Ticket Alert: Phoebe Bridgers, Sara Bareilles, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week
We know various sporting events are vying for your attention right now, but we’re here with a quick update on the latest ticket drops. Indie rock darling Phoebe Bridgers comes to Seattle in October on The Lost Tour with support from Alex G. Grammy Award-winning pop singer Sara Bareilles announced her first album and tour…
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Crawling Through the Milky Way
“When I’m painting, I have this weird feeling, like I’m crawling over the dimensions of the subject,” Claire Johnson says from the passenger seat of my Subaru. We’re on our way to stargaze at Golden Gardens, to stare into the night sky that has inspired many of her paintings. Whether it’s a star-filled twilight, a…
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Slog AM: Trump Says He’ll Hit Iran VERY HARD, Knicks Win, Is Anyone Coming to the World Cup in Seattle?
President Donald Trump says he’ll hit Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT.” Then, “at some point in the not too distant future,” he claims he’ll seize Kharg Island, which handles about 90 percent of Iran’s crude exports, and take control of the country’s energy infrastructure “much like we have with Venezuela.” Trump lies constantly, especially in wartime,…
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Free Will Astrology Is Back!
Anyone who read The Stranger way back when, when it was a weekly paper, will no doubt remember Rob Brezsney’s popular horoscope column, Free Will Astrology. It was the highlight of the week for many readers, as Brezsney has the uncanny ability to craft insightful guidance in just a few short sentences. Today, we’re very excited to…
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Many of you have a fraught relationship with discipline. You recognize you need it if you want a life rich with epic adventures. Yet you sometimes resist planning ahead or organizing your resources, fearing it might dampen your immediate pleasures. The problem is that when you skip the planning and organizing,…
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Pop Loser: Smash Your Cell Phone, Bring Your Binoculars
Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, the former CEO of the Onion bought the Crocodile (good news, I think!), Phoebe Bridgers says “no phones” at her upcoming tour, and Madonna opened a dance floor in the middle of Times Square. I will share dispatches from the Bob Dylan concert. Plus, I’ll let you in…
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Crocodile Security Staff Organize After Sale of Venue
Today the Crocodile’s security employees announced the creation of a new workers’ organization, Crocodile Solidarity Collective (aka Croc Solid). This move comes on the heels of Comedy Tent buying the entertainment venue. In a press release, Croc Solid laid out its goals. Following productive meetings with the new ownership team, Croc security staff are united…
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So Real
The first time I witnessed Lars Bergquist at work was 10 years ago. He was making large paintings on paper that would go up around the city with wheatpaste. At the time, he was housesitting a friend’s apartment on Capitol Hill in one of those titanic, old buildings with vast carpeted stairwells. Art had taken…
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Slog AM: Seattle City Council Puts the Brakes on Data Centers, Katie Wilson Getting Busy for the Sonics Return, Graham Platner Wins Maine’s Democratic Senate Primary
The previous decade obviously gave Seattle a spectacular construction boom, which transformed its skyline dramatically. This decade, on the other hand, might give us a completely different kind of boom: the transportation, by public means, of millions of people around the city. In April, the month after Cross Connection opened, Link experienced an astonishing 46…
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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Unveils New 75-Unit Shelter
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson unveiled a new 75-unit tiny house shelter in Interbay over the weekend. It’s the first opening in the mayor’s ambitious program to open 4,000 shelter beds by the end of her term. But the new shelter still fell well short of her first goal: building 500 new units before the World…
See more…The Crocodile Plots Its Future
Venerable Seattle entertainment venue the Crocodile has been sold to a consortium of out-of-towners led by talent manager Jimmy Miller and Mike McAvoy, The Onion’s former CEO. As reported in the Seattle Times, the group’s Comedy Tent umbrella company also runs the Upright Citizens Brigade, the film and television company Abso Lutely Productions, and Pittsburgh…
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Seattle Is Not ‘Overwhelmed’ by Trans People
In the middle of May, the Advocate, a national LGBTQ magazine, published a rare headline about Seattle. “Transgender Americans are fleeing hostile red states,” it read. “Seattle says it’s overwhelmed.” The headline was posted to social media, picked up by other queer outlets, and pingponged around the internet, latching onto readers’ confirmation biases on every…
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