Charles Mudede

1 week ago | thestranger.com | Charles Mudede

"A Message to You Rudy." That's the title of a tune I love. And with the riddim of that SKA classic in mind, I want to call this entry of Slog AM: "Message to You, Dow Constantine." It nothing but sucks that Link is virtually out of order until April 24. This is not at all acceptable. You just don't happen to find cracks in your rails, conclude it is what it is, and bring a major part of the region's public transportation system to a near standstill like it ain't no thing.

2 weeks ago | thestranger.com | Charles Mudede

Television, it seems, has entered the bunker. Apple TV+’s Silo, Amazon’s Fallout, and Hulu’s Paradise are, one, hugely popular (the former was granted a third season; the latter two, a second), and take place after anthropogenic extinction-level events that push humanity underground, into a world of simulated sunlight and a nature that has been entirely replaced by agriculture.

2 weeks ago | thestranger.com | Charles Mudede

Illustrations by Mike Merg After years of living with little to no perturbation beneath a live volcano and above the super-threatening Seattle Fault and seeing the violence of anthropogenic weather events increase, I finally snapped when, in late February, I read that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was cutting jobs at the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA).

3 weeks ago | thestranger.com | Charles Mudede

Liberation Day? According to Trump, yesterday, April 2, 2025, shall always "be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America's destiny was reclaimed and the day that we began to make America wealthy again." (So, America is poor?) What this comes down to, according to the ABC News report, is a "minimum baseline tariff of 10% on all trading partners and further, more targeted levies on certain countries like China, the European Union and Taiwan." Wow. Just wow.

4 weeks ago | thestranger.com | Charles Mudede

Deadline reports that after a few years of growing unease and rumours flying about Sundance leaving Park City for somewhere here (Cincinnati?) or there (LA?), a decision has finally been made to move the US' most important film festival to Boulder, Colorado in 2027. Can I say it like it is? It never made sense for a festival that values diversity and creative independence to be, in all places, Utah.