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The Pulse: Grounds for Change

Sue Bird on stage, Starbucks in retreat.

By Sarah Stackhouse September 26, 2025

A glass greenhouse with white double doors stands at the pulse of lush green plants and trees, with a concrete path on these thriving grounds for change leading to the entrance.
Photo by Josh Hild / Pexels

Fall is officially here, but are we feeling it yet? It’s certainly getting colder. Maybe you’re shutting the windows at night or noticing all the pumpkins at the grocery stores. Some of us are pulling out scarves, others are clinging to late-summer light. I guess the question is, are you Team Fall or Team Endless Summer?

Here’s what’s happening around town…

Seattle’s very own Bill Nye just got his Hollywood star.

Macrina has fig hand pies on the menu.

This King 5 News throwback is totally bonkers. I love it! Shout out to the classic dad rocking those super light blue jeans.

YouTube darlings TwoSet Violin are bringing their snappy, virtuosic comedy to Benaroya on Oct. 17.

Lake City is losing its Fred Meyer.

Hitchcock Hotel at Can Can promises death defying dance, sultry songs, and shimmying show girls.

The North Cascades are going glacierless. Not a fun read, but an important one.

Seattle is hosting the AeroPress Championship next week. Watch coffee nerds pull their way to glory.

Have you heard of this incredible food forest in Beacon Hill?

Starbucks is closing hundreds of stores and laying off 900 workers. The Seattle Reserve Roastery and the Reserve store are both already gone.

There’s a Benson Boone look-alike contest happening at the International Fountain on Oct. 4. Winners really should have to pull off a backflip.

Queuing this pho up for the season.

ICE arrested an Oregon firefighter mid-blaze last month. He has since been released, but the whole thing is a mess.

The Coast Salish Museum of Fine Arts opens The Land Remembers on Oct. 3. The exhibition explores Indigenous connections to the land through bone, cedar, beadwork, ceramics, and poetry.

Anyone going to see Second Acts Live with Sue Bird at McCaw Hall next week? It sounds so compelling.

This is a huge loss for local journalism.

KOMO is bringing Jimmy Kimmel Live! back—maybe they heard all the protesting.

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