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The Quirky Stories and Characters That Took Our Minds Off the Mayhem in 2017

The Quirky Stories and Characters That Took Our Minds Off the Mayhem in 2017

This year’s "shiny things" were a welcomed respite from the news cycle.

Check out the rest of our 2017 Year in Review package. Poses like “downward-facing goat” were routine at the various goat yoga classes in the area, incorporating goats into a playful practice for yogis of all ages. The world’s largest rubber duck, Mama Duck, made a splash into the Thea Foss Waterway for Tacoma’s Festival…

Caroline Craighead

2017 Year in Review: Art and Life

2017 Year in Review: Art and Life

The pieces, performances and more that stuck with us.

Here Lies Love

Seattle Mag

All the Holiday Events in Seattle You Can Handle

All the Holiday Events in Seattle You Can Handle

The ultimate holiday events guide.

Mix up burlesque with “The Nutcracker” and you get “Homo for the Holidays.”

Seattle Magazine Staff

Reuben's Brews and Mighty-O Donuts Team Up for Coffee Beer and Mini-Doughnut Pairings

Reuben’s Brews and Mighty-O Donuts Team Up for Coffee Beer and Mini-Doughnut Pairings

Must List: Your guide to Seattle's hottest events.

Start the weekend right with coffee beer and doughnuts.

Danny Sullivan and Seattle Magazine Staff

After Being Priced Out of Its Neighborhood, Longtime Seattle Bookstore Thrives in New Home

After Being Priced Out of Its Neighborhood, Longtime Seattle Bookstore Thrives in New Home

Peter Miller’s newly relocated bookstore remains as distinctive as the man who runs it.

Favorite things Peter Miller in his natural habitat: surrounded by books and design supplies

Megan Lamb

The Past and Future of Seattle in Ridiculous Gingerbread Houses

The Past and Future of Seattle in Ridiculous Gingerbread Houses

Sheraton’s Seattle Gingerbread Village celebrates its 25th anniversary in a new location.

This is what happens when you let architects design gingerbread houses.

Megan Toal

Embrace the Holiday Season With These Festive Seattle Events

Embrace the Holiday Season With These Festive Seattle Events

The Must List: Your guide to Seattle's hottest events.

Snowflake Lane returns to Bellevue even bigger.

Seattle Magazine Staff

New Georgetown Protest Mural Takes on Climate Change, South Seattle Air Pollution

New Georgetown Protest Mural Takes on Climate Change, South Seattle Air Pollution

The collaboration between Seattle artist Craig Cundiff and anti-gasoline organization Coltura debuted last weekend.

Cundiff’s mural is on the back of the former Poppleton Electric & Machinery Co. building in Georgetown.

Michael Rietmulder

Jimmy Fallon Shouts Out KEXP as Macklemore Brings Seattle Up-and-Comers on 'Tonight Show'

Jimmy Fallon Shouts Out KEXP as Macklemore Brings Seattle Up-and-Comers on ‘Tonight Show’

There was a lot of Seattle love on The Tonight Show last night.

Travis Thompson (left) and Dave B (far right) joined Macklemore on ‘Fallon.’

Megan Toal

Seattle Symphony's Leading Man is Leaving for Los Angeles

Seattle Symphony’s Leading Man is Leaving for Los Angeles

After helping lead the symphony's innovative label, President and CEO Simon Woods is out.

Simon Woods (left) and recording engineer Dimitri Lipay helped bring Seattle Symphony Media to prominence.

Gavin Borchert

Zanadu Comics is Closing

Zanadu Comics is Closing

After 42 years, the embattled Seattle institution will shut its doors Jan. 28.

So long to a Seattle staple.

Michael Rietmulder

Teatro ZinZanni is as Hilarious and High-Flying as Ever in New Home

Teatro ZinZanni is as Hilarious and High-Flying as Ever in New Home

You can take Teatro out of Seattle, but you can't take the yodeling dominatrix out of Teatro.

I was sorry to see Teatro ZinZanni leave Lower Queen Anne, where it had sat since 2007, since it’s now a 30-minute drive rather than a seven-minute walk from my apartment. There are compensations, though, in its limited-run move to Marymoor Park, namely a grander, more spacious setting (walking up to the front door feels…

Gavin Borchert

Celebrate the Inspirational Power of Pie and Whiskey

Celebrate the Inspirational Power of Pie and Whiskey

A literary event series about pie and whiskey is now a book.

Samuel Ligon and Kate Lebo turned a literary event into a book.

Callie Little

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