Business
Charlie's Queer Books, the Fremont bookstore that launched from a disco-tiled cart in 2023, is opening a second, larger location at 1122 E Pike St. on Capitol Hill with a 50-seat event loft, children's reading nook, café and wine bar.
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View MoreCharlie's Queer Books, the Fremont bookstore that launched from a disco-tiled cart in 2023, is opening a second, larger location at 1122 E Pike St. on Capitol Hill with a 50-seat event loft, children's reading nook, café and wine bar.
Business
View MoreMoroccan restaurant Andalucia at 5327 Ballard Ave NW has closed after nine months, with owner Taufik Ridani citing rising costs, high rent and the toll of running the business alone.
Business
View MoreBooking Holdings launched Vayo, a 20-person AI travel startup in downtown Seattle, with a planned $100 million investment, marking the travel giant's return to the area six years after closing its Bellevue office.
Business
View MoreSeattle-based Getty Images announced it will file for bankruptcy to shed $2.1 billion in debt and return to private ownership under the Getty and Koch families, with no layoffs planned for its roughly 360 Seattle employees.
Business
View MoreGail Stringer is closing the Hawaii General Store in Wallingford by the end of November after 28 years, citing rising costs, and will host a farewell party with live music on Saturday, Oct. 17.
Community
The Ballard Tool Library, a membership-based lending program run by Sustainable Ballard, is one of five Seattle organizations awarded a $10,000 ReThink Waste Grant from Seattle Public Utilities and WM to expand tool repair and reuse education.
Community
A film collective called WFLM Seattle is negotiating a long-term lease with Seattle Central College to reopen Capitol Hill's Egyptian Theatre as a repertory cinema, with a free "secret movie" screening on Tuesday, Oct. 27 serving as a public test run.
Community
Hundreds of volunteers turned out Saturday, Oct. 17, for the Duwamish Alive Coalition's 20th-anniversary fall work party along Seattle's only river, where King County Executive Girmay Zahilay launched the county's new Volunteer Corps with an inaugural Regional Day of Service.
Community
Benaroya Hall hosts a free daylong open house Sunday, Oct. 18, featuring members of The Head and the Heart, a video game composer panel, flash tattoos and more to celebrate the venue's first major renovation since 1998.
Education
View MoreThe University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design released RFD4-Proteina, its first AI protein-design model co-developed with Nvidia, achieving five to 10 times faster results and higher success rates than previous tools.
Education
View MoreSeattle Public Schools is enforcing stricter instructional-time guidelines at elementary schools, squeezing recess to as little as 30 minutes combined with lunch at some campuses and prompting about a dozen schools to seek schedule waivers.
Education
View MoreSeattle Public Schools is accepting applications from high school students to design large-scale murals for the new Memorial Stadium, with an Oct. 30 deadline.
Education
View MoreA Common Sense Media investigation found OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens failed to refer users to crisis resources 25% of the time and sent zero parent alerts during hour-long conversations about self-harm, raising questions for Seattle Public Schools families as the district encourages AI use with guardrails.
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Roveena Chand Jassal is Surround Sound Media's very first news producer with a vibrant background in magazine and print journalism herself. Starting off in beauty and fashion at Women's Health Magazine and featuring my own mom and friends in an InStyle South Asian beauty traditions feature, I knew I had a passion for shining light on multicultural voices, especially growing up in the Chicago suburbs. After attending fashion shows in Miami and trying out products for Black Friday deals, I had a desire to do more serious reporting, and found myself being the youngest Punjabi Sikh journalist at Toronto Star. It was here where I really felt a connection to the diverse community I serve, from running around on the ground investigating international students being exploited for overpriced housing to amplifying those same students who have been able to find peace and confidence in the city's growing Hip Hop scene. I've had the opportunity to interview major celebrities, government officials, businesses, and creators, but what I enjoy most of all is being a contradicting human being because this truth is what allows me to pick and produce real stories that give a community true knowledge of their contradicting human being selves too.
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