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Your Seattle-Specific Earthquake Kit: Bourbon, Chocolate and Other Necessities

Your Seattle-Specific Earthquake Kit: Bourbon, Chocolate and Other Necessities

Quick tips you might not have thought of for surviving the Pacific Northwest’s dreaded natural disaster

Pack It In: Peanut butter and dried foods are recommended by the experts, but don’t forget the bourbon and fancy candy bars in your quake kit

Why This Seattle Man Wants You to Talk About Death

Why This Seattle Man Wants You to Talk About Death

Michael Hebb invites you to dinner, served alongside a conversation about death

A Seat at the Table: Author and entrepreneur Michael Hebb is working to make the subject of death less intimidating as dinner conversation.

True or False: Do These Seattle Business Services Exist?

True or False: Do These Seattle Business Services Exist?

Are these for real? Or did we make them up? In everything-goes Seattle, deciding may be harder than you think

This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. It’s a great time to be a Seattleite: Pot is legal! You can get cookies delivered to your door! A stranger will scoop your dog’s poop out of the yard before another stranger mows the lawn! These days, there seems to be a product…

A 12th Man Guide To Tailgating

A 12th Man Guide To Tailgating

When your blood runs green and blue, here’s how to tailgate like a true 12

This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Catching the game on TV garbed in team colors is fine, but during home games, the most dedicated Seahawks fans take it to the next level. Want to join them this year? You have options. Head to the fenced-off, pedestrian-based Hawk Alley Tailgate area…

We Rode a Battery-Powered Bike Share to the Top of Queen Anne

We Rode a Battery-Powered Bike Share to the Top of Queen Anne

Lime E-bikes are everywhere in Seattle

Lime’s battery-powered bicycle

The Insider's Guide to the Seattle Pride Parade

The Insider’s Guide to the Seattle Pride Parade

The Seattle Pride Parade features everything from bedazzled floats to co-workers marching in solidarity

This article appears in print in the June 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe.  The 44th annual Seattle Pride Parade (June 24, 11 a.m.‒2 p.m.; starting downtown at the corner of Fourth and Union; seattlepride.org) is the biggest draw of the Seattle Pride Festival’s weekend of events. As part of one of the largest, longest-running festivals of its…

Seattleite: Brittany Nicole Cox Is One Of The Only Antique Clock Restorers in the Nation

Seattleite: Brittany Nicole Cox Is One Of The Only Antique Clock Restorers in the Nation

Repairing antique watchworks and vintage mechanical objects, Brittany Nicole Cox keeps in time with the past

Antiquarian horologist Brittany Nicole Cox, pictured in her Columbia City studio

Seattle Is Turning Pockets of Unused Pavement Into Parks

Seattle Is Turning Pockets of Unused Pavement Into Parks

A city initiative turns little-used streets and dangerous intersections into urban oases

Pavement to Parks opened the Pine Street Plaza concrete park in November

Take a Stroll Along the New Washington Park Arboretum Trail

Take a Stroll Along the New Washington Park Arboretum Trail

"This is one of the biggest moves in the Arboretum since it was created."

This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. The new 1.2-mile paved stretch of trail in the Washington Park Arboretum is still awaiting its grand opening — now set for April 8. But pedestrians and cyclists are already testing out the long-planned addition to the park, which has been underway for…

Sign of the Times: 'Rage Room' Is the New Place to Smash Away Your Stress

Sign of the Times: ‘Rage Room’ Is the New Place to Smash Away Your Stress

Plus: Our guide on where to go to deal with stress in the age of anxiety

This article appears in print in the February 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. When it comes to letting off steam these days, there is no better sign of the times than last April’s opening of the city’s first “rage room”—a place where you can literally, legally break stuff. But that frenzy of fury might not be…

These Seattle Sisters are Stars in the Science World

These Seattle Sisters are Stars in the Science World

Two Queen Anne sisters are going to infinity and beyond (and from the White House to the stratosphere).

Sisters Kimberly (left) and Rebecca Yeung show off their weather apparatus (along with Lego R2-D2, and a picture of their cat Loki, on the Popsicle stick) in their garage in Queen Anne

Take an Olympics-Themed Tour of Seattle During the Winter Games

Take an Olympics-Themed Tour of Seattle During the Winter Games

The Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, begin Feb. 9.

The Olympic Mountains behind Alexander Calder’s Eagle in the Olympic Sculpture Park

These Are the Top Places to Work in Seattle

These Are the Top Places to Work in Seattle

The Seattle companies that know how to keep their employees happy.

From work-life-balance practices to cool perks, companies are keeping their employees happy in different ways.

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