February 2021
November 2019 Hike of the Month: Licorice Fern Trail
This fall wonderland of a hike is full of mossy trees and crunchy maple leaves
It’s November and shorter daylight hours mean shorter hikes. If you’re not quite ready to bring out the snowshoes and full winter gear, it’s also a good time to explore the lower elevation hikes. Late October brought a round of early snow to the mountains, and closed off a lot of trails close to Seattle…
Seattle’s Most Influential People 2019: Africatown Community Land Trust President and CEO, K. Wyking Garrett
Garrett has been challenging gentrification and advocating for affordable housing and spaces for black-owned businesses
This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue, as part of the Most Influential People of the Year feature. Click here to subscribe. K. Wyking Garrett is a third-generation Central District resident who grew tired of watching his community being displaced by gentrification and decided to do something about it. As president and CEO of the Africatown Community…
Seattle Photography Studio Uses Vintage Equipment to Capture Auras on Film
According to Aura Aura's owners, the '70s-era camera technology converts a person's energy to color, which shows up on the portrait as a sort of rainbow-hued halo
This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Freelance photographer Alex Lee says he’s a technical, rational person by nature—yet his new project is rooted in the abstract and requires a small leap of faith. In April, he launched the Seattle location of Aura Aura, a Detroit-based business (started by his sister…
Seattle’s Most Influential People 2019: Sightline Institute Founder and Executive Director, Alan Durning
Sightline Institute has produced some of the most important writings on the region’s housing shortage
This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue, as part of the Most Influential People of the Year feature. Click here to subscribe. Over the past few years, Alan Durning, the quiet, unprepossessing founder and executive director of Sightline Institute, the state’s leading climate and housing think tank, has helped frame the debate on an astounding number of…
4 New Seattle-area Restaurants You Must Try in November 2019
In today’s dining scene, it’s hard to keep up with restaurant openings. But it’s our job (and our pleasure) to do just that. Here are a few new places worth checking out
This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. DochiChinatown–International DistrictSeattle’s love affair with doughnuts shows no sign of slowing, with the most recent example being a boom in mochi, or rice flour, doughnuts, which have a chewier texture than their cakey and yeasted counterparts. Grab these creative bubble-shaped rings at the Dochi…
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’ ‘Carpe Fin’ Tells Its Story at Seattle Art Museum
Commissioned by SAM, the new piece is a 6-by-19-foot watercolor mural condensing a Haida folktale into one immense color-drenched panel
This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Sensing an affinity between the iconography of his First Nation art tradition and the boldness and sweep of the Japanese film/graphic-novel visual style known as manga, Haida visual artist and British Columbia resident Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas combines the two—“committed to,” as he puts it,…
Sea-Tac Airport’s New Food Options Show off Local Flavors
A handy guide to navigating a newly redesigned Seattle-Tacoma International Airport—and all its new restaurants—like a Million Miler
This article appears in print in the November 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Smaller seats. Longer waits. Fewer freebies. Passenger flight is no longer the uplifting experience it was during aviation’s halcyon days in the 1960s. Airports, however, have never been better. While our own Seattle-Tacoma International Airport may not have the world’s largest indoor waterfall or…
Must List: Seattle Women’s Show, Bunka no Hi, ‘Beyond Bollywood’
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST IMMERSE Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation (11/2-1/26/20) This exhibit, which amassed over a year of residency at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, explores the history of Indian-American immigrants and their ancestors. Supplemented by MOHAI’s Northwest-specific addition, the artifacts, photographs and…
