Amazon's gaming strategy has never really been clear. It's been very active in the space: acquiring Twitch, launching its Luna cloud gaming service nearly six years ago, investing heavily in MMOs during the peak of live-service wave, and having...
Good Morning! It’s still spring in Seattle, so we have another partly cloudy, 60-something degree day ahead of us. It’s farmer’s market weather. It’s weather to take your (or someone else’s) dog on a long, breezy walk. Smoke season...
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Ching-In Chenis a genderqueer Chinese American writer, community organizer, and teacher. Their latest book, Shiny City, was published by Airlie Press in 2025.
Then your headfrom lion’s cavern,all ponytail and swagger.
You know your body,its capacity for velocity.
My hands...
The US supreme court backed the Federal Communications Commission’s system for levying fines, ruling on Thursday against wireless carriers AT&T and Verizon in their challenge to the agency and handing a win to Donald Trump’s administration.
The ruling was 8-1....
This story originally appeared in The Stranger’s 2026 Queer Issue.
Happy Anniversary! It’s been one year since Christian supremacists took over a historically queer park in Seattle’s historically queer neighborhood.
The event, which you may have read about in last...
Disney has still not recouped $4.2bn of its investment in Disneyland Paris after more than 30 years, even though the resort is now its best-performing international outpost, according to an analysis of recent filings.
The sprawling theme park complex swung...
American consumers are angry. Nearly 80% of Americans had a service or product problem in 2025, and about two-thirds of those felt “rage” about it, according to the “National Consumer Rage” survey.
Many consumers feel they are constantly fighting...
For thirty years, calling oneself a private person sounds like a virtue. It sounds like depth, like discretion, like a quiet preference for keeping a small life intact. The honest version is harder: many people who describe themselves this...
The OpenDots 2 are designed to be more comfortable than traditional wireless earbuds that sit inside the ear. | Image: Shokz
Shokz has announced two new versions of its open earbuds. Like the original OpenDots One that launched in May...
Crouch down in the understory at Pando and the story is in the soil. Aspen suckers, finger-thin and pale, push up from the root mass and are immediately bitten off at ankle height. Then the next one. Then the...
