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New Savage Lovecast: Fake! Fake! Fake!

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Strap in (or on) for a wild ride folks, because this is the April Fool’s Day show. We asked you to send in fake calls and you came through in a big way. It’s Savage’s challenge to spot the phonies.

A woman wonders how to help her friend dispose of his unwanted sex doll. Can he just take it to the dump?

A man and his wife got Fitbits. But now, when they have sex, they both immediately check them to see how they did from a fitness perspective!

Some kinks explored on this show: globes, bones, animals, talking peeholes, nudism, mullets and

New Campaign Aims to Put Social Housing on the Ballot in Seattle

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The proposed public developer would build housing for people earning up to 120% of Seattle’s Area Median Income. ah_fotobox / GETTY

On Monday afternoon, House Our Neighbors! (HON) filed a ballot initiative to establish a public developer that would one day build, acquire, own, and manage social housing in Seattle.

“If we truly want to stop the pipeline into homelessness and meet people’s housing needs at scale, we need to adopt the strategy of a public developer to build housing that’s tailored as a human right and not as a profit motive,” said Tiffany McCoy, advocacy director at Real Change and co-chair of House Our Neighbors!

We filed an

Stranger Suggests: A Seattle Theater History Lesson

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There are plenty of ways to honor the past, and not all of them require the indefinite preservation of crumbling buildings — sometimes it’s enough to simply bask in the knowledge of what once was (for example: This in-depth piece The Stranger ran in 2001). For fans of old stuff, the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation will host a fun online lecture this Thursday about Seattle’s theatrical heritage, dating back more than a hundred years to a time when our town rivaled New York for live entertainment. Only a handful of the old theaters are left, but that’s fine; progress and history can comfortably

Slog AM: FDA Authorizes Fourth Jab for People over 50, Trump's Calls on Jan 6 Are Missing, Expect Spring and a Beautiful Sunset Today

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Will today do a better sunset than yesterday? Charles Mudede

What are we going to do about all of this lawlessness on I-5? Our liberal politicians, it seems, are just too soft when it comes to the criminals who rule this freeway almost every day of the week. KIRO 7 now reports that just yesterday a “driver was shot in his leg while driving on Interstate 5 near the West Seattle freeway.” The victim claims that some person in another car pulled out a their heat and popped him “while driving northbound on I-5 near the West Seattle freeway.” Local businesses have had it up to here with this violence.

Pushing Buttons: Our readers on what they’re playing right now

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Pushing Buttons: Our readers on what they’re playing right now

In this week’s newsletter: from Firewatch to Old Man’s Journey, we let you tell us what to play next

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Slog PM: A Slap™ Update, Supreme Court Takes Up Warhol Case, and a Lighthouse for Sale

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This craggy hunk of earth could be yours for 6.5 million big ones. thyegn/Getty

It’s been a day: Here’s what you’ve missed on Slog:
Hannah Krieg checked in on the state of the city’s COVID-19 protections and the city council’s lack of criteria for ending or extending those laws

  • Dave Segal wrote up Vanishing Twin’s cosmic Saturday night concert at Clock-Out Lounge (with photos from Lisa Hagen Glynn!)
    Charles Mudede is back on stock buybacks and how “the price inflation that mainstream media and economics can’t stop going on about has nothing to do with demand or uncertainty”
    And Tom Van Deusen gave us a sneak peek at Facebook Meta’s new Meta-Metaverse technology

    Got a spare $6.5 million? For the cost of a two-bedroom rambler in Seattle (jk kinda), you could get your very own

  • A Sneak Peek into the Metaverse

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    You Have High Gas and Food Prices Because of the Man. I Have the Proof

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    Because the talk about inflation and high gas prices is endless, we can assume that it’s pretty much empty. What is of much greater importance, and never makes the headlines, or has little political value for both the mainstream left and the right as a whole, is stock buybacks, which, according to Associated Press, reached a mind-boggling $882 billion in 2021. And “Goldman Sachs is forecasting [that this form of stock manipulation will] reach $1 trillion this year.” When the justification of stock buybacks is applied on the present state of affairs (pain at the pump, the shrinking value of wages), it becomes obvious as the day is the

    76 Events in Seattle This Week

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    Washington’s statewide mask mandate has been lifted, venues may have their own health guidelines in place. We advise directly checking the specific protocols for an event before heading out.

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    Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s homage to All that Heaven Allows has since become one of his most powerful love stories. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul unravels a love affair between two unlikely characters: a lonely German widow in

    I Survived a Pandemic and All I Got Was a Streaterie

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    Hazard pay will sunset one day, but street cafes? We can’t lose that. screenshot from Seattle Channel

    Now that the pandemic has reached a level of pain and suffering that American governments feel comfortable with, the Seattle City Council has started to think about which COVID-19 protections to end, extend, or make permanent.

    Disagreements about when or if the world will return to a pre-pandemic “normal” complicate these decisions, but the relationship between the state of the health crisis and the laws designed to mitigate that crisis increasingly appears disconnected. At least according to Councilmember Tammy Morales, the council has not discussed universal standards for ending or extending certain