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Fears Over Elysian Sale, Is it Time to Kill Bertha & More
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
It’s Media Day in Arizona for Super Bowl XLIX. King 5 News is on the scene with live updates from the football frenzy, including some super odd moments like a wedding dress-clad Associated Press reporter’s marriage proposal for Tom Brady. Find it all here. Is it time to kill Bertha? Two state senators seem to…
Goal to End Homelessness Still Out of Reach
The Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness turns 10
On January 24, 2014, there were 3,123 people sleeping on the streets and more than 6,000 in shelters or transitional housing in King County. When the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness conducts its One Night Count again in the chilly, dark hours of a January night*, that number probably won’t be smaller, despite the fact…
How One Special Sign Sparked Vandalism to a Tree
We’re a green, nature-loving city, but our village is not free of idiots
In this bi-monthly Seattlemag.com column, Knute Berger–who writes regularly for Seattle Magazine and Crosscut.com and is a frequent pundit on KUOW–takes an in-depth look at some of the highly topical and sometimes polarizing issues in our city. I recently went on a guided nature walk at Seward Park. The Audubon Center there conducts regular “owl…
Local Hula Classes Available for Moms and Babies
Mothers are encouraged to bond with their infants during this 45-minute workout
New parents have been known to go to great lengths to wangle a much-needed nap for their babies (and themselves): long car rides, pushing the stroller mile after mile…and now, hula classes. Especially if Marcie Mahinakealo Cheung, a longtime dancer and cofounder of the new dance program A Honu World of Hula (ahonuworldofhula.com) has anything…
6 Weight Loss Crazes that Ended in Lawsuits
From Sensa to Shape-ups, these fitness trends resulted in legal action
This article originally appeared on Avvo.com. Many Americans are looking to slim down and promote overall health and wellness in 2015. Although not a bad goal, health-related resolutions leave consumers vulnerable to the onslaught of fad diets, weight-loss products and flab reducers that infiltrate the market after the holiday season. The following are the top six…
Seahawks Send-Off, Delta and Alaska Duke it Out & More
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
If Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch opts to display any obscene gestures during the Super Bowl (AKA, his crotch grab during the playoffs), NFL officials say referees will tack on a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. Lynch had previously been fined around $30,000 for his PG-13 gestures. An epic send-off: Kiro 7 News has a host…
Communication Fail? Blame Mercury in Retrograde
How to make the most of a potentially stressful time
The rest of the world is starting to tune in to what diehard astrology fans have known for years: when Mercury is retrograde things tend to suck. Let me explain: Three or four times a year, the planet Mercury appears to be going backwards (or in retrograde motion) in relation to the Earth. Mercury, astrologically…
Gawker’s Super Fun Super Bowl Quiz!
A fun and totally pointless quiz asks 'What Super Bowl Time Are You?'
Long, long ago in 2011, a Huffington Post trends and traffic editor was busy analyzing words and phrases that people were searching on the Internet. This editor would then write posts using that data in order to get them to appear in Google’s top-ranked search results. The day before Super Bowl XLV between the Green…
Russell Wilson’s Roommate, Central Co-op Wage Hike & More News
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Roommate ready: At the Super Bowl in Arizona, all players are granted their own hotel rooms, but Russell Wilson prefers not to break tradition. He’ll continue to room with Seahawks running back and fullback Robert Turbin, as he does at all away games during the regular season. “It’s not a superstition,” Wilson told MyNorthwest.com. “It’s just I…
Must List: Elvis Impersonators, Children’s Film Fest Begins
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must ScreenChildren’s Film Festival at Northwest Film Forum(1/22 to 2/7, times vary) Seattle’s most surprising film festival celebrates its 10th year, with more than 175 kid-oriented flicks from nearly 50 countries. With documentaries, animation, feature films and shorts, there is plenty here to keep grown-ups occupied while the younger set mingles. Must ShopNew Sephora Store…
Capitol Hill’s Robin Held Dresses Without Limits
Independent curator expounds on the virtues of donning clothing creatively
CURRICULUM VITAEFor Capitol Hill’s Robin Held, there are no boundaries when it comes to sartorial self-expression. “I like convertible clothing,” says the creative strategist and cultural entrepreneur who has held prominent positions at Henry Art Gallery, Frye Art Museum and Reel Grrls. “I have skirts that make great tops.” When she travels, Held packs just…
Northwest African American Museum Celebrates 1970s Cartoons
'Funky Turns 40: The Black Character Revolution' honors Fat Albert and more
If you were a kid in the early 1970s, you likely spent Saturday mornings sprawled on the living room floor in front of cartoons—and just as likely, you were unaware of the radical act taking place on the tube. But 40 years ago, Josie and the Pussycats, The Harlem Globetrotters and The Jackson 5ive were…
Seattle-based Web Series ‘Rocketmen’ Will Debut Soon
Filmmaker Webster Crowell won 'The Stranger' Genuis Award for film in 2003
“The first thing that got kicked off the budget was the flying rig,” says filmmaker Webster Crowell. A contraption that facilitates the illusion that actors are flying would have come in handy on Rocketmen, his retro sci-fi adventure story, but this is a low-budget, seven-episode Web series. So the flying rig went out the window—as…
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