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Alexa Peters

Smartists: Meet Xenia Rubinos

Published on Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls “Xenia” is a word of Greek origin, meaning “welcoming to strangers.” It’s a fitting moniker for musician Xenia Rubinos,

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Alexa Peters

Things Alexa Peters Likes

Published a list of things I like on the wonderful website run by Jessica Gross, writer for New York Times Magazine, Paris Review, The Los

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Alexa Peters

How To Carry a Heavy Heart

Pick up Thai food takeout after work, from a waitress too busy to meet your eye. Carry the styrofoam box to your car like a

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Smartists: Charlene Kaye of San Fermin

Published on Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls Charlene Kaye has spent most of her musical career singing someone else’s songs. As a lead singer in San

Bumbershoot Coverage for The Seattle Times

For these articles I shared a by-line with Paul De Barros in coverage of Seattle’s Bumbershoot Music Festival. Read about three jam-packed days of music

Smartists: Meet Xenia Rubinos

Published on Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls “Xenia” is a word of Greek origin, meaning “welcoming to strangers.” It’s a fitting moniker for musician Xenia Rubinos,

Paste: 10 Albums for People Who Don’t Like Jazz

(Published on PasteMagazine.com) Jazz has never had a reputation for being accessible. Often called, “musician’s music” with its extended sections of improvisation, flurries of complex

Things Alexa Peters Likes

Published a list of things I like on the wonderful website run by Jessica Gross, writer for New York Times Magazine, Paris Review, The Los

Heart Closeup

How To Carry a Heavy Heart

Pick up Thai food takeout after work, from a waitress too busy to meet your eye. Carry the styrofoam box to your car like a

Smartists: Meet Artist Frida Clements

Folk artist Frida Clements waits inside a coffee shop, her blonde locks luminous as the morning sunshine, a pot of tea steeping in front of her.