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Seattle's Best New Year's Eve Events 2019

Seattle’s Best New Year’s Eve Events 2019

Our picks for where to start off the new year in the city

This article appears in print in the December 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. First Night Tacoma Tacoma’s “Tree of Life”–themed celebration is back with family-friendly, alcohol-free activities, including live music, dance and a parade to ring in the new year. 5:30 p.m. Prices vary. Downtown Tacoma; tacomaartslive.org Spectra NYE: Roaring ’20sEnter the 2020s with a throwback to the Roaring ’20s,…

A Year's Worth of Laughs: The Needling's 2019 Year in Review

A Year’s Worth of Laughs: The Needling’s 2019 Year in Review

Warning: What you are about to read is not true, accurate or representative of Seattle magazine’s professional opinion, but it sure is funny

This article appears in print in the December 2019 issue and is part of our of the Year in Review feature. Click here to subscribe. For the past few years, these annual features—where we look back on the best, and worst, headlines of the past 12 months—have gotten more and more outrageous. For the most part, news has…

The Needling's 2019 Year in Review: 6 Local Women Most Sorry for Outshining You This Year

The Needling’s 2019 Year in Review: 6 Local Women Most Sorry for Outshining You This Year

None of these women’s accomplishments is really that big of a deal, and they probably just got lucky or something. They just thought you might want to know in case you hadn’t heard or whatever. Don’t worry: We won’t bring any of this up again

This article appears in print in the December 2019 issue and is part of our of the Year in Review feature. Click here to subscribe. WARNING: What you are about to read is not true, accurate or representative of Seattle magazine’s professional opinion, but it sure is funny. Lindy West’s best-selling book, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, was adapted…

The Needling's 2019 Year in Review: In Memoriam

The Needling’s 2019 Year in Review: In Memoriam

How do I say goodbye, to what we had?

Can’t see the construction crane forest for the skyscraper lease, can you?

The Needling's 2019 Year in Review: Seattle's Biggest Breakups

The Needling’s 2019 Year in Review: Seattle’s Biggest Breakups

Cue the Taylor Swift breakup songs

No one can put a price tag on love. But lovers? That’s another story

The Needling's 2019 Year in Review: The Biggest Clues That Our Days Are Numbered

The Needling’s 2019 Year in Review: The Biggest Clues That Our Days Are Numbered

The Emerald City didn’t need to look any farther than its own backyard this year to see how quickly we’re all approaching our inevitable demise

Don’t change that channel, because if you do Seattle won’t be the only one dying

The Needling's 2019 Year in Review: Mother Earth Rocks Washington with a 4.6 Earthquake

The Needling’s 2019 Year in Review: Mother Earth Rocks Washington with a 4.6 Earthquake

Mother Earth: "If you don’t pull the trigger on this ‘nation of Cascadia’ thing, I’ll do it myself"

Go ahead, let your freak flag fly

The Needling's 2019 Year in Review: Welcome to Seattle, Come Right In

The Needling’s 2019 Year in Review: Welcome to Seattle, Come Right In

Afraid the city skyline didn’t have enough construction cranes, local residents happily set aside the Seattle Freeze to welcome a few new guys to town

Now the whole family can enjoy “justice”

Backstory: Why Glowing Monkeys Are All over Phinney Ridge and Greenwood

Backstory: Why Glowing Monkeys Are All over Phinney Ridge and Greenwood

Cheery LED animals are more than mere holiday decoration

Greenwood Hardware on Phinney Ridge

Seattle Municipal Archives and HistoryLink Celebrate 150 Years of Seattle with New Book

Seattle Municipal Archives and HistoryLink Celebrate 150 Years of Seattle with New Book

'Seattle at 150: Stories of the City Through 150 Objects from the Seattle Municipal Archives' highlights the big moments in our city's history

Yesler Way and First Avenue South circa 1895 – 1900

'Olmsted in Seattle' Shines Light on History of City Parks

‘Olmsted in Seattle’ Shines Light on History of City Parks

Local historian Jennifer Ott explores Seattle’s Olmsted-influenced parks, boulevards and green spaces in her new book

GREEN SPACE: Environmental historian Jennifer Ott in Volunteer Park, one of her favorite Olmsted-designed parks

Backstory: Why Some Seattle Hatch Covers Are Adorned with Street Art

Backstory: Why Some Seattle Hatch Covers Are Adorned with Street Art

A beautification effort provided art for city maintenance entries

This article appears in print in the October 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. The Landmark: Seattle hatch covers The Location: Various locations, including downtown, Seattle Center and South Lake Union The Backstory: If you walk through downtown or Seattle Center with your head in the clouds or your nose in your phone, you’re missing out: You just might have stepped…

SilentHike Receives a Rainy Welcome in Seattle

SilentHike Receives a Rainy Welcome in Seattle

The national meditative movement takes locals on guided hikes while music and spoken word performance is broadcast to participants' wireless headphones

It’s called a SilentHike, but really it’s neither. Think of it more as a moving musical experience in nature with meditation. A mild workout but with stunning views and quiet reflection, with a new age piano soundtrack. A guided exploration of your psyche but with spoken word poetry and wireless headphones. And of course, since…

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