The media business is in trouble, and that’s a fact. The American Society of News Editors released the dour news that in traditional newsrooms, “job losses accelerated in 2014, falling by more than 10 percent in a single year.” The forecast is just as bad for 2015, with “additional losses clearly taking place so far.” […]

“Throwing a good party, mixing a great drink—that’s cool,” entrepreneur David Pierre-Louis says. “But I’m bigger than that.” Take LUCID, his “creative space” in Seattle. It’s not quite a dedicated show venue, not quite a bar, but the best of both. A look at the upcoming events showcase its diversity: there’s a soul concert, then […]

Lisa Pomerantz decided to follow Dave Matthews Band around Europe after college. Along the way, she got inspired to write a business plan that merged her passions of travel and music. “I wrote an incredibly embarrassing business plan,” she says of her company’s humble beginnings as a fan booking service. “It was so embarrassing that […]

Tina Mashaalahi has many loves: art, technology, and classical music being three of them. But long before she can purchase a ticket to an exhibition, or conference, or concert, she, like everybody else, must click through a handful of websites, view a batch of ratings, consult different people—you get the gist. Researching events is tedious, […]

You don’t have to clear your schedule to polish up your computer skills. There are little moments throughout the day— your lunch hour, the commute home, a coffee break—to take in a coding lesson or two. Find a comfortable spot and fire up Lrn, a mobile app that teaches the basics of coding through interactive […]

When she was growing up, Tiffany Tibbot remembers feeling at odds with the same article of clothing that she now designs for a living. “There definitely was a pain point,” the self-described “lake-dweller” says of her younger years spent on Lake Sammamish, just outside of Seattle, where she would go water skiing, kneeboarding, and tubing. […]