Jordan Somers Seattle city officials announced Wednesday their decision to withdraw a request that would lift eight years of federal oversight of the Seattle Police Department. This change came on the heels of pressure from community organizers, political leaders and demonstrators calling for measures to defund and demilitarize Seattle police. Meanwhile, thousands continued to march downtown and…
Thomas McKenzie | The Seattle Collegian Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot or WTF is our new weekly column diving into the semi weird and confusing terrain of life as we know it currently. Is it news? We aren’t entirely sure, but we know it’s all important. Once a week our very own Thomas McKenzie will dive into a new and semi-ridiculous topic. Have…
@FactoresdePoder Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot or WTF is our new weekly column diving into the semi weird and confusing terrain of life as we know it currently. Is it news? We aren’t entirely sure, but we know it’s all important. Once a week our very own Thomas McKenzie will dive into a new and semi-ridiculous topic. Have…
Thomas McKenzie | The Seattle Collegian A long, long time ago in a faraway galaxy called Minneapolis, there lived a singer, songwriter,musician, record producer, dancer, actor, and filmmaker named Prince. He was a guitar virtuoso,a legendary multi-instrumentalist known for eclectic genre-crossing work, a wildly flamboyantpersona and some of the absolutely greatest live shows in the business. He wrote his first song“Funk…
Washington State Dept. of Agriculture Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot or WTF is our new weekly column diving into the semi weird and confusing terrain of life as we know it currently. Is it news? We aren’t entirely sure, but we know it’s all important. Once a week our very own Thomas McKenzie will dive into a new and semi-ridiculous topic. Have…
Thomas McKenzie | The Seattle Collegian The West Seattle Bridge (officially the Jeanette Williams Memorial Bridge), is the primary route of access between West Seattle and the rest of the city. Constructed in 1924, then reconstructed between 1981 and 1984 after damage sustained in a 1978 vessel incident, the bridge spans the east and west channels that form the mouth of…
Anna Bleker Little Richard, the self-described “king and queen” of rock ‘n’ roll, died Saturday at the age of 87 in Tullahoma, Tenn. Born Richard Wayne Penniman on December 5, 1932, in Macon, Georgia, Little Richard would become a pioneering powerhouse, inspiring generations of musicians like Prince, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Otis Redding, and Elvis Costello. His…
Thomas McKenzie | The Seattle Collegian In December of 2019, a Twitter user in Seattle posted an image of a homeless person sleeping on the cold ground near a bench. The bench in question, meanwhile, was occupied by a bronze sculpture called Homeless Jesus; a bronze depiction of a sleeper huddled under a blanket on a 7-foot-long bench, and only recognizable…
Thomas McKenzie | The Seattle Collegian The coronavirus outbreak is everywhere. It’s the drunken party guest on the global stage nobody wanted; vomiting on the furniture, smashing the glass coffee table of the global economy, ruining our personal lives, and smearing its grubby little hands on everything from local mom-and-pop businesses like barber shops and bakeries to larger businesses like air…
Thomas McKenzie | The Seattle Collegian We’re all burned out on Coronavirus. COVID-19, the ‘Rona, or whatever you want to call it has been hitting us from every side lately. Every news story, video social event, junk email, social media meme and shopping list since the week of March 5 have all had the same subject line. It’s claimed lives and…