Category: Canada

Jess Stein “Bernie and His Mittens” Not a sticker, but how could I resist? JK It’s the week-iversary of this extremely viral meme. Thanks to SubSpace for posting some wheatpastes of Bernie all over the Hill. Sponsored “Astrology Is Fake” A rare example of a Spongebob meme used for bad. JK Again, I ask to […]

Capitol Hill’s celebrated Middle Eastern restaurant Mamnoon will have a takeout Valentine’s Day dinner with options for wine pairings. Mamnoon EverOut is The Stranger’s new website devoted to things to do in Seattle and across the Pacific Northwest. It has all the same things you’re used to seeing from Stranger EverOut and Stranger Things To […]

Larsie Mae Freeman, AKA Freebird, painted a mural on the back wall of The Crescent. Marc Anderson Every couple of days I go for a walk around Capitol Hill, passing my favorite normal-times hangouts and dreading the sight of plywood and a “thanks for all the great memories” message scrawled on the wood. The last […]

I do not know what GameStop does to make money in the conventional sense, and, to be honest, I never want or need to know. This information is neither here nor there in what I call post-Lehman Brothers capitalism, or the Age of Infinite Money. Nevertheless, there has been too much noise lately about GameStop’s […]

We will survive, hopefully. Courtesy Sundance and Bring Your Own Brigade The upcoming Sundance Film Festival is going virtual for the first time, and many of the festival’s films tackle our great environmental challenges. There’s Lucy Walker’s haunting documentary Bring Your Own Brigade, which takes us on the ground to look at the devastating impacts […]

Welp. Guess we’ll have to wait until 2022 to get sandwiched between furries and the Seahawks band. Timothy Kenney Washington state Senate is considering banning open carry at the Capitol: A Senate committee recently heard public testimony on the measure, which would prohibit carrying weapons while attending a demonstration at a public place (or being […]

YOU GET A VACCINE (next summer), YOU GET A VACCINE (next summer), AND YOU GET A VACCINE (next summer)!!! JOSHUA LOTT/GETTY IMAGES Here’s your daily evening round-up of the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to The Stranger to keep it comin’!) Sponsored The Senate has officially […]

No, no the exclusive vaccination spots for big hospital donors wasn’t actually a donor event! JEFF SWENSEN/GETTY IMAGES Eastside hospital granted special vaccine access to its rich donors: Overlake Medical Center & Clinics sent an email offering guaranteed vaccine slots to around 110 people who had donated over $10,000 to the hospital. The over 500 […]