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Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.

Allison Williams
Author: Allison Williams
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Sheila Daniels 
For the Intiman summer festival, the respected director takes on Lysistrata, the ancient Greek play about women who try to end a war with a sex strike. The power of the “not tonight, honey” headache is timeless. (July 10–Sept 12)

Neil Gaiman 
In the world of fantasy, this writer—here to sign his new novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane—is big. Like Sauron big. Or Morpheus big. Trust us, that’s really big. (Town Hall, July 2) 

Alan Kirk
Since taking over in March, the Filson CEO has launched a UK store and overseen expansion of the outfitter’s Seattle headquarters, all while wearing impeccable hand-brushed vintage-style hip waders. Probably.

Ray LaHood 
Thanks to the transportation secretary and the FAA, air traffic control towers will stay open in Olympia, Renton, Tacoma, Spokane, and Yakima during sequestration. If only he oversaw the Blue Angels, too.

Rachel Marshall 
After turning Montana into the hottest dive bar on Capitol Hill, the lady in dreads has now turned the old Seattle’s Best Coffee space in Pike Place Market into her eponymous ginger beer emporium.

Jinkx Monsoon 
Born Jerick Hoffer, she won RuPaul’s Drag Race—and our hearts—as “Seattle’s premier Jewish narcoleptic drag queen.” (Freedom Fantasia at the Triple Door, July 3–6)


Published: July 2013

Published in the Top Burgers & Hot Dogs & BBQ issue of Seattle Met.




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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.