It’s been a great year for independent movie theaters in Seattle. But not for the workers in the SIFF Cinema Workers Union (SCWU). For the majority of 2026, they’ve been operating without a contract and bargaining has been slow...
Odd request at OddfellowsLast June you were at Little Oddfellows, calling people to buy a dentist chair. I saw 2 free on Facebook and remembered you. What’d you need it for??
Righteous anger at Columbia City Farmer’s MarketYou were yelling...
On Thursday, the Seattle City Council officially declined to override Mayor Katie Wilson’s veto, killing the effective RV ban it passed last month. Bill sponsor Dan Strauss, who was very upset about the whole thing, garnered only five votes...
Brave this weekend’s forecasted storm to head to cheap and easy events from Gobble Up Seattle to the third edition of Craft Rave Seattle and from Seattle Film Critics Society’s PNW Awards to a 20th anniversary screening of The...
After years of organizing and prolonged contract negotiations over better working conditions, Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) union members announced a nationwide boycott campaign in late August calling on allies to force the fast food company to the negotiating table.
Starbucks...
This weekend, the Bainbridge Island Film Festival presents Ghost in the Machine—a documentary whose value has been significantly increased by the results of last week’s midterm elections. Directed, written, and produced by Valerie Veatch (who was interviewed by The...
The Coachella lineup may have dropped this week, but there’s a batch of talented musicians coming through the Pacific Northwest to get equally hyped about, too. Family rock band Kings of Leon embarks on a world tour in support...
Cam Smith helped create Siri. He worked in Silicon Valley for six years, much of the time at Apple, where he trained nascent language learning models to parrot human language and perfect the craft of next-word prediction. Like a...
Blue wave crests in Mississippi. The AP has called a 55th Senate seat for Democrats, NPR reports. Winner Scott Colom will be the first Black senator from Mississippi since Reconstruction and the white supremecist voter suppression that followed.
If you...
ARIES (March 21-April 19): There is an old way of making fire: Strike a sharp edge of flint in a hard, glancing blow against steel. The flint shears off small particles of metal. Heated by the blow and exposed...
