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Create Your Perfect Travel Itinerary with New Seattle-based Site
A new Seattle-based website helps you create an unforgettable trip
Seeing iconic landmarks and historical sites is part of the allure of travel, but often it’s the little things—the hidden gems that don’t appear in guidebooks or brochures—that make a trip unforgettable. Sharing those lucky finds and personal experiences is the inspiration behind Jrrny (jrrny.com), a website launched in February by local entrepreneur (and former…
Health App Encourages Calling it Quits
Tech plus mindfulness helps extinguish smoking
A half-century ago, in the Marlboro Man’s heyday, nearly half of American adults smoked. Far fewer light up today, but the 20 percent who do face steep odds when they try to quit: According to the American Cancer Society, only 4–7 percent of efforts to quit smoking succeed without medicines or other assistance. Now, there’s…
Research Alters Allergy Approach
A new study reveals more about infants and peanut allergies
The rate of developing peanut allergy in Western nations has doubled in the past decade, but Seattle-funded research holds clues to prevention. A new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, designed and funded in Seattle by Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason and the Immune Tolerance Network, indicates that feeding peanuts to…
Seattle’s Social Media Stars: Just for Fun
Because ultimately, isn't that what the internet is for anyway?
Amateur Hour@amateurhourparty 600 The DJ duo made up of creative techies and Capitol Hill residents Andrew Nedimyer and Alaa Mendili got their start when a friend asked if the two would put together a playlist for her birthday party. Inexperienced and then armed only with Spotify, they blew out an amp at that event, earning…
Seattle’s Social Media Stars: Culture Vultures
Who to follow to feed your soul
Hawkeye Huey@hawkeyehuey 200K There’s no questioning where 6-year-old shutterbug Hawkeye Huey got his eye—his dad, Aaron Huey, captures amazing images for National Geographic magazine. Thanks to dad’s job, Hawkeye’s had the opportunity to travel around the world during breaks from kindergarten in Maple Leaf, shooting on his analog Fujifilm Instax camera. His father uploads the…
Seattle Social Media Stars: The Foodie Network
From adventurous home cooks to rising stars, these locals' feeds will have your mouth watering
Aran Goyoaga@cannellevanille 268K on Twitter 26K A Basque expat, Aran Goyoaga studied business and economics and earned an MBA before attending culinary school. She’s published one cookbook, Small Plates & Sweet Treats ($29.99, Little, Brown and Company), and her blog, Cannelle et Vanille, has twice been chosen as a finalist for a James Beard Award….
Seattle’s Social Media Stars: A Tail of Three Frenchies
What is it with Seattleites and their photogenic French Bulldogs?
Milo @frenchiebutt 561K “Bedbound butterball. Mustached mush. Narcoleptic nugget. Squishy Seattleite,” reads the bio on Milo’s Instagram account, which—as you might expect—features photo after photo of the pudgy little pup snuggled up in the sack. Sir Charles Barkley @barkleysircharles 470K // “Barkley the French Bulldog” 22K It’s a dog’s life, as they say, and we…
Seattle’s Social Media Stars: The Twitterati
Sharing the city's ins and outs in 140 characters or less
Turning 10 years old in July, Twitter only started picking up steam after it was showcased at Austin’s famous South by Southwest festival in spring 2007. Then, the social media platform averaged approximately 60,000 tweets per day—today, that number is estimated to be more than 500 million. Of all social media, Twitter is arguably the…
Seattle Social Media Stars: The Beautiful Life
Gorgeous interiors, impeccable fashion sense...get ready to feel inspired (or downright jealous)
Kate Murphy@katecph 2K An architectural designer and the marketing director for Belltown’s Suyama Peterson Deguchi, Kate Murphy has an amazing eye for design. The Capitol Hill resident’s Instagram stream reveals the beauty, symmetry and pattern in everyday scenes and objects, along with details of architectural design. Cassandra [email protected] 30K // @casslavalle 29K // “Coco +…
Seattle’s YouTube Millionaire
Social media is more than a past-time for north Seattle Judy Travis. It's a way of life
Judy Travis is undeniably one of social media’s biggest stars. The north Seattle resident, who got her start posting amateur makeup reviews and how-tos in 2008 just for fun, has parlayed her passion for beauty products into a career as a “YouTuber.” And it’s a lucrative gig—some reports estimate her net worth at more than…
Maple Valley Native Takes on Storms, Crabs and Reality TV
Danger is all in a day’s work for this Deadliest Catch captain
Johnathan Hillstrand was practically born with sea legs. The Maple Valley resident says his earliest memory is that of being on a boat with his father at age 3. He followed in his dad’s footsteps, becoming a crab fisherman right after high school, but never expected his work would make him famous. In 2005, when…
Seattle’s Social Media Stars
Meet the locals who know how to network
From Twitter addicts who know Seattle’s scene inside out to Instagrammers who share their artistic views of all the best things about this city, we’ve rounded up the local social media personalities who we think you’ll want to discover. Want to give a shout out for your favorite local media personalities? Share with us on…
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