UPDATE: 94 percent of the union voted to authorize a strike. The union could now call a strike at any time.
Call it labor unrest summer? Unionized journalists across the Northwest at McClatchy Media went on a one-day strike over...
The first week of the Denny Blaine Park trial has concluded, and it was spent on neighbors and their lawyers making the case that the nude beach is an out-of-control public nuisance.
The trial is existential for a legendary, decades-old...
Covid cautious cutie at the moviesWe both saw a movie solo at southcenter wearing masks. You held the door for me & I should have said hi. Let’s sit together next time?
Spilling apples at trader joesYou:looking cute whilst spilling...
The first wave of Pride events goes down this weekend, with celebrations from Gays Eating Garlic Bread in the Park and Seattle Pride in the Park to the White Center Pride Street Festival. We’re also suggesting you make time...
On a languid spring evening in South Seattle, the wind ruffled through a web of fabric strung across the courtyard of Mini Mart City Park. Long, ripped strips of red, black, marigold, and white twisted, braided, and tangled overhead....
This story originally appeared in The Stranger’s 2026 Queer Issue.
On April 19, 2026, Russell Johnson, the founder and lead pastor of the right-wing megachurch Pursuit NW, took to Instagram, as he often does, to deliver two important messages to...
Ready to click “add to cart” on these concert tix? Daughter from Hell singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams looks at her life on an upcoming tour. Multi-platinum rapper Bryson Tiller presents the Neo Trapsoul Tour with special guests Maijd Jordan and...
The Democrats and the mainstream media have pushed me out of the greatest cabinet in Earth’s 4,000-year history, and The Stranger, a publication I have never heard of but was familiar with my excellent track record, asked me to...
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Seattle saxophonist Skerik (aka Eric Walton) has done seemingly everything a musician can do in his 30-year career. Even a cursory rundown of his activities would exceed my word count, but, real quick: He’s toured with Roger Waters...
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...
