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• Police ‘bait-bike’ program hooks thieves in Eugene

  16-07-2018 18:09
  EUGENE, Ore. — The Eugene Police Department’s “bait bike” program has led to some recent arrests, but officials say the goal of the program is to plant a seed of doubt in the minds of would-be thieves. Sgt. Wayne Dorman says police leave the bait bikes equipped with tracking technology in high-crime areas or places […]
  
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• February Things to Do: Visual Art

  03-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  The best February visual art events in Seattle.by Amanda ManitachWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.
  Timothy Siciliano: The Lunch Before the Détente
  THROUGH FEB 28
  It’s kinky, it’s neon, it’s fascism. Timothy Siciliano spent the past three years creating a suite of paintings that hold a mirror to our times—a campy hot take on corruption and carnival rendered in luscious h
  
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• February Things to Do: This & That

  03-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  The best culture and community events in Seattle in February.by Julianne BellWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.
  Tết in Seattle
  FEB 14–15
  Gallop into the Year of the Horse with the Tết Festival, a free, family-friendly event hosted at Seattle Center as part of the Festal World Cultural Program. Browse vendors and health-related booths with free screenings and services, check out lion
  
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• February Things to Do: Performance

  03-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  The best performance events in February in Seattle.by Julianne BellWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, and Food.
  Next Exit
  FEB 5–21
  Meet j. chavez, a Seattle theatre maven who won the KCACTF (Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival)’s National Undergraduate Playwriting Award (whew), for their opus how to clean your room (and remember all your trauma). Their new play Next Exit deals passionately, yet sym
  
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• February Things to Do: Music

  03-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  The best February music events in Seattle.by Julianne BellWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.
  Jade: That’s Showbiz Baby! Tour
  FEB 6
  I constantly annoy everyone I know by bragging that I was three years early to knowing about Chappell Roan, so I need you to believe me when I say that former Little Mix singer Jade Thirlwall is going to be a main pop girlie within the next couple of years. She&
  
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• February Things to Do: Literature

  03-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  The best book events in February in Seattle.by Julianne BellWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.
  Chuck Klosterman
  FEB 4
  Chuck Klosterman bucked himself up from tiny-town obscurity all the way to toast of Manhattan and staff position at the Gray Lady itself (though he’s since moved to Portland). Music scribing put him on top, but he’s branched out into broader cultural criticism, plus the occ
  
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• February Things to Do: Food

  03-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  The best food and drink events in Seattle in February.by Julianne BellWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.
  Polina Chesnakova, ‘Chesnok’
  FEB 5
  Local author (and former Book Larder culinary director) Polina Chesnakova returns with her third and latest cookbook Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora: Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, a love letter to the food
  
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• February Things to Do: Film

  03-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  The best film events in February in Seattle.by Audrey VannWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.
  The Pacific Northwestern
  TUESDAYS THROUGH FEB 24
  Despite the Western genre being associated with images of cowboys in dusty deserts, there are, surprisingly, a large number of Western films set in the lush Pacific Northwest, and SIFF’s Pacific Northwestern series is bringing these gorgeous movies to the
  
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• Drag Race Episode Five: Return of Rate-A-Queen

  02-02-2026 21:11 via thestranger.com
  Episode Five tapped the brakes on Season 18 with the Rate-A-Queen Talent Show. This two-episode story arc suspends the conventional Drag Race challenges and culminates in only a single elimination, but we get to see the queens in a solo performance format.After last week’s “Faintgate,” I am absolutely ready for a gay-ass variety show.by Mike KohfeldEpisode Five tapped the brakes on Season 18 with the Rate-A-Queen Talent Show. This two-episode story arc suspends the convent
  
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• Stranger Suggests: A Surreal Queer Western, Nose Poems, and The Next Main Pop Girlie

  02-02-2026 19:55 via thestranger.com
  One Really Great Thing to Do Every Day of the Weekby Julianne BellMONDAY 2/2  
  Rituals of Mine with LabRats & Rose PeakSee Rituals of Mine play her brand of electronic-influenced alt-R&B at Baba Yaga. JEFFREY LATOUR(MUSIC) Terra Lopez has been making electronic-influenced alt-R&B since 2010—first under the moniker Sister Crayon, then changing the project’s name to Rituals of Mine in 2016. That year was a landmark one for the group, touring with alternative metal
  
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• Slog AM: Everyone Protested ICE This Weekend, Liam Ramos Is Home, and the Department of Homeland Security Is Afraid of Memes

  02-02-2026 18:43 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Hannah Murphy WinterGood Morning and Happy Groundhog Day! Phil saw his shadow this morning, so the fates have promised us another six weeks of winter. Which makes sense. It’s February. 
  ICE Out: From New York to Kansas City to Portland to Seattle, everyone hit the streets this weekend. The marches came out of an amorphous social media call for a “general strike” on Friday, but after spending the entirety of January watching
  
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• The Best Things To Do in Seattle This Month: February 2026

  31-01-2026 19:00 via everout.com
  Cardi B, The Wiz, and Moreby EverOut StaffFebruary may be the shortest month of the year, but there's no shortage of exceptional things to do. In addition to big dates like Black History Month, Lunar New Year, Valentine's Day, and the Super Bowl (GO HAWKS!), there's the usual array of concerts, major author appearances, food & drink events, and more. Find all of February's highlights below, with events from Cardi B to The Head and the Heart with the Seattle Symphony and from The Wiz to
  
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• Minneapolis and the Rise of Care Activism

  31-01-2026 01:00 via thestranger.com
  What ICE has done is actually strengthen, rather weaken, the bonds between urban dwellers.by Charles MudedeThe current cycle of protests in Minneapolis has been accompanied by a type of resistance that I call care activism. This is not just about assisting protestors on the frontline but also helping those who've been harmed or kidnapped by ICE. In this form, care activism is practiced by providing “rent, food, diapers, and animal support” for people whose lives have been disrup
  
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• What Are You Going to Do During This Weekend’s Protests?

  30-01-2026 22:30 via thestranger.com
  I don’t know what to do. It’s getting increasingly difficult to push through the noise and focus on anything that feels worthwhile in the fight against the Trump administration’s relentless attacks. Each day is a new nightmare; each nightmare requires a battle plan. It feels hopeless. I have a feeling I'm not alone.by Megan SelingI don’t know what to do. Maybe you don’t either.
  It’s getting increasingly difficult to push through the noise and focus on anything
  
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• I Saw U: Covered in Tattoos at Elliott Bay Book Company, Supporting the First Amendment at the Federal Building, and Throwing Fish at Pike Place Market

  30-01-2026 22:00 via thestranger.com
  Is it a match? Leave a comment here or on our Instagram post to connect!by AnonymousCovered head to toe in tattoos and a cream coat at elliot bay
  I didn’t find salmon shanties but I found a new crushCuties Supporting First Amendment
  Saturday night, you dropped off donut holes for the vigil and march at the Federal Building. I handed them out, as promised. Don't know u, but love u.
  Light Rail Commute Rainier Beach to Seatac 1/18/26
  7:14am. You had work boots, thick-rimmed glasses,
  
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• Protests! Get Your Protests Here!

  30-01-2026 20:35 via thestranger.com
  The demands are simple: Get Target to denounce ICE, those chuds terrorizing and murdering people in Target’s hometown, and to stop allowing them to operate in their stores. Shouldn’t the company do something? Money is power and Target is the fourth largest employer in Minnesota. Hot deals can offer a company only so much protection.by Nathalie GrahamOn Friday at 1:30pm, MLK Labor and Troublemakers Community will gather outside the downtown Seattle Target to protest the Minneapolis-ba
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Jan 30–Feb 1, 2026

  30-01-2026 18:00 via everout.com
  Maita with St. Yuma, Social Justice Sundays Sign-Waving, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $20by EverOut StaffWe've got the makings of a busy weekend with cheap and easy picks from Maita with St. Yuma to Comet Tavern's Winter Pride Party and from a Free Mending Fair to Social Justice Sundays Sign-Waving: Call Out Lawless Trump/ICE Behavior. For more event suggestions, check out our top picks of the week.
  FRIDAY
  ACTIVISM & SOCIAL JUSTICE
  Demand: No Immunity for Big Oil
  Oil companies have
  
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• Slog AM: Feds Arrest Don Lemon, Seattle To Pay $30 Million in CHOP Death, Who Is Going to See Melania? 

  30-01-2026 17:45 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamDon Lemon Arrested: Federal agents arrested journalist Don Lemon in Los Angeles on Thursday where he was covering the Grammy Awards. Lemon's crime? The feds believe Lemon was “connected” to the anti-immigration protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service because a pastor at the church has a little sidegig—leading the local ICE field office . The protest happened almost two weeks ago. A magistrate judge previously rejec
  
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• Slog AM: Feds Arrest Don Lemon, Seattle to Pay $30 Million in CHOP Death, Who Is Going to See Melania? 

  30-01-2026 17:45 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamDon Lemon Arrested: Federal agents arrested journalist Don Lemon in Los Angeles on Thursday where he was covering the Grammy Awards. Lemon's crime? The feds believe Lemon was “connected” to the anti-immigration protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service because a pastor at the church has a little sidegig—leading the local ICE field office . The protest happened almost two weeks ago. A magistrate judge previously rejec
  
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• Playwright Keiko Green On Pulling Her Play from the Kennedy Center

  30-01-2026 01:00 via thestranger.com
  Last week, Seattle Children’s Theatre announced their decision to pull their two-week run of the play Young Dragon: A Bruce Lee Story from the Kennedy Center due to the impact of the Trump administration—namely, Trump installing himself as chairman, dismissing and replacing staff, and installing his name above Kennedy's. The Stranger caught up with playwright Keiko Green about the decision.by Julianne BellLast week, Seattle Children’s Theatre announced their decision to pu
  
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• Everything Black, Everything Cosmic 

  29-01-2026 23:46 via thestranger.com
  Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS Is the Most Beautiful Film of our Timesby Charles MudedeKahlil Joseph is famous for his role in Beyonce’s Lemonade, and directing music videos for Flying Lotus and Shabazz Palaces. He was born in Seattle, and is known for images that are in every way bold, cosmic, and dusky. In this regard, he is very much in the Terrence Malick camp. 
  His new film BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions, which was shot by Bradford Young (Arrival, Selma) is beautiful from start to fi
  
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• Ticket Alert: Kid Cudi, Summer Walker, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  29-01-2026 23:00 via everout.com
  Plus, Dillstradamus and More Event Updates for January 29by EverOut StaffIt’s time to bust out your concert calendar. Genre-bending rapper Kid Cudi will bring M.I.A. and Big Boi along on his Rebel Ragers Tour. R&B songstress Summer Walker closes the chapter on her Over It trilogy. Plus, Dillon Francis and Flosstradamus revive their joint project Dillstradamus with a string of dates. Read on for details on those and other newly announced events, plus some news you can use.
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• Pop Loser #14: MAITA Shares What No Doubt Taught Her

  29-01-2026 22:00 via thestranger.com
  This week's music news.by Audrey VannWelcome back to Pop Loser! Despite everything feeling unbearably horrific in the world this week (FUCK ICE), there have been a few tiny glimmers of joy: the Vera Project has announced a new venue, Victoria Beckham’s single “I’m Not Such an Innocent Girl” is trending, and Connie Converse’s How Sad, How Lovely is finally getting reissued. And, in another edition of First Times, Maria Maita-Keppeler of Portland-based indie rock
  
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• Slog AM: Liam Conejo Ramos is Sick, State Senators Vote to Lower BAC Limit, 12saquah Returns

  29-01-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Micah YipLiam Conejo Ramos, the five-year-old taken by ICE in Minneapolis, is sick behind bars, according to his school’s superintendent. Liam reportedly is vomiting, feverish, experiencing stomach pain, and doesn’t want to eat, his mother told the superintendent. All this is due to the abysmal conditions and bug-infested food at the South Texas Family Residential Center, where Liam is being held with his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias. T
  
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• Slog AM: A Tacoma Children's Hospital Is Closing Their Gender Clinic, Amazon Is Closing Their Grocery Stores, and the Department of Homeland Security Will Investigate Their Own Shooting 

  28-01-2026 18:48 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Megan SelingGood morning. It rained. That was nice. But the news is still terrible. So I’m going to try something a little different for today’s Slog AM. For every dose of bad news I deliver, I will also provide a bit of ✨good news✨. I simply cannot continue living in this waterfall of tragedy and chaos. It’s all about balance. Let’s begin.
  DOJ to Investigate Themselves: Trump says there’s a “big investigati
  
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• Drag Race Episode Four: Lights, Camera, Tension

  28-01-2026 01:01 via thestranger.com
  If you like messy reality television, look no further than Episode Four of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Simmering tensions between the queens progressed into finger-pointing and name-calling before the queens made-up in time for a bestie vs. bestie fashion mashup challenge. But the drama didn’t stop. A queen fainted on the main stage! And then we got a disrespectful camera op with a side of gaslighting!by Mike KohfeldIf you like messy reality television, look no further than Episode Four
  
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• State Sen. Jesse Salomon Wants to Bring Ibogaine Therapy to Washington

  27-01-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  State Sen. Jesse Salomon, Washington's mushrooms legislator, wants to broaden the state's psychedelic horizons with Ibogaine therapy, a drug that supposedly acts as an almost miracle balm for psychic pain. But do we know how it works?by Nathalie GrahamI met up with Sen. Jesse Salomon (D-Shoreline) to talk about drugs. 
  We sat at a back table in Cafe Aroma, a Shoreline coffee shop that got busted in 2024 for hosting a bondage event without the proper licenses. On his bicep, a tattoo of an an
  
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• The Roomies

  27-01-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  Got problems? Yes, you do! Email your question for the column to [email protected]!by Dan SavageAbout a year ago I moved in with childhood best friend and his husband. We’re all in our mid-thirties. It’s been going great, and I consider the three of us to be fairly close. About a month ago, the husband and I stopped at the local pharmacy on the way home, which is how our various medications wound up in a pile on the table. While trying to dig my meds out from said pile, I noti
  
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• Slog AM: Bovino’s Boned, Government Union Pressures Noem and Miller to Resign, Scarecrow Video Buys Its Building 

  27-01-2026 18:21 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallBroken Cog Replaced: Two days after Alex Pretti was shot and killed in the street, Border Patrol “commander at large” Gregory Bovino was frogmarched from the proverbial building and demoted to his former post in California. He’ll soon retire. White House Border Czar Tom Homan will take Bovino’s place.
  This is the Trump administration equivalent of sending someone to the gulag.
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• The Vera Project Announces New All-Ages Venue

  27-01-2026 17:00 via thestranger.com
  The new 300-capacity venue is set to open in Georgetown in early 2027.by Dave SegalThe Seattle music industry has been rife with misfortune since COVID lockdown. Bucking odds, though, the Vera Project has a raft of good news. The city's stalwart all-ages nonprofit organization is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month, and its staff has plans to offer more opportunities for young artists and promoters, to put on more free shows, to launch a new festival, and to open a new 300-capacity
  
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