Culture A Seattle photographer takes portraits of SPD’s ‘less lethal’ weapons Collected off the streets during protests, blast balls and rubber bullets get a rare artistic and journalistic treatment. by Margo Vansynghel / August 12, 2020
Culture Seattle parks become stages for pop-up dance performances Pros at pivoting, choreographers are getting creative during coronavirus. by Margo Vansynghel / August 6, 2020
Culture Seattle designers are making masks fashionable The pivot from apparel to protection has been a lifeline for some local creators. by Margo Vansynghel / July 22, 2020
Inside Cascade PBS The power of Seattle’s street art in a time of pandemics and protest What we learned about why some artists don’t want their work to be “saved.” by Margo Vansynghel / July 14, 2020
Culture Saving Seattle’s pandemic and protest murals With CHOP dismantled and businesses reopening, where will all the street art end up? by Margo Vansynghel / July 8, 2020 / Updated at 10:15 a.m. on July 11, 2020
Culture Erica C. Barnett talks addiction and sobriety in new memoir The Seattle journalist doesn’t pull any punches, even when writing about herself. by Margo Vansynghel / July 1, 2020
Culture Meet the citizen journalists inside Seattle’s CHOP An iPhone correspondent, comics illustrator and photographer talk about documenting history in the making. by Margo Vansynghel & Agueda Pacheco Flores / June 26, 2020
News The future of Capitol Hill’s protest zone may lie in Seattle history Could the East Precinct follow in the footsteps of Daybreak Star, El Centro de la Raza and Northwest African American Museum? by Margo Vansynghel & David Kroman / June 17, 2020
Inside Cascade PBS What interviewing a death care worker taught me about life Crosscut reporter Margo Vansynghel reflects on her conversations with tattoo artist Jessica Henry, who became a death care worker during a pandemic. by Margo Vansynghel / June 16, 2020
Culture A tattoo artist learns the essential work of tending to the dead For one Seattleite, confronting mortality is hands-on during the pandemic. by Margo Vansynghel / June 9, 2020