RIP Ballard Light Rail: For now, at least. Yesterday, the Sound Transit board voted down Seattle City Councilmember Dan Strauss’s hail mary amendment to build the Ballard light rail extension. Facing a $35 billion budget gap, the agency will...
Summer may not have started yet, but we’re helping you plan for a fun fall as well. R&B songstress Kehlani winds down the world tour for her recently released self-titled album in Seattle this September. K-pop quintet LE SSERAFIM...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has transferred the leaders of a Tuesday hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma to an unknown location. Advocates say their removal was retaliatory.
The hunger strike was organized by 44-year-old Rogelio...
Save the Light Rail: City and county officials are trying everything to keep Sound Transit 3 intact after Sound Transit proposed cutting several stations and lines due to rising costs. Councilmember Dan Strauss has proposed an amendment to save...
Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, Big Freedia dropped the first track from her SOPHIE-produced EP, Linda Perry shaded two Billy/ies in one interview, and Robert Fripp has a testicle-related question. Plus, AI advancements that nobody asked for,...
In March, I picked up a book called Dungeon Crawler Carl. It consumed me. I spent the next four weeks tearing through the seven available books in the series. All I wanted to do was read. All other media...
Meta keeps bleeding local jobs into the twilight of AI hype. The latest round of layoffs has eliminated 1,395 jobs in King County. Though some may think that AI itself is the cause of this escalating redundancy, a closer...
Should I feel weird about my husband’s grooming situation when he was young with a family friend if he doesn’t feel weird about it? He’s mid-thirties. He’s known this woman since he was seven and she used to babysit for...
Impoverished PNW Journalists Strike McClatchy Newspapers: Just as they threatened, dozens of journalists struck papers across Washington and Idaho today, claiming management won’t send decision-makers to logjammed contract negotiations over increased pay. The workers say the strike will last...
MONDAY 5/25
Chapterhouse, the Asteroid No. 4
(MUSIC) Chapterhouse aren’t shoegaze GOATs, but they’re in the convo, flying high enough to sniff the exhaust of My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Lush, and Slowdive. The Reading, England, quintet burned brilliantly but briefly, releasing...
