Friday, August 7, 2026

Seattle

Slog AM: Election Takeaways, Spokane’s Suspected Fire Bug, and Three Dead Lions

Genius alert: The Seattle Times’s Danny Westneat marveled at last night’s election results. Democrats, especially the victories of those who supported the millionaires tax and those who campaigned against anti-millionaire tax candidates. Sen. Jamie Pedersen, the tax’s author and...

LIVE: The Stranger’s 2026 Primary Election Night Extravaganza

📌 We’ve lint-rolled the ashy remnants of Eastern Washington off our slacks, we’ve taken a fat rip from the office’s Simply Orange gravity bong (we’re smokemaxxing), and we’re ready to raid the buffet tables at candidates’ respectable election night...

A Speakeasy, an Anti-AI Art Show, and My Gen Z Fever-Dream Art Fair Hangover

I don’t know about you, but I’m still a little art-hungover from Seattle Art Fair week.  My notes app looks like a graveyard of half-jotted thoughts and memories I absolutely must remember, like the observation that Chloe King—while not an...

PHOTOS: The 30th Annual Dead Baby Downhill Race

Photography by Jake Nelson On Saturday, August 1, the Dead Baby Bike Club marked three decades of their infamous Dead Baby Downhill race. That’s 30 years of bombing down Seattle’s hills, from White Center to Georgetown, and celebrating survival with...

Quickies!

1. How do you tell the difference between a slow-burn connection and settling for something that’s just okay? There’s no settling down without some settling for…. because no one gets everything they want where romantic partners are concerned. So, if you’ve chosen...

Slog AM: Suspected Spokane Fire Arsonist Arrested, Seattle Event Organizers Want More Cameras, Israeli Prison Crocodile Moat Hits Roadblock

It’s Election Day: Have you voted? You have until 8 pm tonight to get your ballot into a ballot box. Don’t forget to come back to the blog this evening for our dispatches on the election parties happening around...

Judges Don’t Use Gavels 

To prepare for the Stranger Election Control Board process, I slip a couple of fun questions up my sleeve to shake out in a moment of tension—people cry, they tangle their fingers, they stare into space as their campaign...

It’s Time to Vote

The August primary is upon us. Tomorrow at 8 pm is the deadline to cast your vote and have a say in myriad state legislative races, state Supreme Court races, a levy to fund the libraries (that, somehow, the...

Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, August 3–August 9

MONDAY 8/3 Coconut Sticky Rice Oolong from Atulea View this post on Instagram (FOOD) I’ve been a vocal devotee of the tea shop Atulea, which has locations in Greenwood and Capitol Hill, for years. Since the beginning...

Slog AM: Fire in Spokane, Another Police Chief Who Doesn’t Live Here, and Time to Vote

Three wildfires ravaged Spokane this weekend, burning hundreds of structures and forcing 60,000 people to evacuate their homes. The Autumn Lane, Fairview, and Market fires began Saturday, during hot, dry, and windy weather the National Weather Service described as...
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