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📽️ Our 2025 SIFF Issue 🍿
News
Arts & Culture
Slog AM: May Deserves a Weather Award, Joe Kent Is Making MAGA Waves, Kristi Noem Thinks Habeas Corpus Means Trump Can Deport Whoever He Wants
Jerked Around
The Problem Isn't Porn
Denny Blaine Beach Group Meets With SPD, City Leaders
Can They Settle This Thing?
Vivian McCall
Kristi Noem Is the Queen of Panem: Welcome to the Reality Hunger Games
Galaxie 500 Are Never, Ever, Ever Getting Back Together
I, Anonymous
Likes Are Free
The Last Word
The Women’s Work at Drumlin
Play Date
Did You Get Your Invitation to the Jellicle Ball?
Real Piece of Work
Are We Finally Ready for Andrea Dworkin?
Inbox Jukebox
New Music You Shouldn't Miss
More Columns
More Columns
Asian Verified
Stranger Suggests
Katie Wilson
Marcus Harrison Green
Dear Hendrix
Girly Pop
Mountain Dispatch
I Saw U
Savage Love
Welcome to the 2025 SIFF Issue!
Our May Issue Marks the Return of The Stranger's Exhaustive SIFF Notes
Hannah Murphy Winter
SIFF 2025
Welcome to the 2025 SIFF Issue!
The Screens We’ve Loved and Lost
Let's Play SIFF Bingo!
The Return of
The Stranger
’s SIFF Notes
SIFF 2025 Shorts Programs
Spirited Away
Bust a Move
We Have a Dictator
The Last Of Us
's Apocalypse Seattle
Mossy, Gay, and Haunted by the Dream of the 15-Minute City
Nathalie Graham
The Organizer Who Ran the State House Like a Union HallÂ
Remembering Frank Chopp's Activist Roots
Shaun Scott
SLOG AM
Today
9:12 AM
Queer
Today
1:29 PM
Denny Blaine Beach Group Meets With SPD, City Leaders. Can They Settle This Thing?
I Saw U
Today
12:55 PM
I Saw U: Taking Pictures at the Arboretum, Breaking a Chair at the Air Fair, and Blowing Kisses on the Bus
I, Anonymous
Today
11:45 AM
I, Anonymous: Likes Are Free
Slog AM
Today
9:12 AM
Slog AM: ICE Is in Our Courtrooms, the House Passed the Big Beautiful Bill, the IRS Is a Snitch
Stranger Suggests
Yesterday
2:30 PM
Stranger Suggests: A Breakfast for the Bach-Curious, the PNW’s Crunchiest Festival, and a Talk About Rocks
Guest Rant
Yesterday
12:19 PM
Guest Rant: Amid National Uncerntainty, Seattle Must Stand Firm on Renter Protections
Slog AM
Yesterday
5:22 AM
Slog AM: May Deserves a Weather Award, Joe Kent Is Making MAGA Waves, Kristi Noem Thinks Habeas Corpus Means Trump Can Deport Whoever He Wants
News
Tue
1:16 PM
Kristi Noem Is the Queen of Panem: Welcome to the Reality Hunger Games
Savage Love
Tue
9:35 AM
Savage Love: Jerked Around
Slog AM
Tue
8:14 AM
Slog AM: Pro-Palestine Activists Try Crashing Microsoft Conference, MLK Labor Endorses Bruce Harrell, a Mom Sues Porn
SIFF 2025
Mon
1:46 PM
Your Guide to SIFF Today
Slog AM
Mon
9:30 AM
Slog AM:Â Biden Has Cancer, 3 Dead in Pioneer Square Shooting, Oregon Spent Drug Treatment Money on Cops
News
May 9
4:03 PM
The Ethics Code Showdown
The City Council Drama that Could Reshape Seattle’s Power Dynamics
Marcus Harrison Green
News
Mar 12
10:25 AM
Katie Wilson Wants to Be Your Mayor
The Long-Time Progressive Organizer Says Harrell Dropped the Ball, and She’s Ready to Pick It Up
Hannah Murphy Winter
Girly Pop
Mar 20
5:20 PM
Baby Gloom
Anti-Abortion Policies Are Making People Reexamine Their Plans Around Pregnancy
Megan Burbank
Comedy
Apr 1
3:35 PM
Mary Lou Gamba Is an Undisputable Champion of Comedy
See All the Hilarious Champs This Saturday at Washington Hall
Megan Seling
Music
Mar 31
12:22 PM
Desert Power
Saharan Rock Stars Etran de L’Aïr Tap Into the Infinite
Dave Segal
Comedy
Apr 2
10:22 AM
Emma Schmuckler Is an Undisputable Champion of Comedy
See All the Hilarious Champs This Saturday at Washington Hall
Megan Seling
Arts
May 9
4:02 PM
Seattle Vice ’76: The Saga of Sin
Strippergate Mob Boss Sings and Dances in a New Seattle Cabaret
Nathalie Graham
News
Apr 4
1:43 PM
Protect Immigrants, Tax the Rich
We Need to Stop Talking and Start Funding Immigrant Support
Marcus Harrison Green
News
May 2
10:25 AM
What Jamie Tompkins Says Really Happened at SPD
A Demand Letter and Stranger-Obtained Documents Lay Out a Year and a Half of Alleged Stalking, Harassment, and Retaliation Inside Seattle’s Police Department
Carolyn Bick
News
May 2
4:25 PM
The Downfall of the Climate Savior Who Never Was
Elon Musk Was Created by the Government He's Trying to Destroy
Marcus Harrison Green
News
May 5
10:48 AM
Seattle Police Trespassed a Trans Woman for Being Naked at a Queer Nude Beach
This Is Part of a Recent Pattern, Beachgoers Say
Vivian McCall
Photo Essay
May 9
5:48 PM
Happy Cinco de Margo!
Last Weekend, the Marginal Way Skate Park Celebrated the Start of the 2025 Season
West Smith
Music
May 5
11:11 AM
Get Your Back Up Off the WallÂ
And Come to This Show About Dance Styles in Hip-Hop
Charles Mudede
Arts
May 6
5:27 PM
Save Our VHS Tapes
Magnetic Tapes Hold Decades of Our History, and They’re Disintegrating
Vivian McCall
News
May 2
1:50 PM
Seattle Showed up for May Day
Let’s Do It Again. And Again.
Hannah Murphy Winter
Arts
Mar 11
11:16 AM
Our Favorite Cosplay From Emerald City Comic Con 2025
From Luigi to Wolverine to Those Muppets That Go "Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip"
West Smith
News
Mar 27
4:30 PM
City Attorney Candidate Erika Evans Wants to Fight Trump
Nathalie Graham
Race
Mar 11
2:47 PM
When Will Seattle Reckon with Its Own Racism?Â
Resisting Trump Does Not absolve Us of the Racism Embedded in our Policing, Housing, and Institutions
Gennette Cordova
News
May 12
4:32 PM
Brian Heywood Tortures Us With More Ballot Measures
Dude, Try Model Kits or Something
Nathalie Graham
&
Vivian McCall
Music
May 9
12:00 PM
Tears for Diers: Remembering Seattle’s Voice, and Our Friend, Kevin Diers
(He’d Have Laughed at this Headline)
Brittne Lunniss
Music
Mar 6
11:45 AM
The Rock Lottery Hat Is Never Wrong
The Magic of Community, Music, and Creating Something Out of Nothing
Megan Seling
The Last Word
Apr 3
2:00 PM
The Women’s Work at Drumlin
This Light ‘n’ Lovely Cocktail Foreshadows the Sunshine
Meg van Huygen
Music
Mar 14
11:50 AM
Album Preview Revue
All the Local Releases to Spin This Spring
Stranger Staff
News
Apr 16
5:11 PM
A Decade of Debate Ends in Silence
Hookah lounge regulations tore communities apart in 2015. This week, they passed 6-0 in a nearly empty room
Marcus Harrison Green
News
May 1
10:50 AM
Wisconsin Judge’s Arrest Couldn’t Have Happened in Washington
Every Courthouse Should be Legally Prohibited From Snitching to ICE
Nathalie Graham