Seattle Mag
Give Back with Miir Bikes
Buy a Miir bike, and this Queen Anne company donates one to someone in need.
Since 2010, Queen Anne–based water bottle company, Miir, has built nine wells that supply clean water to some of the 1 billion people worldwide who do not have access to it. Last September, spurred by a desire to benefit underserved people in other ways, Miir CEO Bryan Papé added a line of bicycles to the…
The Lost Pelican Now Open in Belltown
The iconic Belltown corner where Scott Carsberg’s Lampreia lived for two decades (and which later became Bisato) reopened last week as The Lost Pelican. Michael Forte, the owner of Capitol Hill’s The Lookout, has strong Southern roots; he spent years running fine dining restaurants for the Brennan family in New Orleans (owners of such legendary…
Death and Taxes: Chanel Reynolds’ End-of-Life Planning Website
Chanel Reynolds helps take the terror out of end-of-life planning.
It sounds like a classic object lesson: a successful freelance project manager who planned for others’ every contingency, but didn’t cover her own bases. That’s exactly the situation Chanel Reynolds found herself in when her husband died in a bike accident and she faced the biggest project she’d ever manage: getting her financial life in…
Gabe Johnson’s Ramshackle Chic Style
Gabe Johnson, curator of Horses Cut Shop, explains his Americana garb.
Influences: Having grown up in a booming Aberdeen of the 1970s, when “every day was sunny” and all his girlfriends “tasted like bubble gum and vodka,” Gabe Johnson holds an almost religious reverence for “oil cans, muscle cars and slingshots,” and other blue-collar Americana from the 1940s-’70s, an era when things were made with pride….
Earth Day 5k: Ali Rally
Without going into too much detail, let me tell you that last week sucked for me personally. I was seriously under the weather and experiencing a very low ebb. I didn’t get to train at all and at some points was pretty convinced that I wouldn’t be able to even walk the Earth Day 5k…
SideCar App Simplifies Ride-Sharing
Hitchhiking goes high tech with the new SideCar app.
Did you know there are countless people—right now, in your very own neighborhood—waiting to take you for a ride? What might sound sinister is actually quite the opposite, thanks to the new smartphone app SideCar (side.cr). Based in San Francisco and launched in Seattle last winter, SideCar uses GPS technology to help subscribers coordinate car…
ZappBug, an Eco-Friendly Bedbug Exterminator
A Wazzu grad cooks up a natural way to kill bedbugs.
In just one year, Seattle has crawled up 14 notches to become the nation’s 13th most bedbug-ridden city. Perhaps misnamed, bedbugs live not only between the sheets, but also in clothes, furniture, books and luggage (often their preferred method for expanding the insect empire), lying in wait until seizing the chance to chomp. They can…
Quantum Leap: The Bullitt Center Opens
The Bullitt Center opens to the public on Earth Day, April 22.
Just when you think the 43-year-old Earth Day is sputtering on the fumes of its hippie origins, something entirely new springs forth. Case in point: the new Bullitt Center, headquarters for the environmentally focused Bullitt Foundation, which opens to the public on Capitol Hill this month. Built to the most stringent green-building standards in the…
Flight of Fantasy: EMP’s Pop Culture Exhibit
Local artists are creating a new world of myth and magic at EMP.
How do you convey the wide-open, magical world of fantasy stories such as The Lord of the Rings, The Princess Bride and Harry Potter in an indoor, cave-like museum space? Such was the puzzle EMP faced when planning its new long-term exhibit, Fantasy: Worlds of Myth and Magic, which showcases pop culture artifacts (costumes, models,…
Road Trip to Whidbey Island’s Welcome the Whales Day Festival
Join the annual celebration to welcome the whales back to the Bering Sea.
WHERE: Langley, Whidbey Island. WHY: The annual Welcome the Whales Day festival (4/21. Free. Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 301 Anthes Ave.; 360.678.3451; orcanetwork.org), which celebrates the return of eastern North Pacific gray whales to Saratoga Passage during their 10,000-mile migration from Mexico to the Bering Sea. BRING YOUR OCTOPUS CAP: Join the critter parade (starts…
Photographer Charlie Schuck Supports Local Designers
Photographer Charlie Schuck Turns Two Shops into Local Design Meccas.
A full-time photographer by day, Charlie Schuck uses his so-called downtime for his favorite hobby: supporting local designers by curating his store Object (Belltown, 2316 Second Ave., by appointment only; hereisobject.com), and the new Frye Art Museum Store (First Hill, 704 Terry Ave.; 206.622.9250; fryemuseum.org/store). “The original idea behind Object was to create beautiful experimental experiences that blurred the line between…