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
Culture This Seattle mission is 'elevating the dignity' of the world's seafarers, one ship at a time A cooperative effort among Catholics, Episcopalians and Evangelical Lutherans, Seattle's Seafarers Mission is an attempt to make a hazardous, often lonely life a little more comfortable. by Lilly Fowler / September 18, 2019
Culture Best of 2018: In Yakima Valley, America’s best tamales and a family tale Union Gap’s Los Hernández Tamales scored a prestigious James Beard Award. by Lilly Fowler / January 2, 2019
Culture Seattle Jewish community looks ahead in first post-Pittsburgh Shabbat service At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, rabbi talks faith and politics. by Lilly Fowler / November 4, 2018
Culture In Seattle, an 'unprecedented' moment for Latino theater A whole host of Latinx productions helmed by Latinx actors, take the stage. by Lilly Fowler / September 28, 2018
Culture As Seattle grows, a storied Black church searches for its place Rev. James Stallings, Mount Zion’s interim pastor, attempts to steer the Central District church in a new direction. by Lilly Fowler / June 6, 2018