ARIES (March 21-April 19): Before Aries-born Maya Angelou became a celebrated author, she was San Francisco’s first Black female streetcar conductor, a calypso dancer, a cook, a journalist in Ghana, and an actress. She didn’t publish her first memoir...
A mere 284 days into her tenure, Mayor Katie Wilson sat down with reporters to address a taboo subject: what Seattleites actually want to know.
Aside from a bit of FIFA-related bliss, Wilson has had a terrible summer. She’s been...
Washington state officials have made it harder for immigration agents to access driving records during deportation raids, but keep getting played by Trump’s deportation goons.
That’s according to a new report from the University of Washington Center for Human Rights...
Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, Kelly Clarkson feuded with a Brooklyn curiosity shop over an animatronic bird, Britney Spears dropped an unreleased song from Britney, and Mariah Carey saw The Last Supper. I’ll share my go-to album...
The Seattle Trans Underground Film Festival (STUFF) returns this week, proving that independent and trans cinema is not only alive, but thriving. With a variety of features and shorts, it’s the local film festival to attend this week.
The fest...
Yesterday, it was reported that Cornell University suspended frat parties in response to the public’s outrage at its exposed attempt to sweep gang rape allegations under the rug. Today, KIRO reports that “a woman who was raped at a...
David Boyle, the director of the Japanese horror film Never After Dark, is not Japanese. He’s white and American, but he has made films that are either set in Japan or, if set in the US, feature Japanese actors....
I would love to get your opinion here, as someone who’s married and poly and advises on all sorts of married relationships: Is the institution of marriage a scam?
Context: I’ve been with my partner for nine years. We’re both...
The Stranger has a new editor-in-chief: It’s Eli Sanders, who you might recognize from winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Stranger a while back. More on that news here.
As one wall falls, another rises: Yesterday was Indigenous People’s Day...
Exciting news in Strangerland: Eli Sanders is returning to the paper as Editor-in-Chief in November.
Longtime Stranger readers will recognize his name—he worked his way up the journalistic ranks as a staff writer, news editor, and associate editor over 15...
