Na Hong-jin’s Hope Isn’t Being Advertised as the Blockbuster Troll It Really Is
I have seen reviews of Hope bewildered by its third act, confused as to how the competent action movie they were enjoying could culminate in such an awful conclusion. Why did director Na Hong-jin botch the landing? Is he stupid? No. The bad ending is the point. It’s satire and Na is trolling the audience…
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TikTok Made 9/11 a Catastrophe Among So Many Catastrophes
“Shame on them for doing that!” a white boomer said to me as I stood near the corner of Minor Avenue and Virginia Street looking at the tail of the decommissioned 747 that’s between two luxury towers in the Denny Triangle. She wore sunglasses and a coat too thick for the hot July afternoon. She…
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Six Questions for Matt Midgley on What it’s Like to Run an Art Gallery in Pike Place
Buried below the flying fish and banjo-plucking buskers at Pike Place Market, you’ll find Gallery ERGO, a contemporary art gallery that celebrates its fifth anniversary today. What began as a shared artist studio in 2019 gradually shifted into a place for selling artists’ work, and eventually into a full-blown gallery operated and curated by Matt…
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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Sept 11–13, 2026
Soggy weather may be on the horizon, but that won’t stop Seattleites from getting out and about this weekend. On the docket for those raging against the rain: celebrate your four-legged friends at Wag Fest, commemorate Mexican Independence Day at El Grito, party beer in hand at R-Day, and bid farewell to summer at the…
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Slog AM: Businesses Send Angry Letter to Seattle Mayor, McClatchy Slits Local Journalism’s Throat, and It’s 9/11
25 years since, well, you know: It’s 9/11. People are gathering across the country to mourn and commemorate the day. President Donald Trump is speaking at the Pentagon. Oddly, he’s not going to New York where everything went down. He sent his vassal, Vice President J.D. Vance. Former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack…
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Seattle Group Finalizing Deal to Reopen the Egyptian Theater
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…
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Remembering Timothy White Eagle
My reaction to meeting Timothy White Eagle for the first time was probably similar to that of every person who ever met him: awestruck. For me, it was an evening in 2016 on the Bellevue Arts Museum plaza, where, amid a swarm of mere mortals, I was introduced to White Eagle: barrel-chested and statuesque, with…
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The Lunch Lawyer
Photos by Billie Winter If you work in the restaurant industry and your boss shorts your paycheck, you have limited options. You could quit, with or without sending your boss a nasty message, and start looking for a new gig. You could file a complaint with the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries or…
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Slog AM: El Niño Is Getting Stronger, Sen. Patty Murray Is Going After Trump, and Trump’s Bribing Americans to Vote Republican
Sen. Patty Murray’s pissed at Trump. In an effort to encourage “traditional” families, the Trump administration wants to pay married, stay-at-home parents with money from the Child Care and Development Fund, which was established in 1990 as a way to help parents—both single and married—pay for childcare so they could go back to work. “It’s…
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Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Cheetahs are the fastest land animals, but they can maintain top tempo for only about 20-30 seconds before overheating. When they’re hunting, they usually get just one speedy dash to catch their prey. They must spend far more time stalking and positioning than running. The velocity is sensational, but their patient…
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Bring Back My Bike
To the guy who stole my bike off a bus bike rack in Ballard: “Fuck you” doesn’t really cut it. I loved that bike. It got me through the woods camping and safely home, to and from the grocery store, and after injuring my knee, it became essential for me to do anything involving leaving…
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Pop Loser: Get In Losers, We’re Stanning Macklemore
Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, I’ll catch up on some news that transpired while I was on vacation for the last three weeks. (I’m so glad nothing major happened, like the passing of Dolly Parton or the arrest of Tupac’s killer.) Miley Cyrus—now rebranding as just Miley—wants the kids back on the dance…
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