The Stranger’s Noise Complaint: XOË
Welcome to Noise Complaint, The Stranger‘s new audio and video music podcast featuring live performances right here at The Stranger HQ. Streamed live and released every other Friday, we invite a great band, musician, or wonderfully weird act to perform. Tune in, discover something new, and support art in your city. Sweet Sensation of XOË The…
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SIFF Cinema Workers Union Say Management Has ‘Unilaterally Suspended’ Bargaining
It’s been a great year for independent movie theaters in Seattle. But not for the workers in the SIFF Cinema Workers Union (SCWU). For the majority of 2026, they’ve been operating without a contract and bargaining has been slow going. Now, they say it’s been brought to a standstill. On top of that, SCWU claims…
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I Saw U: Yelling at the Columbia City Farmers’ Market, Wearing New Vans at Broadcast Coffee, and Walking Your Dog on Capitol Hill
Odd request at OddfellowsLast June you were at Little Oddfellows, calling people to buy a dentist chair. I saw 2 free on Facebook and remembered you. What’d you need it for?? Righteous anger at Columbia City Farmer’s MarketYou were yelling out the window of your car, talking shit at a man wearing an “All Lives…
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Katie Wilson’s RV Ban Veto Survives!
On Thursday, the Seattle City Council officially declined to override Mayor Katie Wilson’s veto, killing the effective RV ban it passed last month. Bill sponsor Dan Strauss, who was very upset about the whole thing, garnered only five votes for the override, failing to meet the two-thirds threshold he needed to override a mayoral veto.…
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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Nov 13–15, 2026
Brave this weekend’s forecasted storm to head to cheap and easy events from Gobble Up Seattle to the third edition of Craft Rave Seattle and from Seattle Film Critics Society’s PNW Awards to a 20th anniversary screening of The Heart of the Game. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week. FRIDAY…
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Seattle’s Leaders are Notably Absent from Nationwide Boycott of Starbucks Over Labor Abuses
After years of organizing and prolonged contract negotiations over better working conditions, Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) union members announced a nationwide boycott campaign in late August calling on allies to force the fast food company to the negotiating table. Starbucks workers rallied at 40 college campuses nationwide yesterday, including the University of Washington, calling on…
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Slog AM: Microsoft Outage Persists, Sound Transit Tries to Stop Killing Fish, A Schumer Challenger Appears
Horse thief in Portland: A 29-year-old Idaho woman was visiting Portland for a model horse show. She brought her whole collection of 100 custom, hand-painted model horses worth $10,000 and won best-in-show. The next day, someone smashed her car window and stole her entire collection, hawking “piles of her horses” on the street for $5.…
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Will Silicon Valley Survive the Death of MAGA?
This weekend, the Bainbridge Island Film Festival presents Ghost in the Machine—a documentary whose value has been significantly increased by the results of last week’s midterm elections. Directed, written, and produced by Valerie Veatch (who was interviewed by The Stranger in May), the film concerns the origins of artificial intelligence, which the film traces back…
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Ticket Alert: Kings of Leon, Fall Out Boy, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week
The Coachella lineup may have dropped this week, but there’s a batch of talented musicians coming through the Pacific Northwest to get equally hyped about, too. Family rock band Kings of Leon embarks on a world tour in support of their new, stripped-down album, O My Beloved. Emo-pop legends Fall Out Boy just put out…
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AI Winter Is Coming
Cam Smith helped create Siri. He worked in Silicon Valley for six years, much of the time at Apple, where he trained nascent language learning models to parrot human language and perfect the craft of next-word prediction. Like a lot of tech workers, he didn’t grasp the extent of the Pandora’s Box they were building…
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Slog AM: Mississippi Elects First Black Man to Senate Since Reconstruction, American Honors Veterans with Deportations, AI Mogul Resigns in Disgrace Despite Trump’s Support
Blue wave crests in Mississippi. The AP has called a 55th Senate seat for Democrats, NPR reports. Winner Scott Colom will be the first Black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction and the white supremecist voter suppression that followed. If you will it, it is no dream. In Georgia, columnist Charles Blow’s dream to reverse the…
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Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): There is an old way of making fire: Strike a sharp edge of flint in a hard, glancing blow against steel. The flint shears off small particles of metal. Heated by the blow and exposed to air, they oxidize so swiftly that they burn as sparks. The fire is born from…
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