Culture Festivities in Focus | The ritual baptism Timket returns to Seattle Thousands gathered on Sunday to mark the two-day Ethiopian Orthodox holiday after two years of the pandemic and the Tigray war. by Amanda Snyder / January 26, 2023
Culture Festivities in Focus | Celebrants dance, reflect through Kwanzaa A NAAM gathering on the fourth day of the secular pan-African holiday honored the principle of Ujamaa, or cooperative economics. by Amanda Snyder / January 2, 2023
Culture Festivities in Focus | Filipino Catholics gather for Simbang Gabi St. James's nine-day Advent Mass draws hundreds from all over Western Washington. by Amanda Snyder / December 13, 2022
Culture Festivities in Focus | Día de los Muertos celebrates life, death After a pandemic hiatus, the Day of the Dead event returned to Seattle's El Centro de la Raza. by Amanda Snyder / November 8, 2022
Culture Festivities in Focus | The return of Diwali lights up Bellevue People gathered on Monday night — some for the first time since 2019 — to celebrate the Hindu Festival of Lights. by Amanda Snyder / October 28, 2022
Photo Essay | Seattle, through the eyes of a tourist Over the past two months, photographer Amanda Snyder documented Seattle's most sacred visitor hotspots. by Amanda Snyder / June 30, 2022
Opinion Notes on being useful after dying in Washington state From medical studies to compost, here's how my body can be used up after I die. by Judy Lightfoot / April 13, 2021
United we bicker? A sharp, hopeful look at U.S. potential How did We the People dwindle into We the Taxpayers? Author Marilynne Robinson is making waves nationally with her new book about American society and our democratic faith in the potential of every... by Judy Lightfoot / April 12, 2012
'Hard, scary, sad': life at a highway rest stop Untitled (NCFH, Boston) 12"x18" by Judy Lightfoot / April 2, 2012
Kathleen Flenniken makes poetry out of Cold War Hanford Kathleen Flenniken, "Plume" (UW Press, 2012) by Judy Lightfoot / March 21, 2012