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Backstory: How Pioneer Square’s Purple Sidewalk Skylights Came to Be
The lights reveal a dark network of passageways where old Seattle once stood
This article appears in print in the February 2020 issue. Click here to subscribe. After Seattleites carved Pioneer Square out of lush forestland alongside Elliott Bay, businesses in our city’s first neighborhood were constantly battling floods and sewage backup caused by the bay’s tides. When the Great Seattle Fire destroyed much of the area in 1889, city officials decided…
That’s Love: 5 Seattle Couples Share Their Love Stories
These local lovebirds spill their secrets to long lasting relationships
This article appears in print in the February 2020 issue. Click here to subscribe. Lou Henry Hoover & Kitten LaRue Burlesque star Kitten LaRue and drag king Lou Henry Hoover shared the stages of Seattle shows for years before they ever really talked. “I do clearly remember the first day she walked into a rehearsal, and I was like ‘Who…
Seattle Seawolves Look to Take Third Straight MLR Title This Season
The team has won every Major League Rugby championship held so far
Amid big arena deals, league applications and investor hunts, Seattle has slowly begun to re-solidify itself as a sports town. But while the Seahawks season has come to a close and the Mariners make their way to Arizona for spring training, Seattle turns its attention back to another sport kicking up anticipation in the south…
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
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
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: 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
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