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Q&A: Top Doctor Ray Hsiao of Seattle Children's Hospital Helps Kids With Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues

Q&A: Top Doctor Ray Hsiao of Seattle Children’s Hospital Helps Kids With Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues

One of Seattle's top doctors shares insights into combating opioid addiction and on how Washington state is stepping up to integrate treatment of these complex issues.

Dr. Ray Hsiao focuses on helping kids with mental health and substance abuse issues

Seattle Children's New Program Helps Families Live a Gluten-Free Life

Seattle Children’s New Program Helps Families Live a Gluten-Free Life

For some, avoiding gluten is not a choice.

This article appears in print in the April 2018 issue, as part of the Top Doctors cover story. Click here to subscribe. These days, it seems as though gluten, a protein found in wheat and some other grains (and in foods such as bread, beer, soy sauce and many others), is the trendy ingredient to avoid. And for good…

Q&A: Seattle Top Doctor Mahesh Mulumudi on Keeping a Healthy Heart

Q&A: Seattle Top Doctor Mahesh Mulumudi on Keeping a Healthy Heart

The interventional cardiologist at The Everett Clinic shares his thoughts on the latest in cardiology and how people can improve their heart health

With the help of a stethoscope attachment (on the back of his phone) and an app, Dr. Mahesh Mulumudi captures his heartbeat

High Fashion: Five Must-Have Cannabis Products to Elevate Your Green Style Game

High Fashion: Five Must-Have Cannabis Products to Elevate Your Green Style Game

These PNW-made designs are giving cannabis accessories a makeover

A burgeoning group of Northwest-based companies are giving the formally taboo topic of marijuana a makeover. Interior designer-turned-fashion maven April Pride of Van der Pop recently debuted a collection of stylish Italian leather stash bags thoughtfully lined with a waterproof zipper to conceal odors. Pride and others like her are infusing their cannabis-forward offerings with a focus on design that, in some ways, has made the green industry more approachable. And then, of course, there is the beauty industry’s latest “it ingredient,” CBD, a cannabis-based compound that is shown to…

AIA Home of Distinction: A Seattle Architect Takes On the Tiny-Home Challenge

AIA Home of Distinction: A Seattle Architect Takes On the Tiny-Home Challenge

In a Seattle tiny house village, two shelters work together to offer more than just a place to call home

The two-unit Parabay Home, located in Nickelsville Georgetown, is designed for a family with kids in one unit and adults in the other; facing glass windows keep everyone in view of each other. The space between the units creates a semi-private “yard.”

5 Smart Ways Baby Boomers Can Navigate Seattle's Tough Housing Market

5 Smart Ways Baby Boomers Can Navigate Seattle’s Tough Housing Market

How to plan for the future and take advantage of a seller's market.

Sponsored by Realogics, Inc. Maybe it’s just my age (I prefer “mature” or “grown up” to “old”), but I often consider what lies ahead in the next 20 years. How do I want to spend my free time? Where do I want to spend it? How do I want to live? I find that many of my…

14 Seattle Neighborhoods, From Most Affordable to Million-Dollar Homes

14 Seattle Neighborhoods, From Most Affordable to Million-Dollar Homes

Despite those prices, you still want to settle in Seattle?

Nothing beats Seattle on a beautiful day, but high housing prices and low inventory mean its harder and harder for people to afford living here

Winemaker Charles Smith’s Leschi Home Is One For the Ages

Winemaker Charles Smith’s Leschi Home Is One For the Ages

Scandinavian influence makes its way through this home on Lake Washington

Charles Smith and daughter Charlotte cozy up on the expansive sectional in the main living area. A big change he made to this space was removing a glass ceiling in the dining room—“It made the room seem vast,” Smith says—and replacing accordian doors that

Should You Become a Life Coach?

Should You Become a Life Coach?

Five frequently asked questions, plus how to get certified in Washington.

Sponsored by Rich Cavaness and The Certified Coaches Federation The primary criteria for anyone to be qualified as a life coach isn’t a course as much as it’s the lessons they’ve learned from their journey, including victories and losses, frustrations and all the events that have given them the ability to offer perspective. Becoming a…

Showcasing the Best of the Seattle Suburbs

Showcasing the Best of the Seattle Suburbs

This month's Editor's Note from Rachel Hart.

This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue, as part of the “Best of the Burbs” cover story. Click here for the rest of the story. My love of big cities is undoubtedly a direct response to growing up in a small one. Racine, Wisconsin, had a lot going for it back in the ’80s…

Best of the Burbs: The Next Generation of Seattle Suburbs

Best of the Burbs: The Next Generation of Seattle Suburbs

Living outside the city has always been an attractive option for many, but with housing prices in Seattle going up, up and up, the suburbs around us are more magnetic than ever.

The Issaquah Highlands, a planned community, offers city-like density and amenities in the burbs

Tacoma's Suburban Boom: South Sound Communities are Attracting Seattle Transplants

Tacoma’s Suburban Boom: South Sound Communities are Attracting Seattle Transplants

With housing supply short in Tacoma, home buyers are looking to places like Bonney Lake and Gig Harbor where new housing developments are under way

Bonny Lake

The Best Emerging Neighborhoods in Seattle

The Best Emerging Neighborhoods in Seattle

These outlying areas are catching on in a big way

White Center’s popularity is growing with new businesses, like Moonshot Coffee, joining old standbys; Proletariat Pizza is a longtime favorite

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