Wednesday’s Ballot Drop Is Here
Not a whole lot changed after Wednesday’s relatively small ballot drop, which is typical of the first drop after election day, says King County Elections. (At the county level, only 63,000 ballots were included in today’s update.) Most of the ballots put in drop boxes on Election Day are only just starting to be processed,…
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Neumos Security Staff Unionize
Gathered around a music stand serving as a podium on 10th and Pike, security staff at Neumos, Barboza, and the Runaway announced at a Wednesday afternoon rally that they have unionized as the Neumos Security Union and have filed to hold an election with the National Labor Relations Board. The Neumos Security Union is a…
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Big Beanie Baby
To the West Seattle dad in the beanie and SUV who laid on the horn (and I mean LAID ON THE HORN, in an extended fashion) at me in the roundabout: A couple things: First, are you okay?? That was pretty intense, bud. Second, roundabouts are great. They’re safer and more efficient than stop signs,…
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Pop Loser: Give Yourself Over to Absolute Pleasure
Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, I’ll share my thoughts on Ariana Grande’s new album Petal and give an Unsolved Mysteries-style update on Linda Perhacs. I’ll reveal the 1973 lyrics I want written on my tombstone. Plus, there is so much great live music happening this week, including Den Fest and Capitol Hill Block…
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The Stranger’s Guide to the 2026 Capitol Hill Block Party
This weekend, August 7–9, the Capitol Hill Block Party will take over Pike Street with three days of more music than you can fit into your summer-drunk brain. Allow us to be your pocket-sized pal who’ll tell you where to find all the good shit happening throughout the weekend. We’ve plucked out the dream of…
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Blankets Get Cold, Too
There’s a work of art at the Henry Art Gallery I can’t stop thinking about. It’s a sheet of plastic—thick, construction-grade—suspended from the ceiling with all the pomp of a medieval tapestry hanging at the Met. It’s clear, but slightly milky in places where the translucence has turned mottled and hazy from use. Its polyethylene…
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Slog AM: Election Takeaways, Spokane’s Suspected Fire Bug, and Three Dead Lions
Genius alert: The Seattle Times’s Danny Westneat marveled at last night’s election results. Democrats, especially the victories of those who supported the millionaires tax and those who campaigned against anti-millionaire tax candidates. Sen. Jamie Pedersen, the tax’s author and lead sponsor, won 71 percent of the initial vote against two challengers. Talking about an income…
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LIVE: The Stranger’s 2026 Primary Election Night Extravaganza
📌 We’ve lint-rolled the ashy remnants of Eastern Washington off our slacks, we’ve taken a fat rip from the office’s Simply Orange gravity bong (we’re smokemaxxing), and we’re ready to raid the buffet tables at candidates’ respectable election night parties. Where will we be? None of your business! You should be busy voting, especially if…
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A Speakeasy, an Anti-AI Art Show, and My Gen Z Fever-Dream Art Fair Hangover
I don’t know about you, but I’m still a little art-hungover from Seattle Art Fair week. My notes app looks like a graveyard of half-jotted thoughts and memories I absolutely must remember, like the observation that Chloe King—while not an actual resident of Seattle, currently—is very much the king of Seattle right now. Their color-soaked,…
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PHOTOS: The 30th Annual Dead Baby Downhill Race
Photography by Jake Nelson On Saturday, August 1, the Dead Baby Bike Club marked three decades of their infamous Dead Baby Downhill race. That’s 30 years of bombing down Seattle’s hills, from White Center to Georgetown, and celebrating survival with music, jousting, drinking, bike throwing, and general revelry. The Stranger’s own Nathalie Graham, who joined…
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Quickies!
1. How do you tell the difference between a slow-burn connection and settling for something that’s just okay? There’s no settling down without some settling for…. because no one gets everything they want where romantic partners are concerned. So, if you’ve chosen someone you aren’t entirely sure about… welcome to the world’s most crowded club. Only time will tell…
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Slog AM: Suspected Spokane Fire Arsonist Arrested, Seattle Event Organizers Want More Cameras, Israeli Prison Crocodile Moat Hits Roadblock
It’s Election Day: Have you voted? You have until 8 pm tonight to get your ballot into a ballot box. Don’t forget to come back to the blog this evening for our dispatches on the election parties happening around town. We’ll be crashing parties from Georgetown to Roosevelt. Arson Suspect Arrested: Police arrested a 37-year-old…
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