Methods to Vote
Save the Nation and Earn a Free Sticker Whereas You’re at It
Pricey readers,
It’s the summer time of a presidential election 12 months, which implies the duty of saving our democracy has as soon as once more fallen to you.
You may—and, certainly, you will need to—do your half by selecting the most effective soft-serve ice cream cone in Seattle. To help you in that activity, Stranger Tradition Editor Megan Seling, EverOut Meals & Drink Editor Julianne Bell, and Stranger contributor Meg van Huygen have executed the work of sampling the choices round city. It’s as much as you to learn their commentary and comply with by way of.
Every summer time, the denizens of Seattle should additionally attend a music pageant that aligns with their generational id. Which pageant presents millennials the house they should nod their heads and awkwardly faucet their toes at tasteful impartial music? Which caters to Gen Z’s have to shake their underbutts? But once more, The Stranger’s tradition staff delivers the products within the type of a enjoyable and flirty flowchart.
Given the present political atmosphere, discovering methods to coalesce round shared experiences has by no means felt extra pressing, which is why I strongly recommend you learn Stranger contributor Adam Willems’s argument for following the baseball season intently. Our Mariners apparently have a better-than-good shot at a robust postseason run this 12 months, no matter meaning.
For individuals who want extra lively pastimes, dig into Stranger contributor Kevin Diers’s profile of Seattle DIY music stalwarts Stunning Freaks, and decide up some mosh pit security ideas when you’re at it.
And as a lot of you already know, the state’s ferry system wants quite a lot of assist in the type of your cash, so that you must also contemplate it your civic obligation to hop on the Seattle–Bainbridge Island ferry to see Nikki McClure’s retrospective of beautiful, intricate papercuts.
Talking of our metropolis’s crumbling infrastructure, Scarecrow Video wants a major inflow of money to maintain its huge library of bodily media up and working, so do take a look at the premium movie suggestions from Stranger contributor Chase Hutchinson.
For the indoor youngsters, Stranger Senior Author Charles Mudede presents a robust argument for taking the time to learn Octavia Butler’s prescient Parable of the Sower, even because it predicts our doom.
Oh yeah, the opposite factor you are able to do to take care of our fragile republic is to vote within the August main election earlier than Tuesday, August 6, at 8 pm. As ever, within the following pages, you’ll be able to learn the Stranger Election Management Board’s totally researched, borderline unhinged arguments for each race in your poll—or you’ll be able to simply bounce to the Cheat Sheet and vote the best way we let you know to.
For all our bratty braggadocio and varied chemical dependencies, we do far more probing and inside bickering than some other endorsement board on the town. That’s as a result of this native politics shit actually impacts you, which is why it issues to us. So, after you’ve picked up a couple of DVDs at Scarecrow and settled on a music pageant, collect across the espresso desk together with your roommates, your loved ones, your emotional assist animal, or your individual lovely self, learn up, and vote as quickly as you’ll be able to. Then go purchase your self a pleasant ice cream cone.
HAKAS,
Wealthy Smith, Editor

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