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Seattle based radio journalist and writer. News anchor/editor/producer at 97.3 FM KIRO Radio.
Contributing producer at Sound Effect on KPLU 88.5. Freelance at NPR: All Things Considered.
Contributing writer at The Stranger, Seattle Weekly, Kaplan Quarterly.
B.A. in Communication from University of Washington
In Personal Effects we talk to people about the most extraordinarily important/impactful objects in their lives. From the items we keep near and dear to the things we wish we'd never encountered. When a thing is more than just a thing.
The recent public conversations about gender identity and transgender people have tended to focus on bodies: biological sex versus gender identity, the clothes people wear, what bathrooms they use. But one issue that has gotten less attention is the intersection of gender and voice.
In 2001, producer Warren Langford found a toy cassette recorder at a yard sale in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This was not any old recorder. This was a Talkboy, the must-have Christmas toy from Warren's childhood that he never received. And the 50-cent asking price was too good to pass up.
Hollow Earth Radio was founded in the bedrooms of Amber Kai Morgan and her husband Garrett Kelly almost ten years ago. They've since moved the operation to a little storefront in the Central District, but until now it's only existed as a streaming station online. That's about to change.
For most people, when they hear the words "Laser" and "Floyd" together the first thing that comes to mind is usually not "time honored tradition." But that's exactly what's been happening at the Pacific Science Center Laser Dome for the last 30 years.
One of Portland's most notorious and awesome urban myths is that of a mysterious arcade game called Polybius. Legend has it the machine showed up in suburban arcades sometime in the early 1980s. This was no run of the mill video game. Polybius would mess with your mind, resulting in sickness or euphoria.
Nestled in the shadow of Mt. Rainier; Elbe, Washington is home to train car hotels with signs welcoming tourists hoping to bask in the glory of the mountain. But Elbe will soon become a different kind of tourist destination, one that caters to those seeking spiritual enlightenment by way of hallucinogenic substances.
In 1983, Martin Bell and his wife, acclaimed photographer Mary Ellen Mark, set out to document the lives of young people living on the streets of Seattle, and he says he'll never forget meeting one in particular: 14-year old Erin Blackwell, who went by Tiny.
When Wesley Scott went back to school she was on the fast track to a nursing degree, but the odd sleep-related symptoms she's had since childhood began to
Last November, Amazon did the unthinkable for an online retailer known for undercutting brick-and-mortar bookstores: It opened a walk-in store in Seattle. Now, there's talk that Amazon plans hundreds of them. On an investor call Tuesday, Sandeep Mathrani, CEO of mall operator General Growth Properties, said: "You've got Amazon opening bricks and mortar bookstores, and their goal is to open, as I understand, 300 to 400 bookstores."
There's an enigmatic monolith on Capitol Hill, near East John Street and 10th Avenue East. The haunted soda dispenser, you say? No, a much more perplexing mystery resides on the corner mere feet from the fabled vending machine: a pole, and not of the ever-present Northwest totem variety.
Nathaniel Pinzon is one of nine current residents of 2112 E. Republican St. on Capitol Hill, better known as the house where, in the early hours of March 25, 2006, Kyle Aaron Huff took the lives of six people and then himself during an afterparty for a nearby rave.
John Borcherding, the head laser artist (or, more awesomely: laserist) at Pacific Science Center has ruled the Laser Dome since 2000. To date Borcherding has conducted over 12,000 laser shows, more than anyone else in the world.
Scrolling through Facebook the other day I caught a glimpse of an unmistakably familiar face (see right). With an unfamiliar headline: " Scientist Missing for over 30 years Found Living Inside Secret LSD Drug Lab Hidden in Basement." The article goes on to state that this all went down in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, and the drug lab hermit is Dr. Winston Corrigan.