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Portraits of Life Under Lockdown
Wondering what the city looks like while everyone's staying home and healthy? We sent our photographers to the streets
On March 16, which feels like an actual lifetime ago, staff photographers Hayley Young and Alex Crook set out to capture Seattle standing still. We were just at the beginning of the advisory to stay home in order to #flattenthecurve and slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. What does the city look like without traffic, without pedestrians, without shoppers or diners or workers? Surreal, and a little eerie.
Have your own photo to share from isolation? Tag us on Instagram @seattlemag and use the hashtag #SurrealSeattle. If you’d like to hold onto these gorgeous images as a little time capsule of this truly bizarro period of history, make sure to pick up a copy of our May issue.
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Photo Essay: Behind the Seams
A single thread can be beautiful on its own. Delicate and capable of stretching. Left alone long enough, the world slowly wears it down. But then we learn to weave. Threads intersect—over and under, until they become something greater than themselves. Behind the seams, a story carried across skin and across culture becomes a fashionable…
Broken? Ballard Has a New Shop for That.
At We Fix Old Stuff, two Seattle designers are giving treasured belongings a second life.
A woman had found a busted Sesame Street lamp just like the one her husband remembered having as a child. It wasn’t his original lamp, but she wanted to get it working again for his office. She brought it to Ashley Zaworska and David Nebert, two Seattle designers with a knack for fixing things. The…
Seattle’s Dancing Zombies Return This Saturday for 20th Annual Thrill the World
No brains required, just a little rhythm. Performers head to Woodinville for a Halloween dance synchronized across eight countries.
Maybe you’ve had the pleasure of stumbling upon a group of zombies dancing to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” somewhere around Seattle. With their tattered clothes and sunken faces, they’re just the sort of wonderfully strange encounter I think we’re all secretly hoping for when we leave the house in October. These flash-mob-style performances can seem to…
Your Guide to Halloween in Seattle and Beyond
The Pacific Northwest was made for this time of year. Here’s how to celebrate it.
It’s spooky season in Washington, which means haunted farms, fall festivals, pumpkin carving, costume contests for pets and people alike, and more. Here are some of the best ways to celebrate Halloween in Seattle and beyond. Halloween Fun and Frights in Snohomish October 10-11, 16-18, 22-25, 29-31, November 1 Stocker Farms Visiting a pumpkin patch…