Don’t miss 600 Highwaymen’s “A Thousand Ways (Part Three)” at On the Boards during its final weekend.

“A Thousand Ways: An Assembly,” the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Photos by Liza Voll Photography.

I had a surreal and intimate conversation with a stranger on the phone about a year-and-a-half ago, during the lull before our first wintertime COVID spike. (Remember our “darkest winter“? I try to forget.) I say intimate because I hadn’t spoken with a stranger in a long time, and also because we asked each other personal questions, like how we saw ourselves, who we loved, what our family

The city chose cops. HK

Sweeping Seattle: This morning, after activists defended the site for over two weeks, dozens of cops taped off the encampment across from City Hall as Parks and Recreation workers swept the site and destroyed remaining property.

Immediate notice sweep across from city hall. City workers throwing away someone’s home and mashing it in the garbage truck. pic.twitter.com/rbCf5gHdPx
— Real Change (@RealChangeNews) March 9, 2022

The city initially delayed the sweep due to staffing availability, according to a spokesperson from Parks and Rec. This morning residents got about two hours notice for the sweep compared to the usual 48 hours.

In a press conference this week, Mayor

Squid: klangs for the memories. Dave Segal

You gotta love it when a buzz band lives up to the hype. It’s a rare occurrence to witness the media/music-biz machine operating as it presumably should. So it goes for Squid, a London quintet whose 2021 debut album on the vanguard UK electronic-music label Warp, Bright Green Field, announced the arrival of an important, quirky talent. They brought that record (and more) to vivid life last night to an enthusiastic crowd at the Crocodile, which appeared to be about 78 percent filled—impressive for a winter Tuesday with a pandemic still hanging on. Despite that, the audience brought big weekend energy on a

How did Seth get ahold of this? Hulu

If you’ve been watching the Hulu show Pam & Tommy, which dramatizes the real-life events of the 1990s that surrounded the nonconsensual release of a sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, you’ll have noticed that the show has a whole bunch of ties to Seattle.

First, there’s a recurring element where Lee, Mötley Crüe’s drummer, worries about the rise of Nirvana, a teeny little Seattle grunge band, and how they’re eclipsing his success. And, of course, the show can’t help but feature characters gabbing about what they think of this new coffee from Starbucks. But what ends up being most

How could we ever replace him Shitty Screenshot from Seattle Channel

On Tuesday morning, Deputy Mayor Monisha Harrell paid the Public Safety Committee a visit to brief its members on the City’s ongoing search for a new Office of Police Accountability director, a position that makes sure the cops don’t break any rules, and that handles misconduct complaints when they do. But since the council does not directly decide who fills the OPA opening, public commenters asked the council to focus on the position it does have say on, the Inspector General.

The Mayor must appoint a replacement for the OPA director within 90 days of the vacancy, but,

I grew up on the East Coast and moved to Seattle in 2019. It wasn’t until I finally started making friends here in 2021 (thanks Covid & Seattle Freeze!) that I learned about THE BIG ONE, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it… mostly because y’all won’t shut the hell up about it!

I have chronic anxiety and the thought of THE BIG ONE sends me spiraling. Even writing this is giving me the heebie-jeebies. But every time I hang out with people from the PNW, they LOVEEEEE to bring it up. “What’s your emergency plan?” “Do you know where

In what’s shaping up to be a not-so-stellar session for progressive policy, HB 1851 looks like one of the good and urgently needed bills Democrats pushed through this year despite much bleating and gnashing of teeth from the other side. Lester Black

This summer the Supreme Court will likely gut Roe v Wade, which will pull the trigger on a bunch of state laws across the country that limit or outright ban abortion access. Clinics will close in states without protections, forcing pregnant people who want to terminate their pregnancies to travel across state lines or to self-medicate with abortion pills, as most of them did in Texas at the

What my computer sees. Maskot/Getty

So much of the news is war and people being sad about Russell Wilson, so let’s start with something spooky: Experts have found the wreck of famed explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, in the Antarctic 106 years after it got crushed in the ice and sank, reports the New York Times. For two weeks, a crew searched the freezing waters before finding the ship at the bottom of the treacherous Weddell Sea. The 144-foot long vessel is upright and in excellent condition, thanks to a lack of wood-eating marine organisms in the waters. In total, the expedition cost $10 million (from a private donor)