Margo Vansynghel

Recently, she made a pitstop in the Pacific Northwest to do something she had never done before: record a podcast. Called All My Relations, the podcast, recorded at the Tacoma Art Museum, explores the complexities of what it means to be Native…

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…

It’s one of those perfect spring afternoons. The sun rays glitter on the water of Lake Washington. Ryan Metzger swiftly opens up his car door, walks up to the porch of a grand Leschi house and immediately reaches for the trash. To clarify: it’s very…

On this day, the living room is nearly empty. No TV, no green couch, no toothsome pastry scents. Next week, however,the house will be filled with art, concerts, film screenings and people when it reopens April 5 as a Black arts and community space…

They know they are probably too late. They know that after a multi-year journey of hearings, community meetings, public comment, and legal challenges, the Seattle City Council wants the Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) legislation, which…

Audrey Phillips is not great at small talk. She’s more of a listener. People have always felt comfortable sharing their stories with her. Once, she was seated next to an older man on the plane from Seattle to New Jersey. She asked him how he was…

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.…

One by one, three men came forward to tell personal stories they hadn’t publicly shared in over fifty years. For five decades, no one had heard how Lance’s mother turned him into the recruiter’s office during the Vietnam War after dropping out of…

Feature In a city changing under our feet, holding onto the past can be an existential endeavor. But what gets preserved? Historical buildings associated with minorities are less likely to get landmarked—so some are working to set the record…

Power lines slice diagonally across the frosty white earth like a scar, stretching into darkened mountains. Behind them, an orange glow suggests another world. Ochre and gray houses, tree stubs emerge from the snow. Hurried lines suggest a painter …

Feature For more than two decades, Tacoma has used arts as a tool. What if it has become a weapon? What about an industrial bubble machine?” James Allan Tucker is brainstorming ways to liven up the annual Tacoma music and art festival Art on the Ave. …

The action was led by Chris McClain, Business Manager for the Iron Workers Local 86 and President of the Seattle Building & Construction Trades Council. A day earlier, Amazon — one of the union’s largest indirect employers — had announced it would …