There are 626 people, the most King County has ever interred at one time through its indigent remains program, stacked neatly beneath a fresh marble grave marker, each with cremains in their own plast...

As the city begins its search for a new police chief, it must be held accountable for promised improvements in order to attract the best potential candidates.

Chants of "defund S-P-D" have become a common message at protests in Seattle, and for the first time the idea is getting serious attention from the city council.

This week, the Society for Professional Journalists announced the winners of their Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards. The Stranger won eight awards, including first place in Personal Profile (...

On Tuesday afternoon, unionized workers at the Walrus and the Carpenter held a strike authorization vote in the sweltering Ballard sun minutes before the acclaimed oyster-centric spot opened for servi...

Though hidden, the Lady Rainier statue is easy to find. She is right next to the northernmost building of the Old Rainier Brewery complex on Airport Way. A few steps from a parking lot lead you to her...

At the end of April, Seattle’s running community caught wind of a new marathon, the Seattle Waterfront Marathon set for this Sunday, May 24th. For a $100 registration fee, marathoners would take off f...

The Boeing IMAX, the only premium IMAX theater of its kind in the state, will not be showing theatrical films under new ownership. Instead, local film buffs’ worst fears have been realized: The only p...

When an independent audit last month found that the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) was running a $45 million deficit, including $13 million in funds unaccounted for or overspent, ...

It’s been ten years since Seattle adopted a district-based city council. And for almost that whole time, District 5, which spans Greenwood to Bitterlake and North Beach to Lake City, has been stuck wi...

In February, news broke that McDonald’s had filed for a permit to spend $750,000 to turn the old Broadway Theater (once our most fashionable Rite Aid) into a fast food restaurant. We groaned a collect...

Writing and photography by West Smith Furries are everywhere. That’s the biggest lesson I took away from attending my first furry convention earlier this year. Before that, I think I still carried som...

Cue Wendy Rene’s “Bar-B-Q”! Last year KEXP revived its beloved summer tradition after a 13-year hiatus, and it looks like it’s here to stay, with a lineup good enough to compete with Bumbershoot and C...

There’s a huge art party in an eight-story building downtown! Also, a new art fair! But first, let’s talk about Seattle Art Museum Workers United (SAMWU), the new union recently formed and announced l...

On a Saturday in early April, the sounds of indie rock wafted through the sunny streets of downtown Redmond. Aging hipsters like me, teens, and other community members had gathered outside the Old Fire House Teen Center to commemorate the building that had served as an all-ages venue and teen center since 1992. It was […]

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. Harmonia Orchestra and Chorus: The Planets May 8 I am a long-time lover o...

In another blow to Seattle’s nightlife ecosystem, Freakout Festival’s organizers have decided not to hold its marquee event this fall. The nonprofit organization relies on grants for half of its fundi...

[Editor’s Note: This letter was submitted shortly after the I, Anonymous letter from a mom who was mad that someone stole all her balloons… related? You decide!] I was having a bad day, so I decided t...

On Friday, the day before a planned protest in the neighborhood, Seattle Children’s Hospital and the Laurelhurst Community Council released a joint statement saying “the Laurelhurst Community Council ...

Good Morning! It’s sunny. Like summer-time sunny. If the forecast means anything in this little climate we have, highs will be around 70 today, and then they’ll dip back down with some clouds tomorrow. But they’ll climb all the way up to 80 on Sunday, for the first time this year. It’s outdoor shenanigans weather. […]

I am not an angry person. For me, tears spring forth quicker than a biting retort. But on a recent April afternoon, I felt hot fury pump through my veins over a disagreement with a bus driver. I was w...

Behind a partition at Seattle Center’s Exhibition Hall Seattle Center’s Exhibition Hall, dental drills wheezed. Couple Andrea and Xavier waited patiently on the other side.  Touching her left cheek, A...

Someone keeps dumping soap in the Waterfront Park fountain outside the Seattle ferry terminal. It’s turning the water all sudsy and making a mess of things.  The fountain was created by Japanese-Ameri...

Farmworkers looked poised for a long overdue win during the recent session of the Washington State Legislature.  Workers in the agricultural industry have long been denied the right to bargain collect...

Since time immemorial—or at least since the 1990s—Seattle has chased the elusive intersection of art and tech. But what does that mean, actually? What exists at this mythical crossroads—a devil, a pot...

When John Skrodenis saw a new Teatro ZinZanni billboard go up last December, his heart sank.  On a yellow background, a bald head with glasses slid into the frame from the top. According to ZinZanni’s...

Something unprecedented is happening in the Washington State Supreme Court. Five seats are on the ballot this year. That many seats have never been up for grabs at once in the modern court, but a wave...

A part of me wants this post to be about an Instagram pigeon who has made the subterranean Beacon Hill Station its home. But we must assign that deserving story to a post that will appear in the near ...

I wouldn’t say the Greenwood Fred Meyer is my favorite grocery store, but it’s the closest. And I don’t mind shopping there. It’s annoying to have to show my receipt to an armed guard as I leave the s...

City magazines Seattle Met and Portland Monthly have been sold off by their parent company, SagaCity, in a receivership deal to pay off the company’s debts.  In addition to the Seattle and Portland ma...

Mayor Katie Wilson announced an expansion of Seattle’s CCTV surveillance network Thursday, telling a closed press conference of Seattle journalists she had little choice but to hire US Departmen...

Will the world as we know it even reach this year’s midterm elections? This question, which might sound a bit alarmist, now has to be taken seriously because the stage for World War III has been...

Sabio-Howell’s pitch is this: Sen. Pedersen is quick to concede to big business before the politicking has even begun, and a corporate-friendly incrementalist like him had no business representi...

Protests, rallies, and other ways to get involved in March.

In light of the Epstein files, should Bill Gates' name be on a building at University of Washington?

Love is in the air! Oh, shit, no, that’s pepper spray.

Impeding ICE with the combined powers of the city, county and the port.

Impeding ICE with the combined powers of the city, county and the port.