The eagle has landed: Air Force One touched down at SeaTac International Airport shortly after 5 pm, carrying Mr. President Joseph Robinette Biden and several government types aboard.

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— Amanda Zhou (@AmondoZhou) April 22, 2022

In preparation for his arrival, the city swept nearly every tent in view of the Westin Hotel: Democrats love holding fundraisers at the Westin, and cops blocked off streets around the hotel, so it’s likely that President Joe Biden will pay the spot a little visit on his trip to this corner of the country. “To ensure a secure perimeter” for his event, today the city swept poor people away from 5th

This Vermont poet is a Seattle institution… Courtesy Rajnii Eddins

When Rajnii Eddins moved from Seattle to Vermont 12 years ago, I felt that this city had lost a big part of its culture. His mother, Randee Eddins, founded the African American Writers Alliance, an organization I became involved with during the first half of the 1990s. When I taught literature to high school students at Seattle Central College in the second half of the 1990s, the best mind in the class was undoubtedly Eddins’. Indeed, he read to the class the whole of Zora Neale Hurston’s ebonics-rich Their Eyes Were Watching God flawlessly. They

The show’s name suggests sexual and geographic reproduction, both gratifying and destructive all at once. JONATHAN VANDERWEIT/COURTESY OF HENRY ART GALLERY

On a recent bright afternoon at the Henry, sunlight poured into the lower gallery and onto Donna Huanca’s exhibition, Magma Slit. The sunbeams bounced around the all-white room, making the four massive color-soaked paintings on its walls appear even brighter.

As I did laps around the gallery, I lost track of time. I tried to absorb a particular shade of pink in one corner, sized myself up against some body rubbings in another, and listened to bird trills in a curated soundscape section of the show. Far from being

Originally set to shoot in Michigan, the locally-made film is now premiering at the Seattle International Film Festival. Courtesy Seal Tree LLC

Midday Black Midnight Blue is a film that almost never was. Set to premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival this Thursday, it tells a story about how grief rearranges your life and memory.

Ultimately filmed on Whidbey Island, the initial plan for filmmakers Samantha Soule and Daniel Talbott was to shoot at the Great Lakes in Michigan. Speaking over Zoom, they shared how it seemed like their production might not pan out. Thankfully, for us and them, the film was able to find new life by