Guest Rant: Seattle Housing Authority is Failing Their Tenants, Their Mission, and the Law
Seattle’s public housing is supposed to provide our city’s lowest-income people and families with affordable, comfortable places to live. From what our organization, Got Green, a community organization based in South Seattle, has seen, the Seattle Housing Authority (SHA) is allowing their units to fall into a serious state of disrepair that is threatening the…
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Spotlit in Seattle: Jane Don’t
Jane Don’t is Seattle’s latest star to compete on RuPaul’s Drag Race. If you’ve seen her locally, you already know she was poised to do well. Her drag style uses vintage aesthetics in contemporary ways, combining her knowledge of queer history, fashion references, and her own innovative sewing skills. With a fully glamorous mug, she…
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Is Brandi Kruse’s Support for an Anti-Trans Sports Ban Legally an In-Kind Political Donation?
Right-wing podcaster Brandi Kruse is allegedly providing unreported in-kind donations to an initiative to ban transgender girls from girls sports, according to a campaign finance complaint that a government watchdog group filed with the Washington Public Disclosure Commission. The PDC regulates state political finances. The complaint targets the initiative group Let’s Go Washington. The PDC…
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Slog AM: Howard Schultz Talks Shit About Seattle, Zorhran Mamdani Solves NYC’s Budget Deficit, Trump Says He Doesn’t Think About Ordinary Americans’ Financial Situation
The idea to ban cars from Capitol Hill’s E. Barbara Bailey street, which encounters constant foot traffic from Cal Anderson Park, Capitol Hill Station, and the Capitol Hill Station Plaza, is a no-brainer. Cars should not be there. And an organization, Central Seattle Streets for All, is now pressing for the formal pedestrianization of the…
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Tell Me What’s a Happenin’
When I was introduced to Jesus Christ Superstar, my Bible-thumping mother leveled a stern warning: This show was blasphemous. Jesus presented as a mere mortal— “just another man”—who was in over his head leading a band of freedom fighters champing at the bit to storm Rome, who maybe had sexual relations with former lady of…
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No Place Like Old Fire House
On a Saturday in early April, the sounds of indie rock wafted through the sunny streets of downtown Redmond. Aging hipsters like me, teens, and other community members had gathered outside the Old Fire House Teen Center to commemorate the building that had served as an all-ages venue and teen center since 1992. It was…
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Straight Up
Dear Readers: I’m off this week. So, let’s enjoy — and perhaps relitigate — this column from July 12, 2022. — Dan I’m a cis woman in her 30s who lives on the East Coast. I’ve been in an LTR with the same cis man for 12 years. No issues there at all! But we are…
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Invite Only
Of the 62 record stores in Washington (according to Discogs’ Indie Record Store Directory), only six are owned by women, and none of those six are in Seattle. “It can be a very hard world to enter,” Rachel Gardner, the owner of the Edmonds record shop Musicology tells me, while lounging on a leopard-print couch…
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Slog AM: Seattle Woman Leads Charge Against Gay Marriage, Teens Arrested for Anti-Scientology Hate Crime, Washington Democrats Face Gerrymandering Conundrum
It’s Gonna Be Hot Today: Temperatures are projected to be in the high 70s, which is hotter than usual Seattle springtime. It’s also gonna be humid. Lowest Tides This Year So Far Start Friday: While today’s high temperatures likely won’t stick around for the weekend, there should be plenty of people at the beach anyway.…
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The Lady Rainier Statue Is Seattle’s Queen of Public Transportation
Though hidden, the Lady Rainier statue is easy to find. She is right next to the northernmost building of the Old Rainier Brewery complex on Airport Way. A few steps from a parking lot lead you to her feet, which are planted on an orb. Her toes, particularly on the left foot, are the stuff…
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How Fear Becomes Policy
There is a moment, after the sirens fade and before the cameras arrive, when grief is still allowed to be grief. But this fragile window is gone much too soon. Because in this country, and in this city, grief is rarely permitted to remain untouched. It is quickly conscripted into the familiar machinery that tells…
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Jibz Cameron Becomes Dynasty Handbag
The clearest way to explain Dynasty Handbag’s act might be to quote the artist herself. “I am not a wretched performance artist, or merely a comedian, or the ghastly clown, or simply an actor,” Jibz Cameron writes in her new memoir, Hell in a Handbag. “I perform as this alter ego. I do songs sorta and stand-up…
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