I am not about to proudly march into the anonymous section of a local paper to complain about people playing music on the bus. Sometimes, that’s annoying, but occasionally, you get a cool grandpa pushing his walker playing smooth jazz, and that’s okay. But also, this is an anonymous section, and I am anonymous, so who cares about my musical opinions?

I will gripe, however, about those of us riding crowded buses on the daily (especially you, my dear SLU workers). I am just asking you to be mindful. Mindful of your backpack, that you are still wearing while standing, smacking everyone around you when you move. Mindful of

The time has come! It is officially Primary Election season. The ballots have been sent out, the candidates have been interviewed and researched, and the endorsements have been pored over and debated, and now it’s time to vote! But before you cast that ballot, you have one more level of due diligence to conquer: You must see how well your candidate of choice can perform under the pressure of our annual Candidate Survivor competition!

Join The Stranger and the Washington Bus Education Fund at Neumos Thursday night to get one last look at your favorite (and least favorite) candidates as we subject them to a D&D-themed night of probing questions,

I presented comedian Chris Fleming with a theory. When he answered the phone for our interview ahead of his performances in Seattle, I proposed that his comedy is all about discussing gender in an absurd way. He has a bit about the snacks at Trader Joe’s that only women can see, and another about his sixth sense for when a restaurant is owned by brothers. Fleming broke through on YouTube with his character Gayle Waters-Waters, a high-strung, WASPy suburbanite from the fictional Northbread, Massachusetts, who is crushed, daily, by the weight of expectation in her life.

Most gendered comedy is essentially: Men are from Mars, women are from Venus,

Good Morning! The weather is goddamn beautiful—highs in the 80s and sunny—which is a delightful contrast to everything you’re about to read.

Let’s do the news.

(If you get to the end, there’s some butt jokes, as a treat.)

Trump Is Afraid of Teachers: Last week, ICE arrested and detained Fernando Rocha, a theater manager at Juanita High School in Kirkland. His lawyer told the Seattle Times that Rocha entered the US on a tourist visa in 2018, and before it expired, he applied for asylum. The case is still pending. Meanwhile, ICE Seattle claimed on Twitter that Rocha was wanted in Brazil for theft, a claim that his