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Stranger Suggests at #SIFF2022: Piggy 🐷

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Chase Burns
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It’s SIFF season, baby! Seattle’s favorite film fest returns this month with 262 films over 11 days (April 14–24) screening both in-person and online. We’re rounding up some of our top picks. You can check out all of them here, and see what’s up this week at the fest over here.

PIGGY
Spain, 2022, 90 min, Dir. Carlota Pereda

Who’s the real butcher? Magnet Releasing

A year before the pandemic, director Carlota Pereda earned a lot of attention in Spain after winning a Goya Award for her short film Piggy. It notably starred newcomer Laura Galán, who gave a remarkably tragic and funny performance as Sara, a

What to See at SIFF This Week

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EverOut Staff
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* = Reviewed by The Stranger

OPENING NIGHT (APRIL 14)

*Navalny Add to a List
SIFF Says: Like an edge-of-your-seat John le Carré spy novel but all too real, a real-life Russian thriller about charismatic opposition leader and former presidential candidate Alexei Navalny, who was poisoned with a notorious KGB-era nerve agent and lived to tell the tale.
Read The Stranger’s interview with director Daniel Roher.
(Paramount Theatre, 7 pm)

FRIDAY (APRIL 15)

Miss Viborg Add to

Who’s Afraid of Ingrid Anderson?

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Rich Smith
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When Ingrid Anderson looked at the map of Washington’s new political boundaries, she realized the commissioners made it much more difficult for her to mount another primary challenge against a conservative Democrat she almost beat in 2020. “This feels like retribution,” she wrote. Courtesy of the 2020 Ingrid Anderson Campaign (RIP)

The failure of the Washington Redistricting Commission to produce new political maps in a transparent and timely fashion created such a flurry of first-order reporting about the illegality of the process itself that some of the petty power-play stuff fell through the cracks.

But now that forces from the left and the right have filed their lawsuits, now

U.S. mask mandates are making a comeback. But should they?

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Andrew Romano
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U.S. COVID cases are rising once again — and, as ever, Americans are arguing about masks.

It’s a pattern as enduring as the pandemic itself. Infections go up. So do the masks. And the same reflexive Twitter wars — do they actually slow the spread? Should they really be required? — follow right on cue, with the usual combatants retreating to their predictably polarized and politicized corners.

But what if the Great American Mask-Off is a waste of time at this point in the pandemic? Even worse, what if it’s a distraction? What if we’re fighting over one relatively inconsequential factor when we could be focusing on far more helpful fixes

Amazon sellers face 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to offset rising costs

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Associated Press
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Amazon sellers face 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to offset rising costs

E-commerce firm blames move on wage increases, hiring of workers and warehouse construction

Amazon is taking a step to offset its rising costs by adding a 5% “fuel and inflation surcharge” to the fees it charges third-party sellers who use its fulfillment services.

The Seattle-based company said the increase, which will take effect from 28 April, were subject to change and applied to clothing and non-clothing items.

The move follows an increase in fees announced in November, which came into effect in

Best podcasts of the week: Inside the life of Phoenix Jones, Seattle’s real-life superhero

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Guardian staff
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Best podcasts of the week: Inside the life of Phoenix Jones, Seattle’s real-life superhero

In this week’s newsletter: What is it like to suit up and hand out vigilante justice as an actual caped crusader? Plus: five of the best comedy talkshow podcasts

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Picks of the week

The Superhero Complex
Widely available, episodes weekly
The phrase “real-life superhero” may sound like a contradiction in terms, but not according to this new series about Phoenix Jones – the man who patrols Seattle’s streets and

Slog PM: Kids Won’t Need a COVID Shot for School, Bob Ferguson Is the Father We Needed When We Vaped at 14, and Capitol Hill M2M (H Mart) Will Open Friday

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Hannah Krieg
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Kids should play chess. Not vape. PHOTO COURTESY BOB FERGUSON

Are you sitting down? Because this is life-changing. H Mart (actually M2M, which is like a travel-sized H Mart, I guess; they call it their “urban convenience format”) will open Friday. As an H Mart Stan, I have followed JSeattle’s reporting on Capitol Hill Seattle Blawg as he keeps an ear to the ground on when we can conveniently buy soju next to the light rail station. This feels a little “end of history.” How could life get any better?

Shots, shots, shots-shots-shots-shots EVERYBODY: Email me if you read that in the correct rhythm. I want to know if

Gig Economy Giants Worry Paying Minimum Wage Will Hurt Business

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Hannah Krieg
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The council wants to make sure app-based workers don’t get paid negative money. HK

After months of conversations, Councilmembers Lisa Herbold and Andrew Lewis finally unveiled the first bill in their PayUp Policy package, which covers minimum compensation standards, transparency in employment terms, and flexibility in employment issues for app-based workers at companies such as Instacart and Doordash.

Herbold has long emphasized that giving gig workers something as basic as a minimum wage is a no-brainer. Nevertheless, during public comment on Tuesday, corporate lobbyists sure didn’t hurt their heads regurgitating old talking points to argue against minimum compensation for gig workers.

Any time the council or any legislative body dares

Stranger Suggests at #SIFF2022: In Front of Your Face 🎥

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Charles Mudede
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It’s SIFF season, baby! Seattle’s favorite film fest returns this month with 262 films over 11 days (April 14–24) screening both in-person and online. We’re rounding up some of our top picks. You can check out all of them here.

Hong Sang-soo’s habitat… Courtesy of SIFF

How does he do it? The South Korean director Hong Sang-soo, an art house and film festival celebrity, makes the same move over and over and over. It’s always about a famous director/novelist/poet with an ego and desires that are not honorable, and a beautiful but vulnerable actress/painter/film student; and they always take place in a bar or cafe or

I, Anonymous: No Talking! Only Listening!

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Anonymous
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Hey, show-talkers… please shut the fuck up!

We’ve waited a long time to see live music regularly again. I recently went to see Vanishing Twin at the Clock Out Lounge, who traveled from the UK, and was supposed to be here in March of 2020, so it was long overdue. It was a short one-hour set, yet half the crowd seemed to think it was the perfect time for a conversation.

No matter where I stood, people were chatting so loud that I could hear all about their brunch plans on the right, their opinions of the beer they chose on the left, or “hey, how’s your fern

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