Monday, October 19, 2026

Seattle

Slog AM: High-T Navy May Name Aircraft Carrier After Noted Coward, Wildfires Cost Washington $207 Million in Two Months, and After Husband Dies in...

Local coffee roaster and cafe operator Starbucks is laying off 224 of its employees, including 120 people who didn’t want to relocate to Nashville and live the honky-tonk life. The affected workers live in Seattle and beyond. The company...

The Stranger’s Exhaustively Comprehensive Bursting-at-the Seams Guide to Bumbershoot 2026!

Phew! Another music festival? But it’s almost September! Isn’t it time to go back to school and drink hot cocoa under a cozy blanket and pretend to care about football?  No! There is still summer fun to be had, as...

Every Band Playing Bumbershoot: Saturday

KEY:⭐ Don’t Miss📍 Local! ⭐ 📍 ANTHERSThis comparison will only resonate with maybe six people, but I’m gonna say it anyway: If you loved long-defunct Seattle punk rock noise makers pleasureboaters, go see ANTHERS and party like you’re at Healthy...

Every Band Playing Bumbershoot: Sunday

KEY:⭐ Don’t Miss📍 Local! 📍 American FlatsIf you need a break from all the modern music pummeling your eardrums, catch local American Flats, who describe themselves as “a rock and roll band with Americana and punk influences.” It’s not revelatory,...

Every Arts District at Bumbershoot 2026

⭐ Means don’t miss it! ⭐ BumbermaniaIn which local wrestling crew SOS Wrestling builds a real-deal ring in the middle of the Seattle Center, and dozens of local wrestling superstars (66, to be exact!) fight, tackle, pummel, and toss one...

Who Said It?

While waiting for Death Cab for Cutie to take the Bumbershoot stage on Sunday, September 6, see if you can guess who penned each line of morbid prose—Ben Gibbard or 19th-Century gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe! 1. “Deep into that...

Ticket Alert: Jonas Brothers, Brett Goldstein, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

The Jonas Brothers are throwing it back to 2008, reprising their Burning Up Tour “all over again,” this time with support from younger brother Franklin Jonas. Brett Goldstein, the actor, writer, and comedian who plays lovable grump Roy Kent...

Art on a Farm, Lovers in the Streets, and We Really Think You Should Have $10,000!

The past two weeks have been nothing short of fucking delightful. We’ve sneakily delivered cakes loaded with candy, googly eyes, neon sprinkles, and all manner of sugary bits and bobs by Arts Editor, and secret confectionary genius, Emily Nokes,...

Slog AM: Mayor Wilson Recall Gets Court Date, Trump Threatens Economic Sanctions Again, and Seattle Christian Metal Band Sues Netflix 

That dumb Mayor Katie Wilson recall petition has a court date. In last week’s Slog AM, I mentioned that a Bruce Harrell supporter and her husband filed papers to recall Mayor Wilson. The charges will be heard in King...

Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Consider this your official alert that you’re close to getting too much of a good thing. To safeguard the lovely momentum you’ve built lately, be vigilant that genuine abundance doesn’t bloat into plain old overload....
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AI factory maintenance startup Syncrowin bags $3 million pre-seed

The round was led by New York’s Collide Capital, with participation from Hustle Fund, POV Ventures, Australia’s Co-Ventures and...
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