Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, August 24–August 30
MONDAY 8/24 Kavi Yaga with Diana Xin (LITERATURE) I recently devoured the novel Martyr! by poet, novelist, and editor Kaveh Akbar, so when I found out that he’d chosen Hyderabad, India-based author Kavi Yaga’s debut short story collection The Vanishings for The George Garrett Fiction Prize, my interest was immediately piqued. Akbar wrote, “I love…
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Slog AM: ICE Agents in Washington Arrested the Wrong Man, Iran’s Rial Plummets in Value, and Can the Improved Route 8 Survive Monday’s Commute?
During an operation in Lakewood to arrest a Mexican national with a final deportation order last month, ICE agents instead detained 23-year-old Venezuelan citizen Moises Velasquez, an immigrant who had entered the United States legally but was driving the same car, a grey Volkswagen GTI, as their target. In an order granting Velasquez’s habeas corpus…
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I Saw U: Picking Up Trash on University Way, Dropping Your Earbud Outside of Poquitos, and Washing Windows at Capitol Hill Block Party
Playboy Bunny Boy Picking up TrashI saw you on the corner of 43rd and University Way. I giggled to myself the rest of the night because you were so attractive to me in your mask. Umpqua Hot (for you) SpringsFully naked, you offered the best conversation and company. A fellow solo adventurer and hot sauce…
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The Stranger’s Noise Complaint: Black Ends
Welcome to Noise Complaint, The Stranger’s new audio and video music podcast featuring live performances right here at The Stranger HQ. Streamed live and released every other Friday, we invite a great band, musician, or wonderfully weird act to perform. Tune in, discover something new, and support art in your city. On Apple, you can subscribe…
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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Aug 21–23, 2026
Hate to break it to ya, but there’s officially only four weekends left in summer. Take advantage of our dwindling sunny days at cheap and cheerful events from Festival Sundiata’s Black Arts Fest to Hai! Japantown and from SOUK Seattle to the 16th Annual Off The Wall + 13th & Fir Mural Reveal Party. For…
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Slog AM: High-T Navy May Name Aircraft Carrier After Noted Coward, Wildfires Cost Washington $207 Million in Two Months, and After Husband Dies in Alaska, Mexican Widow Not Allowed into US
Local coffee roaster and cafe operator Starbucks is laying off 224 of its employees, including 120 people who didn’t want to relocate to Nashville and live the honky-tonk life. The affected workers live in Seattle and beyond. The company said the layoffs are the “final piece” of its global restructuring plan, reports KING 5. The…
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The Stranger’s Exhaustively Comprehensive Bursting-at-the Seams Guide to Bumbershoot 2026!
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…
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Every Band Playing Bumbershoot: Saturday
KEY:⭐ Don’t Miss📍 Local! ⭐ 📍 ANTHERSThis comparison will only resonate with maybe six people, but I’m gonna say it anyway: If you loved long-defunct Seattle punk rock noise makers pleasureboaters, go see ANTHERS and party like you’re at Healthy Times Fun Club circa 2008. Not a 40-something who lived in Seattle nearly two decades…
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Every Band Playing Bumbershoot: Sunday
KEY:⭐ Don’t Miss📍 Local! 📍 American FlatsIf you need a break from all the modern music pummeling your eardrums, catch local American Flats, who describe themselves as “a rock and roll band with Americana and punk influences.” It’s not revelatory, it’s not perfect, but it’s a warm hug if you’re longing for those days of…
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Every Arts District at Bumbershoot 2026
⭐ Means don’t miss it! ⭐ BumbermaniaIn which local wrestling crew SOS Wrestling builds a real-deal ring in the middle of the Seattle Center, and dozens of local wrestling superstars (66, to be exact!) fight, tackle, pummel, and toss one another around for a chance at the Bumbermania belt. It’s so fun, so captivating, that…
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Who Said It?
While waiting for Death Cab for Cutie to take the Bumbershoot stage on Sunday, September 6, 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 darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing / Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever…
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Ticket Alert: Jonas Brothers, Brett Goldstein, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week
The Jonas Brothers are throwing it back to 2008, reprising their Burning Up Tour “all over again,” this time with support from younger brother Franklin Jonas. Brett Goldstein, the actor, writer, and comedian who plays lovable grump Roy Kent on Ted Lasso, brings his new Sex, Death and Small Talk stand-up show to Seattle. Plus,…
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