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Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Rick Horwitz
Seattle Magazine presents the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.
Rick Horwitz, center, promotes scientific collaboration in his role as executive director at the Allen Institute for Cell Science. Photographed on August 31 at the Institute’s South Lake Union offices.
The Ups and Downs of Life in Amazonia
No one said empire building was easy.
Check out the rest of our 2017 Year in Review package. According to Bloomberg and Forbes, Jeff Bezos was the richest man in the world for almost all of July 26, with a personal fortune of more than $90 billion. By day’s end, though, he had to settle for second banana to Seattle’s other tycoon, Bill…
It’s Like 2017 was Trying to Freak the Northwest Out All Year
Our upper-left-corner location didn’t spare us anxiety-provoking bull’s-eye treatment.
Check out the rest of our 2017 Year in Review package. Let’s get ready to rumble! If it’s not “The Big One” quake specials (OK, King 5 News, we’ll kit up!) and tsunami and lahar drills, it’s the hundreds of Ring of Fire reminders we get annually; this spring, Bremerton was beset by a “swarm”…
The Quirky Stories and Characters That Took Our Minds Off the Mayhem in 2017
This year’s "shiny things" were a welcomed respite from the news cycle.
Check out the rest of our 2017 Year in Review package. Poses like “downward-facing goat” were routine at the various goat yoga classes in the area, incorporating goats into a playful practice for yogis of all ages. The world’s largest rubber duck, Mama Duck, made a splash into the Thea Foss Waterway for Tacoma’s Festival…
It Took Nearly a Century, But Seattle Found Its Second Female Mayor
Jenny Durkan emerged from a slew of candidates to take Seattle's top job.
Check out the rest of our 2017 Year in Review package. For all our self-congratulatory posing as a forward-thinking metropolis, Seattle seldom has strayed from (white) males when it comes to who runs this city. The lone female exception was a corruption- and bootleg-busting firebrand, Bertha Landes (1926–28). Landes was ousted by voters on her next…
Seattle Crime 2017: From the Gross to the Grotesque
The crime stories that shook Seattle.
Check out the rest of our 2017 Year in Review package. Two people were arrested at a Sammamish Papa John’s Pizza store (and three others elsewhere) during “Operation Extra Olives” (who says cops don’t have a sense of humor?) in June. The six-month-long King County Sheriff’s Office undercover investigation followed a tip that some employees were…
Is Your Pet Missing This Key Ingredient in Their Diet?
Pet owners can now give their furry friends a leg (or paw) up.
From downing $11 kale smoothies to popping probiotics, we Seattleites certainly aren’t strangers to filling our diets to the brim with health boosters. But what about our pets? Although we may live in one of America’s most health-conscious cities, you’d be surprised to learn that the food you’re giving your fur-baby may be lacking the…
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