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• A Forced Engagement

  20-03-2024 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  On International Women's Day!by AnonymousOn International Women's Day, outside QFC on Broadway and Pike, I was blasting my music, hands full of groceries, when you—a pretty person who to me presented as nonbinary—walked up to me and asked me to take my headphones out. When I did, you pointed out a man behind me saying, “Hey, he likes your pants.”Turning around, a man clearly high off his ass was shouting about how much he liked my skintight leggings. I thanked him and put
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Mar 13–15, 2026

  13-03-2026 20:00 via everout.com
  St. Patrick's Day Parade, U District Cherry Blossom Festival, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $20by EverOut StaffIt's gonna be a soggy weekend, but you shouldn't let a little rain stop you from heading to events like the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Irish Festival Seattle and from the U District Cherry Blossom Festival to Native Action Network's Native Art Market and Open House. Plus, you can get a Friday the 13th flash tattoo and Saturday is Pi Day. Check out our top picks of the w
  
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• Seattle Goes to the Mayor

  13-03-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  Do the Arts Have to Be an Economic Driver for Us to Give a Shit About Them? by Amanda ManitachThe opening jingle from Tom Goes to the Mayor was running through my head as I filed into a standing-room-only Wyncote NW Forum at Town Hall last month for the final of three public roundtables hosted by Mayor Katie Wilson’s Arts, Culture, and Creative Economy Transition Team. The mayor wasn’t there, but her rock-star lineup was: Northwest Folklife artistic director Ben Hunter as co-lea
  
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• Slog AM: Synagogue Attacked in Michigan, Snow in Seattle, Crazy Weather Everywhere Else 

  13-03-2026 17:30 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamUno Reverse: Oop, Mayor Katie Wilson has changed her mind on who will lead Seattle City Light (SCL) after blowback from the Seattle City Council and unions. Earlier this year, Wilson chose to replace Bruce Harrell-appointed SCL CEO Dawn Lindell with Dennis McLerran. Critics pointed out McLerran had no utility experience and apparently this is a must for running a utility. Wilson has decided to install McLerran in the deputy general manager ro
  
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• Fear Is Different Here

  13-03-2026 16:00 via thestranger.com
  Seattle-based photographer Nate Gowdy went to Minneapolis to document the Department of Homeland Security’s Operation Metro Surge. From January 17 to January 26, and February 13 to February 18, he photographed the civilian efforts to protect their communities from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement. This is what he saw.by Nate GowdySeattle-based photographer Nate Gowdy went to Minneapolis to document the Department of Homeland Security’s Operation Metro Surge. F
  
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• City Council Passed the Detention Center Moratorium

  12-03-2026 23:58 via thestranger.com
  Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck introduced the bill last month, as a protective measure after the feds posted a “presolicitation” for a detention facility in the Seattle area. The first draft of the bill pressed pause on permits for any new jails or detention centers in Seattle, but last week, Rinck had to introduce a new version, removing the word jail, “in order to get it over the finish line,” she told The Stranger.by Hannah Murphy WinterAfter weeks of delay, City
  
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• Three-ish Months as the New King County Executive

  12-03-2026 23:32 via thestranger.com
  Three months into the job, King County Executive Girmay Zahilay has already made some significant moves.by Micah YipThe executive’s floor at the Chinook building downtown had mostly emptied for what was likely County Executive Girmay Zahilay’s last appointment of the day. 
  Standing by a window in his corner office, he pointed to the American Hotel Hostel, a small beige building not far from King Street Station. “I lived there as a kid when it was a homeless shelter,”
  
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• Ticket Alert: i-dle, The Head And The Heart, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  12-03-2026 21:00 via everout.com
  Plus, Bumbershoot and More Event Updates for March 12by EverOut StaffIt’s time to put your “fun” budget to work with the latest round of show announcements. K-pop idols i-dle pay us a visit along their massive world tour. Seattle hometown heroes The Head And The Heart celebrate their 15th anniversary at Remlinger Farms this summer. Plus, single-day tickets and weekend passes for Bumbershoot are on sale now! Read on for details on those and other newly announced events, plus som
  
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• The Paper at the End of the World

  12-03-2026 21:00 via thestranger.com
  Aimee Lee Brings Korean Hanji to BIMA’s Artist Books Collectionby Bess LovejoyWhen Aimee Lee’s face pops up on my Zoom screen for our interview, her head is framed by something I can’t quite comprehend. It appears to be a tapestry of bricks. The bricks—persimmon-colored, cream, gray-blue—look somehow soft and light, as if molded from putty still wet and waiting to be touched.
  It’s paper. When it comes to Lee’s work, it’s always paper. But this pape
  
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• If It Ain’t Baroque…

  12-03-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  This is Cohan’s world. He specializes in old flutes and antiquated music.by Nathalie GrahamJeff Cohan brings three flutes with him to the Victrola Coffee Roasters on Capitol Hill. All of them are wood and modeled off flutes from the 1550s to the 1700s. Two are placed lovingly in worn satchels. Cohan slides one—a Renaissance flute—out of a PVC pipe. Often the TSA inspects this PVC pipe because they suspect he is hiding contraband in there. He isn’t. It’s just the flu
  
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• Slog AM: Senate Gives Its Final OK to Millionaires’ Tax, High Winds in Washington, A Kristi Noem Ad Campaign Cost More Than ‘Marty Supreme’

  12-03-2026 17:45 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Micah YipMillionaires’ Tax $$$: After that 24-hour debate in the House this week, the Washington Senate gave the millionaires’ tax its final stamp of approval and sent it to Gov. Bob Ferguson for signature. He’s expected to sign. The 9.9 percent tax on income of more than $1 million per year would raise about $3-4 billion annually to fund schools and other state services. 
  Trading Health for Healthcare: A third of Americans are skippi
  
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• Drag Race Episode Ten: A Design Challenge Love-Fest

  12-03-2026 01:03 via thestranger.com
  My prayers were answered: we got another Mini-Challenge this week.by Mike KohfeldMy prayers were answered: we got another Mini-Challenge this week. In the spirit of Paris is Burning, RuPaul threw open the library doors and gave the queens a chance to read each other for filth. Drag Race always incorporates the reading Mini-Challenge somewhere halfway through a season—y’know, once the queens have spent enough time cooped up together that they have plenty of dirt to dish. Funnygir
  
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• Shouldering the Blame

  12-03-2026 00:17 via thestranger.com
  Do you need to get something off your chest?by AnonymousI understand the desire to be close with our friends, lovers, and families while enjoying a walk with them. What I don't understand is how it came to be that, while running on a popular path the other day, I made physical contact with someone because two separate groups of side-by-side walkers couldn't be parted from their companions for the actual second it would have taken for me to run past. 
  I was running behind one group, and the
  
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• Goodbye, Sweet Prince

  11-03-2026 23:12 via thestranger.com
  Lucien Postlewaite, One of PNB’s Longest-Running Principal Dancers, Will Retire in Juneby Megan BurbankIf you’ve been to Pacific Northwest Ballet any time in the last 20 years, you’ve likely seen Lucien Postlewaite. He’s now in his 18th year as a principal dancer with the company—among the longest tenure for a male principal dancer—and he’s still seemingly everywhere: dancing Cinderella on opening night in a generous partnership with fellow principal Let
  
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• My So-Called Luddite Life

  11-03-2026 23:00 via thestranger.com
  Everything You Wanted to Know About My Dumbphone, but Were Afraid to Askby Julianne BellFor the last few years, I’ve carried around a primitive mobile device called the Light Phone II, otherwise known as a “dumbphone.”
  It’s a tiny hunk of gray plastic approximately the size of a credit card, with a backlit e-ink screen and the ability to send texts and make phone calls. Its other features include an alarm clock, calculator, calendar, directions, directory of local busines
  
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• This Must Be the Place 

  11-03-2026 19:15 via thestranger.com
  ANTiPODE is designed to make room for experimental forms, video, performance, and more.by Katie Lee EllisonI walked down the steps on the northeast corner of First Avenue and South Main Street in Pioneer Square and expected to find the founders of ANTiPODE at the bar. Instead, a live saxophone blast from a kid who couldn’t have been more than 15 hit me from the small stage to the right. Past the front room, I found Amir Amini, cofounder of the gallery space and arts center, in a back
  
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• Slog AM: Iran Pulls Out of the World Cup, the Millionaires Tax Passes the House, and There’s Wild Weather on the Horizon

  11-03-2026 17:58 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Megan SelingWild Weather on the Way: The National Weather Service issued a wind advisory starting today at 3 p.m. through 6 a.m. Thursday. Whether you plan on hunkering down at home or heading out to the Torrent game for Cayla Barnes bobblehead night, plan on lots of rain and “winds of 20 to 30 mph and gusts of 40 to 45 mph.”
  Trump Lied: Trump has been claiming that the missile that struck near a girls’ school in Iran on February 28, killi
  
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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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• Guest Rant: We Can’t Balance the Budget on the Backs of Vulnerable Communities

  09-03-2026 23:11 via thestranger.com
  Gutting the HEAL Act Betrays Washington’s Commitment to Climate Justiceby Dave UpthegroveOn June 23, 2021, a historic heat dome settled over the Pacific Northwest like a vengeful oven, sending temperatures skyrocketing from Juneau, Alaska to Eureka, California. In the diverse, working-class neighborhoods of South King County and Tacoma, Yakima and Spokane, temperatures reached as high as 110 degrees.
  Over the next few weeks, more than 120 people died due to exposure to extreme heat, making
  
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• Seattle City Attorney's Office Has Thousands More Backlogged Cases Than Originally Reported

  09-03-2026 20:34 via thestranger.com
  The city attorney’s office sees between 10,000 and 11,000 cases annually. “Knowing we have to not only focus on the stuff coming at us right now, but also tackle this ginormous, 5,100 case backlog is pretty devastating,” Evans says. Blame Damien, the office's old computer software.by Nathalie GrahamDuring Erika Evans’ first week on the job as the Seattle City Attorney, she told The Stranger that her predecessor, Ann Davison, left behind a backlog of around 1,300 cases. Bu
  
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• Seattle City Attorney Office Has Thousands More Backlogged Cases Than Originally Reported

  09-03-2026 20:34 via thestranger.com
  The city attorney’s office sees between 10,000 and 11,000 cases annually. “Knowing we have to not only focus on the stuff coming at us right now, but also tackle this ginormous, 5,100 case backlog is pretty devastating,” Evans says. Blame Damien, the office's old computer software.by Nathalie GrahamDuring Erika Evans’ first week on the job as the Seattle City Attorney, she told The Stranger that her predecessor, Ann Davison, left behind a backlog of around 1,300 cases. Bu
  
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• Stranger Suggests: Dark-as-Fuck Pop Music, a Horror Film in Pastel Colors, and a Primal Trip Out of Our National Political Nightmare

  09-03-2026 18:01 via thestranger.com
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Audrey VannMONDAY 3/9  
  Richard Hell (BOOKS) In his 2005 novel Godlike, punk pioneer Richard Hell reimagines the tumultuous relationship between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine in 1970s New York. Hell’s adaptation follows esteemed poet Paul Vaughn, a married 27-year-old New Yorker, and a newly transplanted teenage poet, R.T. Wode, as they embark on a messy affair full of acid trips, crashed part
  
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• Slog AM: We’re Still at War, Homicides Are Down in King County, and Gas Prices are Up (Way Up)

  09-03-2026 17:52 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Hannah Murphy WinterGood morning! It’s the first Monday of daylight savings, which means we all had a weird night’s sleep. And the weather’s no help. After a soggy weekend, the weather report promises a whole lot of the same. We’re getting rain all week, with a chance of wintery mix in the mornings. 
  Let’s do the news. 
  We’re Still at War: After US–Israeli strikes killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country
  
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• Hannah Sabio-Howell is Challenging Sen. Jamie Pedersen in the 43rd District

  09-03-2026 17:45 via thestranger.com
  Sabio-Howell’s pitch is this: Sen. Pedersen is quick to concede to big business before the politicking has even begun, and a corporate-friendly incrementalist like him had no business representing a district of progressive renters like the 43rd.by Vivian McCallA rain-soaked Hannah Sabio-Howell and I were at Gemini Room in Capitol Hill, ordering coffee and talking about breakfast sandwiches in Seattle. The few, the expensive, and the far away. The small, cheesy signifier that the neighborho
  
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• I Saw U: Hugging Outside La Dive, Buying Soup at Trader Joe’s, and Giving a Rectal Exam in the ER

  07-03-2026 00:14 via thestranger.com
  Did you see someone? Say something!by AnonymousIllustrations by Helen Nesburg
  three friends on the one line
  you and your friends hopped on the packed 1 line yesterday as i was heading home, but your black/blond hair combo got me, hmu?huggers outside la dive 1/5
  Seattle, we don’t hug enough. Or at least not like the two I saw last Thursday night. That was an EMBRACE. TY for keeping romance and whimsy alive.Drugged up and down bad
  Me: I’m the ER for a broken ba
  
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• In This House We Believe in Goblins, Gondal, Björk, and Hildegard of Bingen

  06-03-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  Mt Fog on the Making of Their New Album, Every Stone Is Greenby Audrey VannIf a Washington rainforest started a band, it would sound something like Mt Fog. Carolyn B.’s playful whispers are like a sprite luring you into a mossy forest; the rhythm section—Andy Sell and Casey Rosebridge—like raindrops plopping into a mushroom; the electronics shimmer like a ray of light through the trees. The Seattle-based trio whimsically marries the vocal stylings of Kate Bush, Björk, and
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Mar 6–8, 2026

  06-03-2026 19:04 via everout.com
  Seattle Women's March, Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $20by EverOut StaffReady for the time jump that is spring forward this Sunday? Before Monday's rough wake up call, spend time at weekend events from the Seattle Women's March to Seattle Fat Mall's Big Love Social + Market and from Chinatown-International District's Lunar New Year Celebration to the opening of Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads. For more ideas, check out our top picks o
  
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