This Is Not Inevitable
Valerie Veatch’s work will make you feel all kinds of things: dismayed, icky, but also empowered with the knowledge that we are not, in fact, actually doomed to a future of AI overlords. Across her career, the Seattle-born filmmaker has made numerous documentaries about the impact of technology on our personal and collective lives. Me…
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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: May 8–10, 2026
We’ve got the ingredients to a wonderful weekend, with cheap and easy things to do from Linda From Work, Dining Dead, Understater to West Seattle Community Garage Sale Day to a World Migratory Bird Day Celebration to Tilth Alliance’s May Edible Plant Sale. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week. LIVE…
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The Best Pizza, Pork, and Lumpia Spots
I can’t be the only person with a family member who is a liability with customer service—be it checking in to a hotel or sending a dish back at a restaurant. For me, that person happens to be my beloved mom. My Filipino mother Shellani is a self-described picky lady: choosy about what she wears…
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Laurelhurst Community Council Will Support Ending Policy that Reduces Helicopter Landings at Seattle Children’s Hospital
For more than 30 years, Seattle Children’s Hospital has abided by a voluntary agreement with the Laurelhurst Community Council (LCC) and the city to restrict which medevac helicopter flights carrying sick children can land directly at the hospital to the most serious cases. A Reddit post last week brought this long-standing agreement to the public’s…
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Slog AM: Your Bad Dad Can’t Leave the Country, We Can Finally Send Handguns in the Mail, and Are World Cup Fans Ghosting Seattle?
Roadwork Nightmare Weekend: Roadwork will be paused during the FIFA World Cup, so crews must kick it into high gear this weekend. Closures will typically start late Friday night and extend until early Monday morning. The impacted roads are: Save the Trains: Sound Transit is in a $38 million hole and is trying to scrap…
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More Balloon Bullshit
[Editor’s Note: This letter was submitted shortly after the I, Anonymous letter from a mom who was mad that someone stole all her balloons… related? You decide!] I was having a bad day, so I decided to take a quick stroll through the park, and what do I find? Someone had apparently had a party or picnic and decided to decorate…
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Ticket Alert: Kacey Musgraves, Foster The People, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week
Wake up babe, a new batch of tickets just dropped. Country queen Kacey Musgraves heads to Seattle from the Middle of Nowhere this October. Indie pop band Foster The People brings their Good Mourning Sunshine Tour and opener Goth Babe to WaMu Theater in September. Plus, prolific singer-songwriter and musician LP celebrates their fourth album…
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Welcome to The Stranger’s May Issue!
It’s that time of year again: The daffodils have bloomed, the trees have leaves again, and the Seattle International Film Festival is back on our doorstep. The festival is a little smaller than it has been in the past, which is no surprise. SIFF has been through a hell of a year, from layoffs to…
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Freakout Festival Isn’t Happening This Year
In another blow to Seattle’s nightlife ecosystem, Freakout Festival’s organizers have decided not to hold its marquee event this fall. The nonprofit organization relies on grants for half of its funding, and current circumstances have proven to be too uncertain to make Freakout’s ambitious booking philosophy—typically 75-150 musical acts playing in several venues throughout the…
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New Music You Shouldn’t Miss
TelehealthGreen World Image(Sub Pop) With anxiety levels spiking to all-time highs because of you-know-who and -what in the USA, Seattle quintet Telehealth sound especially built for this awful moment. Their lyrics suggest struggles with working in the tech biz, and the music serves as an escape valve for the stresses they’ve endured in the air-…
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Slog AM: Iran Still Mulling on Peace Deal, Straight White Man Sues for Discrimination, and the Wall Street Journal Has Thoughts on the Millionaires Tax
Good Morning! The summery weather is back after a brief overcast break yesterday. Expect highs in the mid-60s with spotty cloud cover, and you can expect that over and over again for the next week or so. Soak up that vitamin D! Just remember to wear sunscreen. (More on that below.) Let’s do the news. …
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What’s the State of SIFF in 2026?
It’s been a tough year for SIFF. The nonprofit, which runs the annual Seattle International Film Festival each May, as well as three year-round cinemas, has been hit hard by the last 12 months. The multiple rounds of layoffs, the sudden exit of their former executive director, and the fall of the beloved SIFF Egyptian,…
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