Category: Culture
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Michelle Witt’s UW World Series: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
Thoughts about the UW World Series so far under new leader Michelle Witt.
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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.”
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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…
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January 17, 1970: Jerry Rubin Brings the Chicago Noise to Seattle
When the Yippie brought knowledge to college.
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We Are One
One year ago today, The Seattle Star posted our first article. A reflective look back, on our anniversary.
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Reclaiming Elitism
Thoughtful communities should always value judgment over opinion. Popularity is not a judgment and should never concern anyone thinking about what is beautiful. Push come to shove, I will always encourage what is beautiful over what is popular.
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We Need Communities of Works
An op-ed piece from Seattle author, poet and musician, Alvin L.A. Horn.
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Welcoming the Return of the Light: Unsilent Night 2012
According to the “Unsilent Night” website, Phil Kline composed the piece in 1992, originally as a one-time way to bring back the experience of caroling and combine it “with his love of experimental music.” Because he was working with boomboxes, he wrote the piece to…
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Interleavings: Serendipity and Auto/Biographical Process
I spent a good part of today searching for page numbers for footnotes in an essay I’m finishing up. The writing’s finished but my citations aren’t. No one’s fault but my own. Did I really think I would remember the page number to footnote 19…
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