Love & Wisdom
Every Dress Tells a Story
Dhivya Balasubramanian’s new collection reworks fashion classics using Indian textiles.
For Dhivya Balasubramanian, the story often starts with a sari. Sometimes a client brings one in, folded carefully and full of family history. Other times, Balasubramanian pulls from the collection she has gathered on trips to India. Either way, the fabric usually comes first. At her Queen Anne studio, it might become a gown, a…
Capitol Hill Gets a Fashion Walk
The inaugural Pike Pine Social brings more than 50 businesses together for a weekend of style, food, music, and neighborhood fun.
Capitol Hill, like most Seattle neighborhoods, rewards a loose plan. You wander into a shop, follow music down the block, stop for a drink, admire a jacket in a window that you definitely do not need, and end up at the park watching an impromptu soccer game. That spirit is behind Pike Pine Social, a…
Trupanion CEO Margi Tooth Leads the Pack
As the CEO of the largest pet insurer in the United States understands the importance of collaboration—and building a trusted team.
Growing up on a farm in the United Kingdom, Margi Tooth dreamed of channeling her love for animals into a career as a veterinarian. Although she took a different path—working in market research and business development before moving into the insurance sector—she still ended up with a job that helps animals. Tooth is the CEO…
The Best Outfit Might Already Be in Your Closet
LAYERED: Style in Motion turns previously owned pieces from Seattle closets into an Earth Day runway show.
You know that spring feeling where nothing in your closet looks right, even though it’s full of clothes you were perfectly happy with two weeks ago? The jeans you wore all winter suddenly feel too dark-wash for warmer weather, and your lightweight sweaters are covered in those little lint balls. That’s probably why this is…
Tough Stuff
Why we should teach boys it’s okay to be sad.
I was 13 years old when my father died. It happened on a school night, and I remember my mom waking me up along with my younger brother and sister. “He’s gone,” she said, bringing us out of our bedrooms. The news was back-breakingly sad. It was not, however, sudden. My father, whom we all…
Just Do the Camp
It’s not about loving it. It’s about showing up.
At piano camp they practice for three hours a day. That’s the part my 14-year-old daughter remembers when she’s getting ready to go again this year. She puts off packing for the week-long overnight camp because she’s nervous. She tries not to be, because it’s her second year, and you’re not supposed to be nervous…
Dr. Kimberly Mebust, M.D.
Sleep medicine and neurology, MultiCare Sleep Medicine - Puyallup
Every year, we ask a few of Seattle’s Top Doctors to share what inspires them to practice medicine, the advice they give most often, and what they think the future holds for healthcare. These interviews are part of Seattle magazine’s annual Top Doctors feature, created in partnership with Castle Connolly. None of the doctors paid…
Publisher’s Note: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Health-Obsessed Publisher
Supplements, serums, masks — you have no idea
Let’s get one thing out of the way: I am obsessed with looking and feeling younger. Yes, people have wondered. Yes, some days I do look “suspiciously well-rested” for someone who owns a magazine, sits on multiple nonprofit boards, and drinks way too much coffee. But no, I do not sleep in a cryogenic pod…
Finding Her Way Back
Washington native Mary Lambert channels heartbreak, healing, and hope in her first major single in nearly a decade
It’s taken more than three years, 42 revisions, and nearly 60 mixes for Mary Lambert to finish and release her powerful new single, “The Tempest.” “I just became such a perfectionist,” the Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and Washington state native tells Seattle magazine from her current home in western Massachusetts. “(‘The Tempest’) feels like one of my…
The Art of Saying ‘I’m Sorry’
How to master the subtle nuances of a heartfelt apology
I wrote a letter of apology to my wife the last time i got drunk. I did this at the suggestion of a substance-abuse counselor I’d gone to see in Bellevue. He even provided me with a handout on how to structure an apology. Mine wound up totaling 546 words and consuming most of a…
Can We Be Friends? Yes We Can.
Evergreen turns to THRED to help students with disabilities form bonds
When Aaron Chasan isn’t running around Seattle wearing a bear suit giving out hugs to help quell the Seattle Freeze, he’s busy running THRED, a company that helps people develop meaningful relationships based on shared interests. Among his favorite and most important clients is the Evergreen Transition Program, a public school that provides services to…
A Seattle Mother’s Day Gift Guide
Shop local and make her day even sweeter
I go through a lot of phases as a mom. When my kids were babies, all I wanted on Mother’s Day was to be alone, and my husband was left with any baggage the request created. These days, I’m looking for a chill family day — maybe a hike with some sandwiches I don’t have…
A Disco-Inspired Love Story
A Bellevue wedding, 27 years in the making
A chance meeting. A long love story. One unforgettable night. Randy Gantenbein, who once managed Paul Allen’s properties and has spent decades in hospitality, and Ernie Vigil, a Navy veteran and longtime nurse, first met in a San Diego Starbucks on Easter Sunday. Randy was sipping coffee and flipping through his horoscope. “It said, ‘You’ll…
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