Thanksgiving is supposed to be a joyous occasion wherein relatives young and old gather ’round for an epic feast, convivial conversation, sports (if you’re into that), parades with accident-prone balloons, and general family togetherness. Some of the time, however, it’s a completely dysfunctional event from which you’d like to escape. (Lest my family read this…

Nordstrom has announced some big changes with its semi-annual sales: The luxury department store is abandoning those four semi-annual sales and instead plans to hold six clearance sales each year. According to The Puget Sound Business Journal, “the six clearance sales will be storewide, rather than broken up by specific department, as the half-yearly sales…

It’s Friday. It’s raining. Potentially violent protesters could be mere steps from our offices. Leading off: Warnings are out for the possibility of violent protests downtown today or over the weekend. The fringe activist group October 22nd Coalition Against Police Brutality, Repression and The Criminalization of a Generation is expected to gather at Westlake Park…

Looking into my crystal ball—and yes, I have one, an old green Japanese fishing float—I foresee that the year 2015 promises to be the year of either Big Headaches or Big Solutions. For one thing, we’ll be catching up with many cans we’ve been kicking down the road. It is the year that the complex…

Must Make Reservations10 Restaurants Serving Up Thanksgiving DinnerRestaurants around Seattle are preparing Thanksgiving feasts for dine in and take out. Prix-fixe menus, buffets and smoked turkeys to-go give us plenty to be thankful for this year, but make your reservations, like, now. Must HearDavid Bazan and Passenger String Quartet PerformFriday (11/21, 9 p.m.) Seattle singer-songwriter…

Cornish College of the Arts—one of three colleges in the country that specializes in both the visual and performing arts—has turned 100 years old. Founder Nellie Cornish opened Cornish on Capitol Hill originally as a music school, and then expanded it to become an integrative arts campus. Cornish wanted her college to create “artists, citizens…

Leading off on this rather warm Thursday morning: Councilwoman Kshama Sawant was arrested yesterday at a protest at Alaska Airlines’ Seattle headquarters. The protest was in support of $15 wages for Alaska Airlines workers at Sea-Tac. The Puget Sound Business Journal reports that three other people were also arrested, including two airport workers and a…

Today I learned that liquor delivery in Seattle is a thing. Glorious. Read on: Lynch and Lynch: Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch has been in the news a lot lately. On Monday, he discussed his potentially uncertain Seahawks future with the NFL Network and today he’s being heralded for returning a lost wallet he found…

Happy everyone-is-mad-at-Uber Day! Delete your app (you rebel!) and then let’s dig into what’s happening in Seattle: Get ready for Bob Marley-branded weed: A Seattle firm and the Marley family are teaming up to launch a global marijuana line dubbed Marley Natural, which will include a whole host of products like accessories and strains of…

Wish List is our new series highlighting things that would be better if they were here. A little more than a year after Grand Theft Auto 5 was released, it’s being ported over to the next generation of consoles on November 18. (PC gamers have to wait until January 27, 2015.) Rockstar Games, GTA’s maker,…

Good morning, fellow Seattleites. Thanksgiving is in one week. Do you know where your turkey is coming from? Those pesky “ramps to nowhere” in the Arboretum, leftover after voters rejected the R.H. Thomson Expressway in 1972, are finally being demolished. But nearby residents weren’t so happy with the teardown timing. King 5 reports crews worked…

Three cheers for a sunny Friday! Also, the Paseo saga continues. Leading off: A sunny outlook for Nordstrom these days. The luxury department store reported solid third quarter earnings, at 73 cents per share or $142 million, which is an increase from 69 cents a share and $137 million in the same quarter a year…

Must SeeA Film Festival Full of ShortsSaturday (11/15, times vary) Finally, a film festival that values efficiency! This one-day fest features three screenings of new short films, including the comedy Lunch, which features local actresses Wonder Russell and Lisa Coronado. Also on the tidy bill: Spokane filmmaker Mischa Jakupcak’s sweet The Hero Pose. Must ShopNew…