I Saw U: Fixing the Ice Machine at Work, Chatting in Line at Analog, and Looking for a Dirt Bag on the Apps
Post-punk boyish at TJs on Capitol Hill at closing time U have red hair/red denim jacket & look like Richey from Manic St Preachers. I’m fresh from Austin TX & would like to take your photo professionally. Curly head in Carhartt Last Friday u fixed our ice machine. The whole kitchen was blushing! I wanted…
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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: May 29–31, 2026
Start building your weekend itinerary with cheap and cheerful suggestions from HONK! Fest West to Glazer’s PhotoFest and from the Bite of Greece Seattle to Bicycle Weekends. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week. FRIDAY PERFORMANCE Show-Off: An Open Mic Night for You to Live Out Your DreamsIs it a universal…
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Sorry, Trash Pandas
Dear Trash Pandas, I owe you an apology. Last weekend, after what I’ll call “a completely honest lack of judgment,” I accidentally left an entire, unopened package of magically delicious gummies on my back deck. I discovered this the next morning when I stepped outside to find the shredded package and its empty wrapper contents…
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Slog AM: Ballard Light Rail Is Dead for Now, Markwayne Mullin Keeps Threatening to Ban International Flights to Sanctuary Cities, Trump Still Pushing Trump Bucks
RIP Ballard Light Rail: For now, at least. Yesterday, the Sound Transit board voted down Seattle City Councilmember Dan Strauss’s hail mary amendment to build the Ballard light rail extension. Facing a $35 billion budget gap, the agency will keep the Ballard line on ice while it goes ahead and builds a new line that…
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Ticket Alert: Kehlani, LE SSERAFIM, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week
Summer may not have started yet, but we’re helping you plan for a fun fall as well. R&B songstress Kehlani winds down the world tour for her recently released self-titled album in Seattle this September. K-pop quintet LE SSERAFIM passes through Tacoma on their Pureflow Tour. Plus, BOO Seattle returns to WaMu for two nights…
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ICE Retaliates Against Hunger Strikers at NWDC
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has transferred the leaders of a Tuesday hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma to an unknown location. Advocates say their removal was retaliatory. The hunger strike was organized by 44-year-old Rogelio Enrique Bolufé Izquierdo, a Cuban-born NWDC detainee and leader of the grassroots group Unión de…
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Slog AM: Trouble in YIMBYdise, Dog Shoots Woman, White House Honors Harambe the Gorilla
Save the Light Rail: City and county officials are trying everything to keep Sound Transit 3 intact after Sound Transit proposed cutting several stations and lines due to rising costs. Councilmember Dan Strauss has proposed an amendment to save Ballard’s line by building from Ballard to Westlake directly rather than building a brand new downtown…
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Pop Loser #31: SOPHIE Summer
Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, Big Freedia dropped the first track from her SOPHIE-produced EP, Linda Perry shaded two Billy/ies in one interview, and Robert Fripp has a testicle-related question. Plus, AI advancements that nobody asked for, and oh my god, I can’t stop listening to ABBA Gold! Subscribe to Pop Loser here!…
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Dungeon Crawler Carl Is a Seattle Story Even Though the Whole City Is Destroyed on the First Page
In March, I picked up a book called Dungeon Crawler Carl. It consumed me. I spent the next four weeks tearing through the seven available books in the series. All I wanted to do was read. All other media tasted like sand. At one point, when I was finishing the fifth book in the series,…
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Slog AM: Meta Killing More Jobs in King County, Dow Constantine Kicks Graham Street Station Into the Future, CDC Seeking Volunteers to Screen Travelers at Airports For Ebola
Meta keeps bleeding local jobs into the twilight of AI hype. The latest round of layoffs has eliminated 1,395 jobs in King County. Though some may think that AI itself is the cause of this escalating redundancy, a closer examination reveals that it is instead massive spending on AI infrastructure. But why are tech companies…
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Doom and Groom
Should I feel weird about my husband’s grooming situation when he was young with a family friend if he doesn’t feel weird about it? He’s mid-thirties. He’s known this woman since he was seven and she used to babysit for him. She was a family friend. Once she returned to England, my husband went to visit her…
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Slog AM: Bari Weiss Turns Off CBS News Radio, Susan Collins’s White Supremacist Photo Op, SNAP Cutbacks Mean Hunger for Millions of Young People
Impoverished PNW Journalists Strike McClatchy Newspapers: Just as they threatened, dozens of journalists struck papers across Washington and Idaho today, claiming management won’t send decision-makers to logjammed contract negotiations over increased pay. The workers say the strike will last one day, and request readers not cross the virtual picket lines and avoid the websites of…
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