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Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, August 24–August 30

MONDAY 8/24 Kavi Yaga with Diana Xin (LITERATURE) I recently devoured the novel Martyr! by poet, novelist, and editor Kaveh Akbar, so when I found out that he’d chosen Hyderabad, India-based author Kavi Yaga’s debut short story collection The Vanishings for...

Robotaxis are real now — so is the pushback

Robotaxis are expanding. So is the fight over the rules governing them. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul withdrew a proposal earlier this year that would have opened the door to driverless robotaxis outside New York City after taxi drivers,...

Slog AM: ICE Agents in Washington Arrested the Wrong Man, Iran’s Rial Plummets in Value, and Can the Improved Route 8 Survive Monday’s Commute?

During an operation in Lakewood to arrest a Mexican national with a final deportation order last month, ICE agents instead detained 23-year-old Venezuelan citizen Moises Velasquez, an immigrant who had entered the United States legally but was driving the...

Ritchie Bros. Rebuilds Mobile App for Bidding on the Go

Ritchie Bros. is putting more of its global heavy-equipment marketplace into buyers’ pockets with the launch of a redesigned mobile app. The Vancouver-born company, now part of RB Global, says the update transforms its app from a browsing companion into...

Seattle’s James Beard–Winning Restaurants and Chefs

Image: Olivia Brent Every May, the James Beard Foundation announces the latest winners of America’s most prestigious culinary awards. But there's no need to wait until they're announced to eat award-winning food from our region’s past honorees. Cafe Juanita Italian Kirkland cafejuanita.com Kirkland has changed...

A bad internet connection can quietly cost someone a job opportunity, a patient’s trust, or even parole — research found that tiny video-call glitches...

A video call freezes for less than a second. The candidate’s smile stalls while the voice continues. A doctor’s mouth jumps forward to catch up with the sound. A financial adviser’s face briefly dissolves into blocks. Everyone knows the person...

Galileo Ventures looks to the stars with the first close of Fund II

Galileo Ventures — a firm boasting offices in Melbourne, Sydney, and San Francisco — has closed its second major fund ‘Expansion’ with Innovation Victoria signing up as a flagship local investor. Fund II is expanding — hence the name —...

Meet West Seattle’s “Freelance Beaver Detective”

Pamela Adams was living in Port Townsend when her marriage fell apart. Little did she know at the time that she would soon find love again while doggedly pursuing the Five Families—not the ones of Mafia lore, but a...

The habit of laughing at the end of a difficult sentence isn’t nervousness

There is a particular sound people make at the end of a hard sentence, a short exhalation that lands somewhere between a laugh and a cough, and it tends to arrive right after they have said something that cost...

UPDATE: Man found dead in Enumclaw suspected of killing five in Oregon

6:50 p.m. UPDATE: The Washington County Sherriff’s Office in Oregon has confirmed the body of murder suspect Benjamin Charles Parker, 36, was found dead in Enumclaw this afternoon. Parker was a suspect after five people and “several domestic animals” were...

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