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• The 70 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: Nov 12-18, 2018

  12-11-2018 19:50
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffDon't miss Seattle burlesque duo Kitten N' Lou's Spanksgiving feast of drag and burlesque in Cream this weekend. Jules Doyle
  Our music critics have already chosen the 35 best music shows this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn to pick the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from Seattle's 26th Annual Beaujolais Nouveau Wine Festival to the Seattle7Writers' Holiday Bookfest, and from the opening of Edgar Arceneaux
  
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• Every Band Playing Bumbershoot: Saturday

  21-08-2026 01:03 via thestranger.com
  
  KEY:
  ⭐ Don’t Miss
  📍 Local!⭐ 📍 ANTHERS
  This comparison will only resonate with maybe six people, but I’m gonna say it anyway: If you loved long-defunct Seattle punk rock noise makers pleasureboaters, go see ANTHERS and party like you’re at Healthy Times Fun Club circa 2008. Not a 40-something who lived in Seattle nearly two decades ago? Fine. Here are some more rock bona fides—ANTHERS’ latest singles, “Soup” and “Colle
  
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• Every Band Playing Bumbershoot: Sunday

  21-08-2026 01:01 via thestranger.com
  
  KEY:
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  📍 Local!📍 American Flats
  If you need a break from all the modern music pummeling your eardrums, catch local American Flats, who describe themselves as “a rock and roll band with Americana and punk influences.” It’s not revelatory, it’s not perfect, but it’s a warm hug if you’re longing for those days of seeing Tom Petty at the Gorge every summer. (Upper Courtyard Stage) MEGAN SELINGATARASHII GAKKO!
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• Every Arts District at Bumbershoot 2026

  21-08-2026 00:59 via thestranger.com
  
  ⭐ Means don’t miss it!⭐ Bumbermania
  In which local wrestling crew SOS Wrestling builds a real-deal ring in the middle of the Seattle Center, and dozens of local wrestling superstars (66, to be exact!) fight, tackle, pummel, and toss one another around for a chance at the Bumbermania belt. It’s so fun, so captivating, that I missed part of Janelle Monáe’s headlining set last year because I couldn’t look away. MEGAN SELINGCat Circus
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• Who Said It?

  21-08-2026 00:58 via thestranger.com
  While waiting for Death Cab for Cutie to take the stage Sunday night, see if you can guess who penned each line of morbid prose—Ben Gibbard or 19th-Century gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe!1. “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing / Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”2. “Oh, how this penchant is a curse / All the way from the cradle to the hearse / And there are days when I wish you’d just become / An acqua
  
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• Ticket Alert: Jonas Brothers, Brett Goldstein, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  20-08-2026 22:03 via thestranger.com
  The Jonas Brothers are throwing it back to 2008, reprising their Burning Up Tour “all over again,” this time with support from younger brother Franklin Jonas. Brett Goldstein, the actor, writer, and comedian who plays lovable grump Roy Kent on Ted Lasso, brings his new Sex, Death and Small Talk stand-up show to Seattle. Plus, underground hyperpop hip-hop artist Lucy Bedroque drops a new single from their upcoming album alongside a fall tour announcement. Read on for details on those
  
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• Art on a Farm, Lovers in the Streets, and We Really Think You Should Have $10,000!

  20-08-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The past two weeks have been nothing short of fucking delightful. We’ve sneakily delivered cakes loaded with candy, googly eyes, neon sprinkles, and all manner of sugary bits and bobs by Arts Editor, and secret confectionary genius, Emily Nokes, to this year’s six Genius recipients. I’m not a gifted liar—even white lies come out of me with shifty facial tics and tells—so it was an extra-strenuous task to fool literal artistic geniuses by luring them into our office
  
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• Slog AM: Mayor Wilson Recall Gets Court Date, Trump Threatens Economic Sanctions Again, and Seattle Christian Metal Band Sues Netflix 

  20-08-2026 18:32 via thestranger.com
  
  That dumb Mayor Katie Wilson recall petition has a court date. In last week’s Slog AM, I mentioned that a Bruce Harrell supporter and her husband filed papers to recall Mayor Wilson. The charges will be heard in King County Superior Court on August 31. The Seattle Times says Mayor Wilson has retained Dmitri Iglitzin as counsel. If a judge decides the recall charges meet the legal threshold of “malfeasance,” “misfeasance,” or a violation of her oath, the filers of t
  
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• Bike Trail Flail

  20-08-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  
  To the unapologetic mom and child who made me fall off my bike at Seward Park, I think your kid should learn better trail etiquette before being able to ride a bike in the middle of the trail, if they can’t follow “on your left!” Not to mention, barely even staying for a moment to check in after I could finally get up from the ground after avoiding ramming into your child and falling into trees instead, bending my handlebars and my knee.  You should ALSO know I
  
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• Hunger Strike Over Poor Food Quality at NWDC Concludes

  19-08-2026 21:20 via thestranger.com
  
  After nearly a week, more than 140 immigrants detained in the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) have concluded their hunger strike in protest of inedible food, often served at irregular hours. The action marked the 20th hunger strike in the Tacoma facility this year.Detainees in the center’s G3 unit began the protest last Tuesday, and were joined by detainees from the G4 unit the following morning. The participants then established contact with the immigrant solidarity group La Resistenci
  
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• Pop Loser: Courtney Love Update, New Shabazz Palaces Single, and Three Blood Brothers Return as Evil Island

  19-08-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Welcome back to Pop Loser. I’m Dave Segal and I’ll be filling in for Audrey Vann over the next three weeks. Not gonna lie: I generally don’t mess with pop music, but I am familiar with losing. So, the content of this column may hit a little differently than it does under Audrey’s byline; she has a mastery of the domain that I, a writer more than twice her age, could never match. However, I have had dalliances with pop during my Stranger tenure. Over the years, come late
  
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• Pop Loser: Courtney Love Update, New Shabazz Palaces Single, a Blood Brother Returns as Evil Island

  19-08-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Welcome back to Pop Loser. I’m Dave Segal and I’ll be filling in for Audrey Vann over the next three weeks. Not gonna lie: I generally don’t mess with pop music, but I am familiar with losing. So, the content of this column may hit a little differently than it does under Audrey’s byline; she has a mastery of the domain that I, a writer more than twice her age, could never match. However, I have had dalliances with pop during my Stranger tenure. Over the years, come late
  
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• Slog AM: Trump Declares Oman and Iran’s Strait of Hormuz is Ours, Mariners Humiliated Before Tens of Thousands, Washington Judge Rules Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness Now Apply to Data Center Power Lines

  19-08-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Conservative KIRO News Radio is now concerned about a report by Washington Health Benefit Exchange that “showed 66,000 people in Washington dropped their Affordable Care Act (ACA).” That’s close to a 25% drop. Since Trump took office, around 100,000 people in this state lost their protection from the accidents of life; they can’t afford to go to the hospital if something suddenly happens, and something bad always happens to the body sooner or later to a body, otherwise i
  
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• Mildred’s Death Day

  18-08-2026 20:12 via thestranger.com
  
  On December 9, 2019, my grandma—wearing her favorite dress, with her hair set and makeup applied—sat in her favorite recliner, surrounded by family at home, and raised a glass of strawberry daiquiri for a toast. We all yelled “kanpai!” She thanked us, and drank. Eighteen minutes later, she was dead.Mildred was a complicated woman to love. She was not a hugger or giver of compliments. While she was exceptionally generous (money was her preferred gift to give), had a good
  
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• The Bends

  18-08-2026 19:22 via thestranger.com
  
  I’m going through a really difficult time, and I could really use some perspective. I’m a gay 47-year-old man with a husband of 25+ years. We have two young children in the house. My husband and I are monogamish, and our relationship is okay. Not great, not terrible. Up until about three years ago, I was a big bearish/chub guy, and carried all the self-loathing and insecurities that can be associated with that. I had stomach surgery to lose weight, and I started to feel like ma
  
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• Slog AM: Diesel Hits Record High, the Polls Are Lying to You, but the Alchemists Are Not, and a Canadian University Will Cut Some, but Not All, Financial Ties to Hitler

  18-08-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle’s rich people fucked themselves over for decades, and now you have to pay for it: With city funding, a number of Seattle’s wealthier white communities buried their power lines under the sidewalk decades ago so they could look more like the suburbs. They did a bad job of it, and now the power cables break so often that Seattle is becoming known for bad power outages, and taxpayers are on the hook to dig everything up and fix it, the Seattle Times reports.Tacoma legislative ca
  
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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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