In dark Seattle winter, Nordic films hit close to home
The films of the Nordic Lights Festival next weekend at SIFF are a testament to our cultural kinship with Scandinavia.
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Categories: Film
New novel fuses immigrant experience and transgender identity
Canadian transplant Kim Fu’s “For Today I am a Boy” is hot off the press with a fresh perspective on Asian American transgender identity.
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Categories: Analysis, Arts & Culture, LGBTQ, Women
Local love for the world’s cutest (and most endangered) cats
Four decades on, a new generation of Seattleites continues efforts to protect Central Asia’s snow leopards.
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Categories: Environment
Three ways to get a global coffee fix in Seattle
A guide to the diverse international coffee scene that often flies below our over-caffeinated radar.
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Categories: Food
Getting schooled by South American student activists
Students in Chile and Argentina are proving that meaningful education reform means taking over schools and getting young people into office.
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Categories: Education
Marvel debuts first Muslim heroine to headline a comic series
G. Willow Wilson, Seattle author of the new Marvel Comics series released next month, explains how a typical Pakistani-American teen and her alter ego Ms. Marvel should be everyone’s all-American hero.
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Categories: Arts & Culture, News, Religion, Women
Judge rules gadgets are fair game in warrantless border searches
If you come with 100 miles of the Canadian border, the government can search your phone or laptop without cause.
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Categories: Politics, Technology
Northwest brewmaster incites Chinese craft beer revolution
A beer lover from Portland is helping to bring microbrews to China’s macro market.
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Categories: Food
An elusive Japanese New Year’s treat returns to Seattle
Art Oki, mastermind of Umai-Do Japanese sweet shop, brings the nostalgic taste of manju home for the holiday season.
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Categories: Arts & Culture, Food
From Mexico to Tacoma, a shared struggle against domestic violence
A visit to an impoverished village Veracruz uncovers a shared trauma, and the shared strength to overcome abuse. Leer en Español
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Categories: Aid and Development, Health, Women
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