Alt: George Costanza touts his fake charity, The Human Fund

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...

The storied Route 7 now has an expiration date: 2032. At that point, King County Metro will change it to RapidRide R Line, a bus that will run between Rainier Beach and downtown Seattle. This new line...

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, and This & That. Slayyyter, Pearly DropsSept 4With a sound described as “Charli XC...

School starts today! The strike planned by the Seattle Education Association will not happen because the teachers union and Seattle Public Schools reached a tentative agreement as children slept (at a...

Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left even more missing.

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...

For decades, Columbia Funeral Home & Crematory greeted drivers, passengers, pedestrians as they entered Columbia City. The neon sign, “Columbia Funeral Home,” fixed on the side of the roof that faced ...

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...

It isn’t often that a movie review in a literary journal like the London Review of Books goes viral—let alone a 4,234-word movie review—but that’s what happened this week when the LRB published transl...

On July 12, Columbia City experienced a hiphop/R&B/funk event organized by Beatwalk. A festival held primarily on a closed off section of South Ferdinand Street, Beatwalk includes participation from s...

Are these bunker shows about the future or the present?

Looks like teen spirit... Matthias Hangst/Getty Images On Sunday, the biggest name in football, Kylian Mbappé, scored the goal that made it clear to all...

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True, the way Seattle is hosting its portion of the World Cup is far from perfect. It’s riddled with social problems. But one also has to admit that the city is receiving a great deal of social media ...

Will it matter to Seattle voters that Mayor Katie Wilson's first big promise — to set up 500 shelter units by the World Cup — is falling short, by a lot?

Maybe aliens will spot the probe, capture it, open it, and hear a white supremacist introduce the whole human race.

Meta keeps bleeding local jobs into the twilight of AI hype. The latest round of layoffs has eliminated 1,395 jobs in King County. Though some may think that AI itself is the cause of this escalating ...

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...

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...

<p><em>Quantum physics doesn’t just rewrite our equations; it dismantles our ontology. From uncertainty to entanglement, the theory breaks the classical idea of the world as made of individual objects...

The more one enfolds swallows, the more swallowish their thinking becomes.

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 ...

Will the world as we know it even reach this year&#8217;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...

Will the world as we know it even reach this year&#8217;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...