We return to the fictional planet Pandora and the Na'vi in the second installment in the Avatar franchise; Avatar: The Way of Water. The film has thus far grossed 1.5 billion globally, and Canadian filmmaker James Cameron has already announced three more films after this one.

On December 30th, Converge was in the building as Trae & Proof caught the Digable Planets concert at Neptune Theatre. It was a jam packed house as this terrific trio made their way to the stage. The audience was in high anticipation for what was to come. With their melodic hip hop sound, they came to the stage prepared to give us a dynamic show that took us through their timeless classics.

Two weeks after Jina “Mahsa” Amini was killed by Iran’s so-called morality police, I found myself gravitating toward a simmering, expanding collective of protestors who hailed from Seattle and surrounding cities. After 43 years under the Islamic Republic dating back to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the disturbing witness accounts of Amini’s beating sent ripple effects throughout the country and, in turn, the world. Just one day after Amini died in a coma due to blunt-force trauma to her head, Iranian citizens poured out into the streets countrywide, amassing by the thousands in unprecedented fashion.

My Seattle is hurting.

Seattle today is only 1 day in to healing from the tragic loss & murder of D'Vonne Picket Jr, a Seattle Central District native, husband, father, coach, friend, athlete, and Business Owner. Our community was struck by this news at 6:30 PM, on Wednesday.