Meet Brandee Laird, the “Low-Line Queen” of Parkour

A q-and-a about the sport, the lifestyle and favorite places in Seattle for traceurs.

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2016 Ampersand Live: David Schmader

David Schmader shares his 25 years of experiences in Seattle, describing the “Soul of Seattle” is what you first loved about Seattle when you came to this great ever changing City. This soul changes over time, but will continue to live on and evolve.

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the garden at higo

1—an imaginary page from chiyo murakami’s diary 1936
2—KOBO comes to Higo

To the memory of the Higo Variety Store and Binko and John, owners of KOBO at Higo

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Nisqually Salmon and the Changing State of the Wild

Writer Bruce Barcott explores the notion about what it actually means when we regard a place as being “wild.”

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The Plant Nerd

Meet “the plant nerd” AKA Sarah Reichard, the director of the University of Washington Botanic Gardens.

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Ampersand Live 2016: Eclectic, funny and unexpectedly cathartic

Two days after the presidential election showed us how divided we are as a country, more than 700 people came together for an evening of stories, spoken word, photography, parkour and song.

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Ampersand Live in The Seattle Times

For the second year, Forterra is putting on a live edition of its biannual magazine, Ampersand, with “Ampersand Live,” a fast-moving and unrehearsed show of 16 different performances in which locals from all disciplines explore and connect the audience to their relationship with the Pacific Northwest.

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Interview with Nick Hanauer

Nick Hanauer on utopia, and minimum wage jobs.

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