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Schmitz Park Restore gets a spotlight at Mechanics Bank – and offers you a tour tomorrow
If you’ve been to Mechanics Bank (4022 SW Alaska; WSB sponsor) in The Junction this month, you might have noticed that this month’s spotlight nonprofit display features Schmitz Park Restore. Leaders visited the branch this week:. From left are Mechanics Bank’s Bob Livingston, and from Schmitz Park Restore,...
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Bargain Hunters Will Absolutely Love This Enormous Outlet Mall Hiding In Washington
There’s a place in Tulalip, Washington, where designer brands quietly lower their prices and hope you don’t tell everyone, but the secret is already out. Seattle Premium Outlets is the kind of shopping destination that makes you feel like you’ve cracked some kind of retail code, and once you’ve been, you’ll wonder how you ever paid full price for anything.
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Northwest author brings love of bats to the masses
From the moment you meet Niki Desautels, you know what she’s about. “I grew up in a very animal-centric household. We didn't play with dolls or read fairy tales. We watched PBS and had stuffed animals,” Desautels said. Her backpack is adorned with bat pins. A stuffed bat...
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Banning cell phones and building every setlist entirely from live fan requests, Washington native Brandi Carlile is officially taking over Seattle’s Paramount Theatre for a 4-night homecoming
Brandi Carlile is bringing her freewheeling, fan-powered Burn the Setlist Tour home to the Seattle area with four shows at the Paramount Theatre in January—and is the latest big-name artist requesting no phones at her shows. The Washington-born singer announced Monday that she will close out the tour with...
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Relive Your Childhood At This Wonderfully Nostalgic Washington Comic Book Store
Some places sell things, and some places sell feelings, and Golden Age Collectables in Seattle, Washington has figured out how to do both at the same time. If you’ve never walked into a store and immediately felt ten years old again, this is the place that’s going to change that for you.
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Pancakes Have Been Flipping At Chace’s Pancake Corral In Bellevue Since 1960
Some breakfast spots chase trends. One little restaurant in Bellevue has simply kept flipping pancakes since 1960, and the town keeps showing up hungry. The sign out front counts the years, and the number keeps climbing. Families who first came here decades ago now bring their kids and grandkids. There...
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Hair Transplants Are Now Covered by Insurance
Gender Affirming and Transgender Hair Transplant Surgery Is Now Covered by Insurance. SEATTLE, WA / ACCESS Newswire / October 29, 2026 / Private health insurance is opening new possibilities for transgender and nonbinary patients seeking gender-affirming hair restoration. With thousands of surgeries performed, Seattle-based plastic surgeon Dr. Javad Sajan of Allure Esthetic accepts all private insurance for transgender hair transplant procedures, which include follicular unit transplant (FUT), also known as the strip method, and follicular unit extraction (FUE). Dr. Sajan is one of very few doctors in the country, if not the only one, who is in-network with private insurance and accepts insurance for hair transplants.
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Five Washington Waterfront Restaurants Where Dinner Comes With A Sunset Over The Sound
Puget Sound puts on a free show almost every clear evening, and the best seats are often at a dinner table. The sun drops behind the Olympic Mountains, ferries slide across the water, and sailboats drift back to the marina. These five waterfront restaurants, from Mukilteo down to Tacoma, let...
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This Free, Short Washington Trail Near Seattle Drops Kids Into Moss So Green It Looks Hand-Painted
A loop of just 0.3 miles drops kids straight into a real rainforest, and it grows inland, far from any ocean beach. Rainforests this far from the coast are rare, which makes this little path a genuine oddball of the Pacific Northwest. Massive western red cedars rise over the trail,...
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James Beard's Taste America Returns to Seattle With Ethan Stowell, 20-Plus Restaurants
The James Beard Foundation’s Taste America tasting series is coming back to Seattle, bringing a walk-around food and drink crawl to the Four Seasons Hotel Seattle with local chefs, beverage stations and sponsor activations. James Beard Award-nominated chef Ethan Stowell, who runs more than 20 restaurants across the greater Seattle area, is among the chefs on the roster, and he stopped by Arc Seattle to talk up what guests can expect.
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The Old-School Washington Drive-In Where Onion Rings Come Crunchy And Shakes Come Thick Enough For A Spoon
Eggnog, peppermint, and caramel, in thick 20-ounce shakes, all from one walk-up window. That lineup alone made me stop scrolling. Then I learned onion rings get mentioned almost as often as the burgers. There’s no drive-thru here. You park, get out of the car, and order at the window or...
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The 10 Washington Thrift Shops Where It’s Hard To Leave Empty-Handed
One Seattle vintage store carries vintage Filson goods dating back to the 1920s. Another Washington thrift shop moved into an old drugstore building and filled it with secondhand treasures. I’d bet there’s a thrift trip you keep saying you’ll take. Maybe it’s been on your list since last spring....