Grace Madigan

Seattle

she/her || Former Arts & Culture Reporter @KNKXfm || Contributions @iExaminer @SeattleMet @KEXP @theevergrey || Email: [email protected]

Articles

Seattle’s country venues offer dancers gateway to community

Jan 8, 2025 | seattletimes.com | Grace Madigan

At the Little Red Hen, Monday nights are for line dancing. Each week, dozens of dancers flock to the Green Lake country bar to join in on the choreographed dance routine that has people kicking and stomping in unison across the dance floor. The Hen’s not-all-country-music line dance night offers space for advanced dancers to showcase their skills, as well as a free lesson for beginners looking to get in on the fun.
Blog: Documenting Chennai as a student from Seattle

Sep 1, 2024 | citizenmatters.in | Mari Kanagy |Grace Madigan

Two months before I left for Chennai, I stopped by the Man Who Sold the World, an antique store in my neighbourhood in Seattle. I go to this shop sometimes to look through the old-fashioned stereoscope. You peer through the device at two side-by-side photos, soften your gaze, and these two slightly different perspectives become one three dimensional scene. On that particular day, I set my sights on India. One scene is of a cow in a crowded Delhi alley.
Meet the Majestics: Seattle's other professional football team

Apr 17, 2024 | knkx.org | Grace Madigan

The Seahawks season may be months away but Seattle still has a pro football team to root for. The Seattle Majestics are a professional women’s tackle football team and feeling ambitious about this season, with a new head coach and recruits from around the world. On a rare warm sunny Saturday afternoon in March, the Majestics are running defensive drills at Kentridge High School. The team is just two weeks out from the first game of their season.
'Hello Auntie, Hello Uncle' pays tribute to the elders in our lives | KNKX Public Radio

Apr 7, 2024 | knkx.org | Grace Madigan

Seattle's Wing Luke Museum has a new exhibit dedicated to exploring what it means to be an elder and how we as a society can learn from them and support them.
Bellevue Arts Museum asks the public to help keep its doors open

Feb 27, 2024 | knkx.org | Grace Madigan

The Bellevue Art Museum is launching a new campaign to keep its doors open. The goal is to raise $300,000, which would go directly to operation costs like employee salaries and building upkeep. Executive Director Kate Casprowiak Scher said the museum’s financial situation has been many years in the making. "Our financial problems stem from 24 years of not having an endowment and having a 40,000-square-foot building," Scher said.
Seattle Kraken specialty logo celebrates Black hockey history

Feb 25, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Grace Madigan

Artist Barry Johnson was inspired by the history of the Coloured Hockey League and used the Pan-African flag colors in his design. ( Seattle Kraken) The Seattle Kraken logo will look a little different Monday night. Replacing the light blue in the team’s logo will be the colors of the Pan-African flag. Monday marks their celebration of Black Hockey History.
Seattle and Vancouver to host 13 Men's World Cup matches in 2026

Feb 5, 2024 | knkx.org | Grace Madigan

FIFA has announcedthe match schedule for the 2026 Men's World Cup. The tournament will be held across North America, with matches played in 16 cities across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Seattle will host six matches, including two in the knockout round and one of the three U.S. group stage matches.
Huskies fall to Michigan in the national championship

Jan 9, 2024 | knkx.org | Grace Madigan

The University of Washington football team fell to the University of Michigan 34 to 13 in Monday night's championship game. Bars across the state organized watch parties, including the U-District’s College Inn Pub. The pub sits in the basement of a century-old building that is just a block away from the school’s main campus. Jen Gonyer is one of the pub’s owners and said she’s seen just how special this football season has been.
A new nonalcoholic bottle shop opens in Seattle's Phinney Ridge

Jan 4, 2024 | knkx.org | Grace Madigan

Seattle’s Phinney Ridge neighborhood has a new bottle shop. But this one’s a little different, it’s dedicated to selling nonalcoholic beverages. Like many people, owners Kirsten and Yura Vracko found themselves leaning on alcohol to get them through the pandemic lockdown. Kirsten said the steady drinking was a wake-up call for both of them. "I think my generation, we're all getting to the point where we've got health concerns," Kirsten said.
Seattle's biggest holiday makers market returns this weekend

Dec 1, 2023 | knkx.org | Grace Madigan

One of Seattle’s biggest makers markets of the holiday season is this weekend. Now in its 19th year, Urban Craft Uprising will take over Seattle Center’s Exhibition Hall. Kristen Rask is the head of the organization that puts on the market. She said this year they had over 600 applications and just over 150 spots for vendors. Organizers try and always have new makers. Previous vendors aren’t guaranteed a spot, in part to make sure less experienced makers have the opportunity.