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Heart Leader
King County has the highest survival rate of cardiac arrest in the world–that’s according to analysis by county officials, who put the survival percentage for 2013 at 62 percent–other urban areas such as Chicago or New York City rank in single digit percentages. That number has gone up dramatically in the last decade, and is…
Tracking Rays With an App
We love our Seattle summers, but fret about all that sudden intense sun exposure. Enter Brightly, an app created by Seattle startup ARO that monitors your sun exposure. Enter your location and skin tone and the program does the rest, letting you know things like when it’s time to get shade, reapply sunscreen. Users can…
Scavenger Hunt! NuBe Green Challenges You to a Social-Media Contest
NuBe Green (Capitol Hill, 1527 10th Ave.; 206.402.4515), purveyor of cool, mostly U.S.A.-made goods, has launched its first nation-wide scavenger hunt. The Great NuBe Scavenger Hunt actually involves very little scavenging per se. Instead teams (you can form yours from friends and family located anywhere in the country) are challenged to perform a series of…
Home Decor that Looks Good Enough to Eat
Nothing says summertime more than a big bowl of sun-kissed fresh fruit. And it’s easy to bolster this sunny look in your abode (minus that pesky expiration date) by adding a fruit-kissed accent or two. Just pick up a pair of Pear Salt-and-Pepper Shakers ($19), available in speckled white or golden bronze, new from West Elm (South…
Got Design Talent? Or Know Someone Who Does? Tell Martha Stewart About It
It seems improbable, but, so far, no Seattleite has won a Martha Stewart American Made award. The contest celebrating the best home-grown craftspeople laboring in the fields of design, food and style has only existed since 2012. Still, in that time, there have been two winners hailing from Portlandia. It’s a simple matter to set things…
Ikea’s 2015 Catalog is Coming (So is a New Store)!
Oh, so very soon, our mailboxes will be welcoming that familiar chunky shopping tome: the Ikea catalog. The 2015 edition (access it digitally on July 24th at 2015 Ikea Catalog) focuses on “Where the Everyday Begins and Ends,” namely, in our bedrooms and bathrooms. As well as an abundance of new looks—bed frames to towel…
In the Garden: Great Goods & Goings-On
Talk about a perfect summertime blend: a glorious garden setting and a cocktail-making class. This Thursday (7/17), 6-9 p.m., Swansons Nursery (Crown Hill; 9710 15th Ave. NW; 206.782.2543) hosts “Garden to Glass,” featuring a botanical cocktail demo by Amy Pennington of GoGo Green Garden (who also will be signing copies of her latest book, Fresh…
Best Local Heart Surgery Center
Want the best heart surgery in the state? Go to the Cherry Hill campus of Swedish Medical Center, the only Washington hospital to make the Consumer Reports list of top 15 heart hospitals in the country for heart bypass and valve replacement surgery. In 2013, Swedish’s team performed 730 heart surgeries, well above the average…
Healthy Food Connections
Two years ago, therapists Kara Bazzi, Alexia Giblin and Julie Church decided to take their collective eating-disorder therapy practices from the University of Washington and Seattle Pacific University to start their own clinic in the heart of the University District. Opal Food and Body Wisdom (opalfoodandbody.com) occupies a few unique niches: It’s independent, owned by…
Stress Free Seattle
If you’ve been watching World Cup at the office and are looking foward to a weekend of hiking and biking, it may come as little surprise that in a list of most stressed-out cities compiled by CNN Money, Seattle is an underachiever, coming in at number 42 out of a list of 55 cities ranked…
Nine Local Homes with Stunning Entertaining Spaces
Beautiful homes made for throwing parties
Summer is officially in full swing, which means it’s high time for barbecues, s’mores near the firepit, breezy gatherings on the terrace and daytime picnics that transition into nighttime fireworks-watching parties. These nine to-die-for homes in and around Seattle (corralled courtesy of Seattle-based Porch.com), have their entertaining space designs down to a rarefied art. And…
Mainstreaming Alternative Medicine
People are incorporating naturopathy to acupunture into traditional medical treatment
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Cost Conscious Medicine
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