MONDAY 9/7
Death Cab for Cutie LIVE on KEXP
(MUSIC) For Seattleites, Death Cab for Cutie needs no introduction. Frontman Ben Gibbard started the indie rock band nearly three decades ago while attending Western Washington University. Since then, they’ve released 11...
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....
The storied Route 7 now has an expiration date: 2032. At that point, King County Metro will change it to RapidRide R Line, a bus that will run between Rainier Beach and downtown Seattle. This new line will require...
British director John Boorman had already made six movies before he got the chance to direct Exorcist II: The Heretic, the 1977 sequel to William Friedkin’s 1973 blockbuster about demonic possession, The Exorcist. Boorman was hardly a novice. He...
Bumbershoot’s lineup is an unusually bookish bunch this year: Lucy Dacus has a famous Goodreads account with over 2,100 books cataloged, Noname founded a book club with chapters all over the country, Bikini Kill lead singer Kathleen Hanna penned...
Labor Day weekend is the unofficial end of summer, but don’t let that stop you from having a good time at events from the Seattle Indies Expo to Thunderpussy LIVE at the Colisevm of Art and from Rhinestone –...
Fish fry: The first-of-its-kind light rail floating bridge is zapping the fish in Lake Washington. Sound Transit revealed its operations along I-90 have killed around 2,000 fish since the bridge opened in March—mostly perch and bass, but a few...
Seattle may not be the first city people name when they talk about the movie industry, but there is an incredible amount of weird and wonderful film culture humming along here anyway: theaters held together by volunteers and sheer...
Picture it. 1991. Dollywood. A little queer boy.
It was one of the best days of the 11-year-old’s life, until it was his worst.
His grandparents liked to take the cousins in the van for a week. This time they loaded...
The Stranger’s Genius Awards began in 2003 as an attempt to recognize our favorite artists, and, crucially, to give them money. The awards changed shape over the years, then disappeared altogether after 2016. A decade later, we wanted them...
