The first time I witnessed Lars Bergquist at work was 10 years ago. He was making large paintings on paper that would go up around the city with wheatpaste. At the time, he was housesitting a friend’s apartment on...
The previous decade obviously gave Seattle a spectacular construction boom, which transformed its skyline dramatically. This decade, on the other hand, might give us a completely different kind of boom: the transportation, by public means, of millions of people...
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson unveiled a new 75-unit tiny house shelter in Interbay over the weekend. It’s the first opening in the mayor’s ambitious program to open 4,000 shelter beds by the end of her term. But the new...
Venerable Seattle entertainment venue the Crocodile has been sold to a consortium of out-of-towners led by talent manager Jimmy Miller and Mike McAvoy, The Onion‘s former CEO. As reported in the Seattle Times, the group’s Comedy Tent umbrella company...
In the middle of May, the Advocate, a national LGBTQ magazine, published a rare headline about Seattle. “Transgender Americans are fleeing hostile red states,” it read. “Seattle says it’s overwhelmed.”
The headline was posted to social media, picked up by...
My husband and I (cis male and cis female) never had much sexual chemistry. In the beginning he said not to worry, we have a lot of time, and it could only get better. But nothing has changed. When I...
It is happening again! Come visit us this Thursday at The Stranger’s office for our second-ever Capitol Hill Art Walk event, featuring work by Timothy White Eagle in collaboration with Adrain Chesser and Steven Miller. We’ll be exhibiting a...
Someone Vandalized the Capitol Building in Olympia, Again: According to the Washington State Patrol, an “inebriated vandal” smashed 13 windows at the Legislative building with rocks before leading troopers in a car chase in a Chevy Malibu that ended...
The sun is out. So are your ass cheeks. Robyn is thumping. So is your heart. It’s summer, it’s a bacchanal. So, it’s only natural to invite some… enhancements to the party. Some MDMA here, a bump of coke...
MONDAY 6/8
Bleak Week: Dancer in the Dark
(FILM) At the heart of Bleak Week, a weeklong film fest that, the Beacon says, “spotlights some of the greatest films from around the world that explore the darkest sides of humanity, as...
