At yet another long meeting Tuesday, the Seattle City Council unanimously voted to ban landlords from charging “junk” fees, a highly anticipated reform championed by tenant advocates. The council also approved a mid-year budget revision which added funds for...
Pamela Belyea didn’t set out to build a library so much as she set out looking for one.
After her 23-year-old son, Ben, died by suicide in January 2020, the Seattle architect and Gage Academy of Art cofounder started doing...
A Bruce Harrell supporter has filed a recall petition against Mayor Katie Wilson. Married couple Melinda Jacobson and Dale Osterud allege in the petition that Wilson is “derelict in her duties for public safety of the city of Seattle.”...
ARIES (March 21-April 19): At the post office, I mischievously plucked a crumpled piece of red paper out of the trash can. I don’t usually do such things, but I sensed some horoscope material was lurking there. It turned...
The man the Seattle Times tasked with the job of compressing cultural and political developments into tokens that the reader can share during a dinner party, or in a pub, or with the person next to them on a...
When you go to lap swim at one of Seattle’s public pools, the lanes are broken down by speed: very easy, easy, medium, fast, and very fast. “Medium” and “fast” lanes get crowded first; “easy” and “very fast” are...
For all the R-rated antics of the slasher films of the 1970s and ’80s, there was a certain puritanical impulse driving the slaughter of horny hetero teens and the survival of the more sexually-disciplined, even as queer and feminist...
Another Capitol Hill Block Party is in the books. We had a blast at the three-day festival, and whether you weren’t there or want to relive the weekend, we’ve collected some of our most memorable moments to share. Read...
Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, I’ll share my wishlist from the latest Whitney Houston auction and pay tribute to Ray of Light producer William Orbit. A$AP Rocky claims that Rihanna is back in the studio, but I’ll...
One of our fav teriyaki joints, Kyoto Teriyaki, was done dirty by, of course, Uber. According to a report filed by Fox 13, between November 2025 and July 2025, the little corner joint handed the tech giant something like...
