March 23, 1967: The Cocoon Breaks, the Helix Emerges
Seattle has a long history of excellent local alternative newspapers. Jeff Stevens remembers Helix, our city’s late-1960s countercultural oracle.
Everyone’s a Critic–Except When They’re Not, Part Two
More thoughts on Culturebot’s Everyone’s a Critic evening.
Everyone’s a Critic–Except When They’re Not, Part One
Thoughts on Culturebot’s presentation at On the Boards: not quite the horizontal approach at its most refined.
March 4, 1978: The Bird Was the Word
Before there was “the year punk broke,” there was the night when “punks flipped the Bird.” Jeff Stevens tells the brazen story of the Bird, Seattle’s first punk club.
Three Boxes, One Classroom: Another Argument for Food Banks
We learned this lesson in Portland from our daughter: It’s one thing to see the full boxes, to see the food that’s being given. It’s another thing to see the hunger. Tamiko Nimura gets back to basics.
Michelle Witt’s UW World Series: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
Thoughts about the UW World Series so far under new leader Michelle Witt.
February 9, 1971: The SCCC Oriental Student Union Sit-In
Jeff Stevens tells the tale of how Asian-American youth in early-1970s Seattle defied the myth of “the quiet Asian.”
January 26, 1969: The Assassination of Edwin T. Pratt
The surge of assassinations of leaders of the civil rights and black liberation movements in the late 1960s cast a wide enough net across the United States that it was bound to reach Seattle eventually. It did so on the date in focus here, when Edwin T. Pratt was shot to death in the doorway of his home on a snowy Sunday night.
January 17, 1970: Jerry Rubin Brings the Chicago Noise to Seattle
The Chicago Seven begat the Seattle Seven — and it all began with Jerry Rubin. Jeff Stevens histories you stridently.
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