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• Target of “Landlord Lives Matter” Protest Speaks Out About Bullying Amid Eviction Case

  21-03-2024 19:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Efforts to villainize Kim do not help the situation, even for the landlord, Kim argued.by Hannah KriegBellevue landlord Jaskaran Singh will host a second “Landlord Lives Matter” protest this Saturday against a financially unstable family of five facing eviction from a Bellevue rental home after his protest last weekend caught national media attention.
  While conservative press insists Singh faces a great injustice because tenant Sang Kim is “exploiting the system,” the fam
  
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• Seattle Revives the Bullshit Economics of Low Wages

  27-04-2024 00:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Low wages are generally bad for the economy. Here's why.by Charles MudedeIf you are following Hannah Krieg, you will recognize the return of a regressive and debunked reading about wages: When high, they are bad for business and even workers. With this logic, which makes no economic sense, we find Bruce Harrell repressing the wages of city workers, Council Member Maritza Rivera blaming Seattle Public Library's closures on, of all things, union wages. And Chair Sara Nelson’s dramatic (if no
  
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• La Luz's Transcendent Shoegaze and (blouseusa)'s Psilocybin-Fueled Aural Nightmare

  26-04-2024 21:55 via thestranger.com
  
  The best new music to hit Dave Segal's inbox this week.by Dave SegalLa Luz, “Strange World” (Sub Pop) 
  I respected the dreamy surf rock that La Luz created in their early years, but was among the minority of listeners who were never really wowed by it. Consequently, I drifted away from keeping close tabs on their career.
  But somewhere along the way, the LA-via-Seattle group led by guitarist/singer/lyricist Shana Cleveland diversified their sound, showed flashes of elegant aggres
  
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• Seattle's LGBTQ Center and Kelley-Ross Pharmacy Develop New Gender-Affirming Care Program

  26-04-2024 19:58 via thestranger.com
  
  “The thing I really want to avoid is doing poor health care for poor people."by Vivian McCallSeattle’s LGBTQ+ Center and Kelley-Ross Pharmacy have developed a new informed-consent gender-affirming hormone therapy program for adult patients that may be one of the few in the country led by clinical pharmacists.
  Medical Director Janna Cuneo said the program allows trained pharmacists to operate at the top of their license in Washington, which she hopes can help expand health care access
  
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• No One Wants to Repeal the Gig Worker Minimum Wage More Than Sara Nelson

  26-04-2024 19:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Workers are standing up to the council's assault on their wages and benefits.by Hannah KriegOn Thursday afternoon, a crowd of divided workers and lobbyists filled the Seattle City Council’s Governance, Accountability, and Economic Development committee meeting to discuss Chair Sara Nelson’s extreme rollback of a recently instituted minimum wage for gig delivery workers known as “Pay Up."
  Nelson told her council colleagues that the “last thing” she wanted to do was s
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Apr 26–28, 2024

  26-04-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  
  Seattle Independent Bookstore Day, White Center Cambodian New Year Street Festival, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffDon't know what you're doing this weekend? You will after skimming our weekend guide, which features low- and no-cost events from Seattle Independent Bookstore Day to the 21st Annual White Center Cambodian New Year Street Festival and from Seattle Boba Fest to the Creative Works Pop-Up Market + Flatstock 94. For more ideas, check out our guide to the top e
  
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• Slog AM: Women Employees Sue SPD, US Birth Rate Declines, Forceful Police Response at Campus Protests

  26-04-2024 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamLocal unions will rally to support Gaza: On Sunday, Pacific Northwest Labor Unions, which represent 150,000 workers, will rally outside of the Federal Building in Seattle to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and to end United States military aid to Israel. The unions, which include MLK Labor, UFCW 3000, SEIU 775, UAW 4121, OPEIU 8, Restaurant Workers United, Seattle Education Association, Tacoma Education Association, and Protec 17 are asking elec
  
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• Ticket Alert: Charli XCX & Troye Sivan, Maggie Rogers, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  26-04-2024 00:25 via everout.com
  
  Plus, Neil Young & Crazy Horse and More Event Updates for April 25by EverOut StaffFriends and frequent collaborators Charli XCX & Troye Sivan are teaming up to make their fans sweat. Indie pop singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers asks that you don’t forget her—or forget to buy tickets to her upcoming tour. Plus, Neil Young & Crazy Horse will stop by the Gorge this summer for a plugged-in set. Read on for details on those and other newly announced events, plus some news you can
  
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• Council Member Maritza Rivera Blames Union Wages and E-books for Library Closures

  25-04-2024 21:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Council Member Maritza Rivera blames library closures on the City paying librarians too much money.by Hannah KriegToday the Seattle City Council Libraries, Education, and Neighborhoods Committee spoke about The Seattle Public Library’s 1,500 hours of rolling closures for the first time since the Library announced the service cuts two weeks ago. Committee Chair Maritza Rivera, who never responded to my request for comment about the closures when the news broke, must have spent the last 14 d
  
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• I Saw U: Reading The Art of Stopping Time, Buying Strawberries at PCC, and Lookin' Like a Sexy Guy Fieri

  25-04-2024 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  See someone? Say something!by AnonymousThe Art of Stopping Time
  We chatted one Friday, Brooklyn St bus stop. You read The Art of Stopping Time, and give notes of appreciation to bus drivers. I hope to see you againOmelie
  You loved my hair, I loved your dress-we chatted outside Chop Suey in Feb(?)… You know which night, find me there again. Let’s make art together! 💋
  sexy guy fieri at the haunted soirée
  this is such a long shot, but i saw you at the haunted soiré
  
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• 2024 Is a Fight for Our Democracy

  25-04-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  If you’re ready to fight for our democracy, build our progressive movement, and organize for our future, please join us today.by Pramila JayapalThe other day—during our first 70-degree day in Seattle this year—I was lucky enough to join hundreds of my fellow organizers, community leaders, friends, family, and neighbors at the Crocodile to launch my re-election campaign to continue representing Washington’s 7th Congressional District.
  Throughout the day, we looked back on
  
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• Slog AM: City Scrubs Language from Pro-Palestine Mural, Youth Jail Holds Kids Three Times Longer Now, WA GOP Officially Opposes Democracy

  25-04-2024 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Hannah KriegFirst things first: Per popular request (one person asked me to do this), I will now be using Accuweather for any forecasts on Slog. Expect on-and-off showers and temperatures in the low 50s throughout the day. Pay Up: Later today, Council President Sara Nelson’s committee will look at legislation to roll back the newly established minimum wage for gig delivery drivers. According to Working Washington’s analysis, the bill would
  
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• Stranger Suggests: Hanif Abdurraqib, Acid Tongue, Monét X Change, Jess Damuck, Whispers of the Veiled Melody: Nasim Moghadam and Kiana Honarmand

  25-04-2024 00:40 via thestranger.com
  
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Audrey VannWEDNESDAY 4/24  
  Hanif Abdurraqib
  (BOOKS) Hanif Abdurraqib is the best friend I never met. Having spent years reading his work—his essays, his poetry, his music criticism—it feels as though we’ve spent half a lifetime together sitting on floors, listening to records, and exchanging observations about everyone from Aretha Franklin to My Chemical Romance. He doesn’t write at you, as so many culture c
  
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• The Spice Must Flow

  24-04-2024 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  We conduct a chili crisp taste test to determine the best non-Momofuku alternatives.by Julianne BellCelebrity chef David Chang, the founder of the famed Momofuku restaurant empire, inadvertently caused a social media storm earlier this month when his company attempted to enforce a trademark for the phrase “chili crunch,” even going so far as to issue cease-and-desist orders to other condiment brands using the term.
  It wasn’t long before Chang was roundly clowned upon by…
  
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• The Smallest Man in the World

  24-04-2024 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  You are the smallest man in the world.by AnonymousI worked for you for five years. You gave me raises and promotions. The whole team took pictures with my toddler daughter at our all staff meeting, carrying her around like a little football.Later, a group of teenage girls disguised as middle-aged women you hired came forward and told you they wanted me gone so they can hire their friends.I told you two weeks ago that my husband has cancer and I’m pregnant with my second baby. So you fired
  
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• The Seattle Clean Air Collective Is Making the City's Shows and Spaces COVID Safer

  24-04-2024 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  “It’s not some niche thing that doesn’t have an audience—there’s a very large audience of people who want COVID safer nightlife."by Vivian McCallIn the summer of 2022, a COVID-19 infection sent William White to the hospital.
  The drummer for the indie rock band Glass Beach, a proggy, emo-ish four-piece that has amassed a cult following online, White got sick while traveling to Salt Lake City’s Pride Festival, a show they’d debated playing in the first pla
  
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• Why Urbanism Failed

  24-04-2024 18:43 via thestranger.com
  
  Business expectations are condemned to the quarterly. Social expectations have to be generational.by Charles MudedeI'm pro-density, pro-public transportation, pro-walkability, and pro-bike infrastructure. As you can see, these positions are shared with conventional urbanism, a movement that began in the 1960s with Jane Jacobs's famous confrontation with the car-centric city planner Robert Moses. Ten or so years after the latter was defeated, urbanism was codified in, of all places, Florida. In t
  
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• Why We Held Seder in the Streets This Year

  24-04-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  On Tuesday, over two hundred of Senator Murray’s Jewish constituents and other people of conscience held a Passover seder in the streets in front of the Federal Building where Senator Patty Murray has offices.by Ross KirshenbaumOn Tuesday, over two hundred of Senator Murray’s Jewish constituents and other people of conscience held a Passover seder in the streets in front of the Federal Building where Senator Patty Murray has offices.
  Why? Because on Tuesday, Senator Murray voted yes
  
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• Slog AM: First Seattle Police Shooting This Year, Supreme Court Hears Idaho Abortion Case, Senate Passes TikTok Ban

  24-04-2024 17:35 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallStudent walkout for Palestine: Students across the Puget Sound region walked out of class Tuesday to demand that the US stop aiding Israel and that Israel release Palestinian prisoners and cease its occupation of Gaza. Students at colleges and high schools in Seattle, Redmond, Olympia, Issaquah, Bellevue, and Highline planned walkouts, according to the Seattle Times. UW’s Seattle campus did not participate, but they supported high school
  
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• Big Business’ Plans to Put 30 New Eyes on Downtown Streets Raise Data Privacy Concerns

  23-04-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle’s downtown panopticon to expand with Downtown Seattle Association kiosksby Hannah KriegThe Downtown Seattle Association (DSA) wants to prop up 30 digital kiosks powered by IKE Smart City to run advertisements, display maps, and to emit free Wi-Fi. The kiosks' ads would raise a projected $1 million a year for DSA and smaller Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) to pay for downtown improvement initiatives at no cost to the budget-challenged City of Seattle. But, as the old saying goes,
  
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• Slog AM: Former Yakima Cop Suspected in Double Homicide, College Students Across the Country Protest Israel, Sydney Sweeney Acknowledges Having Great Tits

  23-04-2024 17:40 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Ashley NerbovigGooood morning! The National Weather Services says the weather today will be partly sunny, high near 68 degrees. Expect some calming winds in the afternoon.
  Texas Attorney General drops challenge of Seattle hospital: In December, a Seattle hospital filed a lawsuit against Texas AG Ken Paxton after he demanded the hospital turn over the medical records of Texas children who receive gender-affirming care from the hospital. Paxton dropped the re
  
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• The Top 47 Events in Seattle This Week: Apr 22–28, 2024

  22-04-2024 19:30 via everout.com
  
  Seattle Black Film Festival, Hanif Abdurraqib, and More Top Picksby EverOut StaffWe've got a special delivery: all of the best events Seattle has to offer this week in one handy roundup. Find details on everything from the Seattle Black Film Festival to the Upper Left Comedy Festival, and readings from Hanif Abdurraqib and Gabrielle Zevin, here.
  MONDAY
  LIVE MUSIC
  Empress Of Live on KEXP
  Before seeing her magnetic opening set for Carly Rae Jepsen's Seattle show last fall, I was admittedly unfamil
  
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• Younger People Are Planning Their Own Composting Funerals in Washington

  22-04-2024 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Today's hottest Earth Day activity is planning to turn your dead body into compost.by Nathalie GrahamRecently, I logged onto a video call to plan my own funeral. 
  A care advisor with Earth Funeral, the newest Washington company to enter the human composting game, walked me through how I’d sign up to give them my body after my eventual demise and how, after a roughly month-long process, I would be turned into soil. It would cost just under $5,500. Terramation, the scientific name
  
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• We Must Save the Climate Commitment Act from Cynical Climate Arsonists

  22-04-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Join us to engage Washington voters in the 2024 election.by Kat HolmesToday is Earth Day. But let’s get serious: Every day needs to be Earth Day. 
  What if we all commit to that? What if we see that people and nature are not separate? Then we can create this kind of world, a place in which plants and fungi, kelp and orca, people and eagles, bear and salmon—all of us will thrive. 
  What’s one easy action you can take to make that promised land closer to reality? Vote.&nb
  
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• Slog AM: GOP Nominates Semi Bird for Governor, Supreme Court to Decide on Anti-Homeless Camping Ban, Trump's Hush Money Trial Begins

  22-04-2024 17:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamSemi Bird wins WA GOP nomination for governor: The Washington GOP convention in Spokane this weekend was positively nutty. Former King County Sheriff Dave Reichert is leading among the GOP candidates in the polls, but delegates seemed to prefer Bird, a former Richland school board member who was recalled for flouting masking mandates deep in the early pandemic. Yet, to the dismay of delegates the GOP candidate committee disqualified Bird
  
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• 10 Essential Record Store Day Releases

  20-04-2024 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Not featured: The tortured poet.by Dave SegalRecord Store Day, one of the most contentious of retail traditions, returns on April 20. We've gone over this manufactured holiday's pros and cons many times before (here's one explication; here's another), so let's just say this: every year, RSD yields about 10%-15% crucial titles out of its hundreds. But which 10%-15%, you ask? Well, that varies, obviously, as musical taste is subjective.
  However, as I have spent too many decades crate-digging and r
  
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• I Saw U: Standing in the Oso Oso Merch Line, Kissing My Hand at CS, and Sitting at the Next Table Over at Comedy/Bar

  19-04-2024 20:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Did you see someone? Say something!by AnonymousComedy/Bar Chat Up
  We sat at neighboring tables while both our parties were late. I clocked you as ADHD and you had the same name as my friend. I’d love to chat more! ☺️Riding the Gravy Train
  We chatted at the Yung Gravy/bbno$ show in Seattle back in 2022. I asked you about your koi fish button down shirt bc I thought it was floral.
  keeper of a sweet little beast @ corvus
  you were there briefly with a scruffy little dog and both d
  
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• Seattle Space-Rockers somesurprises' New Album Poised for Meteoric Impact

  19-04-2024 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  somesurprises' album Perseids is out on Doom Trip Records Friday, April 19.by Dave SegalOf the thousands of bands I've talked to as a music journalist, somesurprises are the most soft-spoken. Their absolutely chill voices barely register on the playback of our interview, which took place in their Fremont rehearsal space, ExEx Audio. And this chillness seeps into the Seattle quartet's extraordinary music, which alchemizes a few of the finest rock strains—space, kraut, and shoegaze—int
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Apr 19–21, 2024

  19-04-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  
  Grass & Gas: 4/20 Celebration, Record Store Day, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffCelebrate Seattle's favorite holiday, 4/20, by blazing up and heading to one or more of the ultra chill events we've rounded up here, from Grass & Gas: 4/20 Celebration & Car Show with Sol and Chong the Nomad to Record Store Day and from 4/20 Feature: Reefer Madness (1936) and Stoned Shorts on 16mm to The Stranger's Pizza Week!
  FRIDAY
  PARTIES & NIGHTLIFE
  Live Lasers to the M
  
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• Why Amazon's Just Walk Out Technology Failed

  19-04-2024 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Amazon recently admitted that it does use humans in this technology.by Charles MudedeEarlier this month, Business Insider reported that Amazon's Just Walk Out technology was not run by robots, but by the eyes of "1,000 workers in India who review what you pick up, set down, and walk out of its stores with." And so what looked like a new trick was in fact old hat. The work of American cashiers and attendants (a high-income society) had simply been, like service-related jobs, offshored to India (a
  
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