Nathalie Graham
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Deputy News Editor at The Stranger. I write a column about hobbies.
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In case you missed it in the devolving twitter hell scape, I've been writing a column about subcultures and hobbies—and trying them out myself—for the last year and a half. First, I went Irish dancing:
www.thestranger.com/play-date/20...
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Play Date: A Day of Jigging with Seattle Irish Dance Company
Tagging along on some pre-St. Paddy's Day craziness preparations.
https://www.thestranger.com/play-date/2023/03/16/78903814/play-date-a-day-of-jigging-with-seattle-irish-dance-company
over 1 year ago
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If you've wanted to know what the hell was going on with the recent closures of Sophon and Oliver's Twist,
@thestranger.com
has it all right here:
www.thestranger.com/news/2026/03...
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Why Workers at Sophon Went on Strike
Court documents show that behind the scenes, Sophon and chef Karuna Long struggled financially for years, resulting in bounced paychecks, late payments to vendors, unpaid rent, and lawsuits.
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/03/04/80505036/why-workers-at-one-of-seattles-hottest-restaurants-went-on-strike
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For my latest Play Date column, I went to the Capitol Hill Tool Library's monthly mending circle and learned a thing or two about self-reliance:
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Hanging on by a Thread with the Capitol Hill Tool Library’s Mending Circle
The four people at my table had their heads down, needles and threads in their hands. Behind me, books like How to Fix Almost Everything, Basic Electricity, and, fittingly, Successful Shelves and Buil...
https://www.thestranger.com/spring-arts-2026/2026/03/03/80503528/what-we-can-fix
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starting a new thing where I actually read the physical magazines from my various subscriptions
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7 days ago
I can't emphasize this enough: .08 is way drunker than you may think.
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A good reminder of the great story the Stranger did last summer showing that in fact a 0.05% BAC is enough to make you too impaired to drive!
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RIP to lower BAC
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Anti-Drunk Driving Bill Crashes and Burns in the Legislature
The bill to lower the legal blood alcohol content limit died in the House, even in spite of The Stranger's flawed-science experiment last summer.
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02/25/80494587/anti-drunk-driving-bill-crashes-and-burns-in-the-legislature
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Do this many people actually hate the millionaire's tax or is it a lot of lying?
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Uh Oh, Someone Might be Doing Fraud
At least 37,824 names registered to testify against the bill in House and Senate hearings were duplicates, some appearing more than 100 times. And at least 100 people told Invest in Washington Now tha...
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02/23/80491391/uh-oh-someone-might-be-doing-fraud
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This game is a neat way to test how well you know Seattle’s transit routes.
www.routle.city/king_county_...
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have you tried the new transit game?
www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02...
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Think You Are the King of the Bus? This New Game Will Humble You
I was excited to play. And then I lost. Twice.
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02/18/80483155/think-you-are-the-king-of-the-bus
14 days ago
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if they don’t let me play soccer in the Seattle elected official soccer game for my column I’m going to scream
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oh we're talking about curling?
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Throwing Stones with Granite Curling Club
A dedicated group in one of the few dedicated curling facilities on the West Coast.
https://www.thestranger.com/play-date/2024/01/04/79324796/throwing-stones-with-granite-curling-club
22 days ago
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23 days ago
How it started / how it’s going
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did you know about the seattle election happening right now?
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There’s an Election Happening Right Now
Only real ones know about the King Conservation District (KCD) election. Which is a shame. It isn’t some dusty, obscure, do-nothing entity; the KCD has an operating budget of around $10 million, mined...
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02/05/80457571/big-voter-huh
27 days ago
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it smells like soil on the 8 rn anyone else getting notes of this?
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my life is typing "doc.new" into google chrome over and over and over and over and over and over and over and one must imagine sisyphus happy
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could be a similar story for Washington’s bill that’s making its way through the legislature rn
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LAPD won't enforce California's ICE mask ban, chief says
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell discusses the city's lowest homicide rate since 1966 and explains why the department won't enforce California's ICE mask ban.
https://www.foxla.com/news/lapd-chief-mcdonnell-crime-stats-ice-mask-ban
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents.
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St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident
The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/30/st-peter-police-chief-intervenes-prevents-federal-agents-from-arresting-resident
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babe please you have to stop watching Roku city
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looking for somewhere to direct your energy today? try this:
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Protests! Get Your Protests Here!
The demands are simple: Get Target to denounce ICE, those chuds terrorizing and murdering people in Target’s hometown, and to stop allowing them to operate in their stores. Shouldn’t the c...
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01/30/80447706/protests-get-your-protests-here
about 1 month ago
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NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for
@motherjones.com
:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/omni-ice-deportations-charter-flight-stonepeak-private-equity/
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This is grim.
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ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers
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the worst part about being mayor is probably having to pretend to like sports
about 1 month ago
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"To the premature balding individual, an expanding O or a deepening M is the first letter in a blunt confession from the body that it’s been cheating on you with time itself and with your father’s genes." I will read everything this man writes
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about 1 month ago
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always remember to chain yer get-off-my-lawn demon
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Getting psilocybin legislation passed has been Sen. Jesse Salomon's big goal for the past ~ 5 years. After doing a big trip in Mexico, he's tacking on another hallucinogenic medicinal plant to his legislative to-do list:
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State Sen. Jesse Salomon Wants to Bring Ibogaine Therapy to Washington
State Sen. Jesse Salomon, Washington's mushrooms legislator, wants to broaden the state's psychedelic horizons with Ibogaine therapy, a drug that supposedly acts as an almost miracle balm for psychic ...
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01/27/80441304/state-sen-jesse-salomon-wants-to-bring-ibogaine-therapy-to-washington
about 1 month ago
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Exciting news in a world full of very not exciting news: The Vera Project is opening a new all-ages venue in Georgetown in early 2027!
@davesegal.bsky.social
has the story for
@thestranger.com
here:
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The Vera Project Announces New All-Ages Venue
The new 300-capacity venue is set to open in Georgetown in early 2027.
https://www.thestranger.com/music/2026/01/27/80440435/the-vera-project-announces-new-all-ages-venue
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fdsklafjdsakl
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Even the big dick subreddit is mad about ICE
“How hard I get when I think about abolishing ICE,” one post reads
https://www.theverge.com/news/867967/ice-shooting-minneapolis-reddit-communities-activism
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Last time the Seahawks went to the Super Bowl I wrote a gay Supernatural fanfic about it
about 1 month ago
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pimple picking son or full volume reel scroll daughter
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in a hell sandwich on the bus. Man in front of me (parallel, he is sitting in the front seats that face the windows) is picking the pimples on his face til he bleeds. Woman behind me is skipping through reels at full volume
about 1 month ago
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🚨 ICE is creating a watchlist of anyone and everyone who films them, DHS sources tell me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making...
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ICE Making List of Anyone Who Films Them
“We have a nice little database and now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making-list-of-anyone-who-films
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The new light rail Cross Lake Connection is opening at the end of March. That makes it an Aries:
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The Light Rail's Cross Lake Connection Not a Love Match for the 1 Line
My sister in law says there are serious astrological complications.
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01/23/80434328/the-light-rails-cross-lake-connection-will-be-an-aries
about 1 month ago
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We've updated the story.
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Six Seattle Schools Sheltered-in-Place After Unconfirmed ICE Activity
At least six schools sheltered-in-place after these unconfirmed reports.
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01/20/80429275/six-seattle-schools-sheltered-in-place-after-unconfirmed-ice-activity
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At least six Seattle public schools sheltered in place after *unconfirmed* reports of ICE activity in South Seattle.
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Six Seattle Schools Sheltered-in-Place After Unconfirmed ICE Activity
At least six schools sheltered-in-place after these unconfirmed reports.
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01/20/80429275/six-seattle-schools-sheltered-in-place-after-unconfirmed-ice-activity
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"Six Seattle Schools Sheltered-in-Place After Unconfirmed ICE Activity"
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BREAKING
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about 1 month ago
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It’s happening again
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about 2 months ago
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also every time I type “Mayor Katie Wilson” just know I’m saying it like Goldie Wilson does in that scene in the diner in Back to the Future
about 2 months ago
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my bus is late I’m calling Katie Wilson
about 2 months ago
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Sometimes I do theater reviews.
www.thestranger.com/theater/2026...
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'The Heart Sellers' Is Unfortunately Really Fucking Relevant Right Now
See 'The Heart Sellers' at the Seattle Repertory Theater through February 1.
https://www.thestranger.com/theater/2026/01/14/80420217/the-heart-sellers-is-unfortunately-really-fucking-relevant-right-now
about 2 months ago
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The story
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/videos-ice-dhs-immigration-agents-using-chokeholds-citizens
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Has anyone been lap swimming at the Green Lake pool? How crowded is it in the evenings? The closest pool to me is out of commission so I must branch out but I don’t want to swim in a lane for 4 other people
about 2 months ago
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The Stranger
about 2 months ago
Erika Evans is the new Seattle City Attorney. The Stranger sat down with her a week into the job to talk about what she has planned for the office, that memo she put out that sent rightwing media into a tailspin, and what it means to be the first Black person to hold the job.
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Week One as Seattle’s Top Lawyer: A Q&A with City Attorney Erika Evans
City Attorney Erika Evans has a lot of work ahead, especially if she’s going to stick to her campaign promises of bringing back community court and addressing the backlogged DUI and domestic vio...
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01/12/80416626/week-one-as-seattles-top-lawyer
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I sat down with Erika Evans last week to talk about her immediate priorities for the office, and that memo she sent that caused a real stir with right wing media:
www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01...
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Week One as Seattle’s Top Lawyer: A Q&A with City Attorney Erika Evans
City Attorney Erika Evans has a lot of work ahead, especially if she’s going to stick to her campaign promises of bringing back community court and addressing the backlogged DUI and domestic vio...
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01/12/80416626/week-one-as-seattles-top-lawyer
about 2 months ago
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Big day for women in politics and for me writing about them. First up, Toshiko Hasegawa announced she's running for King County Council District 2:
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Port Commissioner Toshiko Hasegawa Is Running for King County District 2
“We can do hard things,” says Port Commissioner Toshiko Hasegawa, who just announced her candidacy for King County Council, District 2.
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01/12/80415610/port-commissioner-toshiko-hasegawa-is-running-for-king-county-district-2
about 2 months ago
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spending my friday night with a pomodoro timer
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal immigration officers shoot and wound 2 people in Portland, Oregon, authorities say.
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A moment of levity: One man's failure on Jeopardy!, which many say is the world's greatest game show
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Losing Horribly on Jeopardy!
Waking up that morning last October, my dream was to win a fortune on Jeopardy!. Then I watched the returning champion, Harrison Whitaker, shred through the games right before mine. My new dream was t...
https://www.thestranger.com/jeopardy/2026/01/06/80407005/losing-horribly-on-jeopardy
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder
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