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Podcast | A WA couple’s struggle to stay housed around Puget Sound
Sandra Mears rented in Seattle for years – until she and her partner had to leave their home because it was getting torn down. They moved to a spot in Snohomish, where they could go to the farmers market, walk to restaurants and feel a sense of community. Subscribe...
Meet the team behind the visual artistry of Black Arts Legacies
In every Black Arts Legacies profile we aim to reveal the essence of an artist — their work and history, of course, but also their image and sound, their community and consequence, and what it feels like to be in their company. We strive to render each complex human as fully and vibrantly as possible.
Seattle Public Schools postpones next step in school closures
The Seattle School Board has postponed for two weeks its vote on the district budget, following a series of public meetings on the district’s plan to close 20 K-5 schools. Seattle Public Schools heard from parents, teachers and students at four community meetings to share details about the plan for a system of “well-resourced schools.” The school board had been scheduled to vote on the budget on Monday, but the decision has been postponed until June 26. The district said on Monday that the meeting had been postponed so they had more time to incorporate public feedback and because of the shooting last week outside of Garfield High School.
Podcast | Author Patrick Radden Keefe on the ethics of true crime
The appetite for true crime is more insatiable than ever, but audiences, authors and podcast producers are also grappling with the ethics of the genre. Patrick Radden Keefe, author of books including Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Family and Say Nothing: A True Story of Memory and Murder in Northern Ireland, has made a career out of telling nuanced stories about unconscionable acts and the people who commit them.
Watch: Riz Rollins
The dance floor and church aren’t all that different. Both serve as places of community, connection, personal enlightenment and poetic beauty. Electronic music and gospel speak to the spirit, and souls are lost and found on the grimy club floor just as often as they are between church pews.
Young Washingtonians talk about why they may not vote in 2024
In 2020, the matchup between Biden and former President Donald Trump was an emotional election during a stressful period in the nation’s history. Young voters motivated by issues like climate change, racial injustice and the COVID-19 pandemic voted in record numbers – more than half of registered voters aged 18-29 turned in a ballot – according to several political advocacy groups.
Your Last Meal | The Leftovers with Dan Pashman
Dan was a guest on Your Last Meal in 2017, so host Rachel Belle checks in to see if his last meal has changed over the past seven years. Then, a speed round! Dan talks about the biggest challenge of writing a cookbook, his carb-on-carb recipe for pasta pizza, and his dream birthday cake.
Seattle veterans clinic faces complaints over leaks, ventilation
A loud whoosh brought Cortez Hopkins out of his office. Two ceiling tiles had crashed down where moments before a staffer had sat packing up records. Water trickled down as Hopkins snapped pictures of the damage. Hopkins and others were working overtime in the logistics office of the Veterans Affairs...
Washington's latest attempt at graffiti cleanup: drones
Chris “Crick” Lont was in his early 20s when he started creating graffiti and was charged with destruction of property. The first thing he wrote with an aerosol can was BABS, for no particular reason besides thinking the letters were really cool. “How the letters were and how...
Canadian, U.S. post-pandemic travel trends are skipping the Point
Few places in the Pacific Northwest were more disrupted by the pandemic than Point Roberts, Washington. The extended closure of the U.S./Canada border to nonessential crossings cut off peninsular Point Roberts, an exclave, from the U.S. mainland. While life has returned to normal for most of us, the rebound is still tenuous in Washington’s most fascinating border town.
Mossback’s Northwest | The “Bird Woman” and an ode to ornithology
When my late father’s eyesight was failing, he could no longer make out birds from his porch. He called them “little brown flitteroonies.” And that’s what birds are for many people: fast-moving bundles of feathers. A few, of course, are well-known, if not always loved: crows, seagulls, pigeons, Canada geese: birds known for cawing, honking or prolific pooping.
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