The Best Things To Do in Seattle This Month: October 2026
Seattle takes the season of ghouls and gourds very seriously, but October isn’t all Halloween events—the calendar is also filled with concerts, festivals, food & drink events, and tons more. As we do every month, we’ve compiled the biggest events you need to know about in every genre, from Doja Cat to Kacey Musgraves and from…
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The Stranger’s Noise Complaint: Bering Sea
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 Bering…
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I, Anonymous
Happy anniversary. It has been 10 years since we divorced. Cheers to us not working out. Remember when I was trying to get you to sign my divorce papers, and you asked if I was possessed? Which is so funny now. Because you were the abusive youth pastor and I was the submissive wife who…
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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Oct 2–4, 2026
It’ll be a crisp fall welcome to October this weekend, and we’re suggesting you head out to enjoy events from the brand-new Radical Vegan Fest to the beer-soaked Oktoberfest West Seattle and street parties from Tailgate on Holgate to the U District Chow Down. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week.…
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The Wages of Whiteness
Let us leave Seattle and visit Arkansas. The governor of this deep red state is, of course, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She ran a tight ship as a conservative: pro-life, pro-business, pro-white Christian nationalism, pro-tax cuts (four in a row). She even rolled back “a number of child labor protections across the state.” No one could…
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Immigration NGO Resists Unionization, Lays Off Critical Staff Despite ICE Surge
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) boasts record-levels of arrests nationwide, and Seattle ICE watchers report a local uptick ahead of the election, the financial collapse of a Washington nonprofit dedicated to helping immigrants couldn’t be coming at a worse time. Over the past few months, workers and management have traded barbs over the direction…
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Slog AM: Fred Meyer Sued for Pregnancy Discrimination, Amazon Wants to Buy Your Support for Data Centers, New York Governor Appoints Attorney General to Cornell Rape Case
Kruse control: When the current interim Seattle police chief Andre Sayles was still deputy police chief, he filed a misconduct complaint against veteran detective Beth Wareing for speaking at a press conference denouncing the conservative, anti-trans initiatives bound for November’s ballot. Wareing, who worked on child sex abuse cases, had explained how the genital exams…
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Seattle Times Journalists Picket Newsroom Over Low Pay and Threats of Being Replaced by AI
Dozens of unionized Seattle Times workers picketed near the newsroom on Denny Way yesterday after they say the newspaper’s owners refused to satisfactorily raise wages or agree not to replace workers with AI during contract negotiations. The picket is the Seattle Times’ first big labor action in decades, and a sign that disagreements between those…
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Existential Cartography, Whale Nuggets, and Graffiti City Sketches
It’s press day here at The Stranger, which means I’m short on time for meandering art thoughts, so I’ll just include this photo of recent work by Genius short-lister Baso Fibonacci, who posted earlier this week about a “new genre: painting the city from the city on the city.” Riffing on life drawing sessions where…
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Ticket Alert: Lizzy McAlpine, Riley Green, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week
Don’t say we didn’t warn you—tickets for these newly announced shows are about to go on sale! Indie pop singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine has dropped dates for a world tour supporting her recently released fourth album, Angel. Get your fill of songs about heartbreak and drinking when country musician Riley Green plays Climate Pledge next spring.…
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Scarecrow Video’s 2026 Psychotronic Challenge: Week One
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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Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Orchids may lure pollinating insects with ingenious illusions rather than nectar. Some mimic the look or fragrance of other flowers. Others resemble female insects so convincingly that hopeful males unknowingly assist with pollination. From this, we might conclude that nature can be as duplicitous as humans. But rather than being bummed…
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