I, Anonymous: Pit Problems
I’m noticing a trend happening with new hardcore bands. At the show I saw the other night at El Corazón, the openers and the main act (!) repeatedly called out members of the crowd that opted out of the pit. I’m talking “don’t be a pussy” and “if you’re standing in the back you are…
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Nobody Wants a McDonald’s in Chinatown
McDonald’s wants to put a new store in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID). Almost nobody thinks that’s a good idea. They are decidedly not loving it. Last night, about 80 CID residents and supporters packed the meeting of the International Special Review District (ISRD), the neighborhood’s historic preservation board. Impassioned public comments, handmade protest signs in…
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Slog AM: Car Goes up Light Rail Tracks Again, Katie Wilson’s Bad Surveillance Decision, Sen. Chuck Schumer Needs to Throw In the Towel
Let’s begin AM with my November 9 Odyssey. After teaching a night class at Cornish College of the Arts, a film class that concerned the Soviet Montage school (we discussed Man With a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov), I walked down to the corner of Westlake Avenue and Denny Avenue and waited for the locally…
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Seattle Mayor Expands Police Camera Surveillance Today, With No Privacy Safeguards in 2026
Mayor Katie Wilson gave an emphatic “yes” to the immediate expansion of police surveillance in Seattle on Tuesday, with no immediate policies to reduce the risk of abuse by local and federal law enforcement power in 4 to 6 months. The decision follows nearly a year of foot-dragging over expanding, freezing, or gutting the city’s…
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Shop for Gifts at These 2026 Holiday Markets in Seattle
The countdown to the holidays is on, meaning there’s a limited timeframe to pick up gifts for your loved ones. Luckily, the season brings an abundance of markets filled with holiday cheer plus local makers and artisans selling handmade and one-of-a-kind gifts. There’s a festive market or shopping event for all kinds of shoppers, from…
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Virgin Mirth
I’m a 22-year-old male and still a virgin. I’m quite anxious about entering the dating scene because the vast majority of women my age have a lot more sexual and romantic experience and they will see my inexperience as a red flag. I also grew up with a mild case of high-functioning autism, so social…
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Slog AM: Washington Latinos Flip Legislative Seats for the Dems, Ranked-Choice Voting Is a Lot Like Sex, and If I Put Jimothy in the Headline You’ll Click on This
Washington’s pasty urban press corps wasn’t paying much attention to the Yakima Valley heading into the election as a state legislative district that Democrats could flip. But they’re paying attention now. Republicans lost control for the first time in decades after the area’s Latino majority understandably turned on them. The Seattle Times has since dispatched…
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‘The Devils’ Is Gay as Hell
Last Wednesday, I went to catch the new 4K restoration of Ken Russell’s 1971 fever dream masterpiece The Devils at SIFF Downtown. If you’re not familiar, the film—which is adapted from Aldous Huxley’s 1952 non-fiction book The Devils of Loudun and John Whiting’s 1961 play The Devils—follows the original Hot Priest, Father Urbain Grandier (Oliver…
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Surfeit Rock
The inaugural Baba Obscura festival took over a hot zone in Pioneer Square November 5–8, and if you had the energy and alertness, you could’ve crammed a month’s worth of compelling music into four nights. With Freakout Fest on hiatus, Baba Obscura had big shoes to fill, and it did so admirably. There were some…
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Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, November 9–15
MONDAY 11/9 Jon Spencer, Genre Is Death (MUSIC) For over 40 years in Pussy Galore, Blues Explosion, Boss Hog, and other feral units, ex-Ivy Leaguer Jon Spencer has adopted a lewd, shit-kicking persona, the better to make rock and roll sound savage, gritty, and reckless. It’s a shtick, sure, but Spencer’s utterly riveting with it.…
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Slog AM: Oregon Man Rescued from Bucket List Sailing Trip, Seattle Officials Support Macklemore, Nvidia CEO Had Affair with Chinese Spy
Proud Boys disrupt Diwali celebration: On Saturday, far-right influencer Jake Lang, a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter, and others of his ilk interrupted a Diwali celebration at Seattle Center. They carried racist signs that read ‘Deport All Dot Heads’ and ‘Stop Hindu Replacement of Christians.’ Seattle lawmakers including Rep. Pramilia Jayapal condemned the display. Capitol Hill…
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Restaurants Are Banding Together to Solve the Delivery App Mess
If you’ve had the misfortune of ordering delivery food in Seattle lately, you know how expensive it has gotten in the last couple of years—Seattle routinely ranks at or near the top whenever anyone ranks the most costly places in the US to get delivery. And if you’re unlucky enough to own a restaurant that…
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