Adam Willems

Adam Willems is a Seattle-based reporter covering queer stuff, sports, and books for The Stranger.

Recent Articles

The New Hometown Heroes

The Salmon Bay Football Club Fills an Important Gap in Our Local Soccer Scene—and in Fans' Hearts

Going Up in Smoke

Our People Brings 2020's BLM Energy Back to the Opera House

News Mar 28 1:44 PM

A Future for the El Rey and the Fight to Keep Seattle Livable

Can an Arts Collective Save a Building and a Bit of Belltown’s Soul?

Visual Art Nov 27 1:49 PM

Look Her in the Eyes

A New Exhibit at the Frye Explores Surveillance and Dispossession in the Asylee Experience

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Writing the Ship

How Nonfiction for No Reason Is Helping Seattle’s Literary Scene Stay Afloat

Opera Aug 2 11:55 AM

Inhumane Clown Posse

Seattle Opera’s Pagliacci Is Still Full of Sad Singing Clowns, but This Time They’re a Little More Feminist

Books Jul 16 4:47 PM

Into the Soil

How Author Noé Álvarez Uses Music and Memoir to Confront Death in His New Book Accordion Eulogies

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Summer Issue 2024 Jul 16 4:00 AM

Your Local Baseball Besties

Why You Should Give a Shit About the Mariners This Summer

Opera Jun 27 12:05 PM

Fandom of the Opera

See Drag Queen Anita Spritzer Perform in One of Seattle’s Gayest Non-Gay Institutions Thursday

Queer Issue 2024 Jun 6 1:05 PM

Can Seattle Drag Afford to Stay Weird?

Rising Costs, and Fewer Beginner-Friendly Venues, Are Sanitizing Seattle’s Drag Scene

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Books May 3 11:49 AM

Time in Tent City

Tony Sparks's New Book Tent City, Seattle Offers Valuable Participatory Research of Life in a Sanctioned Homeless Encampment

Queen of Our World

When Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe Writes, the Revolution’s Coming

Sports Mar 28 11:00 AM

Icing Out Pride

As the NHL Caves to Homophobia, the Seattle Kraken Steps Up to Support the LGBTQ+ Community

Books Nov 28 2:32 PM

Losing Record

Shaun Scott's New Book Uncovers the Forgotten Wins, Losses, and Stories of Resiliency in Seattle's Sports History

Drag Nov 7 4:33 PM

To the Moon

Some of Seattle’s Best Drag Queens Danced Among the Stars for the Space Needle’s First—and Probably Not Last!—Drag Show