News & City Life

Best Italian Food

Meet Seattle’s Italian Forebears

Italian immigrants (and their offspring) gave our town everything from power dining to world jerky dominance

01/26/2017 By Allecia Vermillion Illustrations by Amanda Mocci

That Washington

House Delivers Blow to Reproductive Rights with New Measure; DelBene Resists

“This bill is an insult to the millions of women who marched this weekend.”

01/25/2017 By Spencer Ricks

That Washington

Trump's Nominees Facing Active Opposition from Washington Senators

“I have deep concerns about his views on protecting Americans’ civil liberties and privacy.”

01/24/2017 By Spencer Ricks

Dispatch from DC

The Women's March on Washington, and Around the World

The march in the U.S. capital united myriad causes in opposition to President Trump, and dwarfed attendance at his inauguration.

01/23/2017 Photography by Josh Kelety

Back Fence

Loud and Proud: Girls Ellington Project Gives Voice to the Disenfranchised

Is this the year JazzEd’s all-girl band performs at Lincoln Center?

01/23/2017 By Kathryn Robinson

Quote Unquote

Sandy Restrepo Fights for the Undocumented

And the Burien-based attorney is ready to lead an immigration revolution.

01/23/2017 By Matthew Halverson

Power LInes

Are High Rents Putting Artists in Danger?

Why the deadly fire in Oakland worries the Seattle arts scene.

01/23/2017 By Josh Feit

Questions Answered

Champion Curler Brady Clark Has His Sights on the 2018 Olympics

This February, the 39-year-old from Lynnwood competes in the USA Curling National Championship in Everett, a stepping stone toward the 2018 Winter Games.

01/23/2017 By Jessica Voelker

Open Letter

To Kim Jong-un, Who Could Apparently Blow Us Up

Come at us bro.

01/23/2017

Film

Washington Film Has One Last Chance to Save Itself

With a major tax credit about to expire, the industry has its back against the wall.

01/23/2017 By Matthew Halverson

Religion

Building Seattle's First Mosque Required Faith, Luck, and Boeing

The many miracles of the Idris Mosque.

01/23/2017 By Matthew Halverson

Inauguration 2017

Sally Jewell Has Left the Building

Obama’s Secretary of the Interior is returning to Seattle. We asked her where that leaves America’s public lands.

01/20/2017 By Allison Williams

Inauguration Morning Opinion

The Nightmare Scenario

How Trump's perverted populism could translate into a second term.

01/20/2017 By Josh Feit

Morning Fizz

Resistance Begins at Home

A Seattle manifesto just in time for January 20.

01/19/2017 By Josh Feit

Inauguration 2017

Hope and Resistance in Seattle

We might not all be happy with who’s running the country for the next four years. But those years don’t have to be hopeless.

01/19/2017 By Seattle Met Staff

Hope and Resistance

The Syllabus We Need in Trump's America

Education comes in a lot of forms: historical context, contemporary truths, knowledge of self. And chances are, we’ll need a little of all three to survive our new postfact reality. Here’s where to start.

01/19/2017 By Matthew Halverson