Out of the Restaurant, into the Wild
A feature for the Seattle Times Sunday PNW section about chefs who've left the restaurant for greener pastures.
The Expanding Orbit of Octavia Butler
The Seattle Times devoted an entire Sunday magazine issue to my feature package on sci-fi author Octavia Butler.
AI Won't Save Humanity Until We Get the Story Right
Once upon a time, a machine beat a man at chess and changed humanity's understanding of itself.
I ghostwrote this story for the CEO of Loka, Bobby Mukherjee.
I ghostwrote this story for the CEO of Loka, Bobby Mukherjee.
Why It’s Hard to Make Friends When You Move to Seattle
Before you arrive in Seattle you’ll already know the civic signifiers mentioned in every human-interest story about this distant burg published in every American newspaper: the rain, the coffee, the music, the tech.
Supra-Human
Google’s Artists and Machine Intelligence program grants accomplished artists direct access to unfathomable computing power. This collaboration between art, engineering and artificial intelligence may be rewriting the future.
Pierre Kwenders' Multitudinous Self
My feature profile of Congolese-Canadian musician and global dance-music ambassador Pierre Kwenders for Rolling Stone
Upbeat Anxiety
Listen to this scripted multimedia feature about rising Seattle MC Sol that I wrote and recorded for KEXP's "Sound & Vision" podcast.
At the Intersection of Tech, Culture and Commerce
From a nucleus in downtown Seattle, Arif Gursel stakes out space for a new wave of Black empowerment.
Seattle Now: Reinventing Live Music
I was interviewed on the local NPR affiliate KUOW about the pitfalls of basing the entire concert industry on alcohol sales and the post-Covid possibility of inventing a more accessible, more sustainable business model.
David Byrne, Imelda Marcos and Seattle Rep
An interview with David Byrne about his musical collaboration with Fatboy Slim, Here Lies Love
Shift Change
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, a few colleagues and I launched Shift Change to document the stories of ordinary people on the front lines during a transformational period in American life.
Event Horizon: Black Constellation’s Revolutionary Now
With their fearless art sparked by issues of race, equity, and unconscious connection, the Black Constellation collective offers a radical reckoning of our current cultural moment.
Viva Vera: 20 Years of All-Ages Music and Art
As president of the board of the Vera Project, Seattle's all-ages, nonprofit arts incubator, I wrote the script for our 20th-anniversary retrospective video. I also make a cameo appearance :)
Daniel Norgren: Wooh Dang
You probably haven’t heard of Rude, Sweden, a sylvan enclave several hours north of Stockholm, and that suits Daniel Norgren just fine. You probably haven’t heard of Daniel Norgren either. Depending on who you ask, the 35-year-old Swede is some kind of hermit, mystic, bedroom-pop musician, or all of the above. With multiple home-recorded LPs released on his own Superpuma Records over the last decade and countless shows played across Scandinavia and Western Europe, Norgren happily exists as an ou
An Oral History of the First Lollapalooza
On the festival's 20th anniversary, Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Rollins Band, Siouxsie and the Banshees and many others tell the behind-the-scenes story of the music festival that changed music festivals forever.
New Power Generation
Prizing his mixed-race heritage and anchored in a stunning boutique in Pike Place Market, Louie Gong energizes a new wave of Native American culture.
Reznor's Edge
An interview with Grammy Award Winner Trent Reznor
Millennial Tension: FKA Twigs Arrives With the Menacing, Incandescent 'LP1'
My review of FKA Twigs debut LP
Enter Meow Wolf
I have seen the center of the universe, and it is located inside a dinged-up clothes dryer in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Stop Dying to Live
The 25th anniversary of Seattle’s most venerable rock ’n’ roll institution kicked off not with a band but a book reading.
Seattle Musicians Pick 8 Songs That Capture 2018
I asked eight Seattle artists to tell us about one song that encapsulates their 2018.
T-Mobile NASDAQ Tower Takeover
I wrote the T-Mobile messaging that appeared on the 10,000-square-foot NASDAQ Tower in Times Square for two weeks in May 2020.
A Look at 2017 Through Seattle-Colored Glasses
Despite its faults and falsehoods, the bubble remains a decent place to live in.
Solar Power: New Sounds in Seattle Hip-hop
I wrote the liner notes for this limited-run, vinyl-only compilation of cutting-edge Seattle hip-hop featuring visual art by Ari Glass.
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