Ticket Alert: Olivia Rodrigo, Shaboozey, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale

Plus, The Red Clay Strays and More Event Updates for April 30

Text your concert buddies, โ€™cause tickets are about to go on sale! Pop star Olivia Rodrigo will spend two nights in Seattle on her upcoming Unraveled Tour. Multi-hyphenate country and hip-hop crossover Shaboozey saddles up for his Outlaws Never Die Tour this fall. Plus, rising country band The Red Clay Strays follow up their recentโ€ฆ

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Schrรถdingerโ€™s Bus Stop

What Is and Isnโ€™t a Stop Is a Point of Contention for Me

I am not an angry person. For me, tears spring forth quicker than a biting retort. But on a recent April afternoon, I felt hot fury pump through my veins over a disagreement with a bus driver. I was waiting for the route 2 bus under the bus shelter at 20th Avenue and East Unionโ€ฆ

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Slog AM: SCOTUS Guts the Voting Rights Act, Hegseth Lies to Congress, and Unqualified Sheriffs Sue to Work in Washington State

Good Morning! Itโ€™s sunny. Like summer-time sunny. If the forecast means anything in this little climate we have, highs will be around 70 today, and then theyโ€™ll dip back down with some clouds tomorrow. But theyโ€™ll climb all the way up to 80 on Sunday, for the first time this year. Itโ€™s outdoor shenanigans weather.โ€ฆ

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Impoverished Journalists Threaten Strike Across Pacific Northwest

Media Workers in Tacoma, Olympia, Bellingham, Tri-Cities and Boise Say Newspaper Owner McClatchy Media Won’t Pay Living Wage

Ninety percent of union members at McClatchy Media newspapers in the Pacific Northwest have voted to potentially strike over low pay, and are raising money through GoFundMe to pay rent and bills in case theyโ€™re off the job.  The journalists are represented by the Idaho and Washington State NewsGuilds, which represent only the McClatchy papersโ€ฆ

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Slog AM: Shots Fired Near Mayor Katie Wilson Event, Taproot Theater Needs $400,000, King of England Tells US Kings Are Bad

Multiple shots were fired near a news conference that Mayor Katie Wilson held last night at Yesler Community Center to announce her plan to offer free breakfast and lunch to all Seattle Public School students, and expand free and low-cost childcare programs in the city. Seattle Times reports that police are presently โ€œlooking for threeโ€ฆ

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Where to Play Pickleball in Seattle

Pick up a paddle at these state-of-the-art venues and outdoor courts

Was your introduction to pickleball when Taylor Swift promoted her Tortured Poets Department album with a custom Kansas City Chiefs paddle? Or maybe youโ€™re just a really big Ben Stiller fan and want to learn about the sport before The Dink hits theaters this summer? Well, youโ€™re not alone. While true Washingtonians will have learnedโ€ฆ

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Hurdles

Should I Give Up on the Idea of a Romantic Relationship?

Am I wrong to think a relationship isnโ€™t realistic for me? I think Iโ€™ve been sold an idea of love that doesnโ€™t apply to my life, and I want to know if Iโ€™m wrong. I am straight and 34-year-old male. I have a rare progressive disability. Iโ€™m blind, I have severe hearing loss (I canโ€™t followโ€ฆ

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WATCH: Seattle’s Liminal Spaces

“Weโ€™re drawn to these spaces for the simultaneous relief and anxiety of feeling utterly alone.”

“Youโ€™ve felt it,” Stranger staff writer Julianne Bell wrote. “The chilling stillness of an empty airport terminal that should be crowded with travelers. A long school hallway, after hours and framed by seemingly endless rows of lockers for students who may or may not exist. Neon signs flickering inside a dark, abandoned mall, painting softโ€ฆ

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Slog AM: Philippine Military Kills Seattleite, Magic: The Gathering Workers Unionize, Boeing Loses Big Fish

Magic: The Gathering Arena Devs Unionize: Workers at local tabletop gaming titan Wizards of the Coast unionized yesterday, specifically the devs behind Arena, the accessible online version of the card game. Their concerns should sound familiar: the layoffs keep coming, management wants all the remote workers to move to Washington and head into the office,โ€ฆ

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Stranger Suggests: A Monday Thatโ€™ll Make You Love Mondays, Flowers as Tall as Humans, and Music for Dancing on the Bones of Your Enemies

One Really Great Thing to Do Every Day of the Week

MONDAY 4/27 Choose Your Own Adventure (I CANโ€™T DECIDE) There is so much good stuff happening on Monday that even Garfield would change his mind about the loathed day of the week. Famed avant-garde composer William Basinski is playing a tiny show at Substation. The Paramount is screening 1926โ€™s Faust as part of their belovedโ€ฆ

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Slog AM: Shooting at the White House Correspondentsโ€™ Dinner, King County Nepotism, the British Are Comingย 

The Big News: The White House correspondents dinner, a bad idea with a fascist in the White House, proved to be an even worse one when a man armed with guns and knives plowed through security in a mad dash toward the subterranean ballroom containing President Donald Trump, his lackeys, and hundreds of journalists. Coleโ€ฆ

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Love Notes, Letters, and Trolls: April 18-24

You have so many ideas for Bait Shop’s new home.

This week, we found out Bait Shop is looking for a new spot, learned which millionaires are suing over the Millionaires Tax, and heard how Eva Walker became a Mariners fan. You had feelings about all of it, and we loved reading most of them. Want to respond to something you read in The Stranger?โ€ฆ

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