Photo Slideshow: The Stranger’s 2026 Genius Awards
Photos by Debora Spencer It’s official! The Stranger’s 2026 Genius Awards party on Saturday, September 12 was a smashing success. Between the hosts (drag stars Miss Texas 1988 and Lady GuGu), the DJs (Erik Blood and La Mala Noche), the best Shabazz Palaces show we’ve ever seen, I think it’s safe to say the city needed…
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The Stranger’s Noise Complaint: Good Luck Rabbits
Welcome to Noise Complaint, The Stranger‘s new audio and video music podcast featuring live performances right here at The Stranger HQ. Streamed live and released every other Friday, we invite a great band, musician, or wonderfully weird act to perform. Tune in, discover something new, and support art in your city. This Week’s episode features Good…
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Seattle Is Poised to Ban Supermarket Algorithmic Price Discrimination
This coming Tuesday, in an effort to crack down on price gouging and discrimination, the Seattle City Council will vote on a bill prohibiting large grocery store companies from using customer personal information to customize prices and discounts. Proposed by Mayor Katie Wilson and Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck, the legislation will require grocery stores with…
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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Sept 18–20, 2026
Summer may be winding down, but Seattle events certainly aren’t. Keep the seasonal shenanigans going this weekend with a live spin on a KEXP staple, Audiosis, some pastoral partying at Farm Fest, a glow-stick-fueled voyage at the Seattle Paddle Rave, and a neighborhood-wide creative crawl at the West Seattle Art Tour. For more ideas, check…
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I Saw U: Walking Your Dog in Ballard, Walking Your Dog in Lincoln Park, and Not Walking Your Dog at the Dehd Show
Friendly elevator convo at Roosevelt station 9/5You commented on my bike; I wanted to ask where you were going with your guitar! Would love to get you a drink and actually ask this time 🙂 Research participant in SoDoYou wore a pink and white checkered Vans shirt to my office. You mentioned you live in…
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Slog AM: State Supreme Court Kills Natural Gas Initiative, New Amtrak Trains Coming to Cascade Line, Pope Gifted Green Orb
Street purgatory: The Seattle Convention Center closed down the block Ninth Avenue between Pike and Pine in front of the Paramount Theater for a weekly night market in August. They painted the street with big circles and white lines, which a permit required event organizers to remove. The street is still closed because even pressure…
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Kelabe Tewolde Is the Real Deal
On an August evening in Beacon Hill, in the back patio of the restaurant familyfriend, Kelabe Tewolde and his crew hovered around a laptop, waiting for the first primary election results to come in. As a first-time candidate, Tewolde hoped to get at least 40 percent of the vote. That would prove the progressive challenger…
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Girls Own the Void and Art Owns Downtown
The second half of September means Art + Culture Week is upon us. Recall how I previously mentioned September is Art World Prom in NYC? This week feels like a (much-needed) attempt to recalibrate the Seattle art calendar to match some of that energy. Now in its third year, the annual Art + Culture Week…
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Charlie’s Queer Books Is Opening a Second Location
This is the best books news I’ve heard since Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman bought The Rumpus: Charlie’s Queer Books is opening a new location in Seattle’s original gayborhood, Capitol Hill. Next door to Unicorn Bar, across the street from Wildrose, and around the corner from Elliott Bay Book Company, this new space is set…
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Slog AM: Robert Kraft Says He’ll Donate $2 Million to “Humanitarian Aid” After Macklemore Pledges $1 million to Palestine, Downtown Seattle Is Booming, Federal Reserve Increases the Cost of Borrowing
The average price a worker pays to commute in the Seattle area? $10,018 a year, according to a study by Consumer Affairs. And the amount of time a worker spends driving to and from a job? An hour, which is “roughly 10 full days spent [in a car annually].” Altogether, only four metropolitan areas are…
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Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Realities you’ve been oblivious to will soon pop into view. Hints and signals you’ve been unconsciously pushing away will start flocking toward you. A lingering emotional numbness will thaw, and surges of feelings will pour into your awareness. Warning! At first, it may feel like an overload: too much sopping wet…
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Clayton Lee’s Goldberg Variations Fetishizes Professional Wrestling and Vulnerability Without Losing Control
Onstage in front of a crowd of some 200 people, performance artist Clayton Lee lays out his thesis: All of his artistic and sexual fantasies have to do with professional wrestler Bill Goldberg. Lee cues up a pre-game video of Goldberg—a beefy man who looks to be in his late 50s—promising to pummel his opponent.…
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