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• We Deserve Better City Parks

  04-12-2025 18:56 via thestranger.com
  Sometimes I just want to sit on a real bench, in the middle of a real park, in the city I love, and soak it all in.by Megan SelingThe Pacific Northwest is undoubtedly beautiful, and Seattle has no shortage of public parks that double as nature-loving reprieves from the city’s crowds and noise. Discovery Park, Lincoln Park, Carkeek Park, Seward Park, they’re all full of winding, wooded trails beneath hundreds, even thousands of trees, with wide-open, grassy playing fields and access t
  
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• Hacking the Met

  05-12-2025 20:48 via thestranger.com
  “Western art history is colonial propaganda.”by Amanda Manitach“Did you see Washington Crossing the Delaware?” a security officer asked as I scrutinized the labyrinthine floor plan of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “It’s the largest painting in the American Wing. Nearly 22 feet across!”
  I had indeed seen it, in all its largeness. It dominated the gallery packed with a crowd that collectively craned its neck to take in the larger-than-life future preside
  
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• The New Version of Come from Away Is Still Wonderful, But a Little Weird

  05-12-2025 20:28 via thestranger.com
  Perhaps a 10-Year-Old Show Doesn’t Need to Be Changedby Nathalie GrahamHere is the thing about Come from Away: you really can’t mess it up. The 2015 musical about the 38 planes diverted from the US airspace during 9/11 and the 7,000 people stranded in the bumfuck nowhere town of Gander, Newfoundland, is wonderful. Delightful and oh-so-Canadian strangers opening their doors to these stranded newcomers is a microcosm of hope in the story of a nation made paranoid and afraid by tragedy.
  
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• Money for Nothing

  05-12-2025 20:14 via thestranger.com
  These bands just got $10,000 richer for making good music.by Rob MouraChances are, by now, you’ve heard of Sonic Guild. Founded in Austin but with a beefy Seattle presence, the Guild has made it its mission to offer Northwest musicians validation, stages, and (in the case of a few lucky, hard-working individuals) $10,000 in grant money. Previous winners include Dean Johnson, Deep Sea Diver, Shaina Shepherd, Thunderpussy, Sol, and so many more.
  Here's how it works: Every year, the Guild put
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Dec 5–7, 2025

  05-12-2025 19:00 via everout.com
  Fremont Holiday Flurry, PhinneyWood Winter Festival, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $20by EverOut StaffIt's hard to believe we've reached the first weekend of the last month of the year, but here we are. Spend your invaluable time and energy and budget-friendly events from the 45th Annual PhinneyWood Winter Festival to Georgetown Records' Holiday Party and from Fremont Holiday Flurry: Fremont Freezes Over to a Wicked Sing Along & Skate. For more suggestions, check our our top picks g
  
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• Slog AM: New Lightrail Stations Almost Open, Harrell's Favorite Club Gets More Grants, the Color of the Year Is White

  05-12-2025 17:28 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamIt's New Light Rail Station Eve: On Saturday, Sound Transit plans to open three new stations and eight miles of new track. The light rail will probe the very-ready-for-probing parts of south King County, extending down to Federal Way and becoming the second-longest light rail line behind Los Angeles's. The new stations are expected to add between 19,000 and 24,000 riders to the light rail system every day. The ribbon-cutting ceremony will hap
  
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• Mayor-Elect Wilson Announces Senior Staff Team

  05-12-2025 01:54 via thestranger.com
  Her Smaller Team Marks a Pivot From Past Administrationsby Micah YipMayor-Elect Katie Wilson announced the senior staff for her mayor’s office Wednesday. And so far, the lineup on the seventh floor of City Hall is what she promised on the campaign: a coalition of left-leaning community organizers, policy experts, business leaders, and City Hall pros.
  The mayor’s office will look different from recent administrations: According to a memo obtained by Publicola, Wilson’s team
  
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• Ticket Alert: Evanescence, FKA twigs, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  04-12-2025 22:34 via everout.com
  Plus, Jeff Tweedy and More Event Updates for December 4by EverOut StaffNow that you’ve gotten your 2025 recap from your music streamer of choice, it’s time to look ahead to some upcoming concerts. Goth rockers Evanescence bring you to life at the White River Amphitheatre next summer. Avant-pop artist FKA twigs supports her companion albums Eusexua and Eusexua Afterglow on her Body High Tour. Plus, Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy returns to Seattle next spring. Read on for details on those
  
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• Pop Loser: Music News, this Week's Events, and John Waters Holiday Traditions

  04-12-2025 21:01 via thestranger.com
  Pop loser, you weekly music roundup.by Audrey Vann Welcome back to Pop Loser, you weekly music roundup! This week, THING Festival announced an indefinite hiatus, Brandi Carlile announced her Super Bowl debut, and Paul Anka announced that he once saunaed with Frank Sinatra (read on to learn about his big takeaway from the experience). Plus, I interviewed the undisputed King of Christmas, John Waters, about his string of novelty singles, holiday traditions, and the time he accidentally consum
  
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• Welcome to Our 2025 Complaints Issue

  04-12-2025 19:03 via thestranger.com
  We made it to the end of 2025, which by all accounts, was the longest year in recorded history.by Stranger StaffIt’s The Stranger’s December Issue. We made it to the end of 2025, which by all accounts, was the longest year in recorded history. And what do we have to show for it?
  Actually, a lot. After enduring nine intense months of campaigning, we elected a new mayor, two new city council members, and a new city attorney, and as far as we can tell, none of them are secret Republican
  
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• The Stranger’s Inaugural Complaints Issue

  04-12-2025 18:58 via thestranger.com
  If anyone’s gonna talk shit about our home, it’s gonna be us.by Stranger StaffEnough! 
  For years, delusional politicians, ass-kissing mainstream media talking heads, and professional liars have been misrepresenting Seattle to the masses: “It’s been taken over by antifa terrorists!” “Seattle is a lawless wasteland!” “The city is spiraling out of control!”
  We’ve heard them all before. But their criticisms got loud again during electi
  
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• Seattle, Please Stay Open Later

  04-12-2025 18:56 via thestranger.com
  A city this big that grinds to a halt by 9 p.m. feels like a sad HOA-run diorama.by Emily NokesI’m not asking for a 24-hour city. I mean, I am, eventually. But first, I’m simply asking that a city of nearly a million people does not keep the same hours as a small-town bank.  
  Disclaimer: Seattle businesses,  I know you are doing your best. Most of you, at least. The world is against you. From our city being uniquely warped by tech, to our inability to care for folks in cris
  
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• Hell Is a Grocery Store

  04-12-2025 18:56 via thestranger.com
  I have to be willing to subject myself to a Safeway’s Fisher-Price police state to buy ice cream?by Vivian McCallThe ice cream was my breaking point.
  When I want it, I’m usually having a bad day. The locks made it worse. 
  Unbreakable. Comically large. Glittering. Silvery. Affixed to the top right-hand corner of the glass door. I could see the primo shit I was willing to shell out $10 for: the vanilla Häagen-Dazs. I had two options. Smash the glass with my forehead, or smash
  
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• Don’t Be an Asshole

  04-12-2025 18:56 via thestranger.com
  If you’re wily enough to sneak drugs into the venue (which I don’t condone!), offer me some.by Dave SegalFOOMP!
  That was the sound of a dancer’s hand slamming into my cheekbone as I was minding my own business at a recent Cut Chemist show in Nectar Lounge. This incident—which caused no bruise, but did leave a psychic scar—illustrates three key rules of attending music shows: Be aware of your surroundings. Do not invade other people’s space. Understan
  
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• But Wait, There's More

  04-12-2025 18:56 via thestranger.com
  We need to talk about the lack of public bathrooms and cozy coffee shops, and that prolific public artist... you know the one.by Stranger StaffThere aren’t enough cozy coffee shops.
  I have had it up to here with all these modern Scandinavian-style coffee shop clones. They’re cold, white, and sterile, with all the warmth and ambience of a hospital room. You can usually recognize them by their ubiquitous peg letter menu boards (you know the ones) and uncomfortable metal stools wit
  
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• And You Know What Else???

  04-12-2025 18:56 via thestranger.com
  Never, ever call it Cap Hill.by Stranger StaffStop complaining about how expensive restaurants are here. They’re expensive because workers are required to be paid a living wage, and to be perfectly real, that wage is high because everyone fucking moved here and all the rents and real estate prices skyrocketed. Your servers and cooks need somewhere to live. Also, maybe you've noticed, but ingredients cost almost double what they used to.
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  Speaking of servers, can we all stop going to res
  
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• Slog AM: Trump Still Hates Washington State, RFK Jr. Still Hates Vaccines, Governor Ferguson Still Hates Taxes

  04-12-2025 18:11 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundupby Micah YipWA Gets Served Again: In its latest attempt to prove the patently false assertion that immigrants are causing widespread voter fraud, the Trump administration sued Washington state after Secretary of State Steve Hobbs refused to give them voter information. We’re one of six states in the lawsuit.
  What’d we do right this time? The DOJ’s seven-page complaint alleges Hobbs’ refusal violates the Civil Rights Act of 1960, which sa
  
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• Testy About Teslas

  04-12-2025 01:08 via thestranger.com
  Want to change the rapidly solidifying stereotype of the Seattle-area Tesla driver?by AnonymousDear Seattle-Area Tesla Drivers,
  You’ve probably noticed that your stickers aren’t helping. No one cares when you bought your Tesla or how you feel about the company’s CEO. No one is impressed that you’re using electricity instead of gas. That would have made your car special in 2012, but in Seattle in 2025? Not so much.
  Those stickers have done little to deter the glares and mi
  
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• Rep. Shaun Scott Wants to Fight Trump Cuts with a Statewide Payroll Tax

  03-12-2025 22:30 via thestranger.com
  Scott introduced a small package of bills to make up for the cuts in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” but the “Well Washington Fund” is the centerpiece. The payroll tax is similar to Seattle’s, which raked in more than $1 billion over its five-year existence and kept the city above water in the pandemic years.by Nathalie GrahamThe press conference on the steps of Washington’s Capitol Building was lowkey hostile. After Rep. Shaun Scott announced his bill to
  
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• Eddie Lin Is the New District 2 City Councilmember 

  03-12-2025 21:30 via thestranger.com
  Lin is part of a new progressive coalition at City Hall—incumbent Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck, Councilmember-Elect Dionne Foster, City Attorney-Elect Erika Davis, and Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson—who campaigned on similar ideals.by Micah YipFlanked by Councilmembers in a packed City Hall Tuesday afternoon, Councilmember Eddie Lin took the oath of office. 
  After a standing ovation, Lin shared how his experience growing up as a half-Chinese/Taiwanese and half-white kid shaped
  
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• Slog AM: Costco Sues Trump, Shirtless Man With a Gun Killed by Police, Seattle Traffic Is Getting Worse

  03-12-2025 18:58 via thestranger.com
  by Charles MudedeWhat will the weather do for us today? Rain some, keep things nice and chill with an expected high of 45, and cover our skies with low and lugubrious clouds. What more do you want? Winter is right around the corner. And I have a new and thick jacket (it feels and looks like a sleeping bag) in case temperatures drop to levels that we imagine and feel as arctic. Will it snow this year? Dream… dream, dream, dream.
  Yesterday at 1:30 pm, a man described as shirtless and &ldquo
  
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• Conservatives Zeroed In on Tumwater in Washington State’s Fight Over Trans Athletes

  02-12-2025 20:00 via thestranger.com
  “When a school board tells students they don’t deserve inclusion, it’s heartbreaking.”by Nathalie GrahamIt’s been a long year for Tumwater, a politically purple town with 24,852 people and three craft breweries that’s become a pawn in a political chess match over transgender rights.
  And the whole year, it’s never gotten far from the paint. It began with a high school basketball game. It was February, and the girls’ JV Tumwater High School Thunderbi
  
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• Slog AM: Pete Hegseth Kills Them All, Starbucks Pays $38.9 Million Labor Settlement, AI Will Deny Washington Medicaid Claims Next Year

  02-12-2025 18:05 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundupby Vivian McCall“Kill Them All”: That was the order Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave during the first US strike on a boat in the Caribbean, two sources with direct knowledge of the operation told the Washington Post. To comply with that order, the Special Operations commander ordered a second strike to kill the two survivors.
  The White House is Trying to Save Hegseth’s Skin. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Hegseth authorized Admi
  
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• Stranger Suggests: A Singer-Songwriter Obsessed with Weddings, One Half of 'Las Culturistas,' and a Holiday Pop-Up Bar that Doesn’t Suck

  01-12-2025 22:30 via thestranger.com
  One really great thing to do every day of the week.by Julianne BellMONDAY 12/1  
  Anna of the North
  (MUSIC) Oslo-based pop singer Anna of the North knows a little something about finding joy in long, dark winters. The artist has been in the music game for a while, from having her 2015 debut single "Sway" remixed by the Chainsmokers to opening for Kygo's European tour and providing guest vocals for tracks on Tyler, the Creator's 2017 album Flower Boy. She's had two songs featured in the
  
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• December Things to Do: Food

  01-12-2025 20:57 via thestranger.com
  The best food events happening in December.by Julianne BellWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, and Food.
  Miracle on 2nd
  Through Dec 25
  In 2014, New York bar owner Greg Boehm temporarily transformed his space into a kitschy Christmas wonderland replete with gewgaws and tchotchkes galore. Now, the pop-up has expanded to more than 100 locations all over the world and returns to Belltown’s Rob Roy. Beverages are housed in tack
  
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• December Things to Do: Film

  01-12-2025 20:57 via thestranger.com
  The best film events happening in December.by Julianne BellWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, and Food.
  Reveries: The Mind Prison
  Dec 4
  If the Big Dark has you feeling glum and you’re in the mood to expand your consciousness with some big laughs along the way, consider this unique comedy/art film hybrid, which was released earlier this year. Through a combination of “narrative scenes, abstract video montages, and me
  
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• December Things to Do: Visual Art

  01-12-2025 20:56 via thestranger.com
  The best visual art events of the month.by Amanda ManitachWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, and Food.
  Peter Ferguson + John Brophy + Jean Labourdette
  Dec 12–Jan 10
  Three solo shows under one roof at Roq La Rue offer paintings of the jaw-dropping ilk. Each artist wields the paintbrush like a Dutch master, and each delves headlong into the realm of dark fairy tale with their unique twist. Montreal-based Peter Ferguson (des
  
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• December Things to Do: Performance 

  01-12-2025 20:56 via thestranger.com
  The best theater and performance events in December.by Julianne BellWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, and Food.
  Matt Rogers: Christmas in December
  Dec 6
  [Mariah Carey voice] “It’s tiiiime!” Mimi might be the holiday’s reigning queen, but comedian and actor Matt Rogers, cohost of your pop-culture-savvy queer friend’s favorite podcast Las Culturistas, has undoubtedly earned the title of “Pop P
  
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• December Things to Do: Literature

  01-12-2025 20:56 via thestranger.com
  The best literature events in December.by Julianne BellWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, and Food.
  Megha Majumdar
  Dec 4
  Kolkata-born author Megha Majumdar’s incendiary 2020 debut novel A Burning, which follows the story of an Indian woman who witnesses a terrorist attack on a train, became a New York Times bestseller and was longlisted for the National Book Award that year. Set in the near future of Kolkata, Majumdar&rsq
  
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• December Things to Do: Music

  01-12-2025 20:55 via thestranger.com
  The best music events in December.by Julianne BellWant more? Here's everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, and Food.
  Jens Lekman, Jordan Patterson
  Dec 3
  I fell in love with Swedish musician Jens Lekman’s music the very first time I heard “You Are the Light (by Which I Travel Into This and That)” on KEXP as a teen and soon graduated to listening to a burned CD of his 2004 debut album When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog on repeat, be
  
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