Author: Don Smith

Gun show by Cynthia Linet 0

Gun show by Cynthia Linet

(Click on the images to zoom.) In the A/NT Gallery at Seattle Center through July 27, there’s an exhibit of art about America’s obsession with guns.    The artist, Cynthia Linet — more famous for...

Normon Solomonn says Derek Kilmer should be primaried 0

Normon Solomonn says Derek Kilmer should be primaried

BAD BLUES: Some of the House Democrats Who Deserve to Be ‘Primaried’ “Now representing a Democratic, largely working-class district that includes the Olympic Peninsula and most of Tacoma, 45-year-old Derek Kilmer has been an...

A call for a World Peace Concert 0

A call for a World Peace Concert

In the 1960s, anti-war music, rock music, and folk music transformed culture and helped bring an end to the Vietnam War. Nowadays, there seems to be too little popular music about social justice and...

Two difficult questions about homelessness 0

Two difficult questions about homelessness

Republicans are using the topics of homelessness, drugs, and crime as bludgeons to scare suburban and exurban voters away from the Democratic Party. The tactic is likely to work, to some extent. The film...