After hearing about several attacks on the LGTBQ community in Capitol Hill, local business owner Jennifer Dietrich decided she had to do something. So she formed Outwatch, a volunteer patrol group. Outwatch will walk you to your car, drive bartenders home late at night and be on the look out for street harassment.
More than 40 couples were contacted by EM Fine Art, a Seattle wedding venue, informing them that the venue is abruptly closing, and they won't be giving anyone a refund. EM's owners are no where to be found, and the couples are struggling to find new venues and to craft a legal case against the owners who allegedly took off with $70,000 in deposit money.
With services like Airbnb, Lyft and Relay Rides in the mainstream, Americans are welcoming strangers into their homes and cars, and making a profit off of it. These options are often a cheaper way to travel, and in the process they might be teaching us to trust strangers again.
The Wheel-In is the last of the remaining Washington state drive-ins that needs to switch over to a digital format. If they don't, they can no longer operate. They're hoping to raise $35,000 through their Kickstarter campaign (ends Sunday morning) so they can keep the 61 year old iconic theater open!
Poor board games were clobbered when the video game came on the scene, stealing the attention of kids and teens everywhere. But now the board game is making a comeback, and many of them are being produced by, and with the help of, the tech industry. Meet the inventor of Robot Turtles and the woman who founded Lady Plainswalkers Society, a Magic the Gathering gaming group for women.
Beth's Cafe, famous for their gut busting 12-egg omelets (the Southwestern is filled with two bowls of chili!), is celebrating 60 years of around-the-clock greasy spoon dining.
Twelve floors up, on the roof of downtown Seattle's Fairmont Olympic Hotel, are five beehives maintained by Gavin Stephenson, the hotel's executive chef and beekeeper. Gavin says the Fairmont was the first place in the city to do rooftop beekeeping and the incentive was purely environmental."Doing the right thing. They're very delicate. You know, the Colony Collapse Disorder and just bee health and pollination is so important to people that I kind of feel responsible. I have five hives here now. I've got seven or eight at home."
A trip to Radio Shack and $30 is all you need to build your own TDCS (Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation) device that is said to help improve memory, enhance creativity and stave off depression. Wearing the (completely painless) brain zapping device for 20 minutes a day might be your ticket to improving your quality of life.
Summer evenings were made for grilling, but don't be limited to what you can find in the meat and veggie aisles. Seattle Kitchen host Tom Douglas says the old grill can cook a mean pizza, too.
Jimi Hendrix's ex-girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham, sets the record straight about a new Hendrix biopic by Oscar winning screenwriter John Ridley. She says Hendrix never physically abused her and she finds the film appalling. Also, hear her story about the origin of the song "The Wind Cries Mary."
Podcasting seems like a generic medium, like TV or radio, but a company called Personal Audio claims it patented the podcast and know it's suing podcaster Adam Carolla, and several networks who run popular podcasts. Carolla plans to fight, and this legal battle could predict the future for podcasters everywhere.
On opening night of the Seattle International Film Festival, a new Jimi Hendrix biopic titled "Jimi: All is By My Side" was screened. In the film, Jimi violently beats his girlfriend with a telephone, and another time in an alley. But Seattle's Charles R Cross, author of a Jimi Hendrix biography, says the movie is pure lies and we should all be offended by the way the rock star was portrayed.
After years of stereotypes that drummers are dumb dumbs who just bang sticks around, new research shows that drummers are often smarter than the rest of their bandmates. In fact, rumor has it that Microsoft prefers to hire drummers to work on their operating systems.
Copper River salmon is here, it's expensive & there's not much to go around
Salmon lovers look forward to this day all year, the day the coveted Copper River salmon is flown into Seattle from Alaska. But poor fishing conditions yesterday made for a small catch, so many Seattle restaurants are going without today. What's the appeal of a $28/lb salmon? We'll fill you in.
MOHAI, the Museum of History and Industry, is currently featuring an exhibit called Revealing Queer. So they're leading two different walking tours, so that history can come to life on the streets of Seattle. Here's a look at the Capitol Hill tour which is happening May 17th and June 21st, 2014.
"This is the time of the year when everyone should be getting their peas in the ground," says chef Tom Douglas, and if you have gotten them in early enough you can harvest pea vines.
The P-Patch program now has 90 community gardens, shared by people living all over the city. Many of these gardeners are immigrants, who use their patches to grow vegetables native to their home countries. And even when they're growing carrots or kale, they're cooking their native food. Also, learn the history behind the P in P-Patch.
18 year old Nathan Hale High School seniors Liam and August Easton-Calabria have been Boy Scouts since they were 11 years old, and they do everything together. But now, only August can go on to become a camp counselor or troop leader.
At the end of September, 500 bikes will be scattered around six different Seattle neighborhoods, available for you to borrow. The program is called Pronto! Emerald City Cycle Share and memberships will be up for grabs starting August 25th.
A Slumber Party For Your Pooch When You're Out of Town
Through companies like Sleepover Rover, dog lovers are hosting dogs, whose owners are out of town. And dogs are getting personalized care that a kennel just can't give.
Tennessee is now the first state in the nation to criminalize mothers who used drugs while pregnant. But critics in the medical and psychological fields say this will only create problems. They fear mothers-to-be might leave their babies in Dumpsters, out of fear of being arrested.
Woodinville's Thomas Edward created Healing Broken Men to help male, sexual abuse victims who have been denied counsel and support from their churches. He is believed to be the only one in north America who does this kind of work.
When Seattle band, Queensryche, split in two nearly two years ago, both parties wanted to keep the name. In court, a judge temporarily allowed two Queensryches to tour and make albums. But finally a decision has been made. And now there can only be one Queensryche.
