (complimentary).Perihelion
  
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• This July, Eat the Real American Classics

  06-07-2026 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  This story was originally published in The Stranger’s July 2026 print issue. It’s the month where we celebrate the birth of this complicated nation, and if you’re feeling mixed emotions about how to commemorate the US’s semiquincentennial (250th!), I have a solid game plan for you. This July, I’m taking special aim at American food classics made even better by Asian American chefs in the city. These spots show us that Asian Americans really do be taking t
  
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• Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, July 6–July 12

  06-07-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  MONDAY 7/6Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Tasting Notes: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt(FOOD) We all know Kenji as a NYT Best-Selling, James Beard Award–winning author, chef, content creator, and newish Seattleite, but fun fact: He was once on track to be a virtuoso violinist, and he still dabbles in the classical sphere. López-Alt’s talents in food and music harmonize beautifully in his role as the impresario behind Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Tasting Notes series, and i
  
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• Slog AM: The World Cup Is Coming Back to Seattle, Trump’s Party Didn’t Go to Plan, and the Millionaires Tax Got on the November Ballot

  06-07-2026 18:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Good morning! The Fourth of July weekend is over, which means we have at least two more weeks of hearing surprise fireworks at 1 a.m. After some perfect, mild weather this weekend, we’re spiking into the 80s just for today. It’s a good day to remember that we’re surrounded by water on three sides. Get in it, on it, or around it. Let’s do the news. It’s Seattle’s Last World Cup Game: And USMNT is back. The US team is playing Belgium in the knockout R
  
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• The Stranger’s Noise Complaint: Episode One

  04-07-2026 08:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Welcome to Noise Complaint, The Stranger‘s new audio and video music podcast featuring live performances right here at The Stranger HQ. Streamed live and released every other Friday, we invite a great band, musician, or wonderfully weird act to perform. Tune in, discover something new, and support art in your city.On Apple, you can subscribe to the video podcast here.On Spotify, here.This week’s episode is IROIRO.Led by members of the inimitable IQU, Michiko Swiggs (s
  
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• Things to Do in July: This & That

  03-07-2026 22:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.West Seattle Summer Fest
  July 10–12
  If you grew up in West Seattle, Summer Fest meant the true beginning of summer. It meant running into teachers outside of school (gasp!). It meant cracking open my piggy bank to buy used CDs at Easy Street’s sidewalk sale, an ice cream cone at Husky Deli, and tacky accessories fr
  
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• Things to Do in July: Visual Art

  03-07-2026 22:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.Lotus L. Kang: I hear the hollow boom of time
  Through Sept 27
  Deep within the Frye, there’s a curious contraption: a delicate, industrial light- and color-casting machine made of yards and yards of 35-mm film spooled around a motorized, powder-coated steel-and-aluminum frame that slowly turns, scattering the soft glow of
  
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• Things to Do in July: Performance

  03-07-2026 22:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.Dolly Parton Fourth of July Drag Brunch
  July 5
  There is only one way to celebrate the 4th of July this year without looking like a nationalist fool: the Dolly Parton Drag Brunch at Emerald City Comedy Club. The club will morph into a utopian America where Mrs. Backwoods Barbie is our president, our flag is rainbow, and drag qu
  
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• Things to Do in July: Literature

  03-07-2026 22:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.Chuck Tingle
  July 7
  A visionary writer of such titles as I’m Gay for My Living Billionaire Jet Plane, Slammed in the Butthole by My Concept of Linear Time, and, my personal favorite, Pounded in the Butt by My Handsome Sentient Library Card Who Seems Otherworldly but in Reality Is Just a Natural Part of the Priceless Reso
  
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• Things to Do in July: Food

  03-07-2026 22:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Tasting Notes: J. Kenji López-Alt
  July 6
  We all know Kenji as a NYT Best-Selling, James Beard Award–winning author, chef, content creator, and newish Seattleite, but fun fact: He was once on track to be a virtuoso violinist, and he still dabbles in the classical sphere. L&oacu
  
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• Things to Do in July: Film

  03-07-2026 22:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.The Odyssey
  Wide Release July 16
  Elon Musk, is, as you’ve probably already heard, totally pissed that Christopher Nolan cast a Black woman, Lupita Nyong’o, to play Helen of Troy in his adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey. Indeed, Musk went as far as to say that Nolan, a moderate Brit by any measure, desecrated one
  
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• Things to Do in July: Music

  03-07-2026 22:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.Say Goodbye to Wall of Sound
  Through July 31
  Over the last 36 years, Wall of Sound has been one of Seattle’s greatest music retailers for people whose tastes migrate far below the mainstream. Tragically, due to an exorbitant rent increase and declining sales, the store’s two ultra-knowledgeable owners, Jeffery Tayl
  
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• State Supreme Court Candidate’s (Probably) AI-Generated Website Invented a Fake Sitting Justice, Who May Also Be an AI Musician

  03-07-2026 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Back in early April, as lawyers, judges, and governor-appointed justices announced their candidacy for the historic number of Washington State Supreme Court positions up for grabs this election, I noticed something odd. Attorney Scott Edwards, a lawyer who lost the fight against the state’s new capital gains tax now running for Supreme Court, Justice Position No. 1 against Gov. Bob Ferguson-appointee Justice Colleen Melody, either had his facts tragically wrong or had generated the text o
  
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• The Ultra-Improvisionist

  03-07-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle multi-instrumentalist Morgan Henderson has played baroque folk rock to hundreds of thousands all over the world with Fleet Foxes and held down the low end with hell-raising post-hardcore cult faves the Blood Brothers, reflecting his tremendous range and ability to adapt. Despite these high-profile gigs, Henderson remains off many folks’ radars. He still isn’t a household name, though the bands for whom he plays bass, cello, bass clarinet, and saxophone are. Not that thi
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Fourth of July Weekend: July 3–5, 2026

  03-07-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Whether you’re excited to celebrate the Fourth or you’re simply stoked for a long weekend, we suggest you soak up some sun at spectacular events from the Seattle Paddle Rave to Seafair 4th of July and from the Seattle Center Classical festival to the Tianguis Market. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week.FRIDAYCOMEDYXavier Smith and Friends
  No sports fans, Rams’ wide receiver Xavier Smith doesn’t do comedy in his spare time. This is Seattle’s Xavier S
  
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• Where to Scream in July

  03-07-2026 01:00 via thestranger.com
  
  La Resistencia Benefit Show
  July 2
  After getting an eyeful of art at the Pioneer Square First Thursday Art Walk, head to Baba Yaga for a La Resistencia benefit show with Tripe, Hate Knife, Mussel, and headliners CLUTZ, a clown crew of weirdos (in a good way) who rap about eating billionaires and “walking the line between cringe and cunt.” Sometimes dancing can feel just as cathartic as screaming. (Baba Yaga, 8 pm, 21+)No War. No Kings.
  July 4
  Those sign-wavers you see every Saturday
  
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• Welcome to The Stranger’s July Issue

  02-07-2026 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  We don’t know how it happened, but it’s election season again. The season when the Stranger Election Control Board, our intrepid team of political obsessives, drags our elected officials (and aspiring electeds) into our un-airconditioned conference room to interrogate them, eat their bribes, and, ultimately, tell all of Seattle how to vote.  We aren’t electing any executives this year—no mayors or governors or county execs—so this election is all about legisla
  
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• It’s the End of the KCRHA as We Know It

  02-07-2026 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  King County Executive Girmay Zahilay and Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announced at a Wednesday press conference a three-step plan to “stabilize, right size, and reset” the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) after a damning forensic audit found the agency was running a $45 million deficit and had lost track of $13 million in funds. The audit was bad enough that a few politicians called to scrap the agency. Wilson and Zahilay have stopped short of that, but the KCRHA as
  
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• Arts Districts Galore! Concerned Artists! (And Does Seattle Finally Have a Style Scene?)

  02-07-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Congratulations are in order for Georgetown, which just received official designation as one of the city’s five Arts and Cultural Districts, and to Pioneer Square, which received a similar (but different) designation at the state level, as the newest of Washington’s 25 Creative Districts. What does that mean, practically? Recognition opens the doors for more grants and funding, invites increased arts programming (and art tourists), and hopefully helps create and preserve a bunch of
  
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• Slog AM: US Soccer Team Coming Back to Seattle, Trump or Vance Are Not Coming to Watch Them, Amazon’s Carbon Emissions Jumped 16 Percent Last Year Over Data Centers

  02-07-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger’s primary election endorsements are out! You can read them here.The concept of fair elections has me feeling almost patriotic ahead of the Big 250, and boy am I pumped. If any of you patriots can’t make it to the Great American State Fair and are consumed by FOMO, try this: Find an empty public park, blast some Flo Rida, and salute the empty air. It’ll be exactly like the real thing (according to CNN, Trump was “enraged” by the thin crowd at his kickof
  
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• The Stranger’s 2026 Primary Election Endorsements

  02-07-2026 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  It’s that time of year again—time for you to get mad at us. The Stranger Election Control Board has weighed hearts against feathers, consulted the oracles, and spoken with the pentagram on the floor of our office, appealing to all gods but reason, to arrive at our conclusions. Dozens sought our favor, most of them fools. Guess who? Washington is what happens when a liberal wishes upon a monkey’s paw. Democrats effectively control all three branches of government, and store the
  
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• The Stranger Election Control Board 2026 Primary Election Cheat Sheet

  02-07-2026 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Read every endorsement here!FederalUnited States Representative, Congressional District 1
  Suzan DelBeneUnited States Representative, Congressional District 7
  Pramila JayapalUnited States Representative, Congressional District 8 
  Kim SchrierUnited States Representative, Congressional District 9
  Kshama Sawant StateLegislative District No. 11, State Representative Position No. 1
  Ashley FedanLegislative District No. 32, State Representative Position No. 1
  Keith ScullyLegislative District
  
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• How to Vote!

  02-07-2026 15:00 via thestranger.com
  
  OBJECT
  To elect the fewest number of freaks, weirdos, hacks, and losers to create a somewhat functional government.CONTENTS
  1 Voter Registration
  1 Ballot
  1 Return Envelope
  1 Pen
  1 Ballot Box
  1 Stranger Election
  Control Board Voter
  Guide or Cheat Sheet
  1 ElectionINITIAL ASSEMBLY
  Before filling out their (1) ballot, each player registers online at votewa.gov or in person at the County Elections Office in Renton or at a vote center. Players require a Washington State driver’s license, ID car
  
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• Smooth Operator

  02-07-2026 02:00 via thestranger.com
  
  In the summer of 2023, Aaron Lindstrom became a free agent. After a decade working in the chocolate industry, the former director of chocolate experiences at Theo Chocolate lost his job when the Fremont factory closed its doors. He decided to put his résumé to work and start his own chocolate biz, starting with importing ethically sourced, single-origin cacao from Colombia and Peru. But because his other great love is music, it would also be a venue, he imagined, as well as a dayt
  
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• Beware the Wrap-Thieving Ostrich

  02-07-2026 00:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Dear neighbor,I know you saw five-foot-two-inch me struggling. Stretching and straining in vain to get my fingers around the last spicy lentil wrap at our neighborhood Trader Joe’s. Its delicious sauce calling to me from the very, very back of the top shelf in the prepared foods section.
  Oh yes, I know you saw me trying in vain to use some inferior sub-type sandwich to grab and drag that spicy lentil wrap to where I could reach it. But did you help? No. Instead, your six-foot-two-inch ass
  
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