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Sasquatch Photos, Melinda Gates Named to Powerful Women List
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Holiday travelers put the Washington State Department of Transportation’s online summer ferry reservation system to the test this weekend. The system, which serves parts of the San Juan Islands, has experienced problems in the past (it failed on its first day back in April), but this time around it went off without a hitch. King…
Indian Classical Arts Events in Seattle: Beyond Our Love for Bollywood and Tech
Sitars, dance & spiritually symbolic art in Seattle? Sounds like my cup of chai.
Over the past 10 years, the South Asian population in the Puget Sound region has nearly tripled. Most people who have seen the show Outsourced or have had an Indian-accented technician solve their computer woes associate this influx with tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon. This is partly true, as many South Asians can attest…
Instagram Inspiration: Our Weekly Top 5
We're Seattleites and proud of it
Instagram Inspiration is a new column on Seattlemag.com that explores our favorite Instagram themes each week. There’s no denying how much pride flows through this city. You see it in the crowds at Safeco and Centurylink cheering on our beloved Hawks, Mariners and Sounders. You see it with the kayaktivists protecting our harbors from invading…
The Must List: ‘Manifesto,’ a Young Makers Show & More
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must Laugh Local Artist Dons Sea Cucumber Costume in Manifesto (5/22 to 5/24, times vary) Ilvs Strauss uses a sleeping bag as the basis for the California red sea cucumber outfit she dons in her funny and poignant piece Manifesto, in which she artfully combines a witty personal monologue about childbearing and womanhood with gestural…
Artist Dons a Sea Cucumber Costume for ‘Manifesto’
A local performance artist finds inspiration at the aquarium
Women who choose not to have children often channel their creative power into making other things—things such as a life-size sea cucumber costume. At least that’s the route Ilvs Strauss (pronounced “Elvis”) chose to go, using a sleeping bag as the basis for the California red sea cucumber outfit she dons in her funny and…
Lack of Snow on Mt. Baker, Dinosaur Bone Found
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Ski to Sea There’s not enough snow on Mount Baker for this year’s annual Ski to Sea Race. The race in Bellingham traditionally starts with contestants skiing or snowboarding down the mountain, and ending at Bellingham Bay. This year, they’re doing two mountain bike legs instead to compensate for the lack of snow. According to…
Will Public Parking in Seattle Go Extinct?
Knute Berger laments the possible extinction of public parking
In a sense, I’m lucky that my morning commute is usually the distance between my laptop and my lap. My wife walks to work most days, and we’re down to one car. We live in an apartment complex right next to a bus stop, and a few blocks from a local business district, small…
Oh Baby! Gender Reveal on the Great Wheel, Leopard Cubs Born & More
Who doesn't love a good baby story to make you feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside?
Gender reveal parties, in which moms and dads-to-be find out if their little peanut will be a boy or a girl, have become the trend among new parents these days. I’ve seen cakes with pink or blue middles, pink or blue helium balloons flying out of a box, or even ultrasound techs on housecalls for…
New Art Installation at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
An art installation hanging above the Foundation campus comes alive at night
Seen in Daylight, the new art installation at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation might easily be mistaken for an oddly placed safety net. But when night falls, it becomes an immense, iridescent jellyfish hovering above the campus and shifting in the breeze. Unveiled in February, “Impatient Optimist” is an aerial net sculpture (120 feet…
60-Year-Old Bonsai Tree Stolen, Parklets & More News
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
On the heels of yesterday’s news that for the third month in a row, Seattle sits as the 10th most expensive city in the U.S. for renters–joining the ranks with San Francisco, New York and Boston–King 5 News reports that tenants’ rights groups have seen a “10 percent increase in people reporting rent increases.” These…
Shell Protest Coverage, Seattle Named 10th Most Expensive City to Rent
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
The rent is really, really (like seriously) too damn high. Seattle is listed at number 10 on Zumper’s National Rent Report, joining the likes of San Francisco, Boston and New York for U.S. cities with the highest rent. Curbed Seattle reports that this is the third consecutive month Seattle has been at number 10, despite…
The Polar Pioneer has a Twitter Account
The highly controversial Shell oil rig rolled into town, and it has a few things to say
Only in Seattle would you see two dozen kayakers paddling out to protest the arrival of a giant oil rig. Yesterday, the highly controversial Shell oil rig, Polar Pioneer, made its entrance into Elliott Bay from Port Angeles. The Associated Press reports it was met with protesting kayakers in Elliott Bay along with many activists…
What Kind of Festival Goer are You?
A fun quiz to get you ready for festival season
With summer fast approaching you’re probably starting to ask yourself an important question: what kind of festival goer am I? Luckily for you, the folks at MorphCostumes (creators of that monochromatic spandex wonder the morphsuit) have a way to answer that question. Take their quiz to find out if you’re a Legend, a Poser, or…
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