Journalism

Reviews 

Rhythm Nation > Alienation 

“Jewels” Is Forever

Dancing at the End of the World

PNB’s Roméo et Juliette Is in Good Hands

The Seasons’ Canon Took My Head Off

PNB’s Coppélia Revels in Humanity’s Triumph Over AI

Claudia Rankine’s Citizen Will Take You Two Hours To Read, But It Will Stay With You For the Rest of Your Life 

Cynics Be Damned–The Lost Pablo Neruda Poems Are Pretty Good, Actually

Beautiful Sentences Can’t Save Lesley Hazleton’s Agnostic From Its Moral Flaws 

Poetry That Deconstructs Language and Love 

News & Politics 

Edited, administered, co-wrote, and produced Stranger Election Control Board output from 2020-2024. 

A five-part series on rent control in Washington state. 

Democrats Refuse to Use Their Majorities to Steamroll Republicans

Here’s How Many Landlords Are in the Washington Legislature

Twenty-Seven Days for Stealing a Souvenir Penny: What It Would Look Like to Get Tough on Misdemeanors in Seattle

Police Rush Protesters Outside SPOG HQ While Blasting Country Music, 22 Arrested 

Joe Nguyen Is an AOC of Washington State

What Bernie Sanders Said (and Didn’t Say) After the Black Lives Matter Interruption

See the rest of my writing for The Stranger here

Features 

The Sounds of Seattle on Death Cab for Cutie’s Transatlanticism 

All the Island Marble Butterflies on San Juan Island Might Die if Jenny Shrum and her Team Don’t Save Them 

Meet John Smelcer, Native American Literature’s “Living Con Job”

The Frenchy Bromance That Bloomed Between the Great Composer Henri Dutilleux and Seattle Symphony Music Director Ludovic Morlot 

A Totally Non-Comprehensive but Semi-Useful Guide to Wild Waves

I Feel Like We Say “I Feel Like” All The Time: The Origins and Virtues of One of English’s Most Popular Qualifiers 

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