Friday’s Ballot Drop Is Here
From the left, Kelabe Tewolde has officially knocked 27-year-incumbent Sharon Tomiko Santos out of first place. He leads with 51 percent to Santos’s 48 percent. An educator beating the politician who isn’t funding education. That’s going to be interesting in November. Tewolde is one of several young, progressive first-time candidates challenging Democratic incumbents this year,…
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Everything We See at the Capitol Hill Block Party
Gates are open at the Capitol Hill Block Party, and the revelry has officially begun! We’re down here giving away candy and our Block Party zines, and selling all kinds of merch, including HUMP!-branded cumrags. If you’re headed to Capitol Hill this weekend and still putting together your list of must-see artists, check out our…
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I Saw U: Pushing a Float at the Solstice Parade, Watching Mexico vs. England Outside Merchant’s Cafe, and Almost Hitting Me With Your Prius
Vaguely Androgynous Deckhand at Fremont Solstice ParadeU, sweeping street while pushing the pirate float. Me, wearing a “protect your nuts” muscle tank and drinking a cider at 1:30 PM. Sweep my deck? Sporting a Mexico jersey and an amazing afro at the Merchant Cafe.Watching the Mexico v England game outside of The Merchant Cafe. You…
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Things to Do in August: Literature
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, and This & That. Puget Sound Book FestivalAug 9The Puget Sound Book Festival bills itself as the “supersized, all-ages book fair of your dreams.” Located on the Bremerton waterfront, it features over a dozen indie bookstores in one…
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Things to Do in August: Film
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, and This & That. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp MiasmaOpens Aug 13Never in my life have I been so seated for a film as I am for I Saw the TV Glow director Jane Schoenbrun’s latest release,…
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Things to Do in August: Visual Art
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, and This & That. Perimeter Road at 13th & GreelyAug 7–21In April, I wrote about Marcellus Bonow-Manier’s residency at the Georgetown Steam Plant, which has stretched out over the past year as the artist haunted and documented the…
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Things to Do in August: Music
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. Sérgio Mendes Band – Celebrating 60 Years of Brasil ’66Aug 6–9Sérgio Mendes (1941–2024) played a major role in popularizing Brazilian music in the US in the 1960s, fusing bossa nova with Anglo-American pop, rock, jazz, and…
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Things to Do in August: Performance
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, and This & That. Ishmael Houston-Jones + Keith HennessyAug 6Dancer, choreographer, and writer Ishmael Houston-Jones has pursued experimental dance since the early 1970s, notably starting the gay men’s performance collective Two Men Dancing while living in Philadelphia. After…
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Things to Do in August: Food & Drink
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, and This & That. Sushi Kaiju with James HeadAug 5–9For five nights, the Carlile Room is unleashing Sushi Kaiju upon the city, a wacky pop-up from head chef J.R. Head that crosses his meticulous culinary artistry with his…
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Things to Do in August: This & That
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, and This & That. Antique Doll & Toy MarketAug 16With the show flyer touting, “We’re looking for a new mama! If you see her, tell her to come to the Antique Doll & Toy Market,” I am doing…
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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Aug 7–9, 2026
Marine air should sweep some of the smoke from Seattle this weekend, clearing the way for you to hit up events from the Seahawks Football Fest to the Picklr’s Courtside Bash and from Hot Jimothy Summer at the Crocodile to Smol Art Mart. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week. FRIDAY…
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Seattle Should Build a Model of Itself in The Pit and Let It Decay
I wrote this in The Stranger nearly 20 years ago: “…Seattle has three buildings by famous contemporary architects: Seattle Art Museum (Robert Venturi), Experience Music Project (Frank Gehry), and Seattle Central Library (Rem Koolhaas). In 2011, this small list will be increased by one with the completion of a skyscraper at 601 Fourth Avenue… [Its…
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