I got to write @thestranger.com's morning news, and I peppered it with good news to hopefully help balance all the bad (very bad) news.

Exciting news in a world full of very not exciting news: The Vera Project is opening a new all-ages venue in Georgetown in early 2027! @davesegal.bsky.social has the story for @thestranger.com here:

I'm not embarrassed to admit that I got goosebumps when he hit that high note @avclub.com

It's time to spill your guts in The Stranger's annual sex survey! What's the sexiest thing you did in 2025? What music do you listen to when getting it on? Have you ever humped in a car? What about on a Washington State Ferry? And how horny are you for Nathan Fielder? Tell us *everything*!

I will not buy a 2026 planner I will not buy a 2026 planner I will not buy a 2026 planner I will not buy a 2026 planner I will not buy a 2026 planner I will not buy a 2026 planner I will not buy a 2026 planner I will not buy a 2026 planner I will not buy a 2026 planner I will not buy a 2026 planner

Tired of the same holiday music? We put together 69 seasonal songs that won't bug the shit out of you! It's almost like having The Stranger DJ your holiday party. Enjoy!

I miss light brown m&ms.

Interviewed several musicians and venue operators about the precarious state of the Seattle music scene for @thestranger.com . www.thestranger.com/music/2025/1...

I am not asking for much! Just more (better!) city parks for people watching and ice cream eating, please! And a goddamn place to sit that isn't a folding patio chair!

Best sticker I’ve run into around town in quite a while

This was a fun one to put together... @thestranger.com's Inaugural Complaints Issue! Seattle is great. Here’s everything that’s wrong with Seattle.

This is a fun article on Seattle's new professional women's hockey team, the Torrent. Of course, they're very underpaid and work hard, so support women's sports and buy tickets! @pwhltorrent.bsky.social

Happy @pwhltorrent.bsky.social home opener day! I dusted off my hockey writer hat for this one: "Now, before anyone can start to regurgitate some brand of 'ThEy DoN’t GeT pHySiCaL iN wOmEn’S hOcKeY' nonsense you read on a message board in 2017, let me say this: Yes, they fucking do."

Pretty proud of this one. I followed the Seattle Torrent around ahead of their home season opener. God, I love hockey. www.thestranger.com/sports/2025/...

Pretty proud of this one. I followed the Seattle Torrent around ahead of their home season opener. God, I love hockey. www.thestranger.com/sports/2025/...

Feels pretty good to have The Stranger Election Control Board's hard work, influence, and jokes recognized by the NYT today, but they neglected to appreciate the also very vital Pumpkin Pie Control Board. It's fine, I'm fine. www.thestranger.com/food-and-dri...

If you haven't checked to make sure your vote counted, you need to do it now - the race for Seattle's future depends on it!

Overhead in the @thestranger.com office: "What's MxPx?"

Imagine how insufferable Dawson Leary's film podcast would be.

Does anyone else use their head as leverage when using an Aeropress or is that just me?

I love hockey.

Sorry for your loss, Mariners fans. I am going to selfishly take this opportunity to share one of my favorite things I've ever written, from when the Preds lost the Stanley Cup to the Penguins. Different team, different sport, but lots of the same feelings. ❤️

I don't know why there is a headless pigeon in my driveway but I am going to choose to believe it is an offering from the crows for Johnny Waffles.

Seattle's No Kings Rally started at Seattle Center and now there has been a constant stream of people marching to Westlake for the past 45 minutes.

Baseball is fun I see why you people like it

Rude to start things off with the kingdome demo imo

The 'Burbs should be in the Criterion Collection.

Give juuse saros the nobel peace prize

Happy hockey season to all who celebrate and also I really wish we could cease signing the national anthem before all games until we have a president who isn't actively declaring war against American cities

All the times Taylor Swift comes off as Gail the Snail on The Life of a Showgirl. A thread.

Taylor Swift hasn't emotionally developed beyond the age she got famous and that anyone continues to think her writing is interesting is the most interesting thing about her.

So the government has shut down on the same day Hegseth and Trump made their egomaniacal, condescending speeches to a room full of top military officials. And what happens during a shutdown? According to the BBC, "the military are required to work, but won't be paid until after" the shutdown ends.

Sending Subway gift cards to all my Portland pals.

Freeze-dried candy isn't good, knock it off.

Trying to cancel Hulu because I'm not a fan of fascism, and it literally will not let me cancel. It just goes back to the account page. Over and over and over again. Did antifa break Hulu?

To be absolutely clear: Disney didn't cancel Kimmel because of something he said. They canceled Kimmel because of something Trump said.

On March 4, Trump addressed Congress and said, "I have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America. It's back."

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Trump does not respect dead people. He only respects people who can benefit him. The dead are useless.

"The dark new America that Kirk dedicated his life to manifesting has finally arrived. A complete collapse of the online and the offline, where political violence is simply just another opportunity to grow your personal brand if you can turn your phone on fast enough and make it out alive."

We're excited to announce that the 2025 Fall Arts Issue is HERE!

I will not allow our society to go back to using the word "money" to say something was good. Leave Swingers dead and in the ground.

ICE detained Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry, a Pakistan-born US Army veteran and husband of former congressional candidate Melissa Chaudhry, during his citizenship interview in Tukwila. He’s now being held at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. The story is developing at The Stranger.

We can all agree that Channing Tatum is the best Chris, right?

Pretty Girls Make Graves are playing Bumbershoot, so I will share again the oral history of the best band to ever exist. It took days and weeks and months of reporting, and it was very hard because how do you write about something that is in your bones, you know? www.thestranger.com/art-and-perf...

My favorite Kneecap lyric is "we got a wee machine that be's cleaning our dishes."

We have fun.

BRING BACK MORE PASSENGER FERRIES I WOULD RIDE THEM ALLLLLL DAY

We finally found Seattle's tops. www.thestranger.com/the-stranger...