As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) boasts record-levels of arrests nationwide, and  Seattle ICE watchers report a local uptick ahead of the election, the financial collapse of a Washington n...

Dozens of unionized Seattle Times workers picketed near the newsroom on Denny Way yesterday after they say the newspaper’s owners refused to satisfactorily raise wages or agree not to replace workers with AI during contract negotiations. The picket is the Seattle Times’ first big labor action in decades, and a sign that disagreements between those […]

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Tennessee is set to execute Christa Pike on Sept. 30 for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, which would be the state's first female execution in over 200 years.

Phew! Another music festival? But it’s almost September! Isn’t it time to go back to school and drink hot cocoa under a cozy blanket and pretend to care about football?  No! There is still summer fun to be had, as exhausted as you may be, because Bumbershoot is taking over the Seattle Center September 5 […]

While waiting for Death Cab for Cutie to take the stage Sunday night, see if you can guess who penned each line of morbid prose—Ben Gibbard or 19th-Century gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe! 1. “Deep into...

That dumb Mayor Katie Wilson recall petition has a court date. In last week’s Slog AM, I mentioned that a Bruce Harrell supporter and her husband filed papers to recall Mayor Wilson. The charges will ...

A Bruce Harrell supporter has filed a recall petition against Mayor Katie Wilson. Married couple Melinda Jacobson and Dale Osterud allege in the petition that Wilson is “derelict in her duties for pub...

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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...

Summer Sweet not your vibe? Check out Boozy Summer Savory instead. I’ve never drunk alcohol. I heard a Minor Threat song when I was 14 and swore off booze right then and there. But few things are more...

Long time state legislator Rep. Sharon Santos lost the equivalent of nearly half the money contributed to her reelection campaign so far this year after a fraudster conned her campaign treasurer into ...

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...

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...

Spring/Sprung/Etc: We’re gonna hit the 70s this weekend, maybe! Tomorrow will be partially cloudy with a high of 69 (don’t say it) and on Sunday we might even get into the low 70s. GO OUTSIDE!!!!!! Ce...

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...

Whenever someone (inevitably) says to me, “Women’s hockey just isn’t as physical as men’s,” I laugh and say, “You obviously have not been paying attention to Megan ...

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

People were brought to tears at the sight of professional women’s hockey players finally getting their due in a sold-out 15,000-capacity arena on the West Coast of North America. And it was abou...

Thank you, Team USA, for giving all of us disenfranchised hockey fans a reason to love the sport again.