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The Seattle Times Editorial Board recently published a piece arguing that Seattleites should vote no on the upcoming Seattle ...

The DIY music scene in Seattle remains mysterious to most outsiders. Kept out of traditional venues by barriers such as age restrctions and fees, bands like Casi have turned to throwing DIY shows in ...

Update: June 26, 2026, 9 a.m. – Soon after publication, the strike at The Walrus and Carpenter ended as the company and the union reached a tentative agreement. This article has been updated ...

Seattleites packed into SIFF Cinema Uptown Thursday and Friday for two sold-out showings of “Steal This Story, Please!” that included a Q&A with director Carl Deal as well as the subject of the film, ...

I’ll wait until next week to weigh in on the latest assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. I’ll just say how impressed I am that all the journalists ran to report on the ...

Shortly before Katie Wilson was inaugurated as the most left-wing mayor in modern Seattle history, the community organizer and democratic socialist said that her top three priorities were ...

My first introduction to Nurhaliza Mohamath, a writer and food justice advocate, and her family’s cooking was through a warm bowl of Poo Kha Ra, which is a spiced beef porridge, on a cold, stormy day ...

Detainee at Northwest Detention Center ends strike over continuing solitary confinement and medical neglect For 29 days, Steven Chavarria Portillo refused to eat. This was far from the first hunger ...

On May 30, 2020, sleepy Seattle was transformed into a war zone. Plumes of chemical weapons filled the air, and the booming of concussion grenades reverberated between glass skyscrapers. Thousands of ...

Editor’s note: This author has worked with some of the groups that organized the rally­—including Indivisible, Defund Musk, Evergreen Resistance, La Resistencia and Refuse Fascism—though he had no ...

My ancestors came here legally." It's a refrain heard in debates over immigration—one I've heard from my own relatives whose ancestors emigrated from Norway. What does “legally” mean when the law ...