The Seattle Times • August 4, 2023 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 Seattle Times • November 25, 2022 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.
Loka Executive Byline • November 16, 2022 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.
Thrillist • July 25, 2018 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.
City Arts • April 24, 2017 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.
Rolling Stone • June 23, 2022 Pierre Kwenders' Multitudinous Self My feature profile of Congolese-Canadian musician and global dance-music ambassador Pierre Kwenders for Rolling Stone
KEXP • March 15, 2019 Upbeat Anxiety Listen to this scripted multimedia feature about rising Seattle MC Sol that I wrote and recorded for KEXP's "Sound & Vision" podcast.
City Arts • March 27, 2018 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.
NPR • December 7, 2020 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.
City Arts • December 6, 2016 David Byrne, Imelda Marcos and Seattle Rep An interview with David Byrne about his musical collaboration with Fatboy Slim, Here Lies Love
Medium • April 8, 2020 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.
Pitchfork • October 27, 2014 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.
YouTube Documentary • January 27, 2021 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 :)
Pitchfork • May 25, 2019 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...
SPIN • May 17, 2011 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.
City Arts • September 26, 2016 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.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach • October 20, 2005 Reznor's Edge An interview with Grammy Award Winner Trent Reznor
SPIN • August 11, 2014 Millennial Tension: FKA Twigs Arrives With the Menacing, Incandescent 'LP1' My review of FKA Twigs debut LP
Thrillist • April 6, 2017 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.
City Arts Magazine • August 27, 2013 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.