Stop Putting Soap in the Waterfront Park Fountain
Someone keeps dumping soap in the Waterfront Park fountain outside the Seattle ferry terminal. It’s turning the water all sudsy and making a mess of things. The fountain was created by Japanese-American artist George Tsutakawa and named after Joshua S. Green, Sr., a Seattle philanthropist and one-time champion of the Mosquito Fleet. Like all of…
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Ticket Alert: Sombr, The Strokes, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week
Coachella content got you feeling FOMO? Not to worry, artists from this year’s lineup are heading our way. Sombr wrapped up his first headlining tour just one month ago, but he’s already plotting his next roadtrip—he returns to Seattle this October. Garage rock revivalists The Strokes will support their forthcoming seventh album, Reality Awaits, at…
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Dear Hendrix
Dear Hendrix, I did a bad thing. I knew it was a bad thing, but I’m not sorry for it. It happened last October. I was watching playoff baseball—the Seattle Mariners against the Toronto Blue Jays—and someone on Toronto got hit by a fastball. (I think it was a fastball.) It clocked him right in…
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Slog AM: Washington Wins Lawsuit Against Ticketmaster, Europe Is Running Low on Jet Fuel, and the Road to Canada Is Back Open
So, how about that weather? We had all of it yesterday. Sun. Rain. Hail. Thunder. Lighting. One crack of lightning set off a chorus of car alarms in my neighborhood. And if you were looking at Elliott Bay, you might have even spotted a totally-normal-in-this-part-of-the-world “tornadic waterspout.” Today promises to be far less exciting. Sun,…
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‘Drag Race’ Episode 15: RuPaul’s LaLaPaRuza Lip-Sync Whatcha-Callit
Gone are the days where Drag Race reunion episodes are sordid kiki sessions where the queens sit around and throw shade at one another. Now, we’ve got LaLaPaRuzas, and if you have trouble wrapping your tongue around that particular RuPaulism, just know that Ru struggles with it too: she called it a “lip-sync whatcha-callit.” Keep…
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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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