So Real
The first time I witnessed Lars Bergquist at work was 10 years ago. He was making large paintings on paper that would go up around the city with wheatpaste. At the time, he was housesitting a friend’s apartment on Capitol Hill in one of those titanic, old buildings with vast carpeted stairwells. Art had taken…
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Slog AM: Seattle City Council Puts the Brakes on Data Centers, Katie Wilson Getting Busy for the Sonics Return, Graham Platner Wins Maine’s Democratic Senate Primary
The previous decade obviously gave Seattle a spectacular construction boom, which transformed its skyline dramatically. This decade, on the other hand, might give us a completely different kind of boom: the transportation, by public means, of millions of people around the city. In April, the month after Cross Connection opened, Link experienced an astonishing 46…
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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Unveils New 75-Unit Shelter
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson unveiled a new 75-unit tiny house shelter in Interbay over the weekend. It’s the first opening in the mayor’s ambitious program to open 4,000 shelter beds by the end of her term. But the new shelter still fell well short of her first goal: building 500 new units before the World…
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The Crocodile Plots Its Future
Venerable Seattle entertainment venue the Crocodile has been sold to a consortium of out-of-towners led by talent manager Jimmy Miller and Mike McAvoy, The Onion’s former CEO. As reported in the Seattle Times, the group’s Comedy Tent umbrella company also runs the Upright Citizens Brigade, the film and television company Abso Lutely Productions, and Pittsburgh…
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Seattle Is Not ‘Overwhelmed’ by Trans People
In the middle of May, the Advocate, a national LGBTQ magazine, published a rare headline about Seattle. “Transgender Americans are fleeing hostile red states,” it read. “Seattle says it’s overwhelmed.” The headline was posted to social media, picked up by other queer outlets, and pingponged around the internet, latching onto readers’ confirmation biases on every…
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Gone Girl
My husband and I (cis male and cis female) never had much sexual chemistry. In the beginning he said not to worry, we have a lot of time, and it could only get better. But nothing has changed. When I express my frustration with the lack of sex usually after going months without an orgasm or…
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Come Visit Us on Thursday!
It is happening again! Come visit us this Thursday at The Stranger’s office for our second-ever Capitol Hill Art Walk event, featuring work by Timothy White Eagle in collaboration with Adrain Chesser and Steven Miller. We’ll be exhibiting a selection of video and photographic works from Once Wild River, an exhibition about White Eagle’s year-long…
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Slog AM: Bill Gates Has Another Gross Epstein Connection, Costco Is Selling More Gas than Ever Thanks to the War, and FIFA Revoked World Cup Tickets for Iran’s Fans
Someone Vandalized the Capitol Building in Olympia, Again: According to the Washington State Patrol, an “inebriated vandal” smashed 13 windows at the Legislative building with rocks before leading troopers in a car chase in a Chevy Malibu that ended in a crash. Vandalism last fall—a guy hammered his way inside, set some fires and knocked…
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Don’t Be an Idiot—Test Your Drugs
The sun is out. So are your ass cheeks. Robyn is thumping. So is your heart. It’s summer, it’s a bacchanal. So, it’s only natural to invite some… enhancements to the party. Some MDMA here, a bump of coke there, a Perc, a bar. It’s not going to kill you. Probably. To make sure, you…
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Welcome to The Stranger’s World Cup Survival Guide
Play ball! Right? That’s what they yell when it’s time to start the game? We don’t really know, to be honest. But, despite any basic knowledge of what they call the Beautiful Game, we’re about to be clobbered over the head with all things soccer, football, fútbol, fußball, and footie, because between June 15 and…
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Screen Time
You won’t have a hard time finding a place to watch the World Cup matches. Hundreds of bars, restaurants, and community centers around town have been sharing watch party info on their socials for months. There are giant flyers all over the city boasting various businesses’ TV screen sizes, and even organizations that have no…
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Soccer Gawker
The World Cup is here! Whether you like it or not. So, just like we look up all the rules to curling every four years, it’s time to learn just enough about the Seattle World Cup matches to have a good time watching them. Belgium vs. EgyptJune 15, noonWhat to know: Egypt’s Mo Salah is…
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