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Anger over ‘Ride the Ducks’ Ramp & More News

The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today

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A Queen Anne apartment building has experienced a bit of mayhem throughout the last few months. A thief broke in Sunday morning after he pried the building’s front door open and stole tools from a storage closet and (ew) rummaged through people’s laundry in the laundry room. In late December, a woman was caught on surveillance video also in the laundry room after she broke into the same building.

The Sponge Bob movie might have had a better showing in Seattle than the set-in-Seattle romance Fifty Shades of Grey. The Puget Sound Business Journal‘s Patti Payne surprisingly reports that the steamy novel-turned-movie opened to a “lackluster response” here at home.

My azaleas are already blooming and they don’t seem to mind that they’re a tad too early. Why? The weather this winter has been so warm that we’re set to shatter a record for the warmest winter since 1945 “when Sea-Tac Airport became Seattle’s official observation,” according to Komo News.

Eastlake residents are up in arms (wings?) over a new ramp leading into Lake Union that’s intended for the Ride the Ducks tour. According to The Seattle Times, the attraction, which transports people around town via land and sea while a boisterous tour guide blasts music and narrates the passing landscape over a loudspeaker, will launch into the water from a ramp that’s “to be built about 100 yards” from a floating home and “just south of a small waterfront park” in the neighborhood. Duck boats will drive up Fairview Avenue East to get to the ramp. Eastlake residents are comparing the quacking, amphibious vehicles to having “a Disneyland ride move into your living room.”

 

Rearview Mirror: Spinasse at Home, a New Spa Experience, and Seattle Mag’s Reader’s Choice Awards 

Rearview Mirror: Spinasse at Home, a New Spa Experience, and Seattle Mag’s Reader’s Choice Awards 

Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).

YOUR VOTE MATTERS Everyone has a favorite restaurant, coffee shop, or local boutique. Call me old-school, but I will die on the hill that Caffe Vita has the best coffee in town. Disagree with me? Now’s your moment to speak up. Each year, we survey Seattle magazine readers, asking them to weigh in on everything…

Studio Sessions: Ling Chun

Studio Sessions: Ling Chun

The Seattle-based artist brings playful color to ceramics and neon while exploring memory, transformation, and life between cultures.

For Ling Chun, creating begins with something sensed before it can be named. Working with clay, glass, light, and sometimes synthetic hair, the Hong Kong-born artist gives physical form to things that words cannot always hold. “For me, the magnitude of making goes far beyond the object that is eventually produced,” Chun says. “The object…

The Magic of PAX Is Stronger Than Ever

The Magic of PAX Is Stronger Than Ever

PAX West draws more than 100,000 people to Seattle each year. Co-founder Jerry Holkins reflects on what the gaming convention set out to change, how its community has grown and why gathering face to face still matters.

Access to game news as it was happening was difficult back in the day. Even with the advent of the internet, communication between game publishers and journalists was still a very elite affair.  I used to fake credentials—via fax machine!—to attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo, mostly just known as E3. It was simultaneously as loud…

Your Guide to Bumbershoot 2026

Your Guide to Bumbershoot 2026

Navigate Seattle’s wildest end-of-summer weekend with 20 picks spanning Death Cab for Cutie, Blood Orange, wrestling, skateboarding and—obviously—movies made in 48 hours.

Four years after Bumbershoot returned with its quirkiness revivified, Seattleites broadly acknowledge the two-day multimedia extravaganza as a welcome finale to the summer festival season. Fests like Bumbershoot are designed around a choose-your-own-adventure model, but if you’re the kind of person who looked at this year’s sprawling lineup—featuring multiple bands, artists, and exhibits happening at…