Seattle Real Estate in 2026: Key Insights for Local Homeowners to Anticipate Next
08 Dec

Seattle Real Estate in 2026: Key Insights for Local Homeowners to Anticipate Next

Seattle
If you’ve been watching the Seattle housing market over the last two years, you’ve likely felt like you’re stuck in a holding pattern. High rates froze inventory, buyers hit affordability walls, and sellers held onto their 3% mortgages with white-knuckle grips. But as we look toward 2026, the data suggests the “Great Freeze” is beginning to thaw. The landscape emerging isn’t a return to the frenzied bidding wars of 2021, but rather a “new normal” defined by smart growth, zoning revolutions, and a tech sector that looks very different than it did five years ago. Here is what Seattle property…
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Perspective: Spicy food has warnings. Why not spicy books?
08 Dec

Perspective: Spicy food has warnings. Why not spicy books?

Politics
Jane Austen once wrote about the tension between sense and sensibility — the tug-of-war between reason and emotion, protection and passion. I’ve been thinking about that balance a lot lately, especially when it comes to the popular books in the world — “spice and sensibility,” if you will. Recently, I visited my beloved Barnes & Noble, browsing the aisles for the latest trendy reads — and noticing how much my favorite store has changed since I was a book-obsessed teenager. As I glanced at a table near the “romance” section of the cozy bookstore, I did a double-take. The table…
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Cynthia Nixon shines in uneven, poignant sci-fi revival of Marjorie Prime
08 Dec

Cynthia Nixon shines in uneven, poignant sci-fi revival of Marjorie Prime

Stage
​ When Jordan Harrison’s play Marjorie Prime first premiered in 2014, its vision of synthetic sentience may have felt pretty novel. An old woman, Marjorie, talking to a hologram modeled after her long-dead husband perhaps seemed like a wild, far-fetched idea, that a computer program could somehow closely mimic the cadence of real conversation, could fake intimate knowledge of a person’s life. What a strange and alienating idea. Just 11 years later (and eight years after a little-seen film adaptation), Marjorie Prime plays far more credibly. We may not have the hologram technology down quite yet, but everything else in…
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FDA recalls blood pressure medication due to cholesterol drug contamination issues
08 Dec

FDA recalls blood pressure medication due to cholesterol drug contamination issues

News in Focus
​ The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a nationwide recall of thousands of bottles of blood-pressure medication last week after discovering cross-contamination with another drug. Federal regulators issued the warning on Dec. 1 for roughly 11,100 bottles of the combination medication bisoprolol fumarate and hydrochlorothiazide, sold under the brand name Ziac. Testing revealed that "trace amounts of ezetimibe," a prescription drug used to treat high cholesterol, were detected in reserve samples.  The recall was classified as Class III, indicating that use of or exposure to the contaminated product is "not likely to cause adverse health consequences," according to the agency. RITZ CRACKERS RECALLED…
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