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The Complaints Issue
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The 2025 Complaints Issue
Welcome to Our 2025 Complaints Issue
Our December Issue Is on Stands Now
Stranger Staff
The Five Best Underread PNW Authors of 2025
Plus Five Bonus Books You
Also
Gotta Read
Katie Lee Ellison
Mahjong Nights Are In, AI Food Pics Are Out
(And More of What’s Hot and What’s Not for 2026)
Michael Wong
Hacking the Met
How Indigenous Artists Smuggled Their Stories Into One of the Biggest Art Institutions in the World
Amanda Manitach
Last Month This Month
All the Government Shutdowns, Sketchy Surveillance, and New Mayors You May Have Missed in November
The Stranger's Slog AM™️ Specialists
How Community Organizing Turned Into a Campaign Strategy
Katie Wilson Fought Big-Money Politics and Won
Hannah Murphy Winter
How to Make a Hockey Team in 205 Days
The Seattle Torrent were just an idea this spring. Now they’re our home team.
Megan Seling
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The Complaints
Seattle, Please Stay Open Later
I Know It’s Hard, But We Gotta Try
Emily Nokes
We Deserve Better City Parks
Seattle Needs More Spaces That Celebrate the City, Not Run Away From It
Megan Seling
Don’t Be an Asshole
A Timeless Guide to Music-Show Etiquette
Dave Segal
Hell Is a Grocery Store
The Police State Is in Aisle 10
Vivian McCall
But Wait, There's More
We Need to Talk About the Lack of Public Bathrooms, Sidewalk Etiquette, and That One Public Artist… You Know the One
Stranger Staff
And You Know What Else???
We Have Even More to Say About Restaurants, Neighborhoods, and Ghosts
Stranger Staff
December Things to Do
December Things to Do: Music
The Best Concerts and Dance Nights Happening This Month
Julianne Bell
,
Audrey Vann
,
Todd Hamm
&
Dave Segal
December Things to Do: Visual Art
The Best Art Shows and Events Happening This Month
Amanda Manitach
December Things to Do: Literature
The Best Talks and Readings Happening This Month
Julianne Bell
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December Things to Do: Performance
The Best Theater, Dance, and Comedy Events Happening This Month
Julianne Bell
,
Audrey Vann
&
Dave Segal
December Things to Do: Film
The Best Film Events and Screenings Happening This Month
Julianne Bell
&
Audrey Vann
December Things to Do: Food
The Best Food & Drink Events Happening This Month
Julianne Bell
More in The Complaints Issue
Film/TV
Dec 11
11:30 AM
The Greatest Science-Fiction Soundtrack Ever
Avex Ensemble Performs Vangelis’s Score for Blade Runner
Charles Mudede
Food & Drink
Dec 10
10:25 AM
Seattle Fucking Rules at Holiday Drinks, and Here Are Some of the Best
Chartreuse in eggnog? Oh no, what if it’s good?
Meg van Huygen
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Books
Dec 9
12:10 PM
The Five Best Underread PNW Authors of 2025
Plus Five Bonus Books You
Also
Gotta Read
Katie Lee Ellison
Visual Art
Dec 5
11:48 AM
Hacking the Met
How Indigenous Artists Smuggled Their Stories Into One of the Biggest Art Institutions in the World
Amanda Manitach
The Complaints Issue
Dec 4
10:03 AM
Welcome to Our 2025 Complaints Issue
Our December Issue Is on Stands Now
Stranger Staff
The Complaints Issue
Dec 4
9:58 AM
The Stranger
’s Inaugural Complaints Issue
Seattle is great. Here’s everything that’s wrong with Seattle.
Stranger Staff
The Complaints Issue
Dec 4
9:56 AM
But Wait, There's More
We Need to Talk About the Lack of Public Bathrooms, Sidewalk Etiquette, and That One Public Artist… You Know the One
Stranger Staff
The Complaints Issue
Dec 4
9:56 AM
Seattle, Please Stay Open Later
I Know It’s Hard, But We Gotta Try
Emily Nokes
The Complaints Issue
Dec 4
9:56 AM
Hell Is a Grocery Store
The Police State Is in Aisle 10
Vivian McCall
The Complaints Issue
Dec 4
9:56 AM
And You Know What Else???
We Have Even More to Say About Restaurants, Neighborhoods, and Ghosts
Stranger Staff
The Complaints Issue
Dec 4
9:56 AM
Don’t Be an Asshole
A Timeless Guide to Music-Show Etiquette
Dave Segal
The Complaints Issue
Dec 4
9:56 AM
We Deserve Better City Parks
Seattle Needs More Spaces That Celebrate the City, Not Run Away From It
Megan Seling