Jonathan Zwickel

In January, the blockbuster festival bowed out of what would've been its third year. Forensics reveal a good but expensive idea. What if it had been organized differently? 

Marlon James readings, a noir film festival, Overton Berry plays jazz and more cultural happenings.

Inuit throat singing, a theatrical ode to Frederick Douglass, the Spokane novelist tackling 1940s Hanford and more cultural happenings.

A Viaduct send off, an author embracing female rage, Uncle Vanya and more cultural happenings. 

An homage to Seattle painting legend Robert C. Jones, Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a triple dance bill and other cultural happenings. 

A Seattle singer-songwriter, an absurdist take on anarchy and more cultural events.

An immigrant photographer grieves the life he left behind, a dance for vanishing languages, the city’s new South Asian litfest and more cultural happenings.

A doc about a brave Iraqi woman, a “world tour” by Seattle band All-Star Opera, vibrant paintings sold bodega style and other cultural happenings.

Songs of hope, love, dissatisfaction and dreams.