Crosscut Black Arts Legacies
WEBBlack Arts Legacies celebrates local musicians, dancers, visual artists, poets, performers, curators and architects whose creative expressions reflect the complexity of being a Black artist in Seattle. Theirs are stories of being the first, of contending with discrimination and breaking down barriers, of long careers and careers cut short, and ...
Cascade PBS News | Washington state & Seattle News
WEBThe Pacific Northwest’s independent, reader-supported, nonprofit news site. The Cascade PBS newsroom strives to provide readers with the facts and analysis they need to intelligently participate in civic discourse, and to create a more just, equitable and sustainable society.
Seattle and King County Voter Guide 2021 - crosscut.com
WEBThe questions we asked candidates came from you, the voters. When we debuted Crosscut’s Seattle and King County Voter Guide ahead of the August primary, we wanted local voters at the heart of it ...
Tina Bell - Black Arts Legacies
WEBJun 1, 2022 · Tina Bell sings with her 1980s grunge band Bam Bam. (Courtesy Michael Patnode & Buttocks Productions) The 1984 music video for “Ground Zero,” by Seattle rock band Bam Bam, kicks off with a grinding guitar riff and a backdrop of fast-motion clouds. The camera pulls back, and a four-person band …
Ishmael Butler - Black Arts Legacies
WEBJun 1, 2022 · They eventually bought a house in the historic Central District, where Butler was born in 1969. At Garfield High School, Butler was a standout basketball player, who as a senior took the team to the state championships in 1987. He went on to play Division I basketball at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Kabby Mitchell - Black Arts Legacies
WEBJun 1, 2022 · Kabby Mitchell. The Pacific Northwest Ballet’s first Black dancer went on to co-found a treasured performing arts school in Tacoma. by Jasmine Mahmoud / June 1, 2022. Kabby Mitchell (Courtesy of The Evergreen State College) “Kabby knew everybody,” says Klair Ethridge. Executive director of the Tacoma …
Watch: Debora Moore - Black Arts Legacies
WEBJun 14, 2024 · On a recent spring morning in an open-air hot shop behind an old wood house in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, a furnace glowed red in contrast to the gray day. Glass artist Debora Moore sat in front of the flames, dressed in jeans, a black T-shirt and black shades. She attended to the cooling glass at the end of her rod, shaping ...
Watch: Al Doggett and Barry Johnson - Black Arts Legacies
WEBJun 1, 2022 · Johnson explores art and identity by changing up his practice, shifting through mediums to find the most true expression of a concept, from vibrant self-portraits to symbolic installations to his 2016 children’s book, Oh What Wonderful Hair (based on styling his own daughters’ hair). Barry Johnson poses for a portrait in his studio in ...
Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes concedes primary election
WEBWith 31% of the vote, Holmes trails Davison's 33% and Thomas-Kennedy's 35.5%. With few remaining ballots to be counted, Holmes’ time ran out. That means, barring extraordinary circumstances ...
Legislative tracker 2022 - Home - Crosscut
WEBFeb. 15 is the deadline for this legislative session’s policy bills to pass out of their house of origin. Bills related to the budget do not have a deadline, so even if a bill appears dead, it ...