Doug is a longtime arts journalist, and the founder and editor of ArtsJournal.com, he's frequent keynoter on arts and digital issues, and works with a number of arts organizations nationally.
Nobody really moved the needle. No disasters or gaffes, no big victories. No real surprises. And here's CNN at the end, hyping the "clash of ideas," and congratulating candidates on "scoring some good hits" and trying to shape it as a prize fight. Pretty tiresome.
Nobody really disqualified themselves, though no one really stepped up to dominate.
Inslee had a great first answer on climate change, painting his state as a leader. But he...
Has ever so dreary a car tunnel been constructed as the one we just built to replace the Seattle waterfront viaduct? The two-and-a-half-mile tube is about as artless a...
Let's stipulate up front that Trump's a bad guy and a disaster as president. But there are more and more stories these days that attribute things he's said in...
Theme music for a radio show is like graphics and fonts and paper format for a magazine. Music establishes the neighborhood, telegraphs what's going on, reinforces the mood, and...
The Stranger's Charles Mudede offers this provocative idea: that Tacoma might eclipse Seattle as an arts town:
"My point: As the arts are in decline in Seattle,...