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1 week ago |
thestranger.com | Nathalie Graham |Charles Mudede
On Sunday, May 25, the sophomore season of HBO’s The Last of Us ended with a literal bang, but an emotional whimper. With the season’s end comes the end of Seattle’s time in the limelight. The bulk of Season 2, which put the zombies in the backseat and followed a quest for vengeance for the brutal murder of Pedro Pascal that led two characters (one new, one old) into the heart of the Emerald City. This Seattle is not our Seattle.
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2 weeks ago |
thestranger.com | Audrey Vann |Charles Mudede |Emily Nokes |Lindsay Costello |Megan Seling |Shannon Lubetich
WEDNESDAY 5/21 Dean Wareham with Jess Cornelius (MUSIC) When I read Dean Wareham's memoir Black Postcards in high school, it changed the course of my musical life, turning me onto twee pop originators like Jonathan Richman, the Feelies, and the Dream Syndicate. For that, I am eternally grateful to Wareham and Galaxie 500's three flawless studio albums that have soundtracked many a good cry in my broken-down car.
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2 weeks ago |
thestranger.com | Charles Mudede
When I looked out the window of The Stranger's new office on 11th and Pike, I saw two cranes still on top of the 47-story towers called WB1200. I wrote about this development in December, 2023. At the time, the cranes had pretty much stopped moving for a year. And the big question was: Would the developer, Vancouver BC's Westbank, complete the buildings? A story in Globe and Mail, revealed that Westbank was basically broke and not paying contractors.
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2 weeks ago |
thestranger.com | Charles Mudede
A few days after the public learned the US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem had, in the works, a reality show that featured immigrants competing for US citizenship, the show’s producer Rob Worsoff asserted that it would not be like the Hunger Games.
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1 month ago |
thestranger.com | Charles Mudede
There is a scene in Downtown 81 that our current situation (the early days of Trump's second term) can learn from. The year is 1981. Reaganomics is bringing to an end the pre- and post-war policies and programs that vastly expanded the US's middle-class. Interest rates are rising to 20%. Labor is under attack. Cities are rotting.
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In an East Village basement, we find people dancing: a DJ is furiously cutting "Rapture" as Melle Mel raps about "81." One of the dancers is Jean-Michel Basquiat. He is not famous yet. He is broke. He is in a zone, as he bops to the left and to the right.https://t.co/ynj0Vdf2Px
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