How Jeff Bezos and Amazon Haunt the Dutch Golden Age

Artist Alex Sandvoss Puts a Baby-Faced Bezos Where He Longs to Be, at the Center of a Capitalistic 17th Century

Rebecca Saldaña Jumps into Weirdly Crowded Race for Lands Commissioner

The Winner Gets to Be Washington's Very Own Landlord

Judge Blames “Defund” and Cop Shows for Problems with Seattle Policing

The City’s Consent Decree Is Now More Conservative Than Biden’s DOJ

Slog AM: A Higher Minimum Wage for Unincorporated King County, Cops Joke about Pedestrian Killed by Cop, Mexico Overturns Federal Abortion Ban

Seattle Police Officer Probably Won’t Get Fired for Laughing about Jaahnavi Kandula’s Death

As Long as This Union Has a Say in Accountability, Bad Cops Won’t See Consequences

Father Figure

My Life in the Sunshine Is a Fantastic Memoir About Music, Family, and Seattle

Council Member Dan Strauss Lets His NIMBY Flag Fly at a Housing Forum

His Opponent Didn’t Do Much Better

Seattle City Council Considers Resolution to Lid I-5

Advocates See Boots on the Ground in 10 Years If the Pressure Stays On

SPD Employee Confesses to Inventing Rumors About Chief Diaz Having an Affair, Investigators Say

Questions About the Rumor’s Origin Remain, but No Hard Evidence Found

Slog AM: Police Union VP Cackles at Woman's Death, Seattle's Proposed Drug Law Advances, McCarthy Launches Impeachment Inquiry into Biden Lol

Six Records for Rotation Before The Elephant 6 Recording Co. 

C.B. Stockfleth’s New Documentary Digs into the ’90s Music Collective behind Neutral Milk Hotel, of Montreal, and the Minders

Greta Gerwig’s Big Women's College Energy Is Showing

Barbie Land Centers Women in a Fun Mid-Century Fever Dream. But Its Splendors—and Its Limitations—Are All Too Real.

Seattle Entertains the Congestion Tax–Again

The Auto Industry Will Likely Resist Against a Split Progressive Front

After 11 Years of Federal Oversight, Judge Rules SPD Mostly Compliant but Declines to End Entire Consent Decree

Chief Adrian Diaz on the Ruling: "This Might Be the End of the Beginning"

The Anti-Beyoncé Show

Natural Information Society's Sublime Frequencies Hypnotized a Small Crowd at Neptune

The Hypocrisy of a Right-Wing Pundit’s Attacks on WA Cares

Must Be Nice to Dunk on Earned Benefits When You Have Media Networks to Rely On

Cute Cats and Crying Clowns: Saturday at Bumbershoot

We Spent the First Day of the Festival Watching the Dip, Slift, Thunderpussy, Wimps, Ride, Bumbermania Wrestling, AFI, and a Cat Circus That Wasn't Much of a Circus at All but Was Still Very Cute

Slog AM: No Charges for Seattle Leaders in Deleted Text Scandal, Seattle Committee Votes to Restart Drug War, Dam Bursts in Libya Kill 5,000

APEC Protesters in Seattle Expose the Costs of Free Trade

Follow the Movement Down to San Francisco

Slog AM: Georgia Releases Full Election Tampering Report, UW Tests Transit for Drugs, Yoga Class Mistaken for Mass Murder Event

Bottoms Is the Horny Gay Teen Comedy of My Dreams

The Film Also Stars a Local Up-and-Coming Actor Named Marshawn Lynch

Slog AM: Seattle Relaunches Drug War, Downtown Homeless Plan Scrapped, GOP in Disarray as Government Shutdown Looms

Rain, Witches, and Haunted Garage Punk: Sunday at Bumbershoot

Rain Didn't Stop Us From Seeing True Loves, Beverly Crusher, Shannon and the Clams, Spirit Award, THEM, Temples, Descendents, and Jawbreaker (and Hearing Secrets from Friendly Some Witches)

Joy Hollingsworth Tried to Stop New Apartment Construction on Madison in 2017

She’d Rather Have a View of Bellevue Than Housing In Her Backyard

Natural Information Society's Hypnotic Sonic Tapestry and mssv's Contorted No Wave

The Best New Music to Hit My Inbox This Week