Forward, Ho!
I’m a 45-year-old single gay cis man out there in the world. I met a 50-year-old cis married man on Grindr. We had hot sex and have been hitting it off ever since. Here’s the problem: I was under the impression at first that he and his wife practiced some form of ENM or had…
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Inside the Gremlins Museum
“Where can I get a Gremlin?” was the question Ian Grant asked himself when he first saw the comedy-horror Christmas film at the drive-in back in 1984. “I was probably too young to see it,” he admitted. Although the film fueled nightmares of little green monsters under his bed, it also sparked a lifelong obsession…
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Slog AM: Indiana ACLU Isn’t Thrilled With Nikkita Oliver’s Anti-Zionism, Washington Farmworkers Fight Bosses at the State Supreme Court, an Arsonist Targets der Führer
Conservatives take power in British Columbia: The Tories haven’t held power in BC in around a century, though the province has been ruled by small-c conservatives in the meantime, like the Liberals and the dastardly Social Credit Party. What happened? The New Democratic Party (NDP) of BC, social democrats who occupy the center-left lane in…
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See You at the Crossroads
For as long as music has been around, so has that phantom place beyond the crossroads, the point where life ends and the end begins. From the pre-European-encounter mbira music of Zimbabwe, which communicates with the ancestors, to Mozart’s Requiem, to Blind Willie Johnson’s utterly haunting “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground,” to…
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Phones and Cameras Were Banned at the Phoebe Bridgers Show
“Does anyone here have a weird relationship with their dad?” Phoebe Bridgers asked the sold-out Climate Pledge Arena on Friday night, and a wave of young voices erupted in a primal scream. Standing on a small spinning stage in the center of the crowd, Bridgers opened up about her own father. “He was… complicated,” she…
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Stranger Suggests: Your Agenda This Week, October 26–November 1
MONDAY 10/26 Frankie Cosmos (MUSIC) Wanna feel old? It’s been 10 years since Greta Kline, aka Frankie Cosmos, released her 2016 studio album Next Thing, which contains some of her most well-known songs, including “Fool,” “Sappho,” and “Outside With the Cuties.” The dreamy, wistful record features influences from poet Frank O’Hara and musician Arthur Russell,…
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Slog AM: Less Rain in Seattle Than LA, Brazil Rejects Far-Right in Election, Snohomish Mama Bear on the Run
Seattle just got some rain, breaking an odd drought. We’ve been getting less rain than Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Nevada. These are the first fingerprints of El Niño, which disrupts moisture and temperature patterns around the Pacific, the Emerald City Weather Blog’s Scott Sistek reports. Wrong kind of woke: A shootout involving five different…
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Tom Skerritt Has Left the Grand Illusion
Tom Skerritt died on October 21 of natural causes. He was 93. I last saw him in 2022 during a dinner party thrown by Michael Hebb on Vashon Island. Low clouds covered that mid-September day, but no rain fell. And Skerritt, who arrived at dusk, sat at the head of a table we shared with…
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I, Anonymous: A Sad Squirrel Story
Hey asshole at Green Lake who let your dog chase a squirrel, grab it by the neck, and shake it until it was dead: I hope a Rottweiler or pit bull grabs you by your Achilles heel and fully ruptures your tendon. Ain’t karma a bitch. Do you need to get something off your chest?…
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Idaho Lawmakers Tried to Conflate Abortion with Human Trafficking and Seattle Attorneys Are Fighting Back
Three years ago, the Idaho state legislature passed a law making it illegal to assist minors in crossing state lines to access abortion care. In the paranoiac tradition of American anti-abortion policy, the law was rooted in a poorly disguised moral panic: It specifically banned “abortion trafficking”—the fictional concept of shadowy adults coercing minors into…
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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Oct 23–25, 2026
As per ush, we’re delivering the lowdown on cheap and easy things to do this weekend, with options from Dia de Muertos en Pike Place Market to a Practically Magic Halloweekend and from the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair to the Seattle Polish Film Festival. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week.…
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Slog AM: Ballots Dumped at Golden Gardens, Netanyahu Plans West Bank Operation, Bird Flu Ravages Utah Mink Farm
Train kills man in wheelchair: Moments before a BNSF freight train hurtled through a downtown Puyallup crossing, a couple in a car noticed a man in an electric wheelchair stuck trying to cross the tracks. A man jumped out of the car, tried to lift the wheelchair from the tracks, and, when that didn’t work,…
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