One Smart Cookie
“I’m actually in trouble with the City because of how honest I am on the socials,” Vince Vu deadpans, feigning concern. We’re seated around a tiny table in the front window of Anh Ơi Bake Shop at Sixth and Jackson, and the unvarnished candor I’ve come to know from his IG stories starts pouring out…
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Shelf Life
As he leads me on a tour of Scarecrow Video, longtime buyer Mark Steiner spots former employee Xoe Amer in the new releases section and waves. Steiner, who started working at Scarecrow in 1992 and retired in September, has worked with Amer’s mom, witnessed Xoe grow up, and seen her work at Scarecrow’s erstwhile coffee…
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New Music You Shouldn’t Miss
Faith Coloccia + Tashi DorjiAnd Their Power Was Alive(Whited Sepulchre) Faith Coloccia has been a luminous presence in the region’s underground music scene for 20 years. She’s best known for the haunted folk music, isolationist ambient, and dilapidated-cathedral metal she creates in Mamiffer, with husband Aaron Turner. Her delicate voice carries a churchly grandeur ideal…
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Spotlit in Seattle: Analog Projections
If you’re lucky, your social media scroll has been interrupted by Aubree Barber’s mesmerizing dreamscapes. The heart behind Analog Projections, Barber creates stills and videos using projected light, silhouettes, and her personal collection of precious objects. The ephemeral images, swirling in color and constructed with elaborate sets, are emotionally evocative and often weighted with a…
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Seattle Rally to Stop Sexual Violence Draws Hundreds in Wake of Cornell Rape Case
As the sun set in downtown Seattle on Thursday evening, around 200 people gathered outside of the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building. Many wore teal or carried signs condemning sexual violence. Almost all of them wore nametags that read “Jane Doe.” Countless Jane Does have been the victim of sexual violence. This time, the Jane…
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Night of the Living Dentist
Illustrations by Yasiman Ahsani. By the time we’d left the party, the tool belt on my hips was no longer weighed down by White Claws. I’d chosen to put my costume’s accessory to good use: getting as drunk as possible on a budget. This was important at 23. Almost as important as my Ty Pennington…
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Have You Ever Been Starstruck by a Wig?
When I consider the most iconic fashion moments in music, I think of Lil’ Kim’s purple pasty ensemble (and other monochromatic looks), Missy Elliott’s inflatable trash bag suit, Salt-N-Pepa’s matching kufis paired with spandex bodysuits, and TLC’s fishnet tops that spell out the band name. Black female hip-hop artists take fashion risks when others won’t,…
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Last Month This Month: September 2026
Fall is upon us. Come drizzly skies, come death, come a Saturday Halloween where people in this corporate snoozetown will actually go out. Gas prices are still high, and Iran is still exploding! Trump banned the press from the White House and let them back in when a judge said he had to! The FBI…
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Welcome to The Stranger’s October 2026 Issue
After giving years of my life to this paper and reaching the point of my career where people have to listen to me, I’m returning to the marsh I crawled out of, Chicago. Have I lost my mind? I’m writing to you from the road. In the last 30 hours, I have bruised my entire…
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Scarecrow Video’s 2026 Psychotronic Challenge: Week Two
Welcome to October! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when I mitigate my seasonal depression by going all in on gothic literature and horror films. The good people at the world’s best video store, Scarecrow Video, have put together their 2026 Psychotronic Challenge, which contains 31 prompts for a movie each day throughout…
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The Stranger Election Control Board 2026 General Election Endorsements
Don’t want to read? Skip to our Cheat Sheet! It’s that time of year again, time for a cabal of vulgar Marxists in a hot conference room on Capitol Hill to handpick the government. Just kidding. We fixed the AC in the conference room. Why go through the trouble of voting? A city council seat…
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The Stranger Election Control Board 2026 General Election Cheat Sheet
The SECB does not endorse in uncontested races, races we forgot, or races in Spokane. Its members include, for a second time, Vivian McCall, Megan Seling, Charles Mudede, Nathalie Graham, Hunter Pauli, Cedar Attanasio, and Gracie, the privately owned Texas giraffe. Read every endorsement here! Federal United States RepresentativeCongressional District 1Suzan DelBene United States RepresentativeCongressional…
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