Marcie Sillman
Stories
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July 7th | Tax the rich
Says a not-quite-technically billionaire. We speak with the county executive, the county’s top public defender, and a Yakima pediatrician who says kids should be in school this fall.
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How slavery and the confederacy show up on the Washington state map
King County is now named for the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – but that didn’t happen without a fight.
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July 6th | Books for a summer of coronavirus
What to read this summer while you’re probably not at the beach. Why the model minority myth must fall for solidarity to rise in its place. And the racist men who still decorate our maps.
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Arts & Life
Artist Aramis O. Hamer says her work has one message: Black lives matter. Period.
Seattle police officers cleared the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone earlier this week, but an indelible reminder of the occupation remains: the colorful Black Lives Matter mural that stretches along Pike Street near Cal Anderson Park. Aramis O. Hamer is one of 17 Seattle artists who collaborated on the mural. Each artist created one of the letters; Hamer painted the “V”.
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Arts & Life
'It’s about me getting back to myself.' Seattle artist explores identity in new photo series
Seattle art fans know Dani Tirrell as a dancer and choreographer, a recipient of the 2019 Mayor’s Arts Award, and a beloved teacher at Northwest Tap Connection. So they were surprised earlier this week when Tirrell published a series of self-portraits on Instagram.
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Arts & Life
She screamed so loud she scared off a rhino, and other Patti Warashina stories
Patti Warashina is a ceramic artist, but during the pandemic, she’s been drawing a lot; pictures of herself drinking martinis, yelling at news coverage of President Trump, and kicking a giant, spiked coronavirus out of her house. “He’s fleeing away from me,” she says with a laugh, “because I’m worse than he is!”
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Arts & Life
As we adjust to life in a long-term pandemic, we could learn a thing or two from this Seattle actor
When Suzy Hunt learned that state health officials had banned public gatherings, her first thoughts were for her friends in Seattle’s theater community. Everyone she knew immediately lost their jobs when performances were cancelled. “There will be more jobs in the future,” Hunt says, “but right now, it’s so unkind.”
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Arts & Life
Seattle poet Colleen McElroy weathers out the pandemic with words
At 85, Colleen McElroy leans into her poetry to weather what life throws her way
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Arts & Life
'Cheering yes!' This Seattle poet believes this time may be different
In the late 1960s, poet Colleen McElroy taught speech and hearing sciences at Western Washington University.
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Arts & Life
Creating Black-centric cultural spaces: "We need honest conversations about Blackness"
Last year Elisheba Johnson left her job at the City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture. Although she loved the staff and the work she was doing, she needed a change. “I’d been having conversations with people about what it would mean to work more specifically with my community, the Black community,” Johnson says.