Bike Trail Flail
To the unapologetic mom and child who made me fall off my bike at Seward Park, I think your kid should learn better trail etiquette before being able to ride a bike in the middle of the trail, if they can’t follow “on your left!” Not to mention, barely even staying for a moment to…
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Hunger Strike Over Poor Food Quality at NWDC Concludes
After nearly a week, more than 140 immigrants detained in the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) have concluded their hunger strike in protest of inedible food, often served at irregular hours. The action marked the 20th hunger strike in the Tacoma facility this year. Detainees in the center’s G3 unit began the protest last Tuesday, and…
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Pop Loser: Courtney Love Update, New Shabazz Palaces Single, and Three Blood Brothers Return as Evil Island
Welcome back to Pop Loser. I’m Dave Segal and I’ll be filling in for Audrey Vann over the next three weeks. Not gonna lie: I generally don’t mess with pop music, but I am familiar with losing. So, the content of this column may hit a little differently than it does under Audrey’s byline; she…
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Slog AM: Trump Declares Oman and Iran’s Strait of Hormuz is Ours, Mariners Humiliated Before Tens of Thousands, Washington Judge Rules Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness Now Apply to Data Center Power Lines
Conservative KIRO News Radio is now concerned about a report by Washington Health Benefit Exchange that “showed 66,000 people in Washington dropped their Affordable Care Act (ACA).” That’s close to a 25% drop. Since Trump took office, around 100,000 people in this state lost their protection from the accidents of life; they can’t afford to…
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Mildred’s Death Day
On December 9, 2019, my grandma—wearing her favorite dress, with her hair set and makeup applied—sat in her favorite recliner, surrounded by family at home, and raised a glass of strawberry daiquiri for a toast. We all yelled “kanpai!” She thanked us, and drank. Eighteen minutes later, she was dead. Mildred was a complicated woman…
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The Bends
I’m going through a really difficult time, and I could really use some perspective. I’m a gay 47-year-old man with a husband of 25+ years. We have two young children in the house. My husband and I are monogamish, and our relationship is okay. Not great, not terrible. Up until about three years ago, I was…
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Slog AM: Diesel Hits Record High, the Polls Are Lying to You, but the Alchemists Are Not, and a Canadian University Will Cut Some, but Not All, Financial Ties to Hitler
Seattle’s rich people fucked themselves over for decades, and now you have to pay for it: With city funding, a number of Seattle’s wealthier white communities buried their power lines under the sidewalk decades ago so they could look more like the suburbs. They did a bad job of it, and now the power cables…
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Trump Killed the Truth, the Left Must Now Bury It
Let’s begin with this question: Why is the social media platform that’s so obviously filled with lies called “Truth Social”? And the top name attached to this platform, Trump, presently runs an administration that lies continuously. Think of Karoline Leavitt, the president’s departing press secretary. She spent the past two years of her life lying…
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The Best Thing I Saw This Week: Toppled Ice
Amid the recent spate of art fairs and summer exhibitions, a few things have firmly taken root in my mind. One of those is Recollections, the third annual summer showcase of members’ work at Actualize AiR. Curated by Shannon Hobbs, the exhibit is loosely organized around the theme of memory—people, places, and things loved, lost,…
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Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, August 17–August 23
MONDAY 8/17 Musashi’s in Wallingford (FOOD) Have you been to Musashi’s in Wallingford? My girlfriend and I were running errands, and popped in for a quick lunch. I spent $13.50 for five plump pieces of nigiri, an assortment of eight rolls, and delicious complementary brown rice tea. So simple and fresh, I had a Ratatouille…
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Rasheena Fountain
Environmentalist movements have a polluted history of excluding Black and Indigenous narratives. Rasheena Fountain’s work debunks myth and misconception to honor the full story. Fountain is a polymath of the arts who has centered creativity in her decades-long work in environmental advocacy and social justice. Her essays, poetry, music, and film have garnered her fellowships…
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Slog AM: A Walking, Talking Drain on Worker Power, To Make Peace, President Threatens War, Hayden Panettiere Dead at 36
GEO Group, the transparent owner of the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, said it’ll soon talk to the feds about selling them a few of their privately owned prisons for immigrants. It is unclear if those negotiations include the Northwest ICE Processing Center, but the company’s CEO, George Zoley, a Greek immigrant who came…
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