Equally important is the role of language. Terms such as “committed” or “failed attempt” can add to shame, while phrases like “experienced self-harm” or “survived an attempt” bring dignity and ...

Slathering cream cheese on hot dogs is a notion that rose from the streets, not recipe books. Bonnie Slotnick, owner of the esteemed Greenwich Village antiquarian cookbook shop that bears her name, ...

And as my own voice joined the chorus of hundreds of other marchers, one next to me gave a heavy sigh. “You can’t go anywhere in Seattle without white people,” it said. “Seriously, why are all these ...

James Encinas felt that he was hired as a minority “token” when he joined Harborview Medical Center as a peer support specialist for their Housing And Recovery Through Peer Services program, which ...

On April 24, a man named James Chan posted a cartoon to his Instagram account. It featured the head of a young white man with a speech bubble coming out of his mouth. Inside the bubble, the text read: ...

On a warm late-summer afternoon, Pete Dexter trudges across the living room of his home perched high above Puget Sound on Whidbey Island, Diet Coke in hand, and steels himself to tell the story of how ...

The best job Greg Steen ever had was as a DJ at KRIZ 1420AM in Seattle. It was late 1989, and the then-24-year-old had just finished a crash course in radio production at the Ron Bailie School of ...

In the days following September 11, Asad Haider’s identity was of great concern. A first-generation Pakistani-American, he recalls being harassed and detained at the airport due to his ethnicity.

Danni Askini slept on the floor of a Stockholm apartment during her first four weeks of exile from Seattle. Sweden’s summer sunlight cast an unwaning glow on boxes strewn about the spacious rooms, ...

In veterinary malpractice cases, your pet is nothing more than property. One local attorney is aiming to convince judges otherwise, and make vets pay. Julie and Bear, before the gas. Navy Commander ...

It’s a Thursday afternoon in Seattle and I’m in the driver’s seat. It’s 4:45 p.m. and I am gripping the wheel of an old first-generation Prius, sweating and panicking, cursing a lot, and completely ...

Civic scandals used to mean something in Seattle. Gunslinger Wyatt Earp paid off City Hall to operate his 1890s gambling joint here. In the 1950s, bar owners were leaving lunch bags of money on their ...