☂ Our story

Built for
Seattle.

By PNW heads who got tired of hearing about great things after they'd already happened.

The why

We kept missing everything.

Seattle is one of those cities that rewards the curious. There's always something worth doing — a new ramen spot in Capitol Hill, a gallery opening in Pioneer Square, a hike that clears the clouds on a Saturday morning. The problem was finding it before the weekend was already over.

We kept getting the Sunday night text. "You should have come." A festival we'd walked past and not known about. A pop-up that was gone before we heard it existed. A show that sold out while we were doomscrolling through nothing.

The information was out there — buried in event pages, scattered across Instagram stories, hiding in neighborhood Facebook groups nobody wanted to be in. What didn't exist was one clean, honest, well-designed thing that surfaced the best of it every week and put it in your inbox before the week started.

So we built it.

What we stand for

No noise. Just signal.

Seattle locals only
We live here. We eat here. We deal with the same rain, the same traffic, and the same love for this city that you do. This isn't written from a content farm — it's written from Capitol Hill.
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No politics. No crime.
There's enough of that everywhere else. Raincheck is a deliberate break from the noise — the good stuff only. Events, food, music, culture, the outdoors. Things worth getting off the couch for.
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Actually tested
We're not pulling from press releases. Rocky searches the web for what's actually happening, and we filter for what's actually worth your time. Real events. Real places. Real recommendations.
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Free. Always.
Raincheck will always be free to read. One email, every Sunday morning. No paywall, no premium tier, no tricks. Just the best of Seattle straight to your inbox before the week starts.
Meet Rocky
Rocky the Raincheck Raccoon

Rocky knows every corner.

Rocky is Raincheck's mascot, editor-in-chief, and resident PNW native. A raccoon felt right — scrappy, resourceful, knows every alley and neighborhood in the city, and absolutely unbothered by the rain.

Every issue Rocky scours Seattle for the week's best picks. He's not easily impressed, deeply opinionated about ramen, and personally guarantees that pizza is mandatory.

The team

The humans (and raccoon)

Ludwig Flex Vonmesser
Ludwig "Flex" Vonmesser
Co-founder · Editor

Cultural technologist. Former gem dealer. Academically trained art historian and curator. Great-nephew of Ken Kesey. Building the anti-algorithm internet from Vlorë, Albania — on the principle that it works better when nobody is optimizing it. Originally from the great Pacific NW.

Marc Fendel
Marc Fendel
Co-founder · Seattle Bureau

Seattle-based saxophonist, music producer, herbalist, and educator. A longtime presence at Pike Place Market through Sister Sage Herbs, he blends a passion for traditional herbal medicine with a life in music and the arts. Board member of Sustainable Music Northwest and active in the Tezos community.

Rocky the Raincheck Raccoon
Rocky
Editor-in-Chief · Chief Scout

Scrappy, resourceful, and deeply opinionated about ramen. Rocky scours every alley, neighborhood, and event listing in Seattle each week. Unbothered by the rain. Personally guarantees that pizza is mandatory. Native PNW.

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