Today, coming spring brought passing winter down to its goddamn knees. Charles Mudede

I promise to write on one of these days, and hopefully it will be cooler than today (70 degrees?), a new philosophy of property that takes into account homeless sweeps. The thing to ask is this: Can a homeless person own something? The sweeps make it clear that their status in our society excludes the rights and respect of ownership. What a homeless person has is regarded as no different from what’s in a landfill. This means a homeless person is not an individual because property is what, above all in capitalism, defines, in the abstract,

It’s SIFF season, baby! Seattle’s favorite film fest returns this month with 262 films over 11 days (April 14–24) screening both in-person and online. We’re rounding up some of our favorites. Every day, expect two more recommendations on Slog.

This movie hit me…hard. Courtesy of SIFF

Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman (“little mother”) follows eight-year-old Nelly, who temporarily moves to the countryside so her parents can clear out her late grandma’s home. Unable to deal with the loss, Nelly’s mom suddenly leaves, and later that day, Nelly meets an eight-year-old girl who looks just like her in the woods outside her home (*wink wink*). Sciamma’s tale

After reading this, I wanna pick up a skateboard. Brett Hamil

First there was Noah and his arc. Then there was Brett Hamil and his skate ramp.

Okay, yes, that compression of time and fiction is too radical, but the broad strokes are there. One is a Biblical dude compelled by God to save humanity with his wooden ship. The other is a contemporary Seattleite looking to get in touch with himself via a skate ramp he built in his backyard. Both are men answering a call.

In his debut graphic novel Sk8 Dad Summer: Ramps, Rebellion, and Raising a Kid, which gets a release party at Fantagraphics this Saturday,

Behold, the Spider-Man that THEY don’t want you to see! And by THEY I mean annoying old white guys who can’t bear the thought of any media that isn’t all about them. From the kind of person who brought you “I can’t watch Turning Red because the main character is an Asian girl” comes “I can’t read Spider-Punk because he tells Nazis to fuck off.”

Spider-Punk is a real hoot, and this week’s Issue #1 has brought out the tiresome takes that it’s mean for stories not to center the same demographic that’s been starring in comics for a century. Spider-Punk kicks Nazis’ ass, looks askance and captialism, and

I mean, who wouldn’t want this park? HK

On Wednesday, the Seattle City Council heard a presentation on swapping land ownership of City Hall Park to the county in exchange for 13 county-owned properties, many of them small pieces of land next to city parks.

Last summer, City Hall Park, once home to an estimated over 70 people experiencing homelessness, became the center of controversy after several incidents of violent crime that parts of the public blamed on the encampment. Following pressure from the local broadcast networks, electeds like King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn, and a protest organized by county employees, the city and county contracted JustCare, its homeless outreach

It’s SIFF season, baby! Seattle’s favorite film fest returns this month with 262 films over 11 days (April 14–24) screening both in-person and online. We’re rounding up some of our favorites. Every day, expect two more recommendations on Slog.

Courtesy SIFF

Kathryn Ferguson’s documentary Nothing Compares makes several mistakes in its noble mission to recover the mostly unhappy pop career of the Irish-born singer Sinéad O’Connor, who now goes by Shuhada Sadaqat. Its main mistake is to connect O’Connor’s cancelation in 1992 for ripping a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live with the pink pussy hats movement that erupted with Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton

We last wrote about Seattle’s Turrell Skyspace in 2019, and we’re re-upping that writing today for two reasons. First: in honor of today’s weather, which kisses 70 degrees. Second: to raise attention about a 35-minute tour happening at The Henry on Friday centered around this piece. Here’s a view of the ceiling from the bench where you sit. The blue oval is sky. Courtesy The Henry and Lara Swimmer
Seattle has a James Turrell Skyspace, a chamber with an aperture in the ceiling that views the sky. The installation is at Henry Art Gallery, connected to the rest of the museum by a small footbridge.

It is called Light Reign

Update: Confirmed. ANNA MONEYMAKER / GETTY STAFF

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson gets confirmed today. For tedious procedural reasons, it’ll require two votes this morning, and then the whole shebang should be complete by the afternoon. Follow along here. UPDATE: CONFIRMED.

Not to be all “told you so,” but. COVID cases are up over the last two weeks in King County — an increase of 91%. We’re still in much better shape than in January, when we had to redraw charts to accommodate the explosion in cases — and it’s too early to say whether this is another surge or just a normal fluctuation in the amount of

Mudede has taken a surprising amount of tree pics for this publication. Charles Mudede

News from Minneapolis: Minnesota prosecutors declined to file charges Wednesday against a Minneapolis police SWAT team officer who killed 22-year-old Amir Locke during an early morning no-knock search warrant in his cousin’s apartment in February, reported the AP. Prosecutors said that body cam footage showed Locke grab a gun, which justified the cop killing Locke, but Locke’s family argues that the cops startled Locke awake, causing him to grab a gun, which he is licensed to carry, out of defense. In a news conference, Locke’s mother, Karen Wells, called out the cop who killed her