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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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Will Braden
The Garfield grad’s Henri the Existential Cat—a series of avant-garde YouTube videos about feline angst—is now a book; has no one told Braden about kitty Prozac?

Brian Greene
Alert: The headliner for the Seattle Science Festival is the friendly theoretical physicist who wrote The Elegant Universe, not Brian Austin Greene from Beverly Hills 90210 (Paramount Theatre, June 6).

Alana McGee
The dog trainer teaches mutts to forage wild edibles. We’re only inviting her if she brings her pooch Duff—who sniffed out British Columbia’s first French Périgord truffle this spring—and the truffle.

Jane Abbott Lighty and Pete-e Petersen
Seattle’s first legally married gay couple will serve as grand marshals for this year’s Pride Parade; heck, any couple that’s been together for 35 years and still has the newlywed glow deserves a parade (June 30).

Ryan Moore
Puyallup’s own golf phenom putted a good game in April’s Masters Tournament even though he finished behind our other golf hero, Fred Couples. We’ll cheer very quietly as he takes on June’s U.S. Open. was

Amy Roe
The Real Change editor already working on a Boston Marathon book before she narrowly missed the bombs at the finish line—her tome should be a sobering look at why we run. 

 

Published: June 2013

Published in the Be a Tourist in Your Own Town 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.