Health + Wellness

A Spa for People Who Are Bad at Relaxing

A Spa for People Who Are Bad at Relaxing

Circle Wellness is bringing its private thermal circuit to Seattle, where a calm voice keeps time so you don’t have to.

From the outside, Circle Wellness does not look like a spa. It looks like the sort of large black structure you might hesitate to enter without first texting someone your coordinates. I arrived at its Vancouver, B.C., location on an unusually warm June afternoon and found no windows, almost no signage, and one massive steel…

Why I Built a Pickleball Club With My Daughter

Why I Built a Pickleball Club With My Daughter

My father showed me how to turn my love of sports into something lasting. Pickle at the Palms carries that lesson forward. 

Looking back, I wouldn’t say my family teaming up to launch Pickle at the Palms—a new 20-court indoor pickleball club—was inevitable, but it may have been predictable. Sports have shaped my life for more than 50 years. I fell in love with rowing as a 17-year-old college freshman and went on to compete on two…

Meet the Top Doctors: Dr. Margo Kober, M.D.

Meet the Top Doctors: Dr. Margo Kober, M.D.

Internal medicine, Providence Swedish

Every year, we ask a few of Seattle’s Top Doctors what led them to medicine, what they wish patients knew, and how healthcare is changing. These interviews are part of Seattle magazine’s annual Top Doctors feature, created with Castle Connolly. None of the doctors paid to be included—all are nominated by their peers. What led…

Meet the Top Doctors: Dr. Ryan Broderick, M.D.

Meet the Top Doctors: Dr. Ryan Broderick, M.D.

Cardiology, Kaiser Permanente Bellevue Medical Center

Every year, we ask a few of Seattle’s Top Doctors what led them to medicine, what they wish patients knew, and how healthcare is changing. These interviews are part of Seattle magazine’s annual Top Doctors feature, created with Castle Connolly. None of the doctors paid to be included—all are nominated by their peers. What led…

Meet the Top Doctors: Dr. Oren G. Townsend, M.D.

Meet the Top Doctors: Dr. Oren G. Townsend, M.D.

Internal medicine, Providence Swedish

Every year, we ask a few of Seattle’s Top Doctors what led them to medicine, what they wish patients knew, and how healthcare is changing. These interviews are part of Seattle magazine’s annual Top Doctors feature, created with Castle Connolly. None of the doctors paid to be included—all are nominated by their peers. What led…

Meet the Top Doctors: Dr. Kristin Conn, M.D.

Meet the Top Doctors: Dr. Kristin Conn, M.D.

Family medicine, Kaiser Permanente Capitol Hill Medical Center

Every year, we ask a few of Seattle’s Top Doctors what led them to medicine, what they wish patients knew, and how healthcare is changing. These interviews are part of Seattle magazine’s annual Top Doctors feature, created with Castle Connolly. None of the doctors paid to be included—all are nominated by their peers. What led…

Meet the Top Doctors: Dr. Jillian Worth, M.D.

Meet the Top Doctors: Dr. Jillian Worth, M.D.

Family medicine, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, Bainbridge Island Medical Pavilion

Every year, we ask a few of Seattle’s Top Doctors what led them to medicine, what they wish patients knew, and how healthcare is changing. These interviews are part of Seattle magazine’s annual Top Doctors feature, created with Castle Connolly. None of the doctors paid to be included—all are nominated by their peers. What led…

Can political disagreement make you happier?
Seattle Podcast

Can political disagreement make you happier?

“Happiness” is the last thing many of us expect to find on a call with a stranger from the opposite political side. But when Axel Bouchon and his team placed one very unusual phone booth in deeply liberal San Francisco, California, and another in deeply conservative Abilene, Texas, that was exactly what they were hoping…

Aging in Grace: A Conversation With Male Supermodel John Pearson

Aging in Grace: A Conversation With Male Supermodel John Pearson

Seattle magazine’s July/August cover star talks longevity and his newfound love of Seattle.

There are moments in putting together an issue of Seattle when you know you’ve managed to capture something both timeless and entirely of the moment. Featuring John Barnes Pearson as our cover model is one of those moments. For those who know the history of fashion and culture, John Pearson is not simply a familiar…

Powering Progress: Aina Abiodun on Climate Innovation That Serves Communities

Powering Progress: Aina Abiodun on Climate Innovation That Serves Communities

As president and executive director of VertueLab, Abiodun is working to make climate tech more equitable, practical, and rooted in real human needs.

Meet Aina Abiodun, VertueLab’s executive director, who is championing equitable climate tech in Seattle and empowering communities to drive innovation.

Seattle Founders Rethink the Weighted Vest

Seattle Founders Rethink the Weighted Vest

After getting into rucking, two business-minded friends grew frustrated by gear that seemed to cater to men. So they decided to create their own.

Esther Sedgwick and Cortney Bigelow’s idea for their Seattle-based fitness equipment brand, The Carry, came from a simple frustration: they couldn’t find a weighted vest that worked for them. “We fell in love with the workout,” Sedgwick explains of the duo’s experience with rucking, which is, in its simplest terms, putting some weight on your…

What Trump’s Climate Rollback Could Mean for Washington

What Trump’s Climate Rollback Could Mean for Washington

A policy expert explains how repealing the EPA’s endangerment finding could weaken federal rules and shift more responsibility to states.

In February, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the repeal of the endangerment finding, a key rule that has supported federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions since 2009. Established during the Obama administration, the endangerment finding determined that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. That determination gave the EPA authority under the Clean Air…

A Clear Vision for Growth

A Clear Vision for Growth

Local optometry clinic Eye Eye celebrates a decade in business and prepares to debut its first line of frames.

In Leschi Park, overlooking Lake Washington, towers one of Seattle’s many historic trees, a giant sequoia planted sometime in the early 20th century. Just down the street on Lakeside Avenue is the second location of eye clinic and shop Eye Eye, where Dr. Will Pentecost seems to be borrowing some of the leafy specimen’s energy….

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