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New in Town: Exploring Seattle in 2020
Introducing a blog series dedicated to discovering Seattle anew
When you move to a new city, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by all that’s on offer: new sights, new flavors, new people. But the truth is, it’s also easy to get overwhelmed while living in a city you know like the back of your hand. Abundant activity options can lead to indecision, and the next…
Antique Photography Lives on at This Pioneer Square Studio
Locals can get a tintype portrait taken at Henrietta's Eye
This article appears in print in the December 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Despite tintype photography’s Civil War–era origins, you can hold a magnifying glass to such a photo and see individual threads of clothing. That’s because the image is made of molecular silver crystals, much smaller than pixels, and therefore doesn’t undergo the same blurry degradation…
Ballard Used-gear Consignment Shop Makes Outdoor Adventures More Accessible
Wonderland Gear Exchange opened last fall
This article appears in print in the December 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Washington’s trails and slopes can challenge even the heartiest adventurers—but the steep cost of new gear presents one of the biggest obstacles to getting out there in the first place. Making adventures more affordable is one of the tenets of Wonderland Gear Exchange, a…
10 Years with Seattle Magazine: A Photo Retrospective
A decade into her tenure at Seattle and Seattle Business magazines, photographer Hayley Young looks back at some of her favorite images
This article appears in print in the December 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Lindy WestWriter, activistSeattle magazine, January 2014 “My assistant, John Vicory, and I drove for hours to pick up the wood stake that we propped behind Lindy for this photo, taken at her family’s property in Quilcene. I had Googled ‘how to make a burning…
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,…
Armoire Founder Shares Her Style Inspirations and Next Steps for the Startup
Ambika Singh helps outfit women in designer threads, but her aspirations—like her closet—continue to evolve
This article appears in print in the December 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. The brainchild of Eastside-raised, Dartmouth- and MIT-educated trendsetter Ambika Singh, local startup Armoire was launched three years ago as a kind of virtual closet and outfit rental service for savvy professional women. Singh wanted to save women “some serious time and frustration in the…
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…
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