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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis perform in San Francisco on their 2013 tour. (Photo by Amanda Rhoades / SF Foghorn)

Macklemore’s Seattle style gains global appeal

With a fresh batch of Grammy gold under their belts, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis might catch their Seattle fans reminiscing about the days when they played small venues around the city for just a few bucks. The duo have evolved from humble beginnings in the local underground to become a global sensation, all the while […]

Chef Aurelio Pino presents his famous empanadas wearing traditional Chilean garb. (Photo courtesy Aurelio Pino)

Secret Seattle restaurant serves up Chilean specialties

by Sarah Stuteville

Selling food out of your home is a common way to supplement income and sustain community in Latin America. Chilean chef Aurelio Pino is carrying on the tradition from a “secret” location in South Seattle.

Todd Carmicael, host of Dangerous Grounds (Photo courtesy Travel Channel)

The Indiana Jones of coffee returns to the Travel Channel

by Jaclyn Schiff

Five questions for Todd Carmichael, globe-trotting Seattle coffee CEO turned reality TV star.

“The Square” sparks controversy, flashbacks to Egyptian Revolution

by Ebtihal Shedid

Join the Seattle Globalist Thursday for a screening of The Square, and Q & A with director Jehane Noujaim.

More than 500 Muslim Americans gathered in the state capitol in Monday to send a clear message to the Legislature: protect low-income housing, pass the DREAM Act and vote against invasive drone surveillance. (Photo by Atia Musazay)

Muslim Americans flex muscle in Olympia, press for minority rights

by Atia Musazay

Hundreds of Muslims from around Washington gathered at the state capitol Monday with clear messages for their legislators.

Seattle’s Smartest Global Women: Dacia Saenz

by Hillary Sanders

International content creator, Dacia Sáenz, knows the power of a well-made film.

An ash covered Mundarichild celebrates the first South Sudan Independence Day in 2011. (Photo by Giovanni Turco / Freedom House DC)

We, the children of war in South Sudan, reject this war

by Tahrier Muon

I come from a place with a long memory of war.

Vodonos and her husband at their kitchen table in Queen Anne. From left; sukhariki—a hazelnut tea cookie, sauerkraut with cabbage and carrot, and a version with olive oil and cranberries. (Photo by Anna Goren)

Brave winter the Russian way — with homecooked food

by Anna Goren

If you want great Russian food in Seattle, you might have to cook it yourself. And Moscow transplant Irina Vodonos wants to teach you.

Magdaleno Rose-Avila addresses the crowd at an immigration rally in Seattle in 2006. (Photo courtesy of Rose-Avila)

We are Seattle, we want to be free: Rose-Avila on Mandela and MLK

by Reagan Jackson

With his tenure at the city’s Office of Immigrant Refugee Affairs ending, Seattle activist Magdaleno Rose-Avila is back at his typewriter to carry on a life-long struggle for civil rights.

Northwest parents fostering a refuge from global conflict

by Sarah Stuteville

Taking in a teenager from a conflict zone halfway around the world might not be for everyone. But some globally-oriented Northwest families are opening their minds, and homes, to a different kind of foster care.

Seattle’s Smartest Global Women: Sahar Fathi

by Hannah Lu Marie

A international lawyer turned policy analyst, Sahar Fathi, is a powerhouse of social change on a mission to shakeup how city policy is made.

Scientists at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture work on decoding the cassava genome. (Photo from Flickr by Neil Palmer)

UW scientists use diverse genome data to unlock Hispanic health risks

by Mónica Feliú-Mójer

By combining a resource called 1000 Genomes and the largest study of Hispanic health in the country, biostatisticians at UW hope to better understand risk factors for diseases like diabetes and asthma. Leer en Español

Scientists at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture work on decoding the cassava genome. (Photo from Flickr by Neil Palmer)

Científicos en UW estudian la diversidad genética para mejorar la salud hispana

by Mónica Feliú-Mójer

Bioestadísticos de la UW combinan un recurso llamado 1000 Genomas con el más grande estudio sobre la salud hispana en E.E.U.U. para entender los factores genéticos de riesgo para enfermedades como la diabetes y el asma. Read in English

Seattle’s Smartest Global Women: Majd Baniodeh

by Monae Trevino

Meet Majd Baniodeh. Sitting down for a Q&A, she takes me on the incredible journey of her life and through her dreams for a globally aware Seattle.

Merced River with Containers. (Painting by Mary Iverson)

Visualizing global shipping’s environmental impacts

by Hillary Sanders

Why local artist Mary Iverson paints shipping containers in the middle of Yosemite National Park.

Mung bean kimchi pancakes at Chan.

Put down that pad thai and give Korean cuisine its due

Chef Heong Soon Park’s restaurant Chan is one of several new Korean places causing a stir in Seattle.

Photos: Kent youth ring in new year, Karen style

by Hillary Sanders

For the Burmese community in Kent, the Karen New Year is a chance to show off traditions that have long been repressed back in Myanmar.

In dark Seattle winter, Nordic films hit close to home

by Sarah Stuteville

The films of the Nordic Lights Festival next weekend at SIFF are a testament to our cultural kinship with Scandinavia.

New novel fuses immigrant experience and transgender identity

by Christina Twu

Canadian transplant Kim Fu’s “For Today I am a Boy” is hot off the press with a fresh perspective on Asian American transgender identity.

Zaraal, a snow leopard in the South Gobi desert of Mongolia. (Photo by Orjan Johansson)

Local love for the world’s cutest (and most endangered) cats

Four decades on, a new generation of Seattleites continues efforts to protect Central Asia’s snow leopards.