It's a beautiful day, and it's a beautiful day to snag some official CHUM News merch 😎 Some options: - Go to ko-fi.com/chumnews. You get a free tote when you sign up at any supporter level, and you get a free tote *and* hat starting at $14.99/mo 🫨 - Buy our merch directly at chumnews.bigcartel.com

Haven’t done our glossy merch photoshoot yet but we just got these beautiful, locally embroidered CHUM News hats and we’d love for you to buy one 🫶 Tote bags available too, printed by Midnight Supply Company. Free merch for paid subscribers. More on that in our shop below: chumnews.bigcartel.com

preview of the energy at Candidate Survivor on Thurs Jul 19 @ Neumos (6:30pm) feat @washingtonbus.org and the illustrious Harper Bizarre

Citing a *potential* defeat of the millionaires tax through a Nov ballot initiative, Joy Hollingsworth is proposing to cut costs by defunding Seattle’s (newly announced) universal school meal program. We’re on-site to share updates, and livestream here: www.seattlechannel.org/videos?video...

After testifying in favor of Seattle’s data-center moratorium, members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice claim their employer is now trying to intimidate them:

As of 6:30 this morning, unionized hotel workers at Hilton’s Embassy Suites in Pioneer Square are on strike. With the World Cup in full swing, UNITE HERE Local 8 union members are fighting for fair wages, workplace protections from ICE, improved staffing, and more consistent health benefits:

It’s been 6 months since we launched CHUM News, and we've gotten a lot done 🐟 We want to do more — and we want to pay our contributors more than the Seattle Times typically does 👀 Check out our financial roadmap, and consider becoming a paid CHUM subscriber. + get a cool tote! linktr.ee/chum.news

This Friday 🚨 - see a STACKED lineup of drag and burlesque performers - make your own Pride-themed print with @partnersinprint.bsky.social - chuckle at punny cocktail names (or buy a beer from Aslan brewing) get a ticket in advance so we know how many Jell-O shots to make lol tinyurl.com/bdy8ctus

FERRY TALES #3 IS OUT! ⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️ click below and enjoy a day on the M/V Spokane: - learn about the Kingston Curse 👻 - meet an endearing mother 📲 - encounter some engine-room eye candy 🍬 all that and more right here; welcome aboard ⬇️ www.chum.news/ferry-tales-...

Grab a pot of tea with us on May 7 for the first CHUM News poetry reading, hosted by Poetry Editor Lue Hughes at Cedar Tea House in Columbia City 🫖 Featuring: - Ally Ang - Quenton Baker - Dujie Tahat Free entry, but plz RSVP here: forms.gle/3d5kXsCTXJUK...

Pride month is *just* in June? Not anymore, honey! Join CHUM News and Common Area Maintenance on Friday, May 15 for EARLY-ONSET PRIDE MONTH, a celebration of queer art and community hosted by Miss Texas 1988 💅🏼 dope DJ, drag, burlesque, fruity mingling, etc. Tickets: www.chum.news/early-onset-...

Lots of new followers over the past day -- thought we'd re-introduce ourselves 🐟 CHUM News is a brand-new, independently owned, subscriber-supported culture publication covering Seattle in all its eccentricity: www.chum.news/about

Our illustrious Ferry Tales illustrator, Jed Judt, has an exquisite BFA exhibition on display at the 9th Ave Gallery (2014 9th Ave) through 4/17. Go check it out!!

News/our thoughts from Mayor Wilson’s State of the City speech: - Hiawatha Community Center in W Seattle opening on Saturday! 🎉 - Wilson referred to Seattle’s corporate giants as the “employer community”??? 🥴 - Cleared the waitlist of folks for the Fresh Bucks food program 👍 [1/2]

Join CHUM News for our latest party, CHUM LOVE, on Saturday, February 21 at The Fishbowl (424 2nd Ave. West) from 7 to ~10PM 🗓️ We’re repurposing Valentine’s Day energy into something more literary, platonic, and civically oriented 😌 RSVP below 💌 forms.gle/JDj78qcYkCYG...

On assignment for CHUM News, Seattle photographer David Jaewon Oh scoped out the Woodland Park Gran Prix: a lively, boozy, day-festival-like cycling competition featuring 1,000+ racers—and, perhaps, the largest tandem-bike race in the world. (Citation pending.) www.chum.news/woodland-par...

Author @maxdelsohn.bsky.social’s first-ever published book, Crawl, a series of short stories about transmasc life in Seattle in the 2010s, is the most delightful—and sometimes also devastating—thing we’ve read this year. The first in our “Dining and Writing” series: www.chum.news/dining-writi...

Last month, artists’ collective Common Area Maintenance bought a 30,000-square-foot building in Belltown for 20 dollars. 🏗️ What comes next? CHUM News went on a tour of CAM’s new property, the 115-year-old El Rey, to learn more: www.chum.news/chum-tours-e...