September 2018

Backyard Goals: Check Out This Bellevue Lakefront Cabana

Backyard Goals: Check Out This Bellevue Lakefront Cabana

For a Bellevue couple who love the outdoors, this house is everything

Master Suite: This beautiful cabana was designed to match the existing Gene Zema-designed house behind, with an emphasis on seating to maximize entertaining potential

A Seattle Startup Is Taking Meatless Foods to the Masses

A Seattle Startup Is Taking Meatless Foods to the Masses

Seattle Food Tech is developing food like this wheat-based “chicken” nugget

This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Bringing affordable plant-based “meat” products to a mass market is the vision of Christie Lagally, chief executive officer of Seattle Food Tech, a Lake City–based company she founded in 2017. A big reason so much meat is consumed today, says Lagally, a mechanical engineer…

True or False: Do These Seattle Business Services Exist?

True or False: Do These Seattle Business Services Exist?

Are these for real? Or did we make them up? In everything-goes Seattle, deciding may be harder than you think

This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. It’s a great time to be a Seattleite: Pot is legal! You can get cookies delivered to your door! A stranger will scoop your dog’s poop out of the yard before another stranger mows the lawn! These days, there seems to be a product…

Listen to These 3 New Seattle Podcasts on Your Next Commute

Listen to These 3 New Seattle Podcasts on Your Next Commute

Put these provocative local podcasts in your earbuds next time you get on the bus

File Under Equity: Battle Tactics for Your Sexist Workplace podcast hosts, Eula Scott Bynoe (left) and Jeannie Yandel

AIA Home of Distinction: This Queen Anne Remodel Honors the Home's Historic Past

AIA Home of Distinction: This Queen Anne Remodel Honors the Home’s Historic Past

A Seattle couple treats their Queen Anne house to a modern makeover honoring its Prairie School past

DETAIL ORIENTED: Architect David DiMarco used the original drawins for this 1912 Queen Anne house as a resource when working on a remodel to restore “an authenticity that the exterior of the home had missed out on for years” with details like custom copper downspouts that he commissioned to mimic those that had been removed…

Georgetown’s Deep Sea Sugar & Salt Cake Shop Moves to Brick-and-Mortar Location

Georgetown’s Deep Sea Sugar & Salt Cake Shop Moves to Brick-and-Mortar Location

The bigger location comes with cake (of course) and a few extras

These days, you’ll find Deep Sea Sugar & Salt owner Charlie Dunmire, her cakes and occasionally her dog, Chopper, in a Georgetown storefront

This New UW Greenhouse Will House 9,000 Plant Specimens

This New UW Greenhouse Will House 9,000 Plant Specimens

This new University of Washington building offers a different environment for up-and-coming biologists

A rendering of the UW’s new Life Sciences Building; the expansive greenhouse will house 9,000 plant specimens

An Imported Disease Is Threatening Seattle's Local Bat Population

An Imported Disease Is Threatening Seattle’s Local Bat Population

Researchers are racing to learn more about our only flying mammals before they disappear

A brown bat like this one was found dead in 2017, infected with a fungus that has decimated bat populations on the East Coast. Protecting the species helps control insect populations; these bats consume up to twice their body weight in one evening. Photo by Igor Cheri This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click…

Road Trip: There's More To Enjoy Than Wine and Vineyards in Prosser

Road Trip: There’s More To Enjoy Than Wine and Vineyards in Prosser

This small town is a wine mecca, but it offers more for the visitor than tasting rooms

Prosser is 190 miles southeast of Seattle, about a three-hour drive

Seattle’s New Vintage Clothing Shop Helps Men and Women Suit Up

Seattle’s New Vintage Clothing Shop Helps Men and Women Suit Up

Resale menswear boutique H. Bailey in Pioneer Square offers retro threads with a modern edge

Hilary Bailey Burnett helping a client suit up in style

These Underrated Wild Berries Are Worth Foraging For

These Underrated Wild Berries Are Worth Foraging For

Life is sweeter once you’ve picked a basket of salal or Oregon grape berries

A young fan picks a bunch of Oregon grape berries; the plant can be identified by its holly-like leaflets

3 New Books by Seattle Authors to Read This Fall

3 New Books by Seattle Authors to Read This Fall

A trio of titles for your short list this month, including the latest from Moorea Seal

This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. 52 Lists for Togetherness(Sasquatch Books, $16.95) by Moorea Seal. This writing journal—the third in Seal’s “list” series—comes with journaling exercises and “inspiration” that emphasizes the importance of building and nurturing bonds with your loved ones. It’s all set among the tasteful art, illustrations and…