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Seattle joins national walkout for a ‘Free America’
Marking one year since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, Seattle demonstrators joined a nationwide strike Tuesday, Jan. 20, answering a call to be “ungovernable” in the face of what organizers called an “escalating fascist threat.” At 2 p.m., protesters gathered on the plaza at Seattle Central College for the “Free America Walkout.”…
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Oh, to be young and poor in the Emerald City
Life in Seattle is objectively different for each individual who lives here, though the struggles each person faces—or rather, the root of them—are much more similar than they seem. Student life in Seattle, for example, although it can vary from person to person, has some universal truths. College is expensive. Most students work to cover…
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Change the Record: A$AP Rocky – “Don’t Be Dumb”
You know, I relate to A$AP Rocky in a lot of ways. We may be complete opposites in demographic, class, race, sexuality, and gender, and I may not be devastatingly handsome and in a relationship with Rihanna. But like him, I too am terrible at delivering major projects on time. A$AP Rocky is an American…
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Change the Record: The Top 15 Albums of 2025
It’s been a while, folks, but I’m fully back now. More importantly, I can regurgitate my opinions at all of you without prior permission. As 2026 approaches, I might as well reflect on the past year of music before we go on. 2025 was a strong year for music, as most years are. The charts…
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Walking the AIDS Memorial Pathway
Under the low, slate-gray sky of a Seattle winter, the Capitol Hill Station plaza vibrates with perpetual motion. Commuters funnel between light rail, buses, and the bustle of Broadway, head-down in a space defined by the transient logic of transit. But a geography of loss slices through that flow. Steel, glass, and concrete anchor a…
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After the end, the beginning: Octavia Butler’s “Lilith’s Brood” reimagines what it means to be human
In Octavia Butler’s “Lilith’s Brood” trilogy, humankind has awakened from “extinction” to face a new, borderline-impossible choice: survive through change, or die with their humanity intact. First published in May 1987 under the series title “Xenogenesis”—later renamed “Lilith’s Brood”—the trilogy’s three novels, “Dawn,” “Adulthood Rites,” and “Imago,” form one of Butler’s most visionary, haunting works….
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Seattle Central loses TRIO funding–students feel the effects
The Trump administration’s efforts to scale back the U.S. Department of Education have now reached Seattle Central. This fall, the administration did not renew millions of dollars in federal grants for Central’s TRIO Classic program, which supports disadvantaged students. Central is evaluating ways to fund the program and reallocate its resources, but students are already…
