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• The Rise and Fall of the BolaWrap

  29-04-2024 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The BolaWrap’s failure serves as a good reminder that SPD spends a lot of money on dumb, often useless tools under the guise of innovating their public safety strategies.by Ashley NerbovigIn 2023 the Seattle Police Department (SPD) quietly ended its use of the expensive, rarely used BolaWrap, a lasso-like restraint device designed to loop around a person’s arms or legs. When SPD launched the tool in 2021, the department heralded it as part of the plan to stop shooting people holding
  
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• Slog AM: Trooper Shoots Man in Altercation, Shuts Down I-5; Alito's Big, Bad, Upside-Down Flag; Important Golfer Arrested

  17-05-2024 17:31 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning new roundup.by Nathalie GrahamDeadly altercation on I-5: At 4 pm on Thursday police fielded a call about a man ramming his car into a WSDOT vehicle and lift over and over on an I-5 shoulder near Everett. Two WSDOT employees were on the lift. An altercation between the man, who was wielding a hammer, the two employees, and a trooper occurred. The trooper shot and killed the man with the hammer. All lanes northbound I-5 at Union Slough remained blocked well until around midn
  
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• Lost Melodies

  17-05-2024 00:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Let’s fight for reliable funding mechanisms to support arts education in schools.by Nicole StankovicWhile it has only been a month since I wrote about the lack of financial support for public music instruction, the landscape of education in Seattle has dramatically shifted. The announcement that Seattle Public Schools could soon be shutting down 20 of their 74 elementary schools further exposes the underfunding and mismanagement plaguing our educational system. I’m particularly anxio
  
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• Ticket Alert: Childish Gambino, Aurora, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  17-05-2024 00:30 via everout.com
  
  Plus, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Live and More Event Updates for May 16by EverOut StaffMulti-hyphenate artist Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, previously claimed he would retire his rap moniker following the release of his next album—so don’t miss the opportunity to see him on his New World Tour. Norwegian art pop star Aurora is also coming to Seattle this fall on her What Happened to the Earth? tour. Plus, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars LIVE will slay the house down boots with a
  
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• I Saw U: Standing Outside the Wildrose, Watching the Craft at Central Cinema, Swimming Solo at Magnuson

  16-05-2024 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Anonymousgelato on third and union
  you were wearing a mitochondrion band shirt and a kandi gauntlet on your arm. you stopped to get gelato same time as me. you looked like walter whiteFlamenco at Rabbit Box
  We sat side-by-side for the performance. You are learning tango, you placed your hand on my shoulder and I melted. Maybe you'd like a new friend.
  Waiting for the link light
  in cap hill on Tuesday night (05/07). We shared a glance or two. I think you’re gorgeous. I should have given y
  
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• Seven Places To Eat Rhubarb in Seattle Right Now

  16-05-2024 20:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Ice Cream, Cookies, and Moreby EverOut StaffRhubarb, also known as the "pie plant," is a quintessentially Northwest ingredient and a harbinger of spring. It also holds a special place in my heart—it grew wild near my childhood home, and I love it so much I even named my cat after it. Here's where to get your fill of the blush-pink, sweet-tart stalks this season, from streusel-topped cookies to ice cream.
  Note: Availability may vary. We recommend calling ahead to check to ensure specials ar
  
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• Time to Earn that Oscar, Mayor Harrell: Veto the Minimum Wage Repeal

  16-05-2024 20:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Mayor Bruce Harrell Doesn’t Deserve a “Labor Oscar”—at Least Not Yetby Hannah KriegMLK Labor Council gave Mayor Bruce Harrell a “Labor Oscar” for “Best Elected Official” last week for his “excellent leadership in reaching a deal with the Coalition of City Unions, his support of ‘first-in-the-nation’ workers rights laws in Seattle… his work to ensure that there was a landmark Labor Harmony Agreement on the Seattle Waterfront
  
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• Slog AM: More Than 16,000 Homeless in King County, Anonymous Donor Against Nude Beach Revealed, and UW Admin Gave Pro-Palestine Protesters Fuck-All In Negotiations

  16-05-2024 17:33 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Hannah KriegWeather: Today won’t be quite as summer-y as yesterday, according to the National Weather Service. Expect highs in the mid 60s, mostly cloudy skies, and even some showers. Friday will dry up, but it might be a while before it gets back to full sunshine and 70s in Seattle. At least Charles Mudede will be happy!
  For visual learners:
  It's a tale of two patterns next 24 hours! One more sunny and near/above average temperature day for today. A
  
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• Mayor Bruce Harrell Met with Denny Blaine Donor at a Key Moment During Controversial Playground Proposal

  16-05-2024 02:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Harrell’s meetings raise questions about just how anonymous this anonymous donor really was, and they underscore whose voices the mayor privileges in initial conversations about public spaces.by Vivian McCallMayor Bruce Harrell’s office maintains that the mayor did not know the identity of the donor who offered to fund a children’s playground at Seattle’s gay nude beach, Denny Blaine Park, during his two meetings with that donor, including one meeting that happened on the
  
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• Bar Flies

  16-05-2024 01:20 via thestranger.com
  
  I've finally accepted that I have feelings for you.by AnonymousI've finally accepted that I have feelings for you. My favorite part about coming into that bar is to see you. I love when there's a lull in the rush and you come over to me to talk. I've loved just sitting and staring at you talk about your hobbies and your favorite things. I honestly don't know the first thing about them, but I love seeing your face light up when you talk about them, and I love how excited you get when you tell me
  
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• Stranger Suggests: Popular Music, Miranda July, Syttende Mai, Belle & Sebastian, SIFF at Home

  15-05-2024 22:23 via thestranger.com
  
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Audrey VannWEDNESDAY 5/15  
  Popular Music, Style King of the Week, Pseudo Saint
  (MUSIC) If the name Parenthetical Girls means anything to you then you're going to want to be at the Rabbit Box Theatre tonight to witness Popular Music, Zac Pennington's post-Parenthetical Girls project with Australian composer Prudence Rees-Lee. Their 2023 full-length Minor Works plays out like a dramatic, haunting film score. Pennington's evocative vo
  
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• Help Us Making Social Housing a Success in Seattle

  15-05-2024 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  I-137 can help get social housing like Sonnwendviertel in Vienna off the ground here in Seattle; let's not allow misleading critiques to stop our city from achieving a beautiful, low-carbon future.by Akiksha ChatterjiCan you imagine a Seattle with dense, green, affordable housing in every neighborhood? Housing interwoven with public transit, where essential services such as child care are located within walking, biking, or rolling distance? This future is possible, and social housing can help us
  
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• Help Us Make Social Housing a Success in Seattle

  15-05-2024 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  I-137 can help get social housing like Sonnwendviertel in Vienna off the ground here in Seattle; let's not allow misleading critiques to stop our city from achieving a beautiful, low-carbon future.by Akiksha ChatterjiCan you imagine a Seattle with dense, green, affordable housing in every neighborhood? Housing interwoven with public transit, where essential services such as child care are located within walking, biking, or rolling distance? This future is possible, and social housing can help us
  
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• What Biden’s New Title IX Rules Mean for Trans Athletes in Washington

  15-05-2024 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Gee, Joseph, that Title IX update sure would help alleviate all this confusion!by Vivian McCallIn April, the Biden Administration finalized revisions to Title IX regulations, the federal policy protecting students from sex-based discrimination.
  The changes should take effect on August 1, and there’s a lot to like about them. The Biden Administration undid Trump-era policies dictating the way K-12 schools, colleges, and universities should respond to sexual crimes, and it also clarified tha
  
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• Slog AM: Council Approves Police Union Contract, UW Student Workers Went on Strike, the Orcas Take Another Boat

  15-05-2024 17:34 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallSTEEERIKE: Six thousand academic student employees (ASEs, aka teaching assistants) hit the picket line yesterday, the day after their union, United Auto Workers (UAW) 4121, announced the unanimous strike vote. That meant that until the University met their demands for better pay, ASEs wouldn’t attend class, hold quiz sections and labs, sit for office hours, or nothin’. Under the current contract, student employees make less than $2,
  
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• War, Gaza Strip, and the Communicability of Pain

  15-05-2024 01:43 via thestranger.com
  
  The adults who don't feel the pain of Palestinians today are the same as the adults who did not feel the pain of Vietnamese people during the Vietnam War.by Charles MudedeI want to open with an observation concerning America's reception of Israel's current war in the Gaza Strip (which, by the way, has a length that's a little longer than the distance between Seattle and Everett, and, for the most part, a width that almost matches the one between downtown and Lake Washington). After the observati
  
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• Laughing Matter

  14-05-2024 23:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Laraaji will perform at Seattle First Baptist Church on Saturday, May 18.by Lindsay CostelloIf you’re acquainted with avant-garde music history, you might already know the story. One day in 1979, Brian Eno happened upon Laraaji meditatively busking with an electric zither in Washington Square Park and scrawled a short note inviting him to collaborate. Equally present in the online sphere is the counterpoint that Laraaji “discovered” Eno that day, a sentiment I tend to agree wit
  
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• The Bug Club's Sloshed, Speedy Rock and Kevin Martin's Bleak Amy Winehouse Tribute

  14-05-2024 22:13 via thestranger.com
  
  The best new music to hit Dave Segal's inbox this week.by Dave SegalThe Bug Club, "Quality Pints" (Sub Pop)
  Sub Pop continues to be a safe space for unsafe non-American rock bands. For a label of its considerable size, that's admirable. The Seattle company's new signing, Wales' the Bug Club, joins other notable foreigners to its roster such as SLIFT, Deaf Wish, Vanishing Twin, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, and, going back a bit, Jennifer Gentle, and feedtime. 
  The Bug Club consist of bas
  
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• Wet & Messy

  14-05-2024 20:09 via thestranger.com
  
  A new episode of Savage Love.by The StrangerHer man used to enjoy chewing tobacco, and it messed up his teeth. He has quit at her behest, but now he really needs to see a dentist. She doesn’t want to shame him for his nasty mouth, but she also doesn’t want to kiss him. How can she gently guide him into a dentists chair?
  A trans man is having a hard time finding women to date him. He insists he’s a catch, but the ladies aren’t biting. Why?On the Magnum, Dan welcomes Peggy
  
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• Slog AM: City Council Votes on Seattle Police Department Contract, Everyone Hates Mayor Bruce Harrell's Housing Plan, the Extra Bob Fergusons Withdraw

  14-05-2024 17:34 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Ashley NerbovigMorning! Sunny day today, with temperatures expected to reach 68 degrees (so close). 
  The gays ate garlic bread: On Monday night, about 100 people showed up at Meridian Park in Wallingford to eat garlic bread in a gathering of the gays. I chatted with Queen Anne resident Kairi, who organized the event, as she sat and watched episodes of Star Trek streaming on a projector. She said she'd put up posters advertising "gays eating garlic
  
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• Thunderpussy Brought Abundance and Anarchy to Benaroya Hall

  14-05-2024 00:12 via thestranger.com
  
  The coolest 40-year-olds you know were there, their mullets loose, their tattoos on display.by Nathalie GrahamFog coiled above the stage of Benaroya Hall as the Seattle Symphony played the beginning notes of “Misty Morning,” the more than eight-minute-long witchy epic from Thunderpussy’s new album West. The band, clad in velvet, strutted on stage. Lead guitarist Whitney Petty, wearing a red disco suit with black feathers on her bell bottoms, played the opening notes on her guit
  
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• So Much for a “Buzzsaw!”

  13-05-2024 23:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Local right-wingers agitated for a big confrontation. They got an uneventful, 10-minute standoff.by Hannah KriegRight-wing commentators vastly overhyped the threat to the pro-Palestine encampment on UW’s quad posed by Pursuit Church’s “March for Israel.” The Sunday action that journalist-turned-agitator Jonathan Choe said would “buzzsaw” through the United Front for Palestinian Liberation’s (UF) Liberated Zone ended up diverting after an uneventful 10-mi
  
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• The Top 43 Events in Seattle This Week: May 13–19, 2024

  13-05-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  
  Celeste Barber, The Rolling Stones, and Moreby EverOut StaffBuckle up, buttercups. This week is another wild ride, with event highlights from the Rolling Stones to the Fisherman's Village Music Festival and from Celeste Barber to the Seattle International Film Festival.
  MONDAY
  LIVE MUSIC
  Warpaint
  After a six-year hiatus, California indie-rockers Warpaint returned in 2022 with Radiate Like This, an album that showed an evolution of maturity in their songwriting while never shying away from playfu
  
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• Slog AM: Three Bob Fergusons Running for Governor, Deadly Stabbing at Light Rail Station, Steve Buscemi Punched

  13-05-2024 17:33 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamNightmare threesome: On Friday, two people named Bob Ferguson filed to run for governor as Democrats. In case you weren't aware, Washington's Attorney General and the current Democratic front-runner in that race is also named Bob Ferguson. Unlike Bob Ferguson #2 (a retired state employee in Yakima) and Bob Ferguson #3 (a military veteran in Graham), AG Bob Ferguson is a legitimate candidate. Conservative activist Glen Morgan found these other
  
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• City Council Nibbles the Edges of Nelson’s Minimum Wage Repeal, but Core Issue Remains

  10-05-2024 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  There’s still time to avoid a $13 minimum wage for gig workers.by Hannah KriegTime is running out for the Seattle City Council to tank Council Member Sara Nelson’s minimum wage repeal for gig delivery workers. In a Thursday committee meeting, Council Members Bob Kettle and Rob Saka reigned in Nelson’s sweeping attack on worker’s rights, but their amendments don’t change the fact that the underlying legislation puts the profits of big business over the livelihood of
  
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• All Aboard the Furry Cruise

  10-05-2024 21:51 via thestranger.com
  
  On Saturday Whistle N Wag hosts the first furry-centric voyage and fundraiser for the SS Virginia V.by Vivian McCallThere’s something endearingly Seattle about a steamboat cruise for furries.
  Whistle N Wag is the first furry-centric voyage and fundraiser for the SS Virginia V, the last surviving vessel in the Mosquito Fleet and the only wooden-hulled, propeller-driven passenger steamship in the United States. Virginia V Senior Docent and historian Ed Brown said the ship is a living museum
  
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• Seattle’s ‘Tough-on-Crime’ Administration Wants More Jail Beds for Non-Violent, Low-Level Offenders

  10-05-2024 19:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Mayor considers disrupting the municipal court system by potentially jailing people at SCORE.by Ashley NerbovigAfter City Council Member Tanya Woo let slip that the City may contract with the South Correctional Entity in Des Moines, also known as SCORE, frustrated King County Public Defenders sent a letter to the City explaining how switching to SCORE could hinder their ability to do their job, which is to provide effective representation for their clients. Right now, Mayor Bruce Harrell seems t
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: May 10–12, 2024

  10-05-2024 19:00 via everout.com
  
  Flower Festival, Seattle Art Book Fair, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $15by EverOut StaffThe weather's heating up this weekend, and we've got a hot and fresh batch of events to bask in, from the 16th Annual Flower Festival to the Seattle Art Book Fair and from Fantasy A & DJ Halfcan Celebrate 20 Years of Georgetown Records to the Edmonds Spring Fest. For more ideas, check out our guide to the top events of the week and our Mother's Day guide.
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  Spring Showers,
  
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• Slog AM: Biden Comes to Town, Northern Lights Might Be Visible in Seattle, and Atmospheric CO2 Breaks Records

  10-05-2024 17:34 via thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger's morning news round-up.by Nathalie GrahamBiden comes to town: Joe Biden is making a stop in the Emerald City this weekend and he'll be flying in and out of SeaTac International Airport. If you'll be in the airport on Friday or Saturday, expect delays. All traffic on the runway will stop until AirForce One has landed and is parked. So, what's Biden here for anyway? Raising money for his campaign, duh. Still, it's unclear where Biden is going or what he'll be up to for his polit
  
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• Ticket Alert: Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Sofi Tukker, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  10-05-2024 00:42 via everout.com
  
  Plus, John Summit & Dom Dolla and More Event Updates for May 9by EverOut StaffNu-disco phenom Sophie Ellis-Bextor will embark on her first-ever headlining North American tour following the resurgence of her early-aughts bop “Murder on the Dancefloor.” Genre-defying electronic duo Sofi Tukker has announced the Bread tour, supporting their upcoming album of the same name. Plus, EDM DJs John Summit and Dom Dolla will bring their collaborative project Everything Always to the Go
  
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