Seattle Culture
A Festival Built on Faith
Singer-songwriter Grace Love brings music, food, and radical community care to Jubilee Love Festival
Grace Love (she/they) never meant to run a music festival. But like many things in her life, Jubilee Love Festival emerged from instinct, community, and a little bit of what she calls delusional action. “I just wanted something that feels safe, open to all, and genuine. It feels like home,” she says. Now in its…
Bookstore Love Story
Seattle’s first romance-only bookstore opened with a line out the door and a dream of going steady
It started, as many good love stories do, with a secret longing. McKenna Martin was living and working in L.A., juggling TV production and a photography business, when the pandemic put everything on hold. With shows paused and no way of taking on photography clients, she looked for a new creative outlet. She bought a…
The Pulse: Berry Season
A hit card game and Venezuelan hot dogs
It’s time to pick blackberries from that one overgrown corner of the neighborhood — you know the one. Strawberries are bright red and blueberries are fat and sweet, so be sure to hit up your local farmers market. August is doing exactly what it’s supposed to, and we’ve still got a few weeks left to…
Must List: Six Fun Things to Do This Week
Aug 07 - Aug 13
Glass floats, wine by the water, and a Japantown street festival
Hi. Hope you’re finding little ways to enjoy this stretch of late summer, even if it’s just taking the long way home or picking a few blackberries before they disappear. (Mine never quite make it home.) We’ve been covering some fun things lately: a creepy Alien: Earth stunt downtown, Alaska Airlines’ new direct international flights,…
Urban Paddle
Canoeing the Green River from Kent to Tukwila offers solitude and a sense of adventure
The giant bridge ahead and the distant roar of loud car engines were telltale signs that we were arriving at I-405 in Southcenter. Though instead of zooming toward an onramp at 70 miles per hour, we were floating lazily down a river at approximately two miles per hour. Over the Fourth of July weekend, my…
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A Taste of Tuscany
Kira Jane Buxton’s latest novel turns her family’s Italian adventure into a funny and heartwarming summer read
Growing up, author Kira Jane Buxton had mixed feelings about her peripatetic childhood. Thanks to her father’s job, her family hopped around the globe, spending time in Dubai, Jakarta, Singapore, Korea and Texas. It was an upbringing full of adventures — playing in dunes, exploring tropical jungles, making friends with the neighborhood animals — but…
Back to the Future, Forward for AAJA
Seattle hosts the Asian American Journalists Association's national convention for the first time in 26 years, honoring trailblazers and looking ahead
“If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything” is a recurring refrain in the blockbuster 1985 film Back to the Future. That line echoes loudly at this year’s Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) convention, running through Saturday at the Downtown Sheraton Hotel, as both the history and future of journalism — and…
Must List: Six Fun Things to Do This Week
Jul 31 - Aug 06
Haunted art, campfire drama, and peak summer fun
The city feels buzzy right now, like we’re catching summer at full tilt. If you’re trying to keep up, here are a few stories to catch this week: The West Seattle Glass Float Hunt starts Aug. 8 and will be very fun. We also ran an essay about preparing to send your kid off to…
Seattle Named Most Walkable City in the U.S.
A new study puts Seattle at the top for car-free exploring
A new study from flip-flop brand FitFlop just named Seattle the most walkable city in the country — and Travel + Leisure backed it up with a full write-up. Using a matrix that compared the top five attractions in 30 U.S. cities, FitFlop measured walking distance, time, elevation gain, and total step count. It combined…
Afloat in West Seattle
West Seattle’s most charming treasure hunt returns this August
More than 100 handblown glass floats will be hiding in plain sight around West Seattle, and if you find one, it’s yours to keep. The West Seattle Glass Float Hunt is back for its fourth year, running Aug. 8-15, with orbs tucked into parks, shops, and other public spaces across the neighborhood. Each 4-inch float…
The Pulse: Bring the Heat
A new Uwajimaya, rising electric bills, and the question of who’ll lead Seattle’s AI future
These are my family plans for the week: a ferry ride to Kingston, banh mi at Rise & Shine Bakery, a stop at Third Place Books, maybe a baseball game. July’s wrapping up, and everything’s starting to speed up. But this week? We’re still in it. Warm, sunny, bright — the kind of stretch we…
Seattle Summer Reads
This crop of PNW books offers the perfect page-turner for every occasion, from poolside lounging to backyard breaks
Elita Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum We wrote about this book when it came out in January, and even though it’s set in the dead middle of a Pacific Northwest winter, the mystery behind this novel makes it hard to put down. Lunstrum’s first novel, Elita (Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly Books) follows Bernadette Baston — a university lecturer…
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