This story begins with Mayor Katie Wilson’s proposed $9.1 billion 2027-2028 budget. It matches estimated revenue with estimated expenditures. It is, in other words, a balanced budget. And the way she accomplished this feat has attracted attention from all...
MONDAY 10/12
Boy Harsher
(MUSIC) Synthy darkwave duo Boy Harsher returns to Seattle for a two-night stand after last performing here in 2022. In the four years since, the band’s members ended their romantic relationship and released their fifth full-length record,...
Good morning ya frigid bastards. It is 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Normal) this morning, and I am so excited for the cold (read to the end to see why).
The news is also full of silver linings and upside-down...
Dear Hendrix,
It’s the spooky season. And while I can’t wait to take you out trick-or-treating this Halloween, I wanted to preface the festive occasion with a little music for you (and all those folks reading this on their cell...
“I’m actually in trouble with the City because of how honest I am on the socials,” Vince Vu deadpans, feigning concern. We’re seated around a tiny table in the front window of Anh Ơi Bake Shop at Sixth and...
As he leads me on a tour of Scarecrow Video, longtime buyer Mark Steiner spots former employee Xoe Amer in the new releases section and waves. Steiner, who started working at Scarecrow in 1992 and retired in September, has...
Faith Coloccia + Tashi DorjiAnd Their Power Was Alive(Whited Sepulchre)
Faith Coloccia has been a luminous presence in the region’s underground music scene for 20 years. She’s best known for the haunted folk music, isolationist ambient, and dilapidated-cathedral metal she...
If you’re lucky, your social media scroll has been interrupted by Aubree Barber’s mesmerizing dreamscapes. The heart behind Analog Projections, Barber creates stills and videos using projected light, silhouettes, and her personal collection of precious objects. The ephemeral images,...
As the sun set in downtown Seattle on Thursday evening, around 200 people gathered outside of the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building. Many wore teal or carried signs condemning sexual violence. Almost all of them wore nametags that read...
Illustrations by Yasiman Ahsani.
By the time we’d left the party, the tool belt on my hips was no longer weighed down by White Claws. I’d chosen to put my costume’s accessory to good use: getting as drunk as possible...
