by Kristin Palpini | Mar 14, 2016 | Articles, Letters from our Readers, News
Praying for Bernie I am praying for a Bernie Sanders presidency. If we want our compassionate world to come truly, in our heart of hearts, then we say to each other we are ready to take the steps and say the words to invite that world. Bernie is the only candidate who...
by Chuck Shepherd | Mar 14, 2016 | Articles, News, News of the Weird
Seattle’s ambitious Office of Arts & Culture has allocated $10,000 this year to pay a poet or writer to create a work while present on the city’s Fremont Bridge drawbridge. The office’s deputy director told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in January that the city...
by Kristin Palpini | Mar 14, 2016 | Articles, Astrology, Wellness
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Artist Steven Spasuk works exclusively with an unusual medium: soot from candles and torches. He spreads the stuff across a blank canvas, then uses various instruments to sculpt the accidental blobs into definitive forms. I’ve seen the...
by Hunter Styles | Mar 14, 2016 | Articles
Chapel Falls explodes with light. Under the playful paintbrush of Scout Cuomo, the quiet Ashfield nature reserve and hiking trail becomes a riot of neon color and soft, dappled shapes. Every hot-pink inch of the glass canvas, layered with acrylic paint and epoxy, is a...
by Kristin Palpini | Mar 14, 2016 | Articles, Between the Lines, News
Back in the early 2000s, most people thought biomass power plants seemed like an excellent renewable resource, but now we know better. Burning excess construction materials and/or wood scraps and pellets — the typical “mass” in biomass — releases an unhealthy level of...