Virginia Smyth
Palihotel Seattle Adds a New Kind of Cool to the City’s Accommodation Explosion
The hotel décor nods to a bygone era when life was simpler, more congenial and just more fun
With new hotels popping up on almost every corner of Seattle, it’s becoming more challenging to stand out from the crowd. But the new boutique Palihotel Seattle (the first foray outside of Los Angeles of this growing hotel brand), at the corner of Pine and First, makes an impression you won’t soon forget. Hotel promoters…
Seattle’s Most Influential People of the Year 2018
We're raising a glass to those working to make this a better place— our 2018 Most Influential People of the Year
This article appears in print in the November 2018 issue, as part of the Most Influential People of the Year feature. Click here to subscribe. There are plenty of reasons to bemoan the past 12 months: More and more people sleeping on sidewalks and in homeless camps. Ever-worsening traffic. Sky-high housing prices. A never-ending string of #MeToo revelations. Ongoing gun…
Which Seattle Neighborhoods Are Seeing the Biggest Changes in Home Values?
Zillow gives us the future forecast on where Seattle's neighborhoods are heading
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue, as part of the “Best of the Burbs” cover story. Click here for the rest of the story. We’d all like to know where the hot home deals are today—in other words, where we can buy today and have some assurance that our home value will grow….
Winemaker Charles Smith’s Leschi Home Is One For the Ages
Scandinavian influence makes its way through this home on Lake Washington
Charles Smith and daughter Charlotte cozy up on the expansive sectional in the main living area. A big change he made to this space was removing a glass ceiling in the dining room—“It made the room seem vast,” Smith says—and replacing accordian doors that
Person of the Year 2017: The Unexpected Activist
Seattle Magazine presents the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.
It’s been a year in which locals have taken to the streets time and time again—so frequently that barely a week or weekend has gone by without a protest, march or event spilling into Seattle streets and filling public spaces. From anti-Trump and pro-Trump rallies to Block the Bunker events, immigration rights walks, a tax…
