When I called up my grandfather Irwin Miller last fall, I asked him if he felt his age. “Uh, no, probably 94,” he said, laughing as he shaved off three years. “The body feels 97, the head doesn’t, tha...

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is rolling out a plan to tackle gun violence by better integrating city departments and maintaining services for youth. The announcement comes after weeks of relentless crit...

All summer long, if you walked around Seattle’s Stadium District during the day you probably heard the sounds of the labor movement at work—chants and exclamations from the striking unionized employee...

Twenty-three years ago, I found myself next to a hospital bed. My mother was on it and on life support. The doctor entered the room and painted a bleak picture; and I said to him: I know, I know, it’s serious. After hours of sitting by the bed, watching my mother and the machine that […]

Twenty-three years ago, I found myself next to a hospital bed. My mother was on it and on life support. The doctor entered the room and painted a bleak picture; and I said to him: I know, I know, it’s...

It was a sunny, August afternoon when I called up private investigator Naia Okami. She was hot on the trail of a criminal. I was in need of a scoop.  “The case, as I understand it,” Okami says, “is th...

The most 86ed man in Seattle. The friends of Tom Barnes agree about that. They rattle off an incomplete list: He was definitely banned from Big Mario’s once, as well as the old Comet, where he tumbled...

Chris Moore, the production manager at Chop Suey in Capitol Hill, has a hell of a time getting home on public transit after his shift.  In Seattle, a city doing the least to fight its early-to-bed rep...

It was a sunny, August afternoon when I called up private investigator Naia Okami. She was hot on the trail of a criminal. I was in need of a scoop.  “The case, as I understand it,” Okami says, “is th...

Last week Seattle politicians spent a whole lot of time talking about public safety, but one actually did something about it. The big news came on Friday when Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson signed an exec...

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The man the Seattle Times tasked with the job of compressing cultural and political developments into tokens that the reader can share during a dinner party, or in a pub, or with the person next to th...

Tired of your landlord springing extra fees on you at the last minute?  The Seattle City Council will vote Tuesday on a bill that would make it illegal for landlords to charge many spurious “junk” fee...

I wrote this in The Stranger nearly 20 years ago: “…Seattle has three buildings by famous contemporary architects: Seattle Art Museum (Robert Venturi), Experience Music Project (Frank Gehry), and Seat...

And we have the screenshots of emails and texts to prove it.

Gathered around a music stand serving as a podium on 10th and Pike, security staff at Neumos, Barboza, and The Runaway announced at a Wednesday afternoon rally that they have unionized as the Neumos S...

A raccoon was spotted in the rafters during the Mariners “Jimothy”-themed game against the Detroit Tigers. The internet has dubbed him Jimothy's cousin, "Dumpster Danothy."

📌 We’ve lint-rolled the ashy remnants of Eastern Washington off our slacks, we’ve taken a fat rip from the office’s Simply Orange gravity bong (we’re smokemaxxing), and we’re ready to raid the buffet ...

To prepare for the Stranger Election Control Board process, I slip a couple of fun questions up my sleeve to shake out in a moment of tension—people cry, they tangle their fingers, they stare into spa...

How a community of porn addicts tried to rescue the teenage camgirls they worshipped from the clutches of a violent webcam pimp.

Four Washington legislators who went on a 2025 tour of Israel paid for by the Israeli foreign ministry last September amid the Gaza genocide have in recent years pushed legislation in Olympia benefitting the Israeli government, including bills to criminalize street protests, suppress university campus encampments, and condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, […]

Opening the full extension all the way to Market Street is possible by 2042. Here’s what it will take.

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Well, Police Chief Shon Barnes is out for real now. Mayor Katie Wilson asked him to resign last night, and he accepted Thursday afternoon. And no, he was not in Chicago. Wilson appointed Deputy Chief ...

On Tuesday night, a small group of weirdos held an anti-trans rally outside of the Seattle Storm’s home arena. The occasion for their gathering was a game against the Indiana Fever and bench player…

By Erica C. Barnett On Wednesday night, multiple sources in several branches of city government told PubliCola that Mayor Katie…

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson and members of the Seattle City Council have squashed the beef over school meals, reaching an agreement to pay for universal free meals during school days and vouchers for t...

Police and ambulances were responding to a shooting with "multiple" victims at Seattle Center, according to the Seattle Police Department.

So it turns out students may get universal free school meals this fall after all! This afternoon, Seattle City Council President Joy Hollingsworth and Councilmembers Dionne Foster and Dan Strauss anno...