gemma D. alexander

China has a well-earned reputation for ugly, industrial cities blanketed in choking smog. But that’s not the whole story. The haze you see here is...

This year was the 20th anniversary of the Pickathon music festival. The festival is older than my kids. Maybe Pickathon was always family-friendly, but they...

Last year, on Memorial Day, I was thinking about the sorry state of American politics and wondering how we ended up with a president who...

This week I finally started exploring new music again, even though I’m still marinating on everything I heard at Pickathon. Things I liked included Jess...

Porgy and Bess, the first opera in Seattle Opera’s new season, is either loved as a pillar of the opera canon or reviled as a...