Author: Jeff Stevens

It was 50 years ago today — no joke: Seattle’s first “happy happening for hippies.” Jeff Stevens histories you gladly with paisley chiaroscuro video.

Seattle’s long history of labor strife has occasionally turned tragic. Jeff Stevens tells the story of the 1981 assassination of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes here at the Star.

On this date in 1969, one of Seattle’s most successful citizen activist campaigns gathered crucial force in the Washington Park Arboretum. Jeff Stevens remembers avidly.

Once upon an artistic time, Seattle’s and/or gallery catalyzed our city’s creative community. Jeff Stevens histories you freshly with his erstwhile song.

Gentrification in the Central District has now officially metastasized, courtesy of Vulcan. Jeff Stevens recalls a certain infamous incident in the history of that gentrification this morning at the Star.