Seattle takes the season of ghouls and gourds very seriously, but October isn’t all Halloween events—the calendar is also filled with concerts, festivals, food & drink events, and tons more. As we do every month, we’ve compiled the biggest events you need to know about in every genre, from Doja Cat…
Welcome to Noise Complaint, The Stranger‘s new audio and video music podcast featuring live performances right here at The Stranger HQ. Streamed live and released every other Friday, we invite a great band, musician, or wonderfully weird act to perform. Tune in, discover something new, and support…
Happy anniversary. It has been 10 years since we divorced. Cheers to us not working out. Remember when I was trying to get you to sign my divorce papers, and you asked if I was possessed? Which is so funny now. Because you were the abusive youth pastor and I was the submissive wife who […] The post…
It’ll be a crisp fall welcome to October this weekend, and we’re suggesting you head out to enjoy events from the brand-new Radical Vegan Fest to the beer-soaked Oktoberfest West Seattle and street parties from Tailgate on Holgate to the U District Chow Down. For more ideas, check out our top picks…
Let us leave Seattle and visit Arkansas. The governor of this deep red state is, of course, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She ran a tight ship as a conservative: pro-life, pro-business, pro-white Christian nationalism, pro-tax cuts (four in a row). She even rolled back “a number of child labor…
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) boasts record-levels of arrests nationwide, and Seattle ICE watchers report a local uptick ahead of the election, the financial collapse of a Washington nonprofit dedicated to helping immigrants couldn’t be coming at a worse time. Over the past few…
Kruse control: When the current interim Seattle police chief Andre Sayles was still deputy police chief, he filed a misconduct complaint against veteran detective Beth Wareing for speaking at a press conference denouncing the conservative, anti-trans initiatives bound for November’s ballot.…
Dozens of unionized Seattle Times workers picketed near the newsroom on Denny Way yesterday after they say the newspaper’s owners refused to satisfactorily raise wages or agree not to replace workers with AI during contract negotiations. The picket is the Seattle Times’ first big labor action in…
It’s press day here at The Stranger, which means I’m short on time for meandering art thoughts, so I’ll just include this photo of recent work by Genius short-lister Baso Fibonacci, who posted earlier this week about a “new genre: painting the city from the city on the city.” Riffing on life…
Don’t say we didn’t warn you—tickets for these newly announced shows are about to go on sale! Indie pop singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine has dropped dates for a world tour supporting her recently released fourth album, Angel. Get your fill of songs about heartbreak and drinking when country…