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• Things to Do in June: Food & Drink

  02-06-2026 20:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.The Pastry Project’s Soft Serve Window Opening
  June 4
  The Pastry Project’s soft-serve window is only open for the summer, and it offers three flavors—purple vanilla, chocolate, and twist. While the ice cream is decadent enough to enjoy on its own—no cheap, icy mix here—the true magic is in the toppings. A hard shell dip is availabl
  
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• Union Workers at Acclaimed Restaurant the Walrus and the Carpenter Are Ready to Strike

  04-06-2026 00:15 via thestranger.com
  On Tuesday afternoon, unionized workers at the Walrus and the Carpenter held a strike authorization vote in the sweltering Ballard sun minutes before the acclaimed oyster-centric spot opened for service. Eighteen of 20 union members voted to authorize a strike (with two not voting), so leadership will be able to call a work stoppage if progress isn’t being made at the bargaining table with Sea Creatures restaurant group. Negotiations have stretched on for more than a year.The union, Unite
  
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• Read All About It!

  03-06-2026 23:40 via thestranger.com
  This week, the Society for Professional Journalists announced the winners of their Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards. The Stranger won eight awards, including first place in Personal Profile (“The Making of Katie Wilson”), Graphics and Illustration (“Keep Digging”), Photo Essay (“Skateboards Only”), and Editorial and Commentary (“It’s All About the Dick”).  This is also (probably) the first time The Stranger has won awards
  
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• Slog AM: Wilson Introduces New Tax to Support Buses, the Torrent Sign Alex Carpenter, and Someone Drove a Car onto a Light Rail Platform

  03-06-2026 18:33 via thestranger.com
  Phew! We made it through yesterday’s heat wave, and today is much cooler, with a cozy overcast and a high of 69. (Don’t say it.) What else does this morning bring? News! Good news, bad news, and news about pigeon livers.Wilson Wants You to Ride the Bus: Yesterday, Mayor Katie Wilson announced she is introducing a measure on November’s ballot that would double the sales tax we pay to support bus transit. The Seattle Times says funds would increase bus trips, allow buses to run
  
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• Art on a Yacht, Art in a Shed, and a New Museum Director for the Frye

  03-06-2026 02:16 via thestranger.com
  
  On behalf of Seattle, I’d like to take a moment to publicly thank local artist-hero Light Guerrilla for doing the Lord’s work and tagging “TAX THE RICH” in massive light letters across the side of Mark Zuckerberg’s 390-foot supervillain megayacht, Launchpad, which unceremoniously rolled up in our front yard the same day Meta announced 1,400 impending job layoffs. We’re living in a real-life comic book, if you haven’t noticed. We may not have a bat signa
  
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• Art on a Yacht, Art in a Shed, and a New Curatorial Director for the Frye

  03-06-2026 02:16 via thestranger.com
  On behalf of Seattle, I’d like to take a moment to publicly thank local artist-hero Light Guerrilla for doing the Lord’s work and tagging “TAX THE RICH” in massive light letters across the side of Mark Zuckerberg’s 390-foot supervillain megayacht, Launchpad, which unceremoniously rolled up in our front yard the same day Meta announced 1,400 impending job layoffs. We’re living in a real-life comic book, if you haven’t noticed. We may not have a bat signa
  
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• Slog AM: Washington Green-Lights Menopause Workplace Accommodations, Bird Masturbation Is Normal, Trump to Dismantle Pivotal Ocean Monitoring System

  02-06-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Mazel to the Menopausers: Gov. Bob Ferguson signed an executive order to create workplace accommodations for the nearly 600,000 working women experiencing perimenopause, menopause, or postmenopause. Symptoms include hot flashes, mood swings, and insomnia, and they can be the reasons women leave their jobs. The executive order doesn’t list the specific workplace accommodations, but the governor’s office will work with the Washington State Women’s Commission to figure them out.&
  
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• Things to Do in June: Visual Art

  02-06-2026 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.Lars Bergquist: Recognize Me in Everything
  June 4
  Lars Bergquist grew up here, and his relationship to the city is informed by how he’s moved through both its seen and unseen underbelly as a street artist. For years, he worked with wheat paste, pasting up large-scale, hand-painted watercolors across both high-visibility structures and out-of-sight corners
  
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• Things to Do in June: This & That

  02-06-2026 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.DubSea Fish Sticks Home Opener
  June 6
  This summer, you should go to a DubSea Fish Sticks game. Get your ass out to White Center to Mel Olson Stadium inside King County’s Steve Cox Memorial Park and watch the Fish Sticks, a team of collegiate ballplayers staying in shape in their off-season. For the purposes of the Fish Sticks, the stadium is dubbed &ldquo
  
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• Things to Do in June: Performance

  02-06-2026 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.Disappearance at the Rocky Mountain Leatherdyke Snowpicnic
  June 5–20
  I’ve been saying it for years: Pride month needs more ski slope murder mysteries. Thankfully, the good people at the Annex Theatre have listened. Writer Monty Rozema and director Adrian Prendergast have teamed up for the perfect lesbian whodunnit in Disappearance at the Rocky Mount
  
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• Things to Do in June: Music

  02-06-2026 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.Tarteeth, Fleamale, Toxic Tears, Alista Shay, Atrocity Girl
  June 4
  Self-proclaimed as “Seattle’s Seraphic Rapper” and “Egyptian Enigma,” Central District’s own Tarteeth has been busy forming a charitable community organization called New World Orchard, the entity behind this event, which centers around “pronoia,”
  
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• Things to Do in June: Literature

  02-06-2026 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.One Book, One Coast: Zine-Making Workshop with Densho
  June 6
  Founded in 1996, the Densho project was designed to ensure the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans didn’t get forgotten—but it’s branched out to other elements of Asian American history. The organization holds archives of Gidra, a zine/newspaper published at UCLA between
  
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• Things to Do in June: Film

  02-06-2026 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That.Bleak Week
  June 5–11
  At the heart of Bleak Week, a weeklong film fest that, the Beacon says, “spotlights some of the greatest films from around the world that explore the darkest sides of humanity, as well as some of the bleakest points in human history,” is Dancer in the Dark, a movie by Lars von Trier, the modern master of melancholy cinema.
  
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• Go to Folklife This Year

  23-05-2026 02:06 via thestranger.com
  It’s Memorial Day Weekend, which means it’s time to break out the tank tops, fire up the grill, and rediscover that the lakes are still really freaking cold in May. And it’s also time to scoot down to Seattle Center to go to Folklife. I know, I know. The only thing you think of when I say Folklife is drum circles and faded tie-dye. And yes, that is absolutely the vibe. But it’s easy to get distracted by the wall of patchouli and forget that Folklife is so unique. Fo
  
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• Seattle Social Housing Developer Buys First Building

  23-05-2026 00:45 via thestranger.com
  The Seattle Social Housing Developer (SSHD) has announced its first acquisition, a 150-unit apartment building in the heart of downtown. It plans to turn half of these units into affordable housing.The building, called the Elara at the Market, is a few blocks north of Pike Place Market. SSHD expects to close the sale in mid-June for $60.9 million, or about $400,000 a unit.At the board of directors meeting on Thursday night, SSHD director of acquisitions James Mayton said he expects the Elara to
  
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• I Saw U: Saying Hi in Cal Anderson Park, Smiling in Maple Leaf Park, and Hanging With Your Dogs at the Sculpture Park

  22-05-2026 22:04 via thestranger.com
  Trader Joe’s Cutie
  To the girl with the most gorgeous, teal eyes I’ve ever seen! U told me I was pretty while bagging my groceries at Cap Hill. Can we be best friends?Credit: Irene ChungCutie Near Cal weds 5/20
  You in Gym clothes, me in my uniform. We crossed paths @ Howell/11th Ave next to Cal. You said hi, I mouthed it back. You lingered in my thoughts. hmuSmiles at the Park
  5/20 Walking around opposite ways Maple Leaf Park loop. You beautiful blonde woman with the loveliest smile
  
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• Hope on the 2 Line

  22-05-2026 20:47 via thestranger.com
  We were on the 2 Line, headed north. You were across from us with a tiny human who kept going back and forth between you and your spouse, when a tall beauty sat down wearing pink tights with a pink tulle skirt and fur legwarmers. The tiny human said the tall beauty looked so amazing, then quietly wondered if they were a girl or a boy.You gently and quietly explained that people can also be both or neither. That we get to choose who we are, and there are many ways to be on the gender spectr
  
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• The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Memorial Day Weekend: May 22–25, 2026

  22-05-2026 19:10 via thestranger.com
  We’ve got a couple dozen ideas for how to spend your Memorial Day weekend. So dig in below, then head to events from the Northwest Folklife Festival to Melt Music & Mutual Aid Fair and from the inaugural Ballard Book Crawl to the first Bicycle Weekend of the season. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week.FRIDAYLIVE MUSICStoneyard: Record Release
  Stoneyard has been playing alternative rock around town for quite a few years, sharing bills with the likes of Black Ends and Ca
  
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• Slog AM: Seattle Cat Rescued from Fire, Trump Admin Bad and Weird at Public Health, Colbert’s Final ‘Late Night’ Monologue

  22-05-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  Washington State Patrol Sued: The Washington State Patrol settled a lawsuit from former troopers who alleged the agency deleted or withheld texts, emails, and other records related to their October 2021 firings for refusing Gov. Jay Inslee’s COVID vaccine requirements. WSP is paying out $340,000. The same former troopers are part of a broader lawsuit of state workers suing Inslee over the vaccine requirement. Firefighters Rescue Cat: Seattle firefighters responding to a 2-alarm fire
  
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• Ticket Alert: Chance the Rapper, KATSEYE, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

  21-05-2026 23:28 via thestranger.com
  Don’t say we didn’t warn you—tickets for these newly announced shows are about to go on sale! Chance the Rapper celebrates a decade of the Coloring Book mixtape with his first Seattle show in a decade. Global girl group KATSEYE embarks on their Wildworld Tour this fall. Plus, the lead singer of indie pop group the Marías comes through town supporting her dream-pop solo project Not For Radio. Read on for details, plus some news you can use.ON SALE FRIDAY, MAY 22MUSICThe
  
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• A New Art Fair and a Party in the Muses’ Lair

  21-05-2026 22:00 via thestranger.com
  There’s a huge art party in an eight-story building downtown! Also, a new art fair!But first, let’s talk about Seattle Art Museum Workers United (SAMWU), the new union recently formed and announced last week. It represents over 100 employees from a range of departments (with the exception of security guards, who already have a union). They’re asking for better wages and working conditions across the board. I’m sure there are two sides to the story here: Museums have
  
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• A New Art Fair, and a Party in the Muses’ Lair

  21-05-2026 22:00 via thestranger.com
  There’s a huge art party in an eight-story building downtown! Also, a new art fair!But first, let’s talk about Seattle Art Museum Workers United (SAMWU), the new union recently formed and announced last week. It represents over 100 employees from a range of departments (with the exception of security guards, who already have a union). They’re asking for better wages and working conditions across the board. I’m sure there are two sides to the story here: Museums have
  
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• Hey, Are You Running in the Seattle Waterfront Marathon This Weekend? 

  21-05-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  At the end of April, Seattle’s running community caught wind of a new marathon, the Seattle Waterfront Marathon set for this Sunday, May 24th. For a $100 registration fee, marathoners would take off from Genesee Park and run a 26.2 mile-loop along Lake Washington Boulevard and finish in Seward Park. It sounds great if you’re into that sort of thing. Except, that wouldn’t be possible because the city is shutting down a stretch of that route for Bicycle Weekends, and, oh right,
  
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• Slog AM: Jan 6 Cops Sue the DOJ, Harrell Has a New Job, and Trump Ogles Graduating Coast Guard Cadets

  21-05-2026 18:34 via thestranger.com
  Good morning! It’s beautiful and sunny as I write this, and theoretically it’s supposed to stay that way. We’ve got one of those not-a-cloud-in-the-sky forecasts. But, in spring in Seattle, reporting a weather prediction feels a little bit like reading tarot cards. It’s fun, maybe it shapes how you spend your day, but it’s really all on vibes. Let’s do the news. Trump Administration Breaks Their Own Rules: You know that $1.8 billion slush fund that
  
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• I Smell Something in the Air…It Smells Like the KEXP BBQ

  21-05-2026 18:15 via thestranger.com
  Cue Wendy Rene’s “Bar-B-Q”! Last year KEXP revived its beloved summer tradition after a 13-year hiatus, and it looks like it’s here to stay, with a lineup good enough to compete with Bumbershoot and Capitol Hill Block Party.The lineup this year is short but sweet: garage-rock revivalist Ty Segall, English indie-folk artist Arlo Parks, experimental-rock duo Angine de Poitrine, Peruvian cumbia ensemble Los Mirlos, and Seattle’s own psych-pop project Packaging and dre
  
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• Star Baby

  21-05-2026 17:00 via thestranger.com
  Baby Gorilla, born May 18, 2026, at 5:50 a.m. at the Woodland Park ZooIt’s an especially busy week, but when Megan challenged me to do the Woodland Park Zoo’s baby gorilla’s astrological chart yesterday morning in Slog AM, what was I supposed to do? Not drop everything to quickly do amateur astrology for a newborn primate? I need an important/whimsical distraction, and maybe you do too. The baby gorilla is a Taurus. Aww. Taurus is a grounded earth sign; I’d say they
  
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• The Boeing IMAX Is Officially Dead 

  21-05-2026 03:05 via thestranger.com
  The Boeing IMAX, the only premium IMAX theater of its kind in the state, will not be showing theatrical films under new ownership. Instead, local film buffs’ worst fears have been realized: The only programming on the docket for the theater is a few short documentaries from IMAX and the Chihuly Glass Center, and ambiguous “content,” according to Ron Sevart, President and CEO at the Space Needle and Chihuly, which purchased the theater from the Pacific Science Center earlier th
  
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• Pop Loser #30: Babydoll Dresses, Godless Whores, and Sapphic Shoegaze

  21-05-2026 01:37 via thestranger.com
  Welcome back to Pop Loser! This week, people are mad about babydoll dresses (again), Jack Antonoff called AI music users “godless whores,” and Drake released three albums that nobody asked for. Convicted murderer and French pop singer Claudine Longet died at the age of 84. And, I’ll share the perfect ’90s indie rock song for making out during Pride Month. Subscribe to Pop Loser here!This Week in MusicLive Nation is teaming up with the owners of the Mariners for a ne
  
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• Your Complete Guide to Farmers Markets in Seattle

  21-05-2026 00:16 via thestranger.com
  In late spring, the rain eases up just enough for folks to remember how wonderful it feels to be outside in Seattle: parks fill up, beaches crowd, and coffee shops launch floral seasonal specials. Across Washington, farmers emerge from months of plowing and planting, finally picking, plucking, and preparing to present their bountiful harvests! And while we’re spoiled with access to Pike Place year-round, May still feels like the true awakening of Seattle’s market season. It’s
  
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• Slog AM: The DOJ Investigates Washington Corrections Center, Trump’s BFF Wins Kentucky Primary, and Barney Frank Dies

  20-05-2026 18:46 via thestranger.com
  Let’s Start With Good News: The Woodland Park Zoo announced its gorilla, Jamani, gave birth. BABY GORILLA, Y’ALL!!! The precious bundle of best news all week was born May 18 at 5:50 a.m., and yes, I have asked Stranger Arts Editor Emily Nokes if she would read the baby’s birth chart. Another Woodland Park Zoo gorilla, Olympia, is also pregnant and due any day now. View this post on Instagram
  City Council Approves Shelter Expansions: Yesterday, the Seattle City Council approved
  
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