The Art of Stupidity
I knew I wanted to tell you to shut the fuck up from the moment your voice echoed off the gallery walls. The cacophony of noise you and your family made was only sweetened by the idiocy of mind your words betrayed, and I felt my heart flutter when you stepped near enough for me…
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Croissants for the Girlies
At first glance, Maddy’s Bakeshop is tiny. Itty bitty. Almost too small to be a bakery, in fact. The pocket-sized storefront is tucked into the corner space of a strip mall painted an unremarkable blue-gray color on Western Avenue, right where Belltown, Interbay, and Lower Queen Anne collide, aka Nowheresville, and it’d be easy to…
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SIFF Unveils Full 2026 Lineup That’s Shining With Local Gems
Strap in film buffs, the full lineup for the 52nd annual Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) is officially out. This year’s fest, which runs from May 7-17, has its rough spots and feels scaled back at times, but also contains some of the more ambitious programming in recent memory. There’s a lot to dig into…
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Slog AM: City Council Approves Shelter Expansion, Local Choreographer Amy O’Neal Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship Grant, More Boots on the Ground in Iran
What to make of the tent that recently appeared in front of Seattle Central College, spraypainted to say “this is student housing”? If one looks at it through the eyes of a classical Marxist, they will see a disturbing connection between it and the idea that a post-capitalist society, as conceived by Karl Marx, will…
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Which Democrats Killed the Bill for Farmworkers Rights?
Farmworkers looked poised for a long overdue win during the recent session of the Washington State Legislature. Workers in the agricultural industry have long been denied the right to bargain collectively with employers, a right that’s been afforded to other workers under federal law for nearly a century. This year, Washington’s farmworker unions partnered with…
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Poems That Move
Cadence Video Poetry Festival comes but once a year, and yes, it might fall on a glorious April afternoon with the sun out (emphasis on might) and cherry blossoms calling, but trust me on this—get your butt in a seat in the dark, cavernous Northwest Film Forum this weekend to devour some video poems. What…
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Spring Reads for Desperate Times
We’re riding this fire horse of a year, and I, for one, am needing to pull references for how to keep up, keep going, keep growing. My book recommendations for this spring—some old and some new—are not always easy, but always deeply enriching: a hearty full plate of a meal we need in these spiritually…
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Outward Bound
I’m a 26-year-old cis gay boy. I met my 28-year-old boyfriend in an actual bar and not an app — like it was 1978 or something — so we didn’t share our sexual interests before we met. We hooked up that night and things got serious pretty quick. He was the first guy I met in…
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Slog AM: Iran War Not Good for Seattle Economy, Portland Amazon Worker Dies and Warehouse Keeps Working, the Makah Tribe Just Wants to Hunt Whales
Extended Iran War Will Tank Seattle Economy: That’s the message the city’s Office of Economic and Revenue Forecast told the public last Friday, “If the oil prices stay high for a prolonged time, there’s just nothing that can be done to avoid a recession,” the office’s chief economist said per the Seattle Times. With the…
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Mayor Katie Wilson Announces a Summer Full of Bike Supremacy
On the same day a car went for an unseasonable dip off Lake Washington Boulevard and into the eponymous lake, Mayor Katie Wilson announced the official schedule for car-free weekends along the lakeside road this summer. Starting on Memorial Day, Wilson will close roughly three miles of Lake Washington Boulevard from Mount Baker Park to…
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Whatever Happened to the Abortion Pill Stockpile?
Three years ago, then-Gov. Jay Inslee announced the state’s first-ever abortion pill stockpile: 30,000 doses of mifepristone, which, along with the pill misoprostol, is commonly used in medication abortions, and was then at the heart of a lawsuit brought by anti-abortion activists. In this moment of crisis, advance provision was a common tactic, but in…
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Stranger Suggests: A Safe Space for Cat People, Half-Hieroglyphs Full of Longing, and a Book Documenting Seattle’s Graffiti Culture
MONDAY 4/13 Author Talk: Ifrah F. Ahmed, Soomaaliya (FOOD) Somali-born chef, writer, recipe developer, and artist Ifrah F. Ahmed came to Seattle as a child in 1996. She and her family quickly became enmeshed in the local Somali community, and food was one of the biggest ways they connected to their culture. Today, Ahmed works…
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