Slog AM: Woman Raped at UW Fraternity Sues University, Right-Wing Radio Unhappy About Yakima Judge’s Advice for Avoiding ICE, Trump Posts AI Video of Himself Playing With Tiger that Killed UK Man
Yesterday, it was reported that Cornell University suspended frat parties in response to the public’s outrage at its exposed attempt to sweep gang rape allegations under the rug. Today, KIRO reports that “a woman who was raped at a University of Washington fraternity house in 2022” is not only suing the university but also the…
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An American Made an Excellent Japanese Horror Film
David Boyle, the director of the Japanese horror film Never After Dark, is not Japanese. He’s white and American, but he has made films that are either set in Japan or, if set in the US, feature Japanese actors. His latest feature is not only entirely set in Japan but is in Japanese. It also…
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Divorce Proceeding
I would love to get your opinion here, as someone who’s married and poly and advises on all sorts of married relationships: Is the institution of marriage a scam? Context: I’ve been with my partner for nine years. We’re both queer in gender and sexuality, but we pass as cishet. I’m the femme one. We…
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Slog AM: The Stranger has a New Editor-in-Chief, Voters Pick Hitler Mussolini, and There’s Still One Federal Cop Willing to Protect Seattle’s Immigrants
The Stranger has a new editor-in-chief: It’s Eli Sanders, who you might recognize from winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Stranger a while back. More on that news here. As one wall falls, another rises: Yesterday was Indigenous People’s Day in Washington, which our political class doesn’t take seriously enough to give people off from…
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Eli Sanders Is Named Editor-in-Chief of The Stranger
Exciting news in Strangerland: Eli Sanders is returning to the paper as Editor-in-Chief in November. Longtime Stranger readers will recognize his name—he worked his way up the journalistic ranks as a staff writer, news editor, and associate editor over 15 years before leaving in 2020 to become a lawyer, graduating from the University of Washington…
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Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, October 12–18
MONDAY 10/12 Boy Harsher (MUSIC) Synthy darkwave duo Boy Harsher returns to Seattle for a two-night stand after last performing here in 2022. In the four years since, the band’s members ended their romantic relationship and released their fifth full-length record, Get Mean. The album explores the moody turmoil that follows a breakup while the…
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Is Mayor Katie Wilson Still a Socialist?
This story begins with Mayor Katie Wilson’s proposed $9.1 billion 2027-2028 budget. It matches estimated revenue with estimated expenditures. It is, in other words, a balanced budget. And the way she accomplished this feat has attracted attention from all quarters. Unlike Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s balanced budget, Wilson’s has no new taxes or tax increases. The…
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Slog AM: MOHAI Workers Unionize, Trump the Environmentalist, and the Nobel Peace Prize Nods to Gaza
Good morning ya frigid bastards. It is 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Normal) this morning, and I am so excited for the cold (read to the end to see why). The news is also full of silver linings and upside-down logic. Take it from an Italian: It may be “Columbus Day” in much of the…
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Dear Hendrix
Dear Hendrix, It’s the spooky season. And while I can’t wait to take you out trick-or-treating this Halloween, I wanted to preface the festive occasion with a little music for you (and all those folks reading this on their cell phones at home). But when your mother is a professional DJ, a playlist can’t just…
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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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