Scarecrow Video’s 2026 Psychotronic Challenge: Week Four
Well, we’ve come to the final installment of our Scarecrow Video psychotronic challenge series. If you’ve made it this far, congratulations, and thanks for watching along with us! We hope you found some new favorites, or at least had fun checking out some unhinged, off-the-beaten-path films you wouldn’t have otherwise. In case you missed our…
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Ticket Alert: Calvin Harris, Sienna Spiro, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week
What are you waiting for?! Tickets for hitmaking DJ Calvin Harris are on sale NOW. Rising English singer-songwriter Sienna Spiro plans to bring her second-ever headlining tour to Seattle. Plus, genre-bending indie rock bands Mt. Joy and Rainbow Kitten Surprise co-headline the Gorge next summer. Read on for details on those and other newly announced…
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Film Review: Of War, Whimsy, and ‘Wildwood’
I did it too. Flipping through a crisp hardcover copy of Colin Meloy’s Wildwood in 2011, I fell for Carson Ellis’ wondrous illustrations, and I bought that book for a five-year-old. The boy’s mother gracefully took it from me and put it on a shelf for a few years. With Laika’s adaptation of the novel…
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Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The 18th-century Aries watchmaker John Harrison solved one of the great scientific problems of his time: how to determine longitude at sea. Many learned astronomers failed to crack the puzzle, yet Harrison, largely self-taught, persisted for decades to refine the method. His breakthrough transformed navigation and enhanced the safety of sea…
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Slog AM: Amazon Employee Sues Company For Silencing Her After Alleged Rape, Katie Wilson Announces ‘Common Sense’ Homelessness Plan, Get Your Flu Shot!
A Seattle-based Amazon employee is suing the company after she says a senior manager raped her on a New York work trip in 2023. According to the Seattle Times, she told Amazon’s HR department, reported the assault to the New York Police Department, and underwent a rape kit exam. The police did not press charges,…
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An Incomplete History of the Millionaires Tax
Perhaps the biggest issue on the ballot this fall is the fate of the Millionaires Tax. To change Washington’s regressive tax system or to not change it? That is the question. Initiative 645, an initiative effort from Let’s Go Washington, the group behind the other anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ initiatives on the ballot, would repeal the…
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Seattle City Council Passes Draconian Effective RV Ban
Last night, the Seattle City Council passed the most comprehensive reform of large vehicle regulations in a generation to make it harder for homeless people to live in RVs and trailers. The six ordinances sponsored by Councilmember Dan Strauss will require people living in large vehicles to obtain a permit to park for more than…
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Pop Loser: Bono Quoted Dan Savage
Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, unexpected worlds collided: Bono and Dan Savage, John Wilson and Harry Styles, and David Byrne and Oliva Rodrigo. Joni Mitchell can now vote in the US. Plus, a shout-out to the cool goth working at Double Dare Records in Burien who was blasting Switchblade Symphony on Saturday morning. …
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Slog AM: Suspect in Gas Station Murder Captured, Ballard Can Pretty Much Forget About Light Rail, Trump Starts Fraudster Hotline
The man suspected of shooting to death an attendant at a Belltown gas station was arrested yesterday in Chicago by US Marshals. The murder happened on October 13 around 5 a.m. and was captured by a surveillance camera. The suspect, Micheal Fleming, is seen entering the gas station, approaching the counter, and shooting the victim,…
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Shut It
I think I’ve developed a crush on my wife’s ex. I’m in my forties and my wife is older than me. We’ve been together for fifteen years. We are both women. Before we dated each other, we dated men exclusively. She had told me a lot about her ex before me. They were together for…
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Slog AM: Bigfoot Never Happened, the CIA Settled Nazis in Canada, and Don’t Get Your Hopes Up About the Sonics Returning
Our corporate overlords don’t oppose the Millionaires Tax: Or at least, they aren’t spending big to destroy it at the ballot, as they have done to similar income tax proposals in the past, the Seattle Times reports. The lack of oligarch backing means the petite bourgeois small business tyrants must fund the repeal on their…
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The AI Wars Come to Ravenna
It seems likely that 2026 will be known as the year that AI broke through and became a mainstream political issue. Protests against data centers have swept the country, AI agents are launching cyberattacks against their own kind, and former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon became an overnight celebrity after quitting and warning the public that…
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