Things to Do in October: Music
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, This & That. Dälek, Lamarr Family ValuesOct 8America’s most uncompromising hip-hop group, New Jersey’s Dälek, have been enlightening and blowing minds since 1998. A staunch advocate for POC’s rights, MC Dälek (aka Will Brooks) trenchantly rails against oppression…
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Things to Do in October: Visual Art
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, This & That. Styled by the Streets: Black Women in Hip-Hop FashionOngoingWhen I think of the most important fashion moments in music, I think of Lil’ Kim’s purple pasty ensemble (and other iconic monochromatic looks), Missy Elliott’s inflatable…
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Things to Do in October: This & That
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, This & That. Make Your Own Cursed LafufuOct 18My New Year’s resolution was to make more art in 2026. Not for work, not to sell—I just wanted to prioritize making a mess for no reason other than to…
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Things to Do in October: Food & Drink
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, This & That. Melissa KingOct 9Last year, Top Chef fan favorite and lesbian heartthrob Melissa King released her James Beard Award-winning debut cookbook Cook Like a King. You may recall that she and the show’s host Padma Lakshmi…
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Things to Do in October: Film
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, This & That. The Blair Witch Project: Film Screening and Q&AOct 11Even if you’re not a horror fan, you undoubtedly know The Blair Witch Project, thanks to its prescient marketing hoax campaign, which leveraged the early internet to…
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Things to Do in October: Performance
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, This & That. Seattle Opera Presents: SalomeOct 17–31The Seattle Opera is kicking off the season with Richard Strauss’s single-act opera Salome, adapted to German from Oscar Wilde’s play, which was originally written in French. Strauss’s take on the…
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Things to Do in October: Literature
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food & Drink, This & That. Neal Stephenson Presents ‘D: Heavy Water’Oct 13No one does a sprawling narrative universe like Neal Stephenson. His novels usually contain enough information to make you briefly believe that you, too, could understand orbital mechanics, cryptography,…
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The Ill-Fated Odyssey of the 2026 Mariners
During the debut season of an automated balls and strikes system that many called a jettisoning of the “human element” of baseball and amidst a fever pitch of AI discourse, the Seattle Mariners 2026 season was a gut punch reminder that we are all still deeply mortal. This year’s story of baseball in Seattle is…
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Twenty-Three Washington State Ferry Engineers Called in Sick Monday
On Monday morning, the Washington State Ferries (WSF) announced that 13 of its 18 ferries were out of service, after 23 engine room employees “called in sick.” Additionally, every qualified employee subsequently refused to fill in for the absent workers. For passengers, the consequences were immediate: missed connections, disrupted commutes, delayed medical visits, and general…
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Quickies
1. I’m a bisexual man who’s new to Seattle. I was just invited to my first sex party by some new friends. The problem: I’m training to be a teacher and my therapist thinks this could be problematic for my career. I am now considering backing out to the party and stopping all related activities.…
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Slog AM: Oil Prices Show No Signs of Dropping, the Disney Adult Editor of Washington’s Second-Biggest Newspaper is in Hot Water, Sailors Mutiny Suppressed in the Tsar’s Salish Sea Fleet
The allegations against the Spokesman Review’s suspended editor in chief are extensive: When longtime Spokesman Review editor Rob Curley was suspended by the paper’s owner in August, followed by a vote of no confidence from his staff, a lot of people wondered what the hell was going on. As the city was engulfed in flames…
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Where to Scream
Stop Sexual Violence Rally & MarchOct 8In response to the Cornell University rape case, Gender Equity Movement is organizing a rally and march to protest sexual violence. They encourage attendees to wear teal and/or carry signs that say “I am Jane Doe.” (Henry M. Jackson Federal Building, 6:30 pm) Solidarity Days With La ResistenciaMultiple datesLa…
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