Culture WA courts Hollywood with new movie studio and film tax incentive With new ways to attract movie and TV producers, will Washington’s film industry get its big break? by Margo Vansynghel / March 21, 2022 / Updated at 10:00 a.m. Friday, April 1
Culture Artist grieves for Central District childhood home by re-creating it Seattle’s Jite Agbro channels Bryant Manor — and its impending demolition — in a new immersive exhibition in South Lake Union. by Margo Vansynghel / February 9, 2022
Culture Seattle movie about loss and gentrification debuts at SIFF The first feature film by Seattle talent Zia Mohajerjasbi is a lyrical ode to a side of the city not often shown in movies. by Margo Vansynghel / April 14, 2022
Mossback Podcast | How Seattle launched the first 'round-the-world flight In 1924, four airplanes took off from what’s now Magnuson Park. Six months and more than 26,000 miles later, half the fleet made it back by Stephen Hegg / October 10, 2023
Mossback Podcast | How urban gardening took root in Seattle P-Patches launched a modern agricultural movement in the 1970s, sprouting from a small family farm in Wedgwood. by Stephen Hegg / October 24, 2023
Mossback Podcast | What Victoria, B.C., offered Black Americans in the 1850s Still encountering racism in the 'free' states of the West, some Black communities sought the American Dream in Canada. by Stephen Hegg / October 31, 2023
Mossback Podcast | When saboteurs planted an explosion at Seattle’s port In 1915, Germany wanted to keep the United States from joining World War I. Knute Berger explains how the fight came to the Northwest. by Stephen Hegg / November 7, 2023
Mossback Podcast | Preserving 50 years of Pacific Northwest photography Asahel Curtis shot thousands of images in the early 20th century. Knute Berger talks about the effort to share them with the public for the first time. by Stephen Hegg / November 21, 2023
Culture Mossback’s Northwest: The Black pioneer who launched the Puget Sound settlement Escaping a racist Oregon law, a man named George Bush became one of Washington’s most important homesteaders. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / May 8, 2020
Mossback Podcast | The suffragist who helped preserve WA’s biggest trees In the early 20th century, Catherine Montgomery spearheaded a movement to preserve old growth in Washington forests. Knute Berger shares her story. by Stephen Hegg / November 14, 2023