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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 10,000 refugees, asylum-seekers, and other lawful immigrants in Washington are losing their healthcare, starting today, thanks to language in Donald Trump’s House Resolution 1 (aka that ...

Welcome to October! It’s the most wonderful time of the year, when I mitigate my seasonal depression by going all in on ...

Seattle just can’t stop dying. The 2026 Global Cities Index by Oxford Economics clearly shows it has one foot in the grave. How else to explain the city being rated fourth in the whole fucking world ...

There’s a draft of an open letter to Mayor Katie Wilson and the Seattle City Council that’s been making the rounds on social media and racking up signatures over the past few days. The request: divert ...

Lovers of weird, eclectic, and thoughtfully-programmed cinema rejoice! The Northwest Film Forum (NWFF), Seattle’s nonprofit independent art house cinema, is making a big expansion: starting Monday, ...