Seattle! How is it now? Are there jobs? Should I move there?

We have two seasons! Wet and dry.

Both are good.

The Stranger just laid off a bunch of staff, pausing print distribution.

literally every good reporter who worked there in my 7 years here is long gone at this point and transphobic asswipe K***e H****g is among the laid off and T*m K**k is a big ol piece of shit in general and I shed no tears for this institution

genuinely pleased K H is unemployed

JoeStork and I have a good friend who just got laid off by the Stranger today (not KH, obvs), so maybe cool it with the schadenfreude?

:/ I’m of course sorry for your friend’s circumstances in this troubled time.

Very hard not to take pleasure in KH’s tbh, I’m p vindictive on this score. Though of course she’ll probably end up coming out ahead on the terf lecture circuit. Assuming that’s a thing.

I’m sure she’ll score a gig at Quillette or the Atlantic or something. The Stranger still had some good arts writers and if it goes completely under a big source of promotion for local music/film/art disappears.

anyway sorry, really, for being so blasé about people who are not KH losing their jobs, obviously justice would've been better served by her being fired for being bad

not sure if there’s a more active all-purpose thread about Seattle (there’s about 20,000 user-specific FAP threads in the archives and i didn’t want to create another one) so sorry if this isn’t the best place to ask this BUT:

i will be coming up to Seattle in a couple weeks (the 20th through the 24th). it is my second time visiting, but my first time was for a conference and i didn’t get to do much exploring then. anything fun/cool going on around that time? shows, events, exhibitions, etc? any particular restaurants/food that i absolutely must try? good record stores? ftr i am staying downtown and will not have access to a car.