Creator of Flaming Tetherball Wants to Bring His Pyrotechnic Sport to the Masses

After All, It’s a Lot More Exciting to Watch than Baseball

The Grandads Are Alright

A Bombastic Highlight Reel of the Who's Imperial Phase

From the Backseat with Death Cab for Cutie

Ben Gibbard Had a Scorpion in His Pants

Pacific Northwest Ghosts Are Not All That Dark

Meet the Spirits Who Haunt the Region—Including a Ghost With Wet Hands???—in Bess Lovejoy's Northwest Know-How: Haunts

Writer and Illustrator Kate Beaton Opens up About Her Revealing New Graphic Memoir

“I Believed People When They Told Me I Had No Power, but You Always Have Power, You Always Have a Voice"

This Week in Worker Conquests

Starbucks Executives Lose Faith, KUOW to Picket Monday, Two Rivers Terminal Fined $200,000

Triangle of Sadness Is Very European (Insultingly)

Big Eyeroll of a Class Satire Over Here

Accounting for an Apocalypse

Adrienne Buller’s The Value of a Whale Exposes the Dark Side of “Green Capitalism”

Insomniac

Wait, Why Is Mom Mad at Me?

Cumulus Rising

Alexandra Lockhart Shows Off Her Sunny Side on Something Brighter

This Week’s Comics: How Did This Book Manage to Screw Up Sex and Violence?

Plus: Evil Cats, Lots of Punching, and Sisters Who Save the World

Slog PM: SCOTUS Rejects Sen. Lindsey Graham, Brazil’s Tropical Trump Refuses to Concede, Bruce Harrell Is Not the Same as Tiffany Smiley

Why Gen X Sucks

My Generation Is Too Flaky About Unions

David Sedaris Is Coming to Seattle and Wants to Know Where He Can Find a Dead Body

“Whenever I Smell a Dead Deer or Something in the Woods I Get So Excited. Oh, It’s Finally My Time!”

Slog PM: The US’s GDP Rose by 2.6 Percent, Expect Some Wind Tonight, Our Ranked-Choice Voting Video

Eyebrow-Raising City Council Budget Items

Enforcing Workers Rights, Sorta Copying the Social Housing Initiative, and Worrying About Low-Income and LGBTQ White Kids

Mayor Harrell Defunds Asian American Hate Crime Prevention by 50%

But That’s Okay! He’s Funding Police Bonuses and Sweeps Instead

Leesa Manion Offers the Truest Version of Public Safety

She'll Do Justice, Not Just Win Cases

“We've Branded Ourselves as Being Unbrandable”

Seattle's Climax Golden Twins Return With Their Best Album Yet

Slog PM: It’s the Deadliest Night of the Year, Pelosi Attacker Planned to Break Nancy’s Kneecaps, and Patrick Haggerty Passed Away

Louis Cole's Tight AF Club Smash and Domenica Diavoleria's Music for Abandoned Malls

The Best New Music to Hit My Inbox This Week

Why a City without Graffiti Is Not a City

Street Art Is Something That Must Happen When We Have Streets and Walls around Us

City Leaders Fight over Policing Pirates

Mayor, SPD Resist Council’s Attempts to Support Police Officers

Slog PM: Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Attacked by a Conspiracy Theorist, Six Injured in “Targeted” Shooting outside Funeral, and What to Do This Halloweekend

Seattle Could Cover Every Abortion in Town for $3.5 Million

The People’s Budget Proposes a Public Fund to Do Just That