Taylor Gerlach

Seattle

Outdoor Multimedia Journalist at Freelance

📸Photographer and ✍️writer in commercial and editorial 🌏 outdoor industries | 📍PNW | @UniversityofGA Photojournalism and Sociology

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Articles

Secret Spots in Seattle’s Columbia City Neighborhood

3 weeks ago | seattlemet.com | Taylor Gerlach

Columbia city is hopping at all hours, whether it’s a morning coffee or a bustling night market. We found the best hidden corners of the neighborhood—and, of course, where to find the best drinks. The lower stories of Empire Roasters and Records are special enough—sip a cayenne mocha from the first floor café, rifle through crates of vinyl on the second.
Secret Spots in Seattle's Beacon Hill Neighborhood

1 month ago | seattlemet.com | Taylor Gerlach

SOuth seattle’s high ground is known as Beacon Hill, and it’s known as one of the city’s tastiest neighborhoods. We found the spots with the best flavors, along with the liveliest place to play in Seattle. It’s Beacon Hill’s greatest comeback story: MacPherson’s Fruit and Produce reopened last spring at its crossroads location.
Secret Spots in West Seattle

1 month ago | seattlemet.com | Taylor Gerlach

There are jokes about how West Seattle is basically an island—and it certainly has its own character, one shaped by beachfront, independent businesses, and big views. That doesn't mean it doesn't take a discerning eye to find all the pleasures of Seattle's far-off neighborhood. On very special summer nights, flashes of blue-green bioluminescence appear like magic in the waters just off Lincoln Park, the 135-acre wonder along West Seattle’s western edge, though boaters get the best view.
Secret Spots in Seattle’s Ballard Neighborhood

1 month ago | seattlemet.com | Taylor Gerlach

Ballard is famously cool, what with all the indie music venues and busy farmers market. But there are still a few under-the-radar experiences to be found on the far side of the Ballard Locks—and one hidden beach. Blue neon and a triple-stacked marquee stand guard over Ballard’s independent Majestic Bay Theatres, but the real secret is the Tuesday price: All seats go for six dollars.
Everything You Need to Know About a Visit to Wenatchee, Washington

1 month ago | seattlemet.com | Taylor Gerlach

POPULATION: 35,526LOCATION: Central WashingtonDRIVE TIME FROM SEATTLE: 2 hours, 35 minutesAVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE IN April: 63°FAVERAGE LOW TEMPERATURE IN April: 52°FThe Chelan County city has claimed the Apple Capital of the World title ever since 1902, shortly after the Great Northern Railway first carted the valley’s fruits westward to Seattle.
Things to Do in Seattle This Week

1 month ago | seattlemet.com | Taylor Gerlach

Jump to Your Genre: Food and Drink / Visual Arts / Live Music Performance / Film / Special Events / Readings and Lectures / On Sale NowSeattleites are spoiled for choice when it comes to spending our leisure time. Just take a look at the sheer variety of options: We have an exceptional array of museums, independent bookstores, restaurants, bars (and bar trivia), record stores, nightlife options, local shops, and a rich music landscape. And the actual landscape?
This Local Oral Surgeon Is Taking Dental School to TikTok

1 month ago | seattlemet.com | Taylor Gerlach

When Serv Wahan opens Instagram, his feed populates with photos of niche medical instruments and surgery videos cloaked with sensitive-content warnings. And when one of his followers opens theirs, they might see exactly those things posted by Wahan himself. In addition to working as an oral surgeon, Wahan has garnered a large following on social media. You could say he’s a dental influencer—hold the lip-synching and skits, though.
This Local Oral Surgeon Is Taking Dental School to TikTok

1 month ago | dental.einnews.com | Taylor Gerlach

When Serv Wahan opens Instagram, his feed populates with photos of niche medical instruments and surgery videos cloaked with sensitive-content warnings. And when one of his followers opens theirs, they might see exactly those things posted by Wahan himself. In addition to working as an oral surgeon, Wahan has garnered a large following on social media. You could say he’s a dental influencer—hold the lip-synching and skits, though.
Who Is Seattle Public Library’s Peak Picker?

2 months ago | seattlemet.com | Taylor Gerlach

I’ll admit it. I choose my books by their covers—or in particular, the green and blue badges that denote Peak Picks at my local Seattle Public Library branch. I’m not the only one, either. Since the program’s inauguration in 2017, 800 titles, ranging from en vogue novels to big-name memoirs to cookbooks, have been designated Peak Picks. They’ve been checked out over 1,000,000 times.
HUMP! Film Festival Brought Porn to the People-and Vice Versa

2 months ago | seattlemet.com | Taylor Gerlach

It was the early 2000s, and The Stranger coworkers Brad Steinbacher and Dan Savage floated a NSFW idea at, well, work: Could they put on a homemade porn festival? And publish a call for submissions in the famous alternative newspaper? “It was a big ask. Send us a VHS tape that you made—because it was before digital everything—and let us watch it, and then we're gonna put it on a movie theater screen for a weekend," Savage says; at the time he was the alt-weekly's editor in chief.