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Must List: Burke Museum Grand Reopening, Seattle Queer Film Festival, ‘Stabbin’ Cabin’
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST DISCOVER Burke Museum Grand Reopening (10/12-10/14) The Burke Museum’s $106 million rebuild, designed by Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig, opens up previously behind-the-scenes labs and research spaces via glass walls, making the museum more accessible and integrated. Visitors can now take a peek at the collections at the same time…
This Week Then: Celebrating the New Burke Museum
Plus: Dig into Washington Archaeology Month
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. The New Burke This week HistoryLink gives a rousing cheer to the Burke Museum — Washington’s premier repository of natural history and cultural heritage — and looks forward to visiting its new home, which opens on October 12. Located on the northwest corner of the…
Your Seattle Restaurant Questions Answered: Best Spots in U District, King Crab and Birthday Dinners
Plus: The essential Seattle restaurants you shouldn't miss
Deciding where to go out to dinner with others can be a complex balancing act of many tastes and opinions, but our editor-in-chief Chelsea Lin has some recommendations for where to take people to impress, from birthdays to baby showers, with this week’s installment of our Instagram Q&A. Have a question for Chelsea? Submit here. What…
Local Musical Mountaineers Duo Plays Concerts in the PNW Outdoors
Combining their musical talents and passion for the outdoors, Anastasia Allison and Rose Freeman play trailside concerts for hikers and trees alike
Anastasia Allison (left) and Rose Freeman hike into the mountains to hold unannounced predawn concerts as the Musical Mountaineers
Seattle-based Fuchsia Inc. Brings International Artisan Goods to Locals
Afshan Abbas is creating a market for Pakistani artisans—and bringing unique pieces to Seattle
This article appears in print in the October 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. People kept asking Afshan Abbas where she got her distinctive shoes. This happened so often that the Seattle businesswoman, who hails from Pakistan, decided it was time to introduce the footwear to the rest of the world. In 2016, after raising more than $60,000…
Expert Advice: 5 Tips for Parents Helping Teens With the College Search
University Prep college counselor weighs in on parental support
Sponsored by University Prep With this year’s college admissions scandal news wafting in and out of our newsfeeds, it’s an interesting time to be a parent of a high school junior or senior. It’s one more piece of news at a time when families are hit with a barrage of college information. With all the…