UW Librarians and University Press Staff Walk Out
On the first day of spring quarter at the University of Washington (UW) Seattle campus on Monday, librarians and press staff walked out to demand a fair contract. The workers, represented by SEIU 925, are employees of UW Libraries, UW Press, and the Gallagher Law Library. The proposals exchanged between the two sides reveal a…
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April Things to Do: Performance
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. The Best Damn Thing Through Apr 18 My introduction to Avril Lavigne was when my friend received a CD copy of Avril’s seminal 2002 album Let Go at her 12th birthday party. It was the turning…
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April Things to Do: Film
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. Gumby in 4K Apr 1–5 Gumby, the son of Gumbo and Gumba, is a little green guy obsessed with milkshakes and ice cream, which he begrudgingly orders with “no ice” or else it will freeze him…
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April Things to Do: Visual Art
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. Joe Rudko: Meditations in an Emergency Through Apr 25 Joe Rudko—best known for his meticulous, hand-cut photo collage pieces that starburst, splay, and weave—has turned to a medium that seemingly could not be farther from those…
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April Things to Do: Music
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. Go Kurosawa, the Ocean Apr 5 As drummer for Kikagaku Moyo, Go Kurosawa helped guide Japan’s greatest 21st-century psych-rock group to astronomical heights, until they went on “indefinite hiatus” in 2022 while at their peak. Whereas…
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April Things to Do: Literature
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. Nonfiction for No Reason Apr 5 Nonfiction for No Reason is back, baby. After an almost year-long hiatus, this local reading series is opening up their season at the ANTiPODE Art Gallery. Founded and curated by…
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April Things to Do: Food
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. Plate of Nations Through Apr 12 More than 50 restaurants are participating in this year’s Plate of Nations, where, for three weeks, South Seattle restaurants offer specials for about $20 to $40 that are big enough…
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April Things to Do: This & That
Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. Pop Cats Apr 18–19 Let’s face it, we live in a dog’s world. They are allowed in our parks, our stores, our restaurants, our gyms. They even have their own order at Starbucks. This can be…
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Disappointment in Moominland
Before attending the Moomins’ Sea Adventures and Tove and the Sea exhibits at the National Nordic Museum, I likened it to the Mona Lisa’s voyage to the US in 1963. “This presentation marks the first time these exhibitions from the Moomin Museum in Tampere, Finland, have ever traveled across the Atlantic,” states the museum’s website.…
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Slog AM: Kristi Noem’s Husband Allegedly a “Bimbo”, Crosslake Connection Is Simply Amazing, Great Lineup for Bumbershoot 2026
Crossing Lake Washington on a Link 2 train is one of the most magical experiences that North American public transportation has to offer. Its lake-level beauty and tranquility is, as far as I can tell, unmatched by any part of NYC’s subway, or even Vancouver BC’s Skytrain, which is the most developed light rail system…
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Drag Race Episode 13: The Great Jane Robbery
I was ready to call Jane Don’t this season’s winner weeks ago. But in Drag Race, a record-breaking track record means nothing compared to whipping up a social media frenzy by axing a frontrunner just before the finals, which is exactly what they did. I was pissed. Jane was pissed. And so was every other…
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Cheri Hardman Is an Undisputable Champion of Comedy
When I saw comedian Cheri Hardman perform at Bumbershoot in 2024, she started to tell a joke about food falling on her boobs that was very funny. People chuckled, people with big boobs who understood her pain chuckled louder, and then Hardman surprised the crowd when she took the joke further… and further still… and…
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