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Trailblazing Women: Julie Pham
Founder, CuriosityBased
After deciding to leave my career as an academic in 2008, I returned to Seattle to help my family run the newspaper. I got my real-life MBA trying to find ways to survive the Great Recession. I brought together different ethnic media, and I chaired the MLK Business Association to facilitate collaboration among small businesses in South Seattle…
Must List: This Week’s Top 6 Picks
Pride Parade, classic cars, delicious food at The Taste Northwest
We’ve rounded up some fantastic events, both inside and outside, to keep you entertained as we head into summer. And with the 4th of July around the corner, we know we can finally count on some constant sun.
Unmatched Ingenuity
Edwin Fountain’s artistic innovations can be seen all over south Seattle
This tree is dead — Seattle Parks and Recreation had decapitated it — but to Edwin Fountain, it is a canvas. A piece of marble. A sculpture waiting to emerge. I ask him what it’s going to be.
“I don’t know,” he says. “I’m waiting for it to tell me.”
Activate 3.8: The Gender Pay Gap, The Burden of Caregiving
The Washington Women’s Commission officially unveils new campaign June 28
For Leah White, it’s personal. She knows all too well the challenges women face when choosing between caregiving and career. As legislative and operations manager for the Washington State Women’s Commission, she aims to do something about it.
Trailblazing Women: Brenda Leaks
Head of school, Seattle Girls' School
Teaching middle schoolers to accept themselves during adolescence sets the groundwork for acceptance at all stages of life — of ourselves and others. This radical acceptance is critical for women as our roles, lives, and bodies change as we age. Go ahead, take up your space!
Mind-Bending Fun
Seattle’s newest museum will turn your world upside down
The Museum of Illusions is all about messing with your perception and making you question what’s real. It opens in downtown Seattle on June 28 in a 9,000-square-foot space in the historic eight-story Skinner Building (home to the 5th Avenue Theatre).
Trailblazing Women: Shin Yu Pai
Civic poet of Seattle, Host KUOW's Ten Thousand Things
I made the decision to move back to Seattle in 2012, after working in arts jobs in the Austin, Texas, and Little Rock, Arkansas, areas. I’d worked here as a grad student in the University of Washington museology program and loved the small, community-based cultural organizations that characterize our city — like the Wing Luke Museum or the Densho Project — institutions that focus on storytelling…
Must List: This Week’s Top 6 Picks
Father's Day, festivals, yachts, and Pride
Catch the Edmonds Arts Festival, celebrate Pride with a family picnic on Mercer Island, or admire more than 40 classic yachts. Feel the power of resistance music, or check out a thought-provoking talk on power dynamics in the digital age with author Renée DiResta. And don’t miss Vampire Weekend at Climate Pledge Arena.
Hidden Washington: Leavenworth All Year
This Bavarian-style village in the Cascade Mountains offers more than just Oktoberfest and Christmas celebrations
Beyond the beer and bratwurst and lively seasonal celebrations — notably Oktoberfest with a “K” and Christmas with a heaping dose of Nutcrackers — Leavenworth is a fabulous place to spend a long weekend…
Finding Freedom
Seattle author Stacey Levine’s new book, Mice 1961, follows two sisters during a single day of their fraught relationship
From the get-go, Stacey Levine’s latest novel, Mice 1961, plunges the reader into a story of motion. “I’m interested in playing with language,” says Levine, who, in addition to authoring several novels and a book of short stories, teaches English composition and creative writing at Seattle Central College. “I’m also intrigued by the drama of small, unnoticed, everyday life things.”
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