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The Stabbing That Tore Open the Debate Over Weapons, Race, and Retaliation

Published 12:01am Wednesday, May 17, 2017

A two-year-old fight continues to cast a shadow over the two men involved.

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Upstream, the Neoliberal Bumbershoot

Published 1:30am Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Paul Allen’s new music festival was fun, but like the system that enables it, weird.

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Seattle’s Free Community-Based Festivals Are Wrestling With a Cash-Strapped Future

Published 1:30am Wednesday, May 10, 2017

With mounting expenses, Folklife and Block Party at the Station wonder if they can go on.

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Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Luzia’ Is a $47.7 Million Detriment to Mexican Artists

Published 1:30am Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Meant to showcase Mexican culture to the world, ‘Luzia’ fails its premise from beginning to end.

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The Top 15 Things to Do This Week

Published 1:30am Wednesday, May 10, 2017

See Sisqo of “Thong Song” fame, relearn the meaning of “credible” in our post-fact era, and more.

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The Top Five New NW Acts You Need to See This Summer

Published 1:30am Wednesday, May 10, 2017

If you’re making the festival rounds this season, don’t miss this fresh regional talent.

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Before You Upstream, Know Your Local Scenes

Published 1:30am Wednesday, May 10, 2017

The 300-artist lineup is one of the most locally focused in the region—here’s who’s representing.

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Feds Say Spokane Torture Contractors Are on Their Own

Published 9:00am Saturday, May 6, 2017

Government lawyers are citing national security while denying the defendants’ requests for testimony from CIA officials they say directed the interrogation program they devised.

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‘A Quiet Passion’ Is as Enjoyably Eccentric as Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

Published 1:30am Wednesday, May 3, 2017

What could’ve been a stuffy biopic turns into a fittingly odd ode to its unconventional subject.

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What I Learned Living One Year Without a Car In Seattle

Published 1:30am Wednesday, May 3, 2017

It’s the only way to escape gridlock. But is it worth it?

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Ten Years of Debacle Fest, One Giant Pile of Goop

Published 1:30am Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Comic artist Max Clotfelter walks us through a brief history of the region’s reigning weirdo music fest.

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The Top 15 Things to Do This Week

Published 1:30am Wednesday, May 3, 2017

See a Ned Flanders themed metal band, ponder what an automated future might look like, and much more.

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The Best Local Records We Heard This April

Published 1:30am Wednesday, May 3, 2017

This month’s best were messy masterpieces for messy times.

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Seven Days of Suds and Fun

Published 1:30am Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Seattle Beer Week has become a family reunion of brewers—but strangers are more than welcome.

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Kent School Board Opts to Stop All International Field Trips

Published 6:00am Monday, May 1, 2017

Pointing to the federal government’s stance on undocumented immigrants, the board has halted all cross-border travel.

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Upstream Artists and Community Groups Call On Vulcan to Commit to Equitable Development

Published 1:30am Friday, April 28, 2017

A new petition outlines four ways that Vulcan can “truly preserve Seattle art, music and culture.”

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Next Up For Anti-Pipeline Activists: JP Morgan Chase

Published 2:30pm Thursday, April 27, 2017

“I know it makes people uncomfortable. But that’s the only way they’re listening.”

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Skating Polly Learns Some New Tricks

Published 1:30am Wednesday, April 26, 2017

The band stretches their skills with some help from Veruca Salt on their new EP.

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Here Lies Love’s Disco Dictatorship

Published 1:30am Wednesday, April 26, 2017

David Byrne’s spectacle-driven musical engages with the political history of the Philippines.

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Pleather’s New EP Deconstructs Pop and Contemporary Seattle

Published 1:30am Wednesday, April 26, 2017

On ‘Tether,’ the mutant pop duo tackles the service industry, Frappuccinos, and a commodified Seattle.

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