This story was originally published in The Stranger’s July 2026 print issue.
Upon perching myself at Good Grief’s bar, my first thought is: This is what people mean by “positive masculinity.”
Someone online called it bro-ey, but that’s incorrect. It’s masculine,...
I’ve been with my girlfriend for ten years. We moved in with each other three years ago. It’s not working for me. I love my girlfriend. She’s one of the kindest people I have ever met, slow to anger, and...
Turning university research into a company is rarely as simple as finding a promising technology and assembling a founding team.
Before a UBC researcher can commercialize an invention developed at the university, the new company needs the rights to use...
A Small Fascist Rally on a Kirkland Overpass: A couple dozen Patriot Front white supremacists waved their idiot signs on a 405 overpass on Saturday in another brilliant victory for the white race. You might remember these particular clowns...
Burnaby’s General Fusion has gone public.
Shares in the energy firm, which now trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol GFUZ, popped 15% on launch.
General Fusion enters the public markets with approximately US$150 million in cash, according to a...
It’s often said that good things come in threes, and for Colina Bruce, founder of the lifestyle and home fragrance brand Noir Lux, that’s certainly proving true.
With a flagship shop in Belltown and an outpost in Ballard, Bruce is...
It’s hard to see how he announces anything meaningful without first resolving the festering copyright question, because under our current settings nobody, local or foreign, can train a meaningful AI model in Australia without taking on enormous legal risk....
The pitch is usually the same: implement these tools, automate these workflows, reduce this headcount, improve that margin. The spreadsheet looks great. The board and your investors love it.
There’s just one problem. The economics underpinning those spreadsheets aren’t real.
Let’s...
In our news wrap Monday, a federal judge ruled that President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS was filed for an "improper purpose," Maine lawmakers are calling for an investigation after ICE agents shot and killed a motorist, Ukraine is...
NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including what the passing of Sen. Lindsey Graham means for South Carolina and the Senate, Sen....
