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There are TWO Stranger Suggests today because we couldn't choose.
1) GO SEE CO***NE BEAR.
2) Celebrate Kremwerk's anniversary with UNIIQU3!
One really great thing to do every day of the week.
A new Sticker Patrol to send you into your weekend with (mostly) good vibes. Pro-cats, anti-cops, and co*******ng tears.
The worst kind of tears.
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• Bill to legalize more housing statewide needs to clear committee today
• Franklin High teacher arrested for s*x with his 16-year-old student
• First anniversary of war in Ukraine
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People keep saying Seattle, especially the downtown district, is dead.
Charles Mudede thinks the city is moving toward a full-blown revival.
The Seattle Times and others may be declaring parts of Seattle dead, but the city is actually moving toward a full-blown revival.
HUMP Film Festival starts TONIGHT!
There is nothing better than watching a bunch of p**n with an audience of respectful-yet-curious strangers.
Here are some of the highlights you'll be seeing at On the Boards. Clown s*x! Tighty whities! Intergalactic s*x dreams!
HUMP! starts tonight! Here are some of the delicious, raunchy, and delightfully strange p**nos you can expect to see.
Spotted: Missing you, Lavender Country 💜💜💜
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Comedian Andy Iwancio's new EP 'Hard Trans' is hilarious, humanizing, and a vital listen as politicians and certain members of the far-right media strive to dehumanize and oppress trans folks.
The comedian's latest release has peaked at #2 on the iTunes comedy chart.
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• Everett buys two public bathrooms they describe as "anti-vandalism"
• Trump beats Buttigieg to train derailment site in Ohio
• Milk is milk is milk
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Alex Cooley is the second Alex, the second w**d-grower, and the first person with ear gauges to hop into the race for District 3 this year.
He wants to use his w**d policy chops to legalize ALL drugs.
Emerald City Comic Con is next weekend! The pop culture convention continues to be welcoming to everyone, including (and especially) LGBTQ+ attendees.
Matt Baume has rounded up some of the highlights, from the most interesting panels to celebrity guests (hi, Mara Wilson!).
As always, ECCC will be a welcoming enclave for everyone who wants to enjoy pop culture together, including (and especially) LGBTQ+ attendees.
Breaking: Seattle City Council Member Dan Strauss is running for reelection.
That makes him the last of the council incumbents to announce his plans, with three defending and four moving on to other things.
So far, looks like his most serious challenger Fremont Chamber of Commerce Executive Pete Hanning, who announced his run this morning.
A Third and Final Incumbent Decides to Defend
A new batch of Stranger Suggests just dropped!
Today's recommended event goes all day long, with more than 75 restaurants raising money for earthquake relief efforts in Turkey and Syria. Go eat something delicious for a good cause!
Here are just some of the participants: Rachel's Bagels & Burritos, Ciudad, Hamdi, Full Tilt Ice Cream, Monsoon Seattle, The Whale Wins, Homer and Milk Drunk, Spinasse, Post Alley Pizza, and Taku. Yum!
One really great thing to do every day of the week.
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• SNOW
• Sawant's caste discrimination ban passes
• New study reveals the nature of Earth's innermost heart: a ball of solid iron
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Becka Johnson Poppe is running for King County Council, touting her three years of overseeing the County’s $15.8 billion budget as a way of distinguishing herself from her opponent.
And She Knows Budgets, God Dammit
• Another earthquake hits the Turkey-Syria border
• Ballard Commons Park will reopen next month
• The State of Seattle Is ______?
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Bumbershoot is back! The music and arts fest will return to the Seattle Center September 2-3 and today they've announced their arts lineup—wrestling! witches! pole dancing!
$50 early bird tickets go on sale Friday.
We've got all the details:
Bumbershoot returns this Labor Day weekend and announces $50 early bird tickets.
Author Jake Bittle says global warming won't cause climate migration, but climate *displacement* as people get pushed from place to place without refuge. Read more about the difference—and learn how the PNW could be impacted—in this interview.
An interview with author and climate journalist Jake Bittle.
Have you taken our s*x survey yet? What are you waiting for? Go do it!
Spend seven minutes in heaven with The Stranger.
Our Artist of the Week is Joe Rocco! Longtime readers might remember his comic Fluffer & Nutter. Now he's focused on making books for kids.
"I think the older I get the more I value being in touch with my inner child, as corny as that might sound."
https://www.thestranger.com/visual-art/2023/02/20/78868818/joe-roccos-inner-child
• Time to tell Olympia you want more housing
• Guy who drove into Black Lives Matter protest and shot Dan Gregory gets probation
• Richard Belzer has died, but Munch lives forever
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You could look at our recent food feature as just another collection of articles. Or, you could look at it as a challenge, a checklist of 35 of the most delicious things in the city. Eat and drink them all!
The best things to eat in Seattle, no matter how much money you have.
Tomorrow Shout Your Abortion will open the first Shout Shop. The West Seattle storefront will carry SYA merchandise and also host craft events—T-shirt decorating! Button making!—to help spread their pro-abortion message.
Bring a T-shirt or tote bag to paint!
Jordan Peterson is terrible, but at least his recent Twitter tantrum drew attention to someone worth paying attention to.
(And that's all we must thank him for.)
• OSHA is investigating Amazon
• Starbucks is allegedly understaffing stores to break unions
• 1,200 UW researchers and postdocs vote to authorize strike
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The Stranger's labor news roundup.
Happy Sticker Patrol Day!
This week, Jesus comes back to punch everyone.
He is risen...to dole out some punches!
GUEST RANT: "Let's protect people like me and set a powerful precedent for outlawing caste discrimination nationally and internationally."
Let's help protect people like me and set a powerful precedent for outlawing caste discrimination nationally and internationally.
• WA jail didn't notice detainees's co**se for 18 hours
• Council launches investigation of relationship between Everett's Mayor and her Deputy
• Turns out several Fox anchors are duplicitous clowns
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Last call!
Come cover the cops for us!
Hear the fun new Bezos-bashing Le Tigre cover that got Who Is She kicked out of the Kraken game! 🦑⚡💀 Plus: Miles Davis-esque funk from S*xmob.
The best new music to hit Dave Segal's inbox this week.
Jeremiah Green of Modest Mouse and Red Stars Theory passed away on December 31, 2022. Here, his longtime friend Gavin Fleek shares the obituary he wrote on behalf of Jeremiah's friends and family.
It was wonderful to be in Jeremiah's world. It is both quieter and louder without him.
Another candidate hops in the race to replace Kshama Sawant in Seattle's District 3.
Meet Efrain Hudnell, a deputy prosecutor who has been on quite the journey...
From Fed Soc Member to abolitionist-adjacent prosecutor, Hudnell really has been on a journey.
BOTCH! IS! BACK!
Kevin Diers sat down with the band ahead of their Tacoma and Seattle shows (and just announced tour!) to find out how the long-awaited reunion really happened.
Holy s**t, Botch is back.
• New Seattle city council candidates hop in races for Districts 2 and 3
• Biden to break silence on balloons today
• Dick's turns 69 , which reminds us: Have you taken the Stranger's s*x survey yet??
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The Chinatown-ID organizer who led the charge against a shelter expansion is challenging Tammy Morales for her seat on council.
Tanya Woo wants everything, but she has no idea how to pay for any of it, and she doesn't want to raise taxes.
Tanya Woo wants everything, has no idea how to pay for any of it, and doesn't want to raise taxes.
Spotted: Post-Valentine’s Day blues…take this as a sign if you needed one.
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Here's a new batch of Stranger Suggests so you can have the best week ever!
GO DO AND SEE ALL THESE THINGS:
🎵 Black Belt Eagle Scout at Neumos!
🎸 Yo La Tengo at Neptune Theatre!
🎭 The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window at Erickson Theatre Off Broadway!
🎨 Midnights/子夜 at Specialist!
📽 Killer of Sheep at Grand Illusion Cinema!
👗 Gorditx Plus Size Swap & Sell Market💘 at The Cherry Pit!
🎶 The Roots at Showbox S**o!
😋 All the cannoli at Kelly Cannoli!
One really great thing to do every day of the week.
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That question about ranked-choice voting and approval voting on Seattle's ballot is a little ... complicated. Let's break it down.
Vote for the mom who vows to protect your right not to become one, Washington
Don't vote for the weird uncle, Seattle
Last chance to stream the 2022 HUMP! Film Festival is THIS WEEKEND! Watch anytime through Sunday before we put this year's smutty show back in the vaults! https://btt.boldtypetickets.com/120847234/2022-hump-film-festival---now-streaming
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The 420 fun isn't over yet! Join us at SPLIFF Film Fest this Saturday and let Betty Wetter and a kaleidoscope of hazy hilarity entertain you 🤪👽🍃🪐 Click here to grab your tickets today: https://tinyurl.com/2p8686k6
The trailer for the 2022 SPLIFF Film Fest is officially here! Do you have your tickets? Watch this hilarious and mind-melting lineup at the Egyptian Theatre on 4/30 or online 4/20-4/24! For more details and tickets click the link below 👇 https://www.splifffilmfest.com/
HUMP! FILM SPOTLIGHT 💡🎥 : ‘Cocoon’ is a “rope and flower portraiture” created by Domina Mara where “a romantic rebirth occurs after undergoing each of her powerful transformations.” Click the link below for more from this filmmaker & head to the HUMP Film Festival website for tickets to watch this and many others at On the Boards until 2/26! https://www.dominamara.com/
HUMP! FILM SPOTLIGHT 💡🎥 : “Versification” is a coy and intimate peek into one couple’s erotic game - written, directed, and produced by Inka Winter at ForPlay Films Hit the link below for more content - and even coaching services - from this filmmaker! You can watch this and several other sexy short films at On the Boards now thru the 26th. Tickets available at HUMP Film Festival www.forplayfilms.com
HUMP! FILM SPOTLIGHT 💡🎥 : “The Holey Grail” was created by Ethan Folk & Ty Wardwell at Cute Non Films who describe it as their “single shot ode to fancy glass, thirsty ass, and Andrei Tarkovsky.” Hit the link below to learn more from these filmmakers & head to the HUMP Film Festival website for tickets to watch! Premieres next week at On the Boards! watch.cutenon.com
HUMP! FILM SPOTLIGHT 🎥💡: “L’Ingrediente Principale” is an opulent and splendorous film that will leave you steamy! Directed, written, and produced by Isis & Haley. Catch this and many more sexy short films at an upcoming HUMP Film Festival screening near you! Click the link below for times and tickets! https://tinyurl.com/tffe83kv
What’s a better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day in Seattle than with a smorgasbord of on-screen lovemakings curated & hosted by Dan Savage?! Do the sexiest holiday right with HUMP Film Festival by checking out the new screening schedule and picking up your tickets here: www.humpfilmfest.com
HUMP! FILM SPOTLIGHT : “Sex On The Beach” is an incredibly scenic dalliance that’ll leave you drooling - directed by Kyle Cole! Click below to see this and many other films at HUMP Film Festival! www.humpfilmfest.com
HUMP Film Festival Spotlight 💡🎥 "Cravings" is a afterglow original film about "appeasing that longing inside of us in the most unexpected of ways & acting on impulse in the heat of the moment." Hit the link below to see more films like this and head to the HUMP! website for tickets to an upcoming screening near you! https://xoafterglow.com/
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The official trailer for the 2022 HUMP Film Festival is finally here! Do you have your tickets yet? Hit the link below to see the full trailer, get to know each film, and snag your passes today! 🍿🍆 https://www.humpfilmfest.com/
This is your very last chance to stream our new doc film fest: SCOOP 🍿⏰🍿 Hit the link below and watch these true stories today! https://www.scoopfilmfest.com/
LAST CHANCE TO SCOOP! 🍿🗞 Stream our new doc film fest on your schedule before the 30th! https://www.scoopfilmfest.com
SCOOP SPOTLIGHT: Directed by Adrienne von Wolffersdorff "Lady Krishna" is an intimate profile of the almost mythical local legend you've surely seen walking around Capitol Hill. Get the scoop on this PNW icon and many other true stories! Stream SCOOP anytime now until the 30th 🍿💻 Hit our link below to learn more about this filmmaker! www.adriennevonwolff.com For tickets to SCOOP, click here: https://tinyurl.com/bxzpw3u9
SCOOP FILM SPOTLIGHT: "Welcome To The Neighborhood" follows one man's social experiment to get to know the neighbors in his building. Creator Miguel says he "didn't realize how challenging that was going to be." Catch this and other true stories on your schedule with SCOOP Film Fest streaming until 11/30 on www.scoopfilmfest.com! 🍿🗞💥 To learn more about this filmmaker, hit the link below: https://iamjuanitabanana.com/
Get the #SCOOP starting today with our new doc film fest! 🗞🍿 Stream these true stories from the PNW and beyond on your schedule now until the 30th! Hit the link below to snag your passes today! https://www.scoopfilmfest.com/
SCOOP FILM SPOTLIGHT: @vanishingseattle tells the story of one of Seattle's most iconic hang outs: Bush Garden. Get the scoop on its steeped history in the #API community and beyond starting this Saturday. Stream online on your schedule Nov. 12-30th 🍿🗞️ #scoopfilmfest #linkinprofile https://www.scoopfilmfest.com/
Starting this weekend, our brand-new doc film fest SCOOP is available to stream for 48 hours starting on November 12 though the 30th! Don't miss your chance to see these true stories curated by our editorial team - hit the link below today! https://www.scoopfilmfest.com/
SCOOP FILM SPOTLIGHT: 'Why Wouldn't You Buy We*d On The Legal Market' is a critical look at the true beneficiaries of the legal market. Made by the team at Motivo Media, director Tim says, "making this film challenged me to think differently about what I used to believe. I hope it can have a similar impact on you." Watch this and other short docs at #scoopfilmfest streaming next weekend! Hit the link below to learn more about this filmmaker! www.motivo.me For streaming tickets and schedules, click here: www.scoopfilmfest.com/
Get the full SCOOP starting next weekend! Our editorial team has curated a collection of fresh documentary short films. From a trippy exploration of plants in Hong Kong to the history behind the fight to save historic community spaces in Seattle, there's something for everybody to celebrate the world and all its truths. 🎥🗞 Click the link below for tickets and streaming options www.scoopfilmfest.com/
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Start your Halloween weekend off right with the theater debut of SLAY Film Festival tonight and tomorrow at The Egyptian! 🎃🍿 Not feeling up for going out? Watch from home! Hit the link below for tickets and more info: https://www.slayfilmfest.com/
SLAY FILM SPOTLIGHT: 'Projector' is another locally made short that is guaranteed to blow your mind! 💥🤯 Director Kailynn Heath says of their film, "the internal made external. You're just projecting." Hit the link below to learn more about this filmmaker and head to SLAY Film Festival to get your tickets to the final screenings this weekend! Campaign Strategies Andrea Nelson Lowry tinyurl.com/2rw3nc4p
SLAY FILM SPOTLIGHT: 'Road Trash' was created and performed by Natasha Michael who writes, "Road Trash was my first short film and it was the best experience of my life! What's more rewarding than making horror movies with your friends?" Sink your teeth in this juicy horror short and others this weekend in theaters and online at SLAY Film Festival 🍿🔪 #closingweekend #happyhalloween #lastchance https://www.slayfilmfest.com/
SLAY FILM SPOTLIGHT: 'Gary' is about a man who must contend with his new smart home and the horrors of its past. This scary short - directed by Michael Rognlie - was made right here in the Northwest! 🎬🌲 Catch this and other locally made horror films online beginning tonight at SLAY Film Festival 🎃🔪 Get your tickets at www.slayfilmfest.com and hit the link below to learn more about this filmmaker! http://www.onthefenceproductions.com/
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