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• Tracking tech helps teams know when to practice, rest, sub

  03-03-2017 23:37
  
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — It is no longer enough for a basketball team to know how many shots a player makes, or even where he was standing when he made it. Sports data is going biometric, tracking players’ heart rates, movements and energy levels to get a better picture of what’s going on inside their […]
  
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• Big Voter, Huh?

  05-02-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  Well, Did You Know There’s an Election Happening Right Now?by The Stranger Election Information BoardOnly real ones know about the King Conservation District (KCD) election. Which is a shame. It isn’t some dusty, obscure, do-nothing entity; the KCD has an operating budget of around $10 million, mined from a property tax just like everything else around here.
  Like Captain Planet in the form of a bureaucratic entity, the KCD Board of Supervisors crunchily throws that money toward the e
  
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• Our Very Sexy February Issue Is Out Now!

  05-02-2026 19:42 via thestranger.com
  Love is in the air! Oh, shit, no, that’s pepper spray.by Stranger StaffLove is in the air! 
  Oh, shit, no, that’s pepper spray.
  This is our first print issue in the new year, and 2026 came at us all hard. It took three days for the Trump administration to invade another country, bomb them, and capture their president. It took seven days for immigration enforcement to kill someone on the street. And that was only the first time. As we close this issue, this year has been a scary,
  
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• The Stranger’s 2026 Sex Survey Results Are In!

  05-02-2026 19:25 via thestranger.com
  The results are in, and Seattle is still horny as ever.by Megan SelingIllustrations by James Yates
  I felt a ball of anxiety in the pit of my stomach when we launched The Stranger’s annual sex survey last month. Twenty-twenty-five was a bad year for a lot of people. Trump returned to the White House, and from then onward, our newsfeeds were filled with decidedly unsexy headlines that captured our not-so-slow descent into a real-life Idiocracy. “Unemployment Rate Hits Four-Year Hi
  
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• We Need to Regulate Automated License Plate Readers Now

  05-02-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  Glaring down at us from light posts, traffic lights, and even convenience stores, is a privately-built, publicly paid-for surveillance network of license plate readers. Whenever a vehicle passes by, cameras not only capture and store data about our license plates but information about our vehicles, location, images of passengers, and our movements. Right now, your data can be freely shared between local, county, state law enforcement, unregulated third party vendors, and through public requ
  
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• Slog AM: Homan Pulls Out, Anti-Trans Hate Crime Trial, Harris Returns?

  05-02-2026 18:55 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Micah YipPullout Game Weak: Border Czar Tom Homan is withdrawing a quarter of the immigration officers in Minnesota in exchange for immigrants in the state’s jails. Roughly 2,000 agents and officers will continue to Surge the Metro.
  Big Brother: The Washington State Senate passed a bill to regulate automated license plate readers yesterday. Cops use ALPRs like those made by the company Flock Safety to grab plate numbers from passing vehicles, dat
  
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• What the Puck?!

  04-02-2026 22:00 via thestranger.com
  Do you need to get something off your chest? Submit an I, Anonymous and we'll illustrate it!by AnonymousBetween the Torrent and Heated Rivalry, Seattle hockey fans are starting to see a heap of new faces at local games. I love to see it! Hockey is the best! Welcome! But I have two requests: 1) Please stay in your seat when the puck is in play, and 2) please stop asking the players to kiss. 
  I’m not mad. There’s no way you’d know if you’ve never been to a hockey game.
  
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• Pullout Politics

  04-02-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  Fertility tracking is part of a slate of high-risk, low-reward family planning methods that have lately taken on a new sheen in the eyes of the federal government. After shutting down the department that supervises federal family planning funding and setting the conditions to erode abortion and pregnancy care nationwide, the Trump administration is now evangelizing a single type of birth control: fertility awareness methods, which include everything from cycle-tracking to digital apps.by Megan B
  
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• Slog AM: Route 8 Needs More Than Just a Bus Lane, Trump Reduces Number of ICE Thugs in Minnesota, Layoffs at Washington Posts Have Begun

  04-02-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Charles MudedeI’m not against Mayor Katie Wilson’s directive to place a bus lane on Denny Way to help Route 8 meet its schedule. But the deeper problem with that route is that its service area is too large: from Mount Baker all the way to Lower Queen Anne. So, the addition of a bus lane, though welcome, may prove to be inadequate. What’s also needed to make trips on Denny Way more dependable is an additional route that only runs between Lo
  
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• Slog AM: Route 8 Needs More Than Just a Bus Lane, Trump Reduces Number of ICE Thugs in Minnesota, Layoffs at Washington Post Have Begun

  04-02-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Charles MudedeI’m not against Mayor Katie Wilson’s directive to place a bus lane on Denny Way to help Route 8 meet its schedule. But the deeper problem with that route is that its service area is too large: from Mount Baker all the way to Lower Queen Anne. So, the addition of a bus lane, though welcome, may prove to be inadequate. What’s also needed to make trips on Denny Way more dependable is an additional route that only runs between Lo
  
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• Chill Seekers

  04-02-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  It’s never not surprising when artists create adventurous, instrumental electronic music that breaks through to a wider audience. In an era of formulaic, innocuous mega-streamers, challenging sounds snaring major mindshare is rare and precious. Recently, we’ve seen that phenomenon with Oneohtrix Point Never, Mica Levi, and Robert A.A. Lowe scoring films funded by millionaires. On a slightly smaller scale, we’re witnessing this scenario play out with Purelink, a NYC-via-Chicago
  
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• Where to Eat for Valentine's Day 2026

  03-02-2026 23:00 via everout.com
  Heart-Shaped Pizza, Romantic Dinners, and Moreby Janey WongWhatever your Valentine's Day plans may be, we've gathered a bouquet of swoon-worthy options around town, from Big Mario’s pizzagrams to food lover's tasting menus at Marjorie and Taylor Shellfish, plus sweet treats from Ben’s Bread. For more ideas, check out our food and drink guide.
  Big Mario’s Pizza
  The year was 2001 when I first discovered the genius move of sending someone a message via pizza (see: The Princess Dia
  
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• Julie Kang Is Running for City Council District 5 

  03-02-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  Immigrant and advocate Julie Kang thinks she's the best City Council candidate for Seattle's "neglected child," District 5. But can she make up her mind on how she'd handle surveillance, homelessness and policing?by Micah YipJulie Kang slid a small plastic bag across the table at the downtown library coffee shop. It was an ICE alert kit containing a whistle and a short pamphlet, the kind she helps assemble with Common Power every Friday. 
  “It’s one thing to share information,&rd
  
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• Slog AM: ICE Body Cams, Washington’s Millionaire Tax, Good Seattle Movie Theater News  

  03-02-2026 18:26 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Vivian McCallICE Cams: In an attempt to save her head, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that DHS will strap a body camera to every federal agent in Minneapolis, and expand that program nationwide when “funding becomes available.” President Donald Trump is in favor. “They generally tend to be good for law enforcement because people can’t lie about what’s happening,” said the President, who ha
  
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• Remembering Judith Arcana 

  03-02-2026 17:00 via thestranger.com
  Portland’s own underground abortionist-turned-poet was a legend. She was also my friend.by Megan BurbankThis story was originally published in our sister paper, Portland Mercury.
  In 2017, Judith Arcana sent a postcard to the old Mercury offices in Old Town/Chinatown. I was the arts editor at the time—it was my first real journalism job—and after many stories covering local theater (I still think about the plays I saw at Shaking the Tree) and books (a reading at Powell&rsqu
  
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• Easy Street Records Owner Defends, Then Apologizes For, Sympathetic ICE Comments 

  03-02-2026 01:30 via thestranger.com
  As Easy Street Records owner Matt Vaughan has demonstrated, posting is almost always a mistake.by Audrey VannIt really didn’t have to go down like this. On Friday, the long-running West Seattle record shop and cafe, Easy Street Records, posted on Instagram that it’d donate 10 percent of its sales through the weekend to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. This was the store’s way to support Friday’s sort-of “general strike” without cutting staff hours. All d
  
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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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