Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Unveils New 75-Unit Shelter
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson unveiled a new 75-unit tiny house shelter in Interbay over the weekend. It’s the first opening in the mayor’s ambitious program to open 4,000 shelter beds by the end of her term. But the new shelter still fell well short of her first goal: building 500 new units before the World…
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The Crocodile Plots Its Future
Venerable Seattle entertainment venue the Crocodile has been sold to a consortium of out-of-towners led by talent manager Jimmy Miller and Mike McAvoy, The Onion’s former CEO. As reported in the Seattle Times, the group’s Comedy Tent umbrella company also runs the Upright Citizens Brigade, the film and television company Abso Lutely Productions, and Pittsburgh…
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Seattle Is Not ‘Overwhelmed’ by Trans People
In the middle of May, the Advocate, a national LGBTQ magazine, published a rare headline about Seattle. “Transgender Americans are fleeing hostile red states,” it read. “Seattle says it’s overwhelmed.” The headline was posted to social media, picked up by other queer outlets, and pingponged around the internet, latching onto readers’ confirmation biases on every…
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Gone Girl
My husband and I (cis male and cis female) never had much sexual chemistry. In the beginning he said not to worry, we have a lot of time, and it could only get better. But nothing has changed. When I express my frustration with the lack of sex usually after going months without an orgasm or…
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Come Visit Us on Thursday!
It is happening again! Come visit us this Thursday at The Stranger’s office for our second-ever Capitol Hill Art Walk event, featuring work by Timothy White Eagle in collaboration with Adrain Chesser and Steven Miller. We’ll be exhibiting a selection of video and photographic works from Once Wild River, an exhibition about White Eagle’s year-long…
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Slog AM: Bill Gates Has Another Gross Epstein Connection, Costco Is Selling More Gas than Ever Thanks to the War, and FIFA Revoked World Cup Tickets for Iran’s Fans
Someone Vandalized the Capitol Building in Olympia, Again: According to the Washington State Patrol, an “inebriated vandal” smashed 13 windows at the Legislative building with rocks before leading troopers in a car chase in a Chevy Malibu that ended in a crash. Vandalism last fall—a guy hammered his way inside, set some fires and knocked…
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Don’t Be an Idiot—Test Your Drugs
The sun is out. So are your ass cheeks. Robyn is thumping. So is your heart. It’s summer, it’s a bacchanal. So, it’s only natural to invite some… enhancements to the party. Some MDMA here, a bump of coke there, a Perc, a bar. It’s not going to kill you. Probably. To make sure, you…
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Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, June 8–14
MONDAY 6/8 Bleak Week: Dancer in the Dark (FILM) At the heart of Bleak Week, a weeklong film fest that, the Beacon says, “spotlights some of the greatest films from around the world that explore the darkest sides of humanity, as well as some of the bleakest points in human history,” is Dancer in the…
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Slog AM: Iran War Heats Back Up, Trump Says ‘No New Wars’ Didn’t Mean He Wouldn’t Start Wars, and Katie Wilson Caves on Surveillance Cameras
Good morning! Did you go to Pride in the Park this weekend? Or the Bigelow Block Sale? Or the Jeff Rosenstock show at Neumos? Or MapleFest 2026? Or one of the predictably shaky Bob Dylan shows at Chateau Ste. Michelle? It was a busy weekend in the city, and it feels like even the weather…
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Seattle Hotel Workers Are on the Verge of Striking Ahead of the World Cup
UPDATE: 94 percent of the union voted to authorize a strike. The union could now call a strike at any time. Call it labor unrest summer? Unionized journalists across the Northwest at McClatchy Media went on a one-day strike over AI policy, union employees at acclaimed restaurant the Walrus and the Carpenter are willing to…
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I Saw U: Avoiding COVID at the Movies, Dropping Apples at Trader Joe’s, and Running for the Light Rail in Lynnwood
Covid cautious cutie at the moviesWe both saw a movie solo at southcenter wearing masks. You held the door for me & I should have said hi. Let’s sit together next time? Spilling apples at trader joesYou:looking cute whilst spilling apples Me:pink haired guy trying to find an excuse to talk to you (I didn’t)Lets go…
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Property Owners Around Denny Blaine Took the Stand This Week
The first week of the Denny Blaine Park trial has concluded, and it was spent on neighbors and their lawyers making the case that the nude beach is an out-of-control public nuisance. The trial is existential for a legendary, decades-old queer hangout. If neighbors get their way, the city could be forced to ban nudity…
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