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Our coverage arises from a resolutely urban point of view, offering a unique perspective on the topics that matter most to people who live, work, and play in Seattle. Our original news reporting is relentless and outspoken. Our smart, funny entertainment coverage sets the tone of the city’s cultural conversation. And our innovative, interactive calendar, Things To Do, is Seattle’s most popular and

exhaustive source of event information. The Stranger is unpredictable, and we’re not always nice. But we are unmistakably on the side of our city and our readers. We love Seattle so much that we want more of it: more housing, more transit options, more bars and restaurants, more people. We take our reporting seriously—we won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing—but we are just as committed to gleefully fu***ng around.

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01/10/2025

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Remember those two towers in the Denny Triangle that sat unfinished for years? Well, it appears that construction has pi...
01/10/2025

Remember those two towers in the Denny Triangle that sat unfinished for years? Well, it appears that construction has picked up, and developers are going through with their plan to install the fuselage of a decommissioned Boeing 747-400 between the two buildings. ⁠
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writes: "And so we have, in these times of trouble, a symbol of American greatness in the middle of a tech town whose own future has entered a fog. " Read the full story at the stranger dot com.⁠
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Every month, musician, author, and KEXP DJ Eva Walker writes a letter to her baby daughter, Hendrix, to share wisdom lea...
01/10/2025

Every month, musician, author, and KEXP DJ Eva Walker writes a letter to her baby daughter, Hendrix, to share wisdom learned from her experiences—and her mistakes.⁠
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This month, she tells us about the time her band, , were invited to headline a music festival at Joseph Harp Correctional Center. ⁠
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"When we hopped onstage, the requests came in. 'Mr. Pink!' said one. 'Mama, There’s a Spider in My Room!’ shouted another. 'Ghetto Spaceship!' yelled a third. And we played them all! It was one of the best performances I have ever experienced."⁠
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Read the letter in full at The Stranger.

Good morning! Read this news and more in The Stranger's morning news roundup. (And yes, slide three is a real screenshot...
01/10/2025

Good morning! Read this news and more in The Stranger's morning news roundup. (And yes, slide three is a real screenshot from a government website.)⁠
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Capitol Hill’s most chaotic circus bar went dark this summer when a fax machine sparked the fire that closed Unicorn. Si...
28/09/2025

Capitol Hill’s most chaotic circus bar went dark this summer when a fax machine sparked the fire that closed Unicorn. Since then, staff and performers have been walking a financial tightrope while waiting on insurance to pay out. The Sept. 25 Unicorn Burn Relief show at Neumos packed in 21 drag and burlesque artists, reminding everyone why the neon funhouse matters: it’s not just a bar, it’s a community. The stage is still alive, even if the striped walls are shuttered for now. Unicorn hopes to reopen mid-October. Support the staff and artists via the GoFundMe if you can.

https://www.thestranger.com/TheaterAndPerformance/2025/09/26/80257975/capitol-hills-favorite-circus-needs-help

Belltown’s Rendezvous just got new owners. Within days, the bar shuttered for “renovations,” laid off almost the entire ...
28/09/2025

Belltown’s Rendezvous just got new owners. Within days, the bar shuttered for “renovations,” laid off almost the entire staff, and wiped its show calendar clean. Artists and workers are furious, calling it a gut punch to the city’s DIY scene. But here’s the twist: the new bosses aren’t faceless investors, they’re longtime Seattle nightlife folks Semon Tesfai and Jamie Lee, who swear they want to reopen with all-ages shows, a working kitchen, and a better Grotto. The layoffs and cancellations were sloppy, no question. Whether this ends up a revival or a requiem for one of Seattle’s strangest venues will come down to how they follow through.

https://www.thestranger.com/arts/2025/09/26/80257783/who-bought-the-rendezvous?view_id=article&oid=80257783&collection=arts&basename=who-bought-the-rendezvous

Seattle fenced off Seven Hills Park for “60 days” over Labor Day, because wealthy neighbors didn’t like that unhoused pe...
27/09/2025

Seattle fenced off Seven Hills Park for “60 days” over Labor Day, because wealthy neighbors didn’t like that unhoused people were living there. Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth dodged questions, parks mumbled about “biohazards,” and now Capitol Hill has one less place to escape from your roommate.

So what are you supposed to do when the city closes your park? Stare at it? Pretend the fence is a backscratcher? Tie balloons to it until it floats away? We decide to make our own list, because fences don’t erase the need for public space.

https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09/26/80228370/how-to-enjoy-the-park-when-the-city-closes-the-park

Katie Wilson says she will not take the stage at KOMO’s Oct. 8 mayoral debate unless Sinclair brings Jimmy Kimmel Live! ...
26/09/2025

Katie Wilson says she will not take the stage at KOMO’s Oct. 8 mayoral debate unless Sinclair brings Jimmy Kimmel Live! back to Seattle airwaves. The candidate blasted Sinclair for bowing to federal pressure and vowed to pull her campaign’s advertising dollars from the broadcaster no matter what.

She tied the fight to the collapse of local news, pointing to this week’s shuttering of Cascade PBS’s newsroom. Wilson says that if elected she’ll launch a “Local News Dollars” program modeled after Democracy Vouchers, giving residents $150 in vouchers to fund the outlets they trust.

“Local journalism promotes civic vitality and undergirds our ability to self govern in these dark times,” she said.

https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09/25/80256513/katie-wilson-boycotts-komo-debate-unless-jimmy-kimmel-airs-again-in-seattle?view_id=article&oid=80256513&collection=news&basename=katie-wilson-boycotts-komo-debate-unless-jimmy-kimmel-airs-again-in-seattle

Seattle loses a giant. Dr. Quintard Taylor, Jr., creator of BlackPast, UW’s Bullitt Professor of American History, and t...
25/09/2025

Seattle loses a giant. Dr. Quintard Taylor, Jr., creator of BlackPast, UW’s Bullitt Professor of American History, and the foremost historian of Black life in the American West, has died at 76. His work pulled Seattle’s myth of “inclusion” into the light and built a global archive for Black history that will outlive us all. Read Daudi Abe’s remembrance of the scholar, mentor, and community builder whose legacy keeps teaching. RIP, Dr. Taylor.

https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09/25/80256087/an-historic-giant-has-left-the-building

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