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• Seattle braces for biggest windstorm in 10 years

  14-10-2016 05:38
  
  Meteorologists warn the Seattle region is likely to see its most powerful storm in 10 years on Saturday. “It’s been awhile,” said the National Weather Service’s Jeff Michalski.
  
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• Trump Killed the Truth, the Left Must Now Bury It

  17-08-2026 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Let’s begin with this question: Why is the social media platform that’s so obviously filled with lies called “Truth Social”? And the top name attached to this platform, Trump, presently runs an administration that lies continuously. Think of Karoline Leavitt, the president’s departing press secretary. She spent the past two years of her life lying day in and day out. And some now believe it will be difficult for Master MAGA to find someone else who will lie so hard
  
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• The Best Thing I Saw This Week: Toppled Ice

  17-08-2026 19:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Amid the recent spate of art fairs and summer exhibitions, a few things have firmly taken root in my mind. One of those is Recollections, the third annual summer showcase of members’ work at Actualize AiR. Curated by Shannon Hobbs, the exhibit is loosely organized around the theme of memory—people, places, and things loved, lost, forgotten, or summoned from the dredges of the subliminal.  It’s perhaps unsurprising that threads of multiples, castings, pressings, and i
  
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• Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, August 17–August 23

  17-08-2026 19:26 via thestranger.com
  
  MONDAY 8/17Musashi’s in Wallingford(FOOD) Have you been to Musashi’s in Wallingford? My girlfriend and I were running errands, and popped in for a quick lunch. I spent $13.50 for five plump pieces of nigiri, an assortment of eight rolls, and delicious complementary brown rice tea. So simple and fresh, I had a Ratatouille dolly zoom moment. If you’re looking for the twist, you won’t find one (or fried rice). The waiter is rude in a way I enjoyed. If you can’t stand
  
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• Rasheena Fountain

  17-08-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Environmentalist movements have a polluted history of excluding Black and Indigenous narratives. Rasheena Fountain’s work debunks myth and misconception to honor the full story.Fountain is a polymath of the arts who has centered creativity in her decades-long work in environmental advocacy and social justice. Her essays, poetry, music, and film have garnered her fellowships with Jack Straw Writers Program, National Audubon Society, and Sundress Academy for the Arts as well as publications
  
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• Slog AM: A Walking, Talking Drain on Worker Power, To Make Peace, President Threatens War, Hayden Panettiere Dead at 36

  17-08-2026 18:55 via thestranger.com
  
  GEO Group, the transparent owner of the Northwest ICE Processing  Center in Tacoma, said it’ll soon talk to the feds about selling them a few of their privately owned prisons for immigrants. It is unclear if those negotiations include the Northwest ICE Processing Center, but the company’s CEO, George Zoley, a Greek immigrant who came with his family to the US through Ellis Island in 1953, said during a call with investors that there’s “mutual interest by us and ICE&
  
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• After Odyssey Walkout, SIFF Cinema Workers Union Is Back at the Negotiating Table

  15-08-2026 00:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Last month, nearly 600 audience members arrived at the Cinerama SIFF Cinema Downtown for the first daytime screening of The Odyssey in 70mm, hungry for a Greek epic and chocolate popcorn. But unionized workers of the SIFF Cinema Workers Union (SCWU), meanwhile, had a hankering for a walkout.As managers and non-union workers poured $9 IPAs at abandoned concessions posts, workers picketed every sold-out showing that Friday and Saturday to send a strong message: from their perspective, contract ne
  
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• The Ballot Initiative to Ban Trans Girls from Sports in Washington Will Threaten All Women and Girls

  14-08-2026 22:55 via thestranger.com
  
  On the last day of Pride month, the US Supreme Court upheld state laws in 27 states banning trans girls from participating in youth sports. That means that, under the US Constitution and Title IX, these states are allowed to discriminate against trans kids playing sports. Though the ruling does not require the remaining states to pass similar bans, federal law does not prevent them from doing so.Washingtonians will soon have an opportunity to decide whether our state should follow the same
  
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• Guest Rant: School Counselors Saved Me from Abuse

  14-08-2026 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  While most parents provide loving, supportive, safe environments for their children, the sad reality is there were 117,000 reports of child abuse or neglect in Washington in 2024 alone. Voters need to be aware that I-001 on November’s ballot, an initiative backed by MAGA mega-donor Brian Heywood, threatens to put even more kids at risk.I-001 would restore Let’s Go Washington’s so-called Parents’ Bill of Rights—a deeply flawed piece of legislation the Legislature ha
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Aug 14–16, 2026

  14-08-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Ready for the weekend? We sure are. There’s plenty to go out and do, from Belltown Blast to CHOMP! and from the 17th Annual Capitol Hill Garage Sale to the WABA Korea Expo & Festival. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week.FRIDAYFESTIVALSSouth Lake Union Block Party
  South Lake Union’s annual all-ages summer party is back! Enjoy live music from local bands, art activations, lawn games, food trucks, and a beer and cocktail garden all day long. The main stage hosts fit
  
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• Saving Little Saigon

  14-08-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  I actually came for a food story, for the chicken. It’s the only dish they serve at the Boat in Seattle’s Little Saigon. But before I could even order, I was greeted by the owner, Yenvy Pham, and promptly whisked out onto the street with a new mission: visit all her favorite vendors in the neighborhood. In 2026, Little Saigon is embattled, to say the least, faced with the reality of a drug and homeless crisis unfolding on of their doorsteps. But a tour with a James Beard finalist re
  
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• Slog AM: Luigi Pleads Guilty, DHS Spied on Anti-ICE Protester Groups, West Seattle Light Rail Will Open When You Are Nine Years Closer to the Grave

  14-08-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Guilty: Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges and admitted to killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Midtown hotel in 2024: “I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan,” he said in federal court Friday. “I understood that my actions would place him in fear of death of bodily injury. I knew what I was doing was illegal.” Mangione will be sentenced on December 18. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. While Mangione wasn’t charged wi
  
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• Ticket Alert: Steve Lacy, Frost Children, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  13-08-2026 23:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Get ready to fill in your concert calendar for the rest of the year. Alt-R&B singer Steve Lacy comes through town supporting his third solo record, Oh Yeah?. Hyperpop sibling duo Frost Children returns to headline Neumos following their performance and after hours DJ set at Capitol Hill Block Party. Plus, Jamila Woods celebrates a decade of her debut album with a short run of intimate and soulful shows in November. Read on for details on those and other newly announced events, plus some new
  
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• Seattle City Council Bans Rental Junk Fees, Funds Assistance for LGBTQ People

  13-08-2026 22:40 via thestranger.com
  
  At yet another long meeting Tuesday, the Seattle City Council unanimously voted to ban landlords from charging “junk” fees, a highly anticipated reform championed by tenant advocates. The council also approved a mid-year budget revision which added funds for various city priorities, including universal school meals, services for LGBTQ people, and gun violence prevention.The junk fees vote was a major win for Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, who had proposed the legislation as part of her
  
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• A Place to Begin

  13-08-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Pamela Belyea didn’t set out to build a library so much as she set out looking for one.After her 23-year-old son, Ben, died by suicide in January 2020, the Seattle architect and Gage Academy of Art cofounder started doing what many newly bereaved people do: search for answers. Therapy helped, even though it was eye-wateringly expensive. Gardening helped, too. As did journaling—nine notebooks worth, written every morning before she got out of bed.But again and again, Belyea found her
  
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• Slog AM: A Bitter Bruce Harrell Supporter Wants Katie Wilson Out, the Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock Social Media Posts, and ICE Is Getting Electrocution Gloves

  13-08-2026 18:34 via thestranger.com
  
  A Bruce Harrell supporter has filed a recall petition against Mayor Katie Wilson. Married couple Melinda Jacobson and Dale Osterud allege in the petition that Wilson is “derelict in her duties for public safety of the city of Seattle.” Jacobson told KUOW that she voted for Harrell last year and she believes Wilson is in “way above her head.” Will this petition go anywhere? KUOW says it’s unlikely. First it’d have to get past a Superior Court judge, and then t
  
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• Sawant Lost Against Melissa Chaudhry, not Smith

  13-08-2026 00:59 via thestranger.com
  
  The man the Seattle Times tasked with the job of compressing cultural and political developments into tokens that the reader can share during a dinner party, or in a pub, or with the person next to them on a flight, Danny Westneat, has determined that the recent primaries in the state of Washington were spared the surge of progressivism seen elsewhere in the United States. His column’s title: “When the revolution got to WA, it fizzled.” But following his reasoning for this ass
  
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• Lap Dance

  13-08-2026 00:56 via thestranger.com
  
  When you go to lap swim at one of Seattle’s public pools, the lanes are broken down by speed: very easy, easy, medium, fast, and very fast. “Medium” and “fast” lanes get crowded first; “easy” and “very fast” are not as crowded. You swim in a circle in a lane with (usually) four to eight strangers for 90 minutes.I am a medium swimmer. I’ve been going regularly for three years. I swim faster than the “easy” lane and slower th
  
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• Review: A Killer Trans Film by Jane Schoenbrun

  12-08-2026 22:54 via thestranger.com
  
  For all the R-rated antics of the slasher films of the 1970s and ’80s, there was a certain puritanical impulse driving the slaughter of horny hetero teens and the survival of the more sexually-disciplined, even as queer and feminist viewers have embraced these films for their less obvious subversions and revelations, like the repressed homosexuality driving the bad dreams in Freddy’s Revenge, the second installment in A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven, director of the first film
  
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• EverOut’s Highlights From Capitol Hill Block Party 2026

  12-08-2026 22:42 via thestranger.com
  
  Another Capitol Hill Block Party is in the books. We had a blast at the three-day festival, and whether you weren’t there or want to relive the weekend, we’ve collected some of our most memorable moments to share. Read on for highlights, lowlights, and everything in between from the EverOut Seattle team, who were there cutting up the dance floor with the best of ’em.Well, that was the most I’ve ever enjoyed Capitol Hill Block Party. I’m guessing it was a combinatio
  
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• Pop Loser: It’s Not Right But It’s Okay That I Didn’t Get Anything From the Whitney Houston Auction

  12-08-2026 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, I’ll share my wishlist from the latest Whitney Houston auction and pay tribute to Ray of Light producer William Orbit. A$AP Rocky claims that Rihanna is back in the studio, but I’ll believe it when I see it. Plus, I’ll be on vacation for the next three weeks, so expect an alternate-universe version of Pop Loser written by Dave Segal. (Thanks, Dave!)Subscribe to Pop Loser here!This Week in Music: This week in Strangerland, the Aug
  
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• Slog AM: Kyoto Teriyaki Gets Uber’d, Republicans Are Not the Michael Jordans of Business, a Tale of Two Midwestern Elections

  12-08-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  One of our fav teriyaki joints, Kyoto Teriyaki, was done dirty by, of course, Uber. According to a report filed by Fox 13, between November 2025 and July 2025, the little corner joint handed the tech giant something like 1,500 meals at the value of $40,000 and received not even a farthing. Uber claimed the payout delay was due to “security protocols.” For reasons that are mysterious, a business that has been serving Seattle’s key contribution to the Japanese table for as long
  
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• Fare Share

  12-08-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  
  It’s not exactly breaking news, but Seattle’s hospitality industry is having a real rough time. Over the past few years, our city’s restaurantscape has seen some of the nation’s highest minimum wages instated, justifiably. In its wake came a rolling wave of wage theft investigations and late-pay disputes. That’s alongside the issues that’ve been affecting restaurants across the nation: rent gouging, astronomical food costs, booze tariffs, supply chain issues,
  
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• Block-Rockin’ Feats

  11-08-2026 23:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Chris Jones and Joe Nix combine ambassadorial knowledge and evangelistic zeal for the Belltown neighborhood that houses their bars, Screwdriver and Jupiter, respectively. That civic fervor has manifested Belltown Blast, a daylong, eclectic celebration of a vital cultural hub, with crucial support from Belltown Art Walk organizer/Slip Gallery owner Amy Tipton, Timothy Firth from Common Area Maintenance, and Keith Kentop of Belltown Collective, for which the event is a fundraiser.Now in its secon
  
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• Hang on Snoopy

  11-08-2026 20:20 via thestranger.com
  
  I’m a 47-year-old divorced dad. Met a 26-year-old woman nine months ago. Things have been great except for one thing: My girlfriend won’t give me access to her phone. When we met, I explained that I have trust issues due to the actions of my ex-wife (multiple infidelities, lies, gaslighting), and that I couldn’t be in a relationship with someone who hid things from me. After three months, I shared my phone’s passcode with her because I have nothing to hide. I expect
  
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• Come Visit Us This Thursday!

  11-08-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  It is happening again! Come visit us this Thursday at The Stranger’s office for our Capitol Hill Art Walk, featuring work by Madison Kirkman.
  From our August issue (on stands now), Kirkman’s photo essay—Good Grief: Living With Loss in Seattle—tells of personal loss, as well as the discovery of local resources that serve as lifelines to those processing grief.  For this art walk, we’ll be exhibiting a selection of video and photographic works from Kirkman&rsquo
  
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• Slog AM: Washington Doesn’t Have Enough Places to Live, Military Morale Is Collapsing, and a Madman Threatens to Detonate a Nuke in the Earth’s Core

  11-08-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Fire evacuations mean more Spokane residents lack housing than ever: Spokane never had enough shelter beds for all its needy citizens, but providing enough wasn’t a problem for city leaders as long as those citizens were homeless. But with tens of thousands of homeowners under evacuation order from fires, the lack of shelter space is more apparent than ever, with demand from refugees causing a full-blown housing crisis. Spokane’s mayor, Lisa Brown, said yesterday that short-term ren
  
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• New Bill Would Junk Landlord “Junk” Fees

  11-08-2026 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Tired of your landlord springing extra fees on you at the last minute? The Seattle City Council will vote Tuesday on a bill that would make it illegal for landlords to charge many spurious “junk” fees like pest control charges, pet rent, technology fees, and other miscellaneous administrative costs. It would also require landlords to give prior notice of any allowable fees when they list their rentals. The Housing, Arts & Civil Rights Committee unanimously passed the bill,
  
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• What You’re Not Wearing

  10-08-2026 23:55 via thestranger.com
  
  These face beads:These studs:This tic-tac-toe:This Phoebe Bridgers shirt:These shoes:These scarves:
  This bedazzled Yu-Gi-Oh shirt:These SpongeBob nails:These boots:These safety vests:These overalls:This cycling jersey:This blossom dress:This crochet:This autocorrect:The post What You’re Not Wearing appeared first on The Stranger.
  
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• Exposure Therapy

  10-08-2026 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  “How does it feel to be called the saddest musician in the world?” I asked Phil Elverum on a Monday morning from his home on Orcas Island. I thought this question, referring to the title of a 2018 Spinoff article, might make him laugh, but instead, he looked at me in seriousness. “I’m not into it,” he said, shaking his head, “It seems shallow to me.” Although Elverum admits he understands why that perception is out there. Under the moniker Mount Eerie,
  
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