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• US experts reviewing low-carb, other diets for guidelines

  02-04-2019 15:57
  NEW YORK (AP) — With keto-friendly recipes sweeping social media, some followers of low-carb eating are hoping for a nod of approval in the upcoming U.S. dietary guidelines that advise Americans on what to eat. It may seem minor, but backers say low-carb’s inclusion could influence nutrition advice that doctors give and help shape government […]
  
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• The Best Things To Do in Seattle This Month: August 2026

  01-08-2026 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  In the words of pop diva Zara Larsson, “Summer isn’t over yet.” There’s plenty of sun-soaked fun still to be had, and the August events calendar is bringing the heat. We’ve compiled the biggest events in live music, performance, food, and more to give you a sense of the month ahead, so keep scrolling for deets on everything from Capitol Hill Block Party to The Strokes and from Jane Don’t Does America to the Mariners’ Alumni Home Run Derby.COMEDYComedy B
  
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• Sawant’s Street Game Is Under Attack

  01-08-2026 01:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Kshama Sawant, Seattle’s former socialist councilwoman running for the District 9 congressional seat Adam Smith has held for nearly 30 years, is not at all happy about the fake posters and mudslinging stickers popping up around town. “I call them fake posters because they’re engineered to look like the posters from our campaign, but they aren’t,” says Sawant on my phone’s speaker. As we talk, the dreadful roar of Blue Angel fighter jets fills the room. S
  
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• The Stranger’s Noise Complaint: Episode Three

  01-08-2026 01:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Welcome to Noise Complaint, The Stranger‘s new audio and video music podcast featuring live performances right here at The Stranger HQ. Streamed live and released every other Friday, we invite a great band, musician, or wonderfully weird act to perform. Tune in, discover something new, and support art in your city.
  On Apple, you can subscribe to the video podcast here.
  On Spotify, here.This Week’s Noise Complaint episode features the epic Flesh Produce!
  Their hyper-pu
  
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• Israel Invited These Four Washington State Legislators on a Propaganda Tour Amid the Gaza Genocide 

  01-08-2026 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Four Washington legislators who went on a 2025 tour of Israel paid for by the Israeli foreign ministry last September amid the Gaza genocide have in recent years pushed legislation in Olympia benefitting the Israeli government, including bills to criminalize street protests, suppress university campus encampments, and condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, a review of legislative records by The Stranger shows. One legislator also effectively blocked a bill calling on the
  
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• Plant Problems

  01-08-2026 00:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Everyone loves a little greenery. I’ve seen some great plant displays in yoga studios, coffee shops, and therapists’ offices all over Seattle. But why in the sweet grey city of rain do we not water our plants? I’m talking droopy and yellowing monstera, ficuses shedding like crazy, and expensive-looking philodendron with deflated leaves. If having plants is part of the decor of the shop, shouldn’t taking care of the plants be part of what employees do?I have offered to wa
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: July 31–Aug 2, 2026

  31-07-2026 19:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Everybody’s working for the weekend—and we’ve finally made it, babyyy! Make the most of your free time at cheap and easy events from the Lake City Summer Festival to Flock Fiber Festival and from Ballard P-Patch’s 24th Annual Art in the Garden to Craft Rave Seattle #2. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week.FRIDAYFILMEmerald City Short Film Festival Meet-n-Greet & Movie Swap
  Sometimes, the best part of a film festival isn’t actually watching the mo
  
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• Slog AM: Hamas Agrees to Disarm, Wilson Apologizes, and Tacoma ICE Facility May Release Detained Immigrants

  31-07-2026 18:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Well, this is it. Today is Stranger editor Hannah Murphy Winter’s last day. I can’t just do Slog AM like it’s any other day! So yes, while I will highlight some of the morning’s most notable headlines, I also want to look back at some of Murph’s best Stranger stories, from the award-winning political profiles to laughing in the face of clueless Seattle cops. We’re gonna miss you, Murph. Washington May Release Hundreds of Detained Immigrants: On Thursday,
  
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• Chief Shon Barnes Resigns From Seattle Police Department

  31-07-2026 01:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Well, Police Chief Shon Barnes is out for real now. Mayor Katie Wilson asked him to resign last night, and he accepted Thursday afternoon. And no, he was not in Chicago. Wilson appointed Deputy Chief Andre Sayles as interim chief. His departure is the conclusion to a week of drama about how much time Barnes actually spends in Seattle.Everything started when news broke that Barnes had been at a law enforcement conference in Dallas during Sunday’s shooting at Bite of Seattle. Three peo
  
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• Ticket Alert: Tyla, Joy Oladokun, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  30-07-2026 23:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Alert the group chat—these shows are going on sale this week! After a busy summer performing at the World Cup and releasing her sophomore record, South African star Tyla takes her danceable fusion of amapiano and pop on the road. Folk singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun has announced a fall tour to follow the release of her forthcoming album, Hope Is a Heavy Thing. Plus, Seattle drag superstar Bosco closes the tour for her one-woman show The Marvelous Miss Gender with a hometown appearance nex
  
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• Locals Only

  30-07-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Kay Redden is a modern-day Andy Warhol of sorts, gathering the coolest-of-cool artists in Seattle for her cassette-only label Den Tapes, releasing over 100 albums since it launched nearly 11 years ago. Each year, Redden organizes Den Fest, which is not just a celebration of the label itself but an emblem of the excellent music coming out of our city. Ranging from shoegaze and indie folk to hardcore and sound collage, the fifth annual Den Fest features 16 bands across two days (August 7–8
  
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• Slog AM: Mayor Reportedly Fires SPD Chief Shon Barnes, 15-Year-Old Charged in Bite of Seattle Shooting, AI Slop Cops on LinkedIn 

  30-07-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Saw This One Coming: Mayor Katie Wilson reportedly fired Police Chief Shon Barnes last night, according to Publicola. He was reportedly seen leaving Wilson’s seventh floor office in City Hall after a long meeting. Multiple sources, including a recently retired Seattle Police Department officer, said Barnes called some of his captains with the news last night.Early Wednesday, Barnes cancelled a half-dozen TV interviews to answer questions about the Seattle Center shooting and his travel sc
  
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• The World Does Not Need a Seven-Hour Odyssey 

  30-07-2026 01:30 via thestranger.com
  
  It isn’t often that a movie review in a literary journal like the London Review of Books goes viral—let alone a 4,234-word movie review—but that’s what happened this week when the LRB published translator Emily Wilson’s review, titled “An Uncomplicated Man,” of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Homer adaptation. The nicest thing she could say about the biggest cultural event of our day: “My teenagers had a good time.”  I have n
  
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• The World Does Not Need A 7-Hour Odyssey 

  30-07-2026 01:30 via thestranger.com
  
  It isn’t often that a movie review in a literary journal like the London Review of Books goes viral—let alone a 4,234-word movie review—but that’s what happened this week when the LRB published translator Emily Wilson’s review, titled “An Uncomplicated Man,” of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Homer adaptation. The nicest thing she could say about the biggest cultural event of our day: “My teenagers had a good time.”  I have n
  
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• Guest Rant: Stand With Library Workers and Vote Yes on Prop 1

  30-07-2026 00:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Jacob Schear is a library worker writing on behalf of the Executive Board of AFSCME Local 2083, Seattle Public Library Employees Union. He does not speak for The Seattle Public Library.We Seattle Public Library workers welcome thousands of people to our 27 locations every day, from readers downloading the latest e-book, to families enjoying story times and picture books, to English language learners seeking classes and tutoring, to our unhoused neighbors coming to access services and resources.
  
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• Pop Loser: Cher’s Butt Tattoo

  30-07-2026 00:03 via thestranger.com
  Welcome back to Pop Loser! It’s been a heavy week in Seattle, and with music news also looking bleak, I think it’s a good time to deep dive into a subject that brings me joy: Cher’s ass tattoo. Plus, there are so many great live shows happening this week, and I’ll share a song that sounds like hiking on Mount Rainier. Subscribe to Pop Loser here!This Week in Music: I’m not joking. Over the weekend I watched Robert Altman’s 1994 fashion-filled c
  
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• Seattle City Council and Mayor Strike a Deal After Messy Fight Over School Meals

  29-07-2026 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson and members of the Seattle City Council have squashed the beef over school meals, reaching an agreement to pay for universal free meals during school days and vouchers for the neediest kids on weekends and holiday breaks, starting this September. The first part of this compromise plan was completed yesterday, with the council’s unanimous approval of the Families, Education, Preschool, and Promise Levy (FEPP) levy implementation plan. This includes $4.7 mill
  
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• Slog AM: Fauci Invokes Fifth Amendment at Senate Hearing, The Blue Angels Are Here, The Marmots Are on Only Fans

  29-07-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  Uno Reverse: After a struggle over whether to fund universal free school meals or targeted food assistance for the neediest students in the district, the Seattle City Council voted to pay for both. The first year, funding will come from the City budget, which is facing a $175 million deficit. Money from the $1.3 billion Families, Education, Preschool, and Promise property tax levy will support the programs starting next year.Bar Cancelled: The Washington State bar exam, administered only twice
  
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• SPD Still Looking for Suspects in Bite of Seattle Shooting Amid Questions About Chief Barnes’s Whereabouts on Sunday

  28-07-2026 22:35 via thestranger.com
  
  In a fourth press conference this week, Mayor Katie Wilson and Seattle Police Department Chief Shon Barnes confirmed that one of the victims of Sunday’s Bite of Seattle shooting was involved in the shooting. Barnes also responded to controversy about his whereabouts on Sunday.Wilson started by acknowledging the victims: Ashley Whitehead, 56, and Carlos Israel Sanchez Villalba, 44. The third person killed in the shooting, Junior Cee Niko Semo, 19, is believed to have been involved in what
  
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• The Invite

  28-07-2026 21:19 via thestranger.com
  
  I’m a late-thirties hetero married man. I’m also a flirt. I’ve known this about myself for a long time, and while my spouse knows this generally, she probably doesn’t know that I can lean into a bit at times when she is not around. For a long time it was fine. I considered my flirting to fall into my “zone of erotic autonomy” and never intended it to lead anywhere. Then twice in the last year it’s led to women getting the wrong (but honestly, under
  
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• Slog AM: Ukraine Bombs Iran, Kohberger Claims Innocence, the Oregon Trail Is Open, and the Bab Al-Mandab Strait Is Closed to Saudi Oil

  28-07-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Washington Blocked Again from Inspecting ICE Jail: State health inspectors were set to find out just how bad conditions are for immigrants detained in GEO Group’s private ICE jail in Tacoma last week, only to be blocked at the last minute by a federal court order, per the Seattle Times. The state has been trying to inspect the facility after receiving thousands of complaints about poor conditions for detainees.Kohberger Now Says He Didn’t Kill Idaho Students: Convicted last year for
  
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• Dear Hendrix

  28-07-2026 01:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Dear Hendrix,It’s 4 a.m., and I can’t sleep.Soon, I’ll have to walk out of our apartment door and head to the KEXP radio station, where I do my daily Early Show. It’s Monday morning after a long weekend. I’m going to start the show at 5 a.m. with a tune from Mozart. It’s Mozart Monday—a regular thing for me. But I don’t feel happy about anything right now.When I finally arrive at work around 4:30 a.m., something feels off. It’s eerie, uncomf
  
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• UPDATE: SPD Says 15-year-old in Custody After Gunfight at Seattle Center Kills Three, Including Second Shooter

  27-07-2026 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson and Seattle Police Department leaders said during two Monday press conferences that yesterday’s deadly shooting at Seattle Center was the result of three people shooting at each other and hitting bystanders.Wilson said at an 11 am press conference that a 15-year-old is being held at King County’s youth jail for a firearm offense and first-degree assault, and will make a first appearance in court today at 1:30 pm.At a second press conference Monday at 4 pm,
  
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• UPDATE: SPD Says 15-year-old in Custody After Gunfight at Seattle Center Kills Three, Including Second Shooter

  27-07-2026 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson and Seattle Police Department leaders said during two Monday press conferences that yesterday’s deadly shooting at Seattle Center was the result of three people shooting at each other and hitting bystanders.Wilson said at an 11 am press conference that a 15-year-old is being held at King County’s youth jail for a firearm offense and first-degree assault, and will make a first appearance in court today at 1:30 pm.At a second press conference Monday at 4 pm,
  
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• SPD Says 15-year-old in Custody After Gunfight at Seattle Center Kills Three

  27-07-2026 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson and Seattle Police Department Chief Shon Barnes said during a Monday morning press conference that yesterday’s deadly shooting at Seattle Center was the result of two people shooting at each other and hitting bystanders.Wilson said a 15-year-old is being held at King County’s youth jail for a firearm offense and first-degree assault, and will make a first appearance in court today at 1:30 p.m.Chief Barnes said police are still searching for a second shoote
  
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• Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, July 27–August 2

  27-07-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  MONDAY 7/27Black Moth Super Rainbow, Giant Day(MUSIC) Since 2003, Pittsburgh’s Black Moth Super Rainbow have been creating some of the finest honey-glazed, weird-dream soundtracks in the USA. If you like rock music that sounds as if it’s being filtered through clouds of DMT haze and sung by a wonderstruck waif, BMSR will set your wheelhouse on fire. Back in 2009 in these pages, I wrote, “BMSR’s songs are concise and hooky, but peculiarly out of focus, smeared into a hazi
  
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• Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, July 27–August 2

  27-07-2026 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  MONDAY 7/27Black Moth Super Rainbow, Giant Day(MUSIC) Since 2003, Pittsburgh’s Black Moth Super Rainbow have been creating some of the finest honey-glazed, weird-dream soundtracks in the USA. If you like rock music that sounds as if it’s being filtered through clouds of DMT haze and sung by a wonderstruck waif, BMSR will set your wheelhouse on fire. Back in 2009 in these pages, I wrote, “BMSR’s songs are concise and hooky, but peculiarly out of focus, smeared into a hazi
  
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• Slog AM: At Least Nine People Were Shot in Seattle This Weekend, Jimothy Got His Own Art Contest, and Stephen Miller Continues to Be Terrible

  27-07-2026 18:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Goooood morning. Today we have to talk about gun violence. In a weekend slated to be full of art fairs and food festivals, at least nine people were shot in two different shootings, and three people were killed. We all know this, but let’s say it out loud: This isn’t normal. The Second Amendment does not trump the right to survive in public. It should not be this easy to end a life. Let’s do the news. Mass Shooting at Seattle Center: During the last hours of the Bite
  
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• Slog AM: At Least Nine People Were Shot in Seattle This Weekend, Jimothy Got His Own Art Contest, and Stephen Miller Continues to Be Terrible

  27-07-2026 18:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Goooood morning. Today we have to talk about gun violence. In a weekend slated to be full of art fairs and food festivals, at least nine people were shot in two different shootings, and three people were killed. We all know this, but let’s say it out loud: This isn’t normal. The Second Amendment does not trump the right to survive in public. It should not be this easy to end a life. Let’s do the news. Mass Shooting at Seattle Center: During the last hours of the Bite
  
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• Erika Kirk’s TPUSA Tour Lands in Kirkland Today

  24-07-2026 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Since TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University last September, his widow Erika Kirk has taken over as the right-wing, youth-focused organization’s CEO and spiritual voice. Much of the time, she is on the road—moving from White House appearances, to book tours, to guest segments on right-wing media, to speaking engagements, to stops on her 25-city, national “Make Heaven Crowded” tour.This evening, the tour will bring her just outside of Sea
  
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