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Julianne Bell, Amanda Manitach, Dave Segal, and Audrey Vann · Arts · Stranger Suggests · Suggests

MONDAY 10/19 Barbara Kingsolver (LITERATURE) What can’t Barbara Kingsolver do? The bestselling author never misses, from her historical fiction classic The Poisonwood Bible to her 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning sensation Demon Copperhead. Her most recent novel, Partita, follows piano teacher Livia Cable, who lives a peaceful, unassuming married life in the Tennessee countryside until an unexpected […] The post Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, October 19–25 appeared first on The Stranger.

Cedar Attanasio · Slog AM · news

Good morning and happy Monday to those who celebrate. Envelopes with suspicious white powder have been sent to congressional offices ahead of the midterms, NBC reports. US Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s staff evacuated her Seattle office Friday afternoon after a similar package was found in the mailroom. It turned out to be nothing physically dangerous, The […] The post Slog AM: Seattleites March, Israel Spins Settler Attack, Bainbridge Brothers Win Halloween appeared first on The Stranger.

Guy Oron · News

At a chilly morning press conference today, Seattle Social Housing Developer (SSHD) Interim CEO Tiffani McCoy announced plans for the agency’s first original construction project, a five-story apartment building in the Central District on the lot that used to belong to the late housing advocate Rep. Frank Chopp. Scheduled to open in 2028, the development […] The post Seattle Social Housing Developer Announces First Construction Project appeared first on The Stranger.

Stranger Staff · Arts · Music · Noise Complaint

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. Is 4UST Collective Seattle’s Next […] The post The Stranger’s Noise Complaint: 4UST Collective appeared first on The Stranger.

Anonymous · I Saw U

Man in Vintage Red BMW Wearing Hot 70s-style GlassesWe made brief eye contact at a 4-way stop in NE Seattle on 9/19. I smiled & looked away. Let’s ride into the sunset? Sincerely, gal in a Blue Honda. Cheese at Trader JoesWe met staring at the cheese at the Ballard TJ’s. I was impressed by […] The post I Saw U: Driving a Vintage BMW in Northeast Seattle, Staring at Cheese at Trader Joe’s, and Blowing Bubbles From Your Porch appeared first on The Stranger.

EverOut Staff · EverOut

We’re here to help you make the most of your weekend by suggesting low-fuss events from the Goblin Guild Bazaar to Ounces’ Fresh Hop Fest & Fall Beer Showcase and from the Columbia City Night Market to the Carnation Farms Harvest Market. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week. FRIDAY PARTIES & […] The post The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Oct 16–18, 2026 appeared first on The Stranger.

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Checking back in one last time, just to be sure commenting has almost gone away. Thanks for publishing Julianne Bell's and Billie Winter's great photo-journalism essay, Passing Through. I frequented all of those spaces during my decades in Seattle, and both the images and words here perfectly captured the experiences of those spaces. Thank you for reminding me of some of the places I loved, in the city I once loved. Now deprived of any restraining caution which the threat of correct… (truncated)

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Looks like the Stranger has decided not to allow comments. (Amusingly, the "I Saw U" headline post from Friday, 27 March, still invites readers to, "Leave a comment here...") Poor Stranger writers, unable to take criticism of the kinds they loved to dish out. Or maybe their getting called out for political lying happened too many times? (E.g, the Stranger desperately wanted readers to believe SUPER UW hadn't celebrated the 10/7 attacks.) If it is true, then the "tell" here would be… (truncated)

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Great I,A; thanks for writing it. My only question would be what, exactly, local randos were supposed to do about Angry Driver’s verbal abuses.

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IIRC, 1983 was Peak Cold War hysteria, specifically of the Mutually Assured Destruction brand. Earlier in the year, the movie WarGames (shot partly in Seattle!) had a rogue computer (we'd now call it an AI) nearly destroy the world, by almost tricking the United States into launching an all-out nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Jacobin's alarmism has arrived forty-plus years too late; the plug was pulled long ago on that mechanized peril. As for Charles' retro-alarmism here, who w… (truncated)

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Looks like the older comments, from threads which had already closed, have been attached to their headline posts, whilst there's not yet opportunity to comment on newer posts.

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Looks like we now have to register at WordPress; guess the Stranger's old commenting widget finally died.

kristofarian

wow. when even the reich-whingers've had More than Their Fill

PinkandYellow

More Nelson hatred from the most irrelevant "political" publication in Seattle.

Coolidge dollar

@Knife, I appreciate your battling leftist insanity but why ruminate on yesteryear tragedies for mining outrage?

Coolidge dollar

@51: You have to admit at least that extreme facial close ups of skin pores was pure partisan hackery. You're not thinking this through.