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Seattle lost one of its most steadfast cultural chroniclers when writer Charles R. Cross died in his sleep on Friday, Aug. 9. He was 67. A consummate music journalist — whose credits include definitive biographies of Kurt Cobain, Heart and Jimi Hendrix — he was also just a guy who loved Seattle and wanted people to know what makes this place so peculiar and frustrating and wonderful. As with many long-time residents, Cross could be cranky about …

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A tribute to Charles R. Cross, Seattle writer, historian & friend

Fifty years ago this month, America experienced a shocking and peaceful transfer of power when President Richard M. Nixon resigned from the presidency and his successor, Vice President Gerald R. Ford, assumed office. It was the culmination of the Watergate scandal — a political bookend to the tumultuous 1960s. That spring, a few months before Nixon’s resignation, Ford had visited Olympia to speak and I went to see him with my college press crede…

50 years later, WA still feels the cultural reverberations of 1974

When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, advocates and providers in Washington predicted an influx of abortion patients from Idaho would follow. Now, advocates for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence along Washington’s eastern border are also reporting increased demand on their services from people in Idaho, directly tied to the state’s abortion ban and shifts in access in the years since the Dobbs ruling. For survivors …

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For some Idaho sexual assault survivors, there is no Plan B

When Skagit Valley artist Todd Horton first learned that trees communicate with each other, he was determined to depict the phenomenon on canvas. He’d just read The Overstory, by Richard Powers, a novel based on the scientific evidence that trees “talk to” each other through root systems, fungi and airborne chemical signals (aka the “world wood web”).  “I loved that book,” Horton recalls. “So I was like, well, how can I translate that idea into …

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Art by NW: Todd Horton’s drawing devices reveal the dreams of trees

Through her business and nonprofit PNW Plateful, Chan helps bring Caribbean flavors and spices to Whatcom County.

Calypso Kitchen’s Sarah Chan is a food ambassador

Remember during the COVID shutdowns, when artists enlivened boarded-up storefronts with vibrant murals? It wasn’t a panacea, but the bursts of color and emotion did offer a kind of salve — a sense of community amid such isolation. Now muralists are being called upon again to bring energy and interest to the urban areas still dulled by the post-pandemic reality of fewer people working in offices all week long.  Part of Mayor Harrell’s Downtown Ac…

ArtSEA: If you paint it, will they come? Seattle hopes so

Jasmine Brennan started her first job a few months after turning 16. Like most high school students who work, Brennan found a position in food service, taking orders behind the counter at a Jack in the Box in Ferndale. Read more...

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Two years since Roe v. Wade was overturned, a new report outlines the effects on health care in the PNW. Plus, a new arts show from Cascade PBS.

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