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Queen of salsa Celia Cruz will be the first Afro Latina to appear on a U.S. quarter

Cuban American icon Celia Cruz is being honored along with four other influential American women as part of the American Women Quarters Program.
- Pablo Valdivia
Salman Rushdie's 'Victory City' is a triumph, independent of the Chautauqua attack

Rushdie submitted the final edits for his 15th novel before he was stabbed onstage in August 2022. It tells the story of a sorceress and poet who dreams a civilization into existence from magic seeds.
- Bilal Qureshi
Seattle's got a new Poet-in-Chief

Seattle has a new Civic Poet. Since 2015, the position has helped foster a relationship between the city and its creatives and help bring poetry to the people. We’ll hear from Shin Yu Pai, Seattle’s new Civic Poet and host of KUOW’s The Blue Suit, about her new role.
- Vaughan Jones
Brandi Carlile goes home with 3 Grammys, thanks Seattle for making her 'strive for this'
- Paige Browning
'Iconic,' 'legendary,' 'tragic.' What words need a reboot?

Have you noticed how we often don’t say what we mean? Or we use language to hide something, or to frighten, or flatter, or insult, or get clicks? Meanwhile we’re devaluing some wonderful, precise language.
- Bill Radke
Theater never recovered from COVID — and now change is no longer a choice

With ticket sales way down and government relief mostly at an end, business as usual is not an option for nonprofit performing arts groups.
- Chloe Veltman
Shania Twain returns after a difficult pandemic with the beaming 'Queen of Me'

After a bad bout of COVID that had her fearing she'd lose her voice completely, the country-pop superstar is back with an album she says is determined to look on the bright side.
- Ana Perez
PHOTOS: Welcoming the Year of the Rabbit in Seattle

Hundreds gathered to welcome the Year of the Rabbit during the Lunar New Year celebration Saturday in Seattle's Chinatown-International District.
- Megan Farmer
Healing generational trauma of Japanese Americans through art

This month marks the 81st anniversary of Executive Order 9066, the World War II order that forcibly removed Japanese Americans on the West Coast and placed them into camps. Many of those who were incarcerated held American citizenship.
- Natalie Akane Newcomb
In bluegrass, as in life, Molly Tuttle would rather be a 'Crooked Tree'

Molly Tuttle's new album is her third. But in many ways, it's a reintroduction – of her prodigious guitar talent, of her personal story, and to the Recording Academy that decides Grammy Awards.
- Patrick Jarenwattananon

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