David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
The Center has been a chronic budget problem, and efforts to build one's way out of it have not worked. Here's why, and here's how this adds up to an opportunity to regroup, not commercialize the place.
The case for public media, such as Crosscut, in a time when newspapers dwindle and commercial models drive websites away from "journalism in the public interest."
4Culture has been patiently playing the legislative game, hoping to nail-down its visitor-tax funding. For the sixth straight year, it's being stood up at the altar.
Crosscut's spring membership drive has begun, and I hope you'll join the team. Plus, some news about new Crosscut staffers and features.
He was “an artist of the public sphere” who inspired a generation of lively friends.
