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The Pulse: Grounds for Change

Sue Bird on stage, Starbucks in retreat.

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.

Photo Essay: Behind the Seams

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.

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

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

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…