Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, people are mad about babydoll dresses (again), Jack Antonoff called AI music users “godless whores,” and Drake released three albums that nobody asked for. Convicted murderer and French pop singer Claudine Longet...
In late spring, the rain eases up just enough for folks to remember how wonderful it feels to be outside in Seattle: parks fill up, beaches crowd, and coffee shops launch floral seasonal specials. Across Washington, farmers emerge from...
Let’s Start With Good News: The Woodland Park Zoo announced its gorilla, Jamani, gave birth. BABY GORILLA, Y’ALL!!! The precious bundle of best news all week was born May 18 at 5:50 a.m., and yes, I have asked Stranger...
How do you feel about the rise of “passport bros”? A friend of mine rearranged his life after his divorce and now spends about half the year overseas dating. He insists it’s not exploitation or colonialism — just a life...
Bellevue Bans Public Protest After Citizens Oppose Genocide: Democratic US House Rep. Adam Smith has attracted a lot of controversy for his belligerent foreign policy over the years, particularly the Gaza genocide. While Bellevue City Council didn’t mention Smith,...
Writing and photography by West Smith
Furries are everywhere.
That’s the biggest lesson I took away from attending my first furry convention earlier this year. Before that, I think I still carried some lazy stereotype in my head about the furry...
The King County prosecutor’s office charged Bellevue man Christopher Leahy with premeditated murder on Monday afternoon in the killing of transgender University of Washington student Juniper Blessing on May 10 in off-campus student housing.
The premeditated murder charge, together with...
It’s been ten years since Seattle adopted a district-based city council. And for almost that whole time, District 5, which spans Greenwood to Bitterlake and North Beach to Lake City, has been stuck with Councilmember Debora Juarez.
After Juarez stepped...
Why did we do this? Read our case for making the marquee a landmark.
The building itself, a wood-frame of average quality, is not special. But its green and cream interiors trimmed with silver must have seemed so to...
In February, news broke that McDonald’s had filed for a permit to spend $750,000 to turn the old Broadway Theater (once our most fashionable Rite Aid) into a fast food restaurant.
We groaned a collective groan. McDonald’s doesn’t just move...
