If you've wanted to know what the hell was going on with the recent closures of Sophon and Oliver's Twist, @thestranger.com has it all right here: www.thestranger.com/news/2026/03...

For my latest Play Date column, I went to the Capitol Hill Tool Library's monthly mending circle and learned a thing or two about self-reliance: www.thestranger.com/spring-arts-...

starting a new thing where I actually read the physical magazines from my various subscriptions

I can't emphasize this enough: .08 is way drunker than you may think.

A good reminder of the great story the Stranger did last summer showing that in fact a 0.05% BAC is enough to make you too impaired to drive!

RIP to lower BAC www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02...

Do this many people actually hate the millionaire's tax or is it a lot of lying? www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02...

This game is a neat way to test how well you know Seattle’s transit routes. www.routle.city/king_county_...

have you tried the new transit game? www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02...

if they don’t let me play soccer in the Seattle elected official soccer game for my column I’m going to scream

oh we're talking about curling? www.thestranger.com/play-date/20...

How it started / how it’s going

did you know about the seattle election happening right now? www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02...

it smells like soil on the 8 rn anyone else getting notes of this?

my life is typing "doc.new" into google chrome over and over and over and over and over and over and over and one must imagine sisyphus happy

could be a similar story for Washington’s bill that’s making its way through the legislature rn www.foxla.com/news/lapd-ch...

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

babe please you have to stop watching Roku city

looking for somewhere to direct your energy today? try this: www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01...

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights. After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is grim. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

the worst part about being mayor is probably having to pretend to like sports

"To the premature balding individual, an expanding O or a deepening M is the first letter in a blunt confession from the body that it’s been cheating on you with time itself and with your father’s genes." I will read everything this man writes

always remember to chain yer get-off-my-lawn demon

Getting psilocybin legislation passed has been Sen. Jesse Salomon's big goal for the past ~ 5 years. After doing a big trip in Mexico, he's tacking on another hallucinogenic medicinal plant to his legislative to-do list: www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01...

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:

fdsklafjdsakl www.theverge.com/news/867967/...

Last time the Seahawks went to the Super Bowl I wrote a gay Supernatural fanfic about it

pimple picking son or full volume reel scroll daughter

in a hell sandwich on the bus. Man in front of me (parallel, he is sitting in the front seats that face the windows) is picking the pimples on his face til he bleeds. Woman behind me is skipping through reels at full volume

🚨 ICE is creating a watchlist of anyone and everyone who films them, DHS sources tell me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making...

The new light rail Cross Lake Connection is opening at the end of March. That makes it an Aries: www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01...

We've updated the story. www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01...

At least six Seattle public schools sheltered in place after *unconfirmed* reports of ICE activity in South Seattle. www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01...

"Six Seattle Schools Sheltered-in-Place After Unconfirmed ICE Activity"

BREAKING www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01...

It’s happening again

also every time I type “Mayor Katie Wilson” just know I’m saying it like Goldie Wilson does in that scene in the diner in Back to the Future

my bus is late I’m calling Katie Wilson

Sometimes I do theater reviews. www.thestranger.com/theater/2026...

The story www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Has anyone been lap swimming at the Green Lake pool? How crowded is it in the evenings? The closest pool to me is out of commission so I must branch out but I don’t want to swim in a lane for 4 other people

Erika Evans is the new Seattle City Attorney. The Stranger sat down with her a week into the job to talk about what she has planned for the office, that memo she put out that sent rightwing media into a tailspin, and what it means to be the first Black person to hold the job.

I sat down with Erika Evans last week to talk about her immediate priorities for the office, and that memo she sent that caused a real stir with right wing media: www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01...

Big day for women in politics and for me writing about them. First up, Toshiko Hasegawa announced she's running for King County Council District 2: www.thestranger.com/news/2026/01...

spending my friday night with a pomodoro timer

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal immigration officers shoot and wound 2 people in Portland, Oregon, authorities say.

A moment of levity: One man's failure on Jeopardy!, which many say is the world's greatest game show www.thestranger.com/jeopardy/202...

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder