Earthquake awareness through fiction, former Seattle industrial space to house the homeless, Bill Nye questions Trudeau on TransMountain pipeline, snowpack declines in Cascadia, Ichiro returns in the twilight of his career to the Seattle Mariners, and a new book on the making of the BC/Alberta border.
This hybrid essay is a literary "hangover" to Meghan McClure and Michael Schmeltzer's book A Single Throat Opens. Exploring both the pain and allure of alcoholism, it's a lyrical series of vignettes and memories. After the essay you'll find an interview with the authors about their unique collaborative process.
Women go public with Sherman Alexie harassment accusations, Washington state protects net neutrality, BC overdose deaths top suicides & accidents, a tsunami of trash on Cascadia's beaches, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art turns five, and poet Shayla Lawson's obsession with Frank Ocean.
Washington will phase out net-pen farming of Atlantic salmon, Oregon fails to pass cap and trade carbon bill, is $3700 rent in Vancouver "affordable?," the enduring tradition of Indigenous dance in BC, Seattle's Black Lives Matter has its #MeToo moment, and an essay by Portland novelist Omar El Akkad.
". . . sweeping the porch
I felt it the rye and salt
dry-roasted
wallop of honey wind. . . "
Read two new poems by Seattle poet Montreux Rotholtz, whose poems pay precise attention to language.
WA governor vetoes public disclosure bill, Cascadia-based outdoor retailers boycott gear associated with gun companies, BC immigrant families use inter-generational living to beat housing costs, how a Japanese American family saved Puget Sound oysters, and "The Wall," a poem by Anita Endrezze.
Cascadia Magazine original: finding racial equity in the legal pot industry. WA fails to pass carbon tax, Portland industrial re-development to create arts hub, Seattle's sanctioned homeless camps, will Vancouver find new leadership, and Olympia author Matt Young's fractured Iraq memoir.
Cascadia mag original: fighting for racial equity in the pot business. Transit use up in Vancity and Seattle, Portland penalizes landlords with excessive rent hikes, is it time for proportional representation in BC?, the fight over Oregon's beavers, and a Seattle writer's new book on the decline of native bees.
Minority cannabis businesses in Cascadia seek equity in the legal weed industry, Seattle Times slams WA legislature, Oregon moves to protect net neutrality, BC professor wants to kill single family homes, a new album from Portland's Haley Heynderickx, and fiction from BC author Alix Hawley.
Entrepreneurs like Raft Hollingsworth are creating new minority-owned cannabis businesses across Cascadia. But people of color face huge hurdles in the race to enter the Northwest's legal weed industry--although new efforts are taking shape to increase equity in communities hit hardest by the War on Drugs.
