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Gray Matter
A fond farewell at Make.Shift
It was make or break for Make.Shift Art Space when Katie Gray took over the role as executive director in January of 2018. With a questionable future, Gray saw two outcomes for the organization—growing and becoming a staple in the community, or completely fizzling out.
Make.Shift, a…

Jingle Bells
Christmas concerts, take two
In last week’s online issue of Cascadia Weekly, I chronicled a number of virtual holiday concerts designed to bring the sounds of the season to life in a year when “bringing to life” means viewing the action from the safety of our own screens. I’ll add a few more here in the hopes of…

Sounds Like Christmas
Get your jingle on
According to Facebook Memories, it was during this time frame in years past that a number of friends gathered at my house for a pre-Christmas-caroling round of spiked egg nog before we donned Santa hats, bundled up and headed into the frigid winter night to share songs of the season…