nathalie graham

In my column Play Date, I'm exploring Seattle subcultures, hobbies, pastimes, and places where you feel part of something. If you have something I should write about please let me know—I'd love to learn about it. Here are some of the little worlds I've explored so far:

'LGBTQ rugby isn’t a drag': Do read this by @gramsofgnats @TheStranger thestranger.com/queer-issue-20…

For @SeattleMet and @investigatewest I spent months reporting on the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire. Many ex-faire workers allege corruption, labor violations, and abuse. This piece dives into all of it: seattlemet.com/news-and-city-…

There is something so uncanny about the not-quite-right way The Last of Us portrays Seattle, its main setting for season 2. I'm obsessed with it and, if you're a Seattleite, I bet you are, too: thestranger.com/tv/2025/05/14/…

the last of us season 2 episode 3 is what conservative media thought CHOP was like in Seattle

Thank you @gramsofgnats for the shout out! I think “Bruce the Sweeps Freak” is quite fitting thestranger.com/slog-am/2025/0…

no “can’t hold us” during the seventh inning stretch at the mariners game??? Cowards!

okay breaking my silence… why do people live inside of u district station

vibrator that only activates after you’ve written 2 paragraphs

Tom carves all the time. He carves in traffic. He carves in his bed. He carves at the movies—well, that only happened one time at a bad sci-fi movie

but seriously, I loved spending an evening with these carvers. It’s such a giving, passionate environment—a tone set by Tom Henscheid, who brought spoon carving to Pratt

In my latest column, I spent an evening carving a spoon with the Seattle Spoon Club. Their only rule? Don’t say the “f word” (forks) thestranger.com/play-date/2025…

The energy spent here is beautiful. It makes me want to visit Georgia.

Ever wonder why someone built a 16-foot Space Needle replica in Macon, Georgia? Because of love, obviously: seattlemet.com/news-and-city-…

"I held his little body and rocked him like he was sleeping.” What happens after the bombs stop? These 20 voices from Gaza will show you the cost of war—and the strength of those who survive it. mohammedmhawish.com/p/snapshots-i-…

The 101 fwy through DTLA

the last two weeks on here with the fires and the inauguration is as good a reminder as any to start using blue sky (telling myself this as much I am telling you)

@divergentfemme @GuyOron @AlexaVaughn Geogrid! geogridgame.com

@GuyOron @AlexaVaughn lol that game I discovered because of @gramsofgnats had a question of like what country is x and has over 20,000 miles of rail and I’m like not the U.S.

More than a third of the U.S. total is Sound Transit’s 2 Line. It’s ironic that America wants to start a new cold war because if mass transit was the space race, China would be on the way to Mars while the U.S. is still figuring out how to build a liquid fuel rocket.

kyle maclachlan saying "i will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear"

@divergentfemme Same and I’m so bad at it

.@gramsofgnats your slog is so wonderful but also i'm addicted to this game

ready to get backdrafted for the firefighting army in the war against mother nature?

firefighting army goes crazy as a phrase