Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, September 7–September 13
MONDAY 9/7 Death Cab for Cutie LIVE on KEXP (MUSIC) For Seattleites, Death Cab for Cutie needs no introduction. Frontman Ben Gibbard started the indie rock band nearly three decades ago while attending Western Washington University. Since then, they’ve released 11 studio albums and won the adoration of listeners all over the world thanks to…
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The Stranger’s Noise Complaint: Roosevelt High School Jazz Band Combo
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 Roosevelt…
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I Have the Best and Craziest 7 Bus Story Ever
The storied Route 7 now has an expiration date: 2032. At that point, King County Metro will change it to RapidRide R Line, a bus that will run between Rainier Beach and downtown Seattle. This new line will require the transformation of Rainier Avenue, a former highway with a reputation for fast cars that regularly…
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How a Great Director Made a Very Bad Film That He Is Proud Of
British director John Boorman had already made six movies before he got the chance to direct Exorcist II: The Heretic, the 1977 sequel to William Friedkin’s 1973 blockbuster about demonic possession, The Exorcist. Boorman was hardly a novice. He even had two stone-cold classics, Point Blank and Deliverance, to his name. But in making a…
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Your Bumbershoot-Inspired Syllabus
Bumbershoot’s lineup is an unusually bookish bunch this year: Lucy Dacus has a famous Goodreads account with over 2,100 books cataloged, Noname founded a book club with chapters all over the country, Bikini Kill lead singer Kathleen Hanna penned the memoir Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, and Death Cab for Cutie frontman…
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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Labor Day Weekend: Sept 4–7, 2026
Labor Day weekend is the unofficial end of summer, but don’t let that stop you from having a good time at events from the Seattle Indies Expo to Thunderpussy LIVE at the Colisevm of Art and from Rhinestone – A Celebration of Dolly Parton to MEZZFEST III. For more ideas, check out our top picks…
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Slog AM: Sound Transit Killed 2,000 Fish, Gen Z Is Talking Less, JD Vance Says War in Iran Isn’t a War
Fish fry: The first-of-its-kind light rail floating bridge is zapping the fish in Lake Washington. Sound Transit revealed its operations along I-90 have killed around 2,000 fish since the bridge opened in March—mostly perch and bass, but a few salmon are in the mix as well. Not killing fish was one of the requirements for…
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Short List: Film
Seattle may not be the first city people name when they talk about the movie industry, but there is an incredible amount of weird and wonderful film culture humming along here anyway: theaters held together by volunteers and sheer force of will, obsessive programmers creating found-footage fever dreams, curators who stretch what a moving image…
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Dolly Would
Picture it. 1991. Dollywood. A little queer boy. It was one of the best days of the 11-year-old’s life, until it was his worst. His grandparents liked to take the cousins in the van for a week. This time they loaded up 3 out of 4 cousins to Dolly Parton’s 5-year-old amusement park. The rides…
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Presenting The Stranger’s 2026 Genius Award Winners
The Stranger’s Genius Awards began in 2003 as an attempt to recognize our favorite artists, and, crucially, to give them money. The awards changed shape over the years, then disappeared altogether after 2016. A decade later, we wanted them back. I knew that meant two things: It was going to feel so good to put…
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Short List: Music
We’re a music city, baby! But the talent runs way deeper than the excellent indie/rock/punk canon you may already know and love. Whether reimagining hip-hop, composing for film, pushing electronic music into places no synth has gone before, or running a record store out of a living room, these musicians are building on the city’s…
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Short List: Visual Art
Our city’s grown up a lot in the past 10 years, and with it, our visual art scene. As with the other categories, it’s hard to try to narrow it down, so here are just a handful of the brilliant folks raising the bar in Seattle—artist-led projects curating the hell out of our city to…
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