Margo Vansynghel

Friday night rehearsals of one of Seattle’s most-hyped rock bands, The Black Tones, do not speak to the clichéd tropes of rock ’n’ roll. In a basement rehearsal space that’s also a music school in West Seattle, there are no egos, hard drugs or hard…

On the eve of competing for a national title, rising poet Azura Tyabji visits formative locales in her hometown. It’s been four years, but Azura Tyabji still remembers the thumps of her thick-heeled, black boots — “goth clown shoes," as she calls…

The sky is invariably dark, the atmosphere eerily quiet when Mariela Camacho gets to the commissary kitchen at 3 AM. No buzzing of mixers yet. No butter sizzling in pans, radio in the background, or cooks chopping onions, or bakers kneading dough.…

Kate Berwanger is a strange woman. Those are her own words. She just can’t really explain what it means, exactly. She just knows that like many other women writers in Seattle, she identifies with the epithet. “One of my favorite writers is Aimee…

Anthony White is obsessed with the stuff that surrounds us: luxury shopping bags, iPhone screens, nail polish, trash. During his walks from the International District where he paints and sculpts to the Capitol Hill and Pioneer Square venues where he …

Feature RYAN! Feddersen exposes perspectives hidden from history. Last summer, heavy heat filled the air of King Street Station’s upper galleries, posing a particular problem for RYAN! Feddersen, who was showing a large map of the United States …

In libraries, time seems to stretch. The hours of possible reading, the abundance of plotted pasts or imagined futures appears to slow down time. Yet there’s no such thing as slowing down when we meet Angel Gardner, Seattle’s Youth Poet Laureate, in …