Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos’ Election Campaign Defrauded for $20,000 by FBI Impersonators Claiming Treasurer Bought “Chinese Child Pornography”
Long time state legislator Rep. Sharon Santos lost the equivalent of nearly half the money contributed to her reelection campaign so far this year after a fraudster conned her campaign treasurer into giving them $20,000 last September. According to Santos’ campaign treasurer Jeanne Legault, scammers impersonating her credit union and the FBI claimed she had…
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Sawant’s Ground Game Against Adam Smith Is Getting Red Hot
On July 12, Columbia City experienced a hiphop/R&B/funk event organized by Beatwalk. A festival held primarily on a closed off section of South Ferdinand Street, Beatwalk includes participation from small area businesses (including Island Soul and Taco City) and a good number of performances (including singer/pianist Darrius Willrich and The Double Dutch Divas). Because the…
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The WTF, Chocolate?! at Good Grief
This story was originally published in The Stranger’s July 2026 print issue. Upon perching myself at Good Grief’s bar, my first thought is: This is what people mean by “positive masculinity.” Someone online called it bro-ey, but that’s incorrect. It’s masculine, sure, but the vibe stays friendly and accessible. The former Greater Good space is…
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Cat Rules
I’ve been with my girlfriend for ten years. We moved in with each other three years ago. It’s not working for me. I love my girlfriend. She’s one of the kindest people I have ever met, slow to anger, and always listens first. We never fight, and I don’t want to break up with her. I…
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Slog AM: White Supremacists Rally in Kirkland, Trump Buys Stock in Seattle’s Surveillance Camera Provider, and Us Prosecutors Roundup Dozens Connected to Assassination of Sikh Nationalist Leader
A Small Fascist Rally on a Kirkland Overpass: A couple dozen Patriot Front white supremacists waved their idiot signs on a 405 overpass on Saturday in another brilliant victory for the white race. You might remember these particular clowns from their Coeur d’Alene circus in 2022 when 31 of them were arrested for conspiracy to…
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We’re Hiring!
Newspaper seeking one underling and one overlord: a staff news writer and an editor in chief. News writers should know about writing news, but preferably more than that. We’re looking for a local-politics obsessive who isn’t afraid to dig into a pile of documents or confront a politician with tough questions. You should also be…
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The Washington Stonewall Democrats Want Organizations to “Revisit” Their Endorsements for Congressional Candidate Melissa Chaudhry
“I don’t want you to publish this,” Melissa Chaudhry, a candidate for US Congressional District 9, said during an explicitly on-the-record interview in The Stranger’s conference room, “but if elected, my personal plan and commitment is to be the first Green Party member of Congress that would switch parties while I’m in office.” “This is…
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Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, July 13–July 19
MONDAY 7/13 Sincere Engineer, Ways Away, Smug LLC (MUSIC) If you like fast-paced, pop-punk-tinged rock songs about fucking up, falling in love, and/or finding joy in watching your enemies suffer, then you may already be in love with Chicago’s Sincere Engineer. The Hopeless Records act, led by vocalist/guitarist Deanna Belos, has an anthem for every…
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Slog AM: Senator Lindsay Graham Is Dead, So Is Dr. Grant, but Mitch McConnell Might Not Be
Good Morning! The sun is shining, NDAs are expiring. It’s summer in Seattle. We’ve got a week’s worth of central-casting summer weather coming up (high 70s, low 80s, barely a cloud in the sky), so go do summer things while we’re still free from the grip of smoke season. But first, the news. Grinder Loses…
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I, Anonymous: Not Your NPCs
To every bar owner, club promoter, and weekend warrior who treats Pioneer Square like it’s a consequence-free entertainment district: People actually fucking live here. We aren’t NPCs in the background of your Saturday night. We aren’t just the lights in the apartment windows above the bars. Those are our homes. Every weekend it’s the same…
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Brewed Awakening
I have no thesis for this piece other than that I just really like Espresso Martinis right now. Yes, they’ve been around forever (since the early ’80s when London bartender Dick Bradsell allegedly invented them after a supermodel asked for “something to wake me up, then fuck me up”). They go in and out of…
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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: July 10–12, 2026
We’re here to help you make the most out of your weekend, offering cheap ‘n’ easy suggestions from Ballard Music & Seafoodfest to the Hot Off the Press Book Fair and from the West Seattle Summer Fest to the West Seattle Saunter. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week. FRIDAY LIVE…
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