THRU Magazine ArchiveCo-Founder of THRU Media. A background in non-profit, music, and radio preceded my ambitions here. Now, I aspire to produce new media and publish independent journalism at this site and beyond.
It’s time to change the system at the root. Seems like this election year, the people are more obsessed than ever with their presidential candidate. More than that, the tone is panic, induced by the possibility of the other being elected. Everyone on Facebook has become a political pundit. Seems like everywhere I turn, someone is […]
19 years of social media usage from one elder Millennial At the age of 15, I was desperate for a means of connection beyond the subdivision inside suburban north Tucson. This was 1997. I learned about ICQ, something that I now regard as the skeleton of modern social media. It was basically just a chat […]
I guess he really is the most influential pop bassist. I had always regarded Jaco Pastorius with a certain distaste, as the artist who ruined Weather Report, a 1970’s jazz fusion band whose influential sound helped pave the way for electronic music as we know it today. For me, Sweetnighter stays in my vinyl collection, […]
Designer and double executive Tsilli Pines brings Horizon at End Times back from hiatus in a newly built podcast studio. Things haven’t sounded more crisp and clear for this program. Pines is co-Founder of Design Week Portland and Creative Director at FINE. Her expertise in the area of design is matched by the desire to […]
Stressings by Jordan Dykstra: How to make the viola cry. Sometimes we need to question the difference between beautiful and pretty. I’m not about to tackle such a lofty rhetorical exercise, but it should be safe to say that your concept of pretty, beautiful, is not mine, and not least Jordan Dykstra’s. He is a […]