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The Perfect Party

Paula Clapp

The longtime philanthropy pro joins 10 local activist women to raise funds for the youth-oriented Bridge Program, perhaps in a bid to outcharity the Gates clan.

Philip Eaton

Before stepping down as Seattle Pacific University president after 16 years, he’s inviting Tent City to his campus for two months. The homeless encampment keeps it alcohol-free—who’ll break it to the college kids?

Donald Byrd

Spectrum Dance’s artistic director tackles race and gender in his dances, but how will he make Oklahoma! edgy? Finally expose the screwy sexual politics of “I’m just a girl who cain’t say no”? (5th Avenue, opens Feb 3)

Dave Isay

He’ll pick the best love stories from his oral-history endeavor, StoryCorps, to share with Seattle for Valentine’s Day—it’ll be like Love Actually: Live! (Town Hall, Feb 7)

Robin Held

As chief curator at the Frye Art Museum, she commissioned dark, daring, and multidisciplinary art; now she turns her radical eye to the media nonprofit Reel Grrls.

Ali Tarhouni

The University of Washington business prof returned from his native Libya, having served as finance minister during the revolution. Don’t try telling this teacher you were too busy to do your homework.

Published in the 1962 World's Fair 50th Anniversary issue of Seattle Met.











Allison Williams
Allison Williams
Since joining Seattle Met in 2011, Allison Williams has overseen the magazine’s travel and outdoor coverage, including deep dives into Olympic National Park, the Columbia River, and a Burger King drive-thru in Canada. She edits the travel-focused blog Tripster and contributes service, news, interview, and narrative pieces to the magazine, including long-form features about mountain mysteries and puppies in prison. She’s earned awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and been nominated for a City and Regional Magazine award.  Allison was raised here in Olympia and studied writing at Duke University, Oxford University, Columbia Journalism School, and University of Alaska. She began her career in New York City in the newsrooms of Metro newspaper and Time Out New York, then hightailed it back to her native habitat so she could write guidebooks and climb mountains.