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Seattle Sun (alternative weekly)

alternative weekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ13436727 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Seattle Sun was an alternative weekly in Seattle, Washington, USA, which ran from July 31, 1974 to January 6, 1982. It was a direct competitor to the Seattle Weekly; The Rocket (1979 – 2000) began as a supplement to the Sun.

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The public source identifies “Seattle Sun (alternative weekly)” as alternative weekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Seattle, alternative and weekly.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1982, 1979, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Seattle, alternative and weekly providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Seattle Sun (alternative weekly)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.