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Disney Expands Downtown, Seahawks-Themed Gift Guide & More
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
After two New York City police officers were shot and killed on Saturday, King County deputies are showing their support and donning mourning bands across their badges. KING 5 reports that the deputies have been instructed “to wear the mourning bands until midnight on the day of the last funeral in New York.”
The Happiest Place on Earth is expanding its operations in downtown Seattle. Walt Disney Co., which currently occupies five floors in the Fourth & Madison Tower, has renewed its lease and acccording to the Puget Sound Business Journal, is upping its square footage to seven floors.
Some of us still have yet to finish our Christmas shopping. (We’re just choosy!) If you are one of those procrastinating individuals, Seattle Refined has put together a very merry Seahawks-themed gift guide filled with ideas aplenty, like the adorable 12th Man messenger bag pictured above.
More gift ideas for procrastinators: Starbucks gift cards. The coffee company reports that it sold about 2 million gift cards on Christmas Eve last year and expects to sell even more this year.
Parking lot dangers: Visitors to Northgate Mall are questioning its parking lot design after several shoppers have suffered injury. The dividers that separate rows of parking aren’t flat plots of dirt and landscaping, but drop off instead.
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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
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
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
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…