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Record Rainfall, Pronto Bike Share Reaches 4,000 Rides & More
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Curbed Ski released a big list of the best ski country dive bars, with a few in Washington State. Among the nearby favrorites? Mount Si Pub in North Bend, Wash., and The Snorting Elk Cellar in Enumclaw, Wash.
You love it! You really love it! Seattle’s inaugural bike share program launched on October 13 and in one week the service has provided 4,000 rides and acquired more than 1,400 memberships. The Seattle PI reports, “With the initial launch in Seattle’s densest neighborhoods underway, the focus now is to spread out.”
Any One Direction fans out there? (I thought so.) Well, the floppy-haired, British boy band is coming to CenturyLink Field on July 15. And presale tickets go on sale in ONE. DAY.
What’s going on at Second Avenue and Pine Street? A massive 40-story apartment tower, that’s what. According to MyNorthwest.com, “The building will feature approximately 3,500 square feet of street-level retail, and 217 parking stalls above and below ground.”
We’ve set a record, but not one that we’re super excited to set. Heavy rain and high winds have pummeled areas of Western Washington at all-time high levels. Yesterday, Sea-Tac Airport recorded 1.16 inches of rain by the evening, which broke the 1985 record of 0.87. Mild and dry winter, eh?
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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…