Culture Festivities in Focus | The ritual baptism Timket returns to Seattle Thousands gathered on Sunday to mark the two-day Ethiopian Orthodox holiday after two years of the pandemic and the Tigray war. by Amanda Snyder / January 26, 2023
Culture Festivities in Focus | Celebrants dance, reflect through Kwanzaa A NAAM gathering on the fourth day of the secular pan-African holiday honored the principle of Ujamaa, or cooperative economics. by Amanda Snyder / January 2, 2023
Culture Festivities in Focus | Filipino Catholics gather for Simbang Gabi St. James's nine-day Advent Mass draws hundreds from all over Western Washington. by Amanda Snyder / December 13, 2022
Culture Festivities in Focus | Día de los Muertos celebrates life, death After a pandemic hiatus, the Day of the Dead event returned to Seattle's El Centro de la Raza. by Amanda Snyder / November 8, 2022
Culture Festivities in Focus | The return of Diwali lights up Bellevue People gathered on Monday night — some for the first time since 2019 — to celebrate the Hindu Festival of Lights. by Amanda Snyder / October 28, 2022
Opinion Notes on being useful after dying in Washington state From medical studies to compost, here's how my body can be used up after I die. by Judy Lightfoot / April 13, 2021
Culture Reporting from an Eastside mosque Islamic Center of Eastside (Bellevue Masjid) by Judy Lightfoot / July 19, 2012
Culture Best of 2011: Climbing out of homelessness, to Mount Rainier UGM special projects director Mike Johnson at left, with Scott Sowle, Lee Harmon, Rolls Martin, Marcus Jackson, and Lamar Jones (in front) on the mountain by Judy Lightfoot / December 24, 2011
Culture A Father's Day story: At the Beach of the King Judy Lightfoot by Judy Lightfoot / June 18, 2011
Culture Foodies and others mourn the Estrella Family Creamery shutdown The Estrella family, 2006 by Judy Lightfoot / November 1, 2010
