Jas Keimig

2 days ago | southseattleemerald.org | Jas Keimig |Jasmyne Keimig

As the days turn warmer and longer, the Central District transforms into a grassy, verdant oasis in the middle of Seattle. Irises and California poppies beam out at you along quiet, hilly side streets, and sometimes when the air hits just right, you can smell the salty Puget Sound. June is truly the perfect time to go on a long afternoon walk through the neighborhood to see the old houses and notice gardens, parks, and dead ends that have perhaps gone unremembered during the coldness of winter.

1 week ago | southseattleemerald.org | Jas Keimig |Jasmyne Keimig

Blush as pink as flamingos and lipstick as red as apples. Hair teased to the gods. Jackets and sweaters suggestively slid off shoulders. Bodies enmeshed kickin', jerkin', and groovin' on the dance floor. Love songs crooned over brooding synthy and infectious beats. For many, the trends and styles of the "new wave" music — popular in the '80s — are most heavily associated with punk-ish white kids in metropoles, disaffected from society.

3 weeks ago | southseattleemerald.org | Jas Keimig |Jasmyne Keimig

The documentary Free Leonard Peltier opens in a moment of uncertainty. Activists Holly Cook Macarro (Red Lake Nation) and Nick Tilsen (Oglala Lakota) arrive in Washington, D.C., in 2024 prepared to go to Congress to fight for the freedom of Leonard Peltier, an Indigenous activist and American Indian Movement (AIM) member accused of killing two F.B.I. agents in 1975 and sentenced to back-to-back life sentences.

4 weeks ago | southseattleemerald.org | Jas Keimig |Jasmyne Keimig

The Seattle Art Museum's latest show might be the first one visitors have to "beam" into. Seattle artist Tariqa Waters' "Venus is Missing" (up now through Jan. 5, 2026) invites viewers to immerse themselves in her cosmic vision of the future. The exhibition comes after Waters snagged the museum's coveted Betty Bowen Award in 2023, a biannual award recognizing a Northwest artist with $15,000 in unrestricted funds and a show at the museum.

1 month ago | southseattleemerald.org | Jas Keimig |Jasmyne Keimig

Tessa Hulls' new graphic memoir "Feeding Ghosts" tells the story of three generations of women in her family. Seattle author and artist Tessa Hulls was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in memoir or autobiography for "Feeding Ghosts," her debut graphic memoir tracing three generations of women in her family against the backdrop of 20th-century Chinese history.