Your roundup of this week’s most widely-read, shared, and discussed stories.

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• Can Seattle use revenue from pot taxes to help alleviate its homelessness crisis? The city of Aurora, Colorado did just that with $1.5 million of their pot tax revenue. So where are we spending ours? Tobias Coughlin-Bogue gives us the lowdown.

• Speaking of homelessness: On Wednesday, June 29, Seattle-based media outlets teamed up to publish a concentrated amount of coverage on Seattle’s homelessness crisis. At The Stranger, we covered the story of Hal Miller, a 60-year-old man who may soon be homeless after losing his apartment in the Greenwood explosion. With just meager disability checks and no support system, Miller is preparing for life on Seattle’s streets. For more coverage of homelessness in Seattle, check out the #SeaHomeless hashtag on Twitter and Facebook.

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• Ride the Ducks is hiding behind antiquated legislation to avoid paying damages to families of the 2015 crash victims. According to an amendment on a 1909 state law, only parents who are US residents at the time of a death can claim damages. The family of Haram Kim, who died in the 2015 crash, calls the law “discriminatory” and is challenging its constitutionality.

• How equitable is the expansion of light rail? If it continues in the direction it currently grows, the working class may soon be pushed out of Link’s reach—despite being the exact demographic that needs public transit. For that reason, Charles Mudede writes, Seattle’s urbanism needs to be more class sensitive.

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• Rich Smith reviewed the new documentary on beat poet Bob Kaufman titled And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead. It’s a film that ultimately fails to translate the liveliness and humor of Kaufman's poetry from the page to the screen. Instead of watching it, watch its trailer and read Kaufman’s poetry—experience it firsthand.

• Other movies not worth watching, according our critics, are a boring The Legend of Tarzan and a distasteful Swiss Army Man. Worth watching, however, are a magnificent Spielberg-directed The BFG and the chilling documentary Tickled. For a comprehensive list of what to watch and what not to, Stranger Things To Do has you covered.

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• Let our Independence Day edition of cheap and easy listings help you find something to do this Fourth of July. Included: Where to watch fireworks, where to drink beer, and where to race slugs (Yes, slug-racing). For our regular cheap and easy listings, you’ll find that right here.

• If you’re looking to make long-term plans, check out our concert listings for the upcoming week. Don’t miss: Capitol Hill Block Party (everyone’s favorite 72-hour-long music party) and The Physics (our town’s best rap group). For the rest of July, we’ve compiled the 79 events to get tickets for now. From Malala to “Weird Al” Yankovic, find yourself something to have the best July ever.

Enjoy the sun this weekend.