Stranger Suggests: Pioneering Lebanese Cinema, the First Cisgender Woman to Win a Drag Pageant, and an Out-of-This-World Classical Concert
MONDAY 5/4 Cabaret Voltaire (MUSIC) Sheffield’s Cabaret Voltaire reigned as the UK’s most riveting electronic group from 1979 to 1984. Previously, Richard H. Kirk, Stephen Mallinder, and Chris Watson had experimented with tape loops and analog-synth bleeps to give you the creeps. Their early recordings delved into academic minimalist composition and proto-industrial, but also included…
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Slog AM: Supreme Court Temporarily Restores Wider Access to Abortion Pill, Knowledgable Internet Butler Jeeves Dead at 29, and Cops Investigate the Watery Case of the Misplaced 4Runner
The Supreme Court … temporarily restored wider access to the abortion pill mifepristone? Key word temporarily. An order signed by Justice Samuel Alito will allow mifepristone to be sold in pharmacies, sent through the mail, and prescribed through telehealth, as has been the case for years. It blocked a ruling from the 5th Circuit Court…
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Love Notes, Letters, and Trolls: April 25-May 1
In the last week, we wrote a lot about class politics: First, news editor Vivian McCall wrote about the annual medical clinic at Seattle Center, where many of the patients either didn’t have insurance, or had it, but couldn’t afford to use it; and then staff writer Hunter Pauli wrote about unionized McClatchy journalists that…
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I Saw U: Singing Steely Dan, Picking Up a Seattle Reign Scarf, and Flying to Vegas
Steely Dan Embarrassment You asked “anybody here like Steely Dan!?” and your friend said “don’t do this” and you belted out in song anyway. I froze! Come back! Good knight for it eh? You: armor clad in Fremont taking a break from practice Me: taking an evening stroll. I made a joke and you chuckled,…
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Green Lake Grief
You cannot convince me Green Lake is a good date spot. It’s where nascent hopes of love and crushes go to die. Yes, there are cute ducks. Yes, there is a pretty view of the water. But in a city where dating is already a hellscape, somehow Green Lake makes it worse. This is how…
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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: May 1–3, 2026
The city’s really cooking this weekend, with warm weather and hot events from Seattle Center’s Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration to El Centro de la Raza’s Cinco de Mayo Celebration and from the Windermere Cup to Neighbor Day. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week. FRIDAY ACTIVISM…
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Slog AM: Six Injured in Tacoma High School Stabbing, Iran War Has Cost the US $25 Billion, Church of Scientology Not Pleased with Viral “Speed Running” Trend
Stabbing at Tacoma High School: A student allegedly stabbed four students and a security guard at Tacoma’s Foss High School on Thursday. The students suffered severe injuries while the alleged attacker and the security guard sustained only minor injuries. All were hospitalized and are now in stable condition. Body Found: A Marysville resident was bringing…
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Ticket Alert: Olivia Rodrigo, Shaboozey, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale
Text your concert buddies, ’cause tickets are about to go on sale! Pop star Olivia Rodrigo will spend two nights in Seattle on her upcoming Unraveled Tour. Multi-hyphenate country and hip-hop crossover Shaboozey saddles up for his Outlaws Never Die Tour this fall. Plus, rising country band The Red Clay Strays follow up their recent…
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Schrödinger’s Bus Stop
I am not an angry person. For me, tears spring forth quicker than a biting retort. But on a recent April afternoon, I felt hot fury pump through my veins over a disagreement with a bus driver. I was waiting for the route 2 bus under the bus shelter at 20th Avenue and East Union…
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Slog AM: SCOTUS Guts the Voting Rights Act, Hegseth Lies to Congress, and Unqualified Sheriffs Sue to Work in Washington State
Good Morning! It’s sunny. Like summer-time sunny. If the forecast means anything in this little climate we have, highs will be around 70 today, and then they’ll dip back down with some clouds tomorrow. But they’ll climb all the way up to 80 on Sunday, for the first time this year. It’s outdoor shenanigans weather.…
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Impoverished Journalists Threaten Strike Across Pacific Northwest
Ninety percent of union members at McClatchy Media newspapers in the Pacific Northwest have voted to potentially strike over low pay, and are raising money through GoFundMe to pay rent and bills in case they’re off the job. The journalists are represented by the Idaho and Washington State NewsGuilds, which represent only the McClatchy papers…
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Slog AM: Shots Fired Near Mayor Katie Wilson Event, Taproot Theater Needs $400,000, King of England Tells US Kings Are Bad
Multiple shots were fired near a news conference that Mayor Katie Wilson held last night at Yesler Community Center to announce her plan to offer free breakfast and lunch to all Seattle Public School students, and expand free and low-cost childcare programs in the city. Seattle Times reports that police are presently “looking for three…
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