By Wendy K. Leigh The concept of “connecting” in Seattle these days has so many implications that it’s tempting to just “disconnect” entirely and hide under a rock somewhere. But let’s face it: We love cutting-edge technology and incorporating it into every crevice of our lives....
By Wendy K. Leigh When big organizations come together to solve big problems, they sometimes create a quagmire of entirely new issues and layers of red tape – but not so in Seattle these days. At least that’s the case if MetroLab has anything to do...
By Wendy K. Leigh Who knew there’s a night in January each year devoted to counting homeless people living on the streets of Seattle? Unusual connections form when more than 1,000 people bundle up on a cold winter night and pull an all-nighter roaming the pavements...
By Jeffrey Rindskopf After graduating college, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith spent one year living in a rustic cabin on her native Orcas Island, alone but for the Buchla 100 Series synthesizer a neighbor had loaned her. “That’s the most I’ve felt like an instrument was a natural extension...
By Wendy K. Leigh So what were YOU doing at age 13? It was a fair enough question raised by emcee Julie Pham as she introduced a tiny wisp of a girl who bounded onto the McCaw Hall stage at Fast Pitch 2016. Dynamo Belle Pan, founder...
By Wendy K. Leigh You might think a white male with a major position in a corporation hardly seems the role model for diversity. But Mark Budos, Vice President of Community and Data Engineering with the NBC News Digital technical team, managed to pull off an...
By Wendy K. Leigh With all the talk of “October surprises” in an election year, Seattle’s Latino community unleashed a very different kind of surprise on the first day of October 2016: a state-of-the-art, high-rise plaza and apartment complex that’s actually affordable. They unveiled the Plaza...
By Jeffrey Rindskopf It was in the ‘90s at a Dave and Buster’s arcade in Houston, where he was visiting family, that Fred Beahm first encountered virtual reality. The apparatus was a bulky, swiveling but otherwise stationary headset to explore the pixelated video game world programmed...
