Category: Culture
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An Open Letter to the Seattle City Council: Nonprofits, Wage Justice and The $15 Minimum Wage Proposal
James Watkins gives us more to think about than the City Council apparently has, in this open letter about the minimum wage proposal.
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Celebrating Seattle: Turtles at Golden Gardens
A stroll to the very north end of Golden Gardens, and some words about turtles with photos.
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This Is What It Means To Say Hanami in Seattle
I’m a JA girl who celebrates Girls’ Day with mochi and pancakes, so I can’t expect authenticity in traditions. This year, as we took our young daughters, I couldn’t help feeling a certain nostalgia for a different kind of hanami, perhaps even a desire for…
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April 28, 1987: Benjamin Linder
Benjamin Linder was not from Seattle, but his time here as a UW student was fondly remembered by many locals in the wake of his assassination by CIA-backed Contras on this date in 1987. Jeff Stevens tells the tragic story.
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Bad Seattle Fashion Blogger: Asshole or Pitiful individual?
Sable Jak steps to the plate and weighs in on Bad Seattle Fashion, and its transplanted author. Surprisingly enough, it stems from psychodrama.
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April 16, 1970: The Birth of the Seattle Seven
The spring of 1970 was an intense time to be a radical in Seattle.
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Recipe For An Improvised Girls’ Day
So why celebrate? Part of the answer lies in presence: the desire to be connected with family, with some of the intentions of Girls’ Day: a day to wish the girls happiness in their futures: a day to sit around a table and share food.…
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This Week in Performance: Week of April 3, 2014
The week ahead in Dance, Music, Theater and Comedy as brought to you by our José Amador…
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April 4, 1980: WREX
Seattle circa 1980 was a place and time of great countercultural renaissance, featured weekly at Belltown’s WREX nightclub. Jeff Stevens punksplains.
