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Seattle Pastry Chefs' Top Sweet Spots

Seattle Pastry Chefs’ Top Sweet Spots

Where Seattle's finest pastry chefs get sugared up

Carrie Mashaney tucks into her favorite chocolate chip cookie with the right sweet salty balance, from The Wandering Goose

Chelsea Lin and Jessica Yadegaran with additional reporting by Rebecca Ratterman

Band of the Week: Star Anna

Band of the Week: Star Anna

Star Anna performs this Friday at the Georgetown Holiday Bash at Charles Smith Wines Jet City

Gwendolyn Elliott

Where Seattle Chefs Dine Out

Where Seattle Chefs Dine Out

In the midst of a restaurant renaissance, we tap Seattle's culinary rock stars for the best food and drinks in the city

Late-night bar food queen Monica Dimas with her favorite: Yum Yum chicken, photographed at Chungee’s on Capitol HIll

Chelsea Lin and Jessica Yadegaran, with additional reporting by Rebecca Ratterman

Need Lunch Plans? Southpaw's Open

Need Lunch Plans? Southpaw’s Open

Lark chef John Sundstrom opens pizzeria (with soft serve) in Capitol Hill

One pretty looking pie.

Chelsea Lin

What’s in a Name? For EMP, now MoPOP: Everything

What’s in a Name? For EMP, now MoPOP: Everything

Paul Allen's wild, wide-spanning museum needed a new name

Formerly the EMP Museum, the newly-christened Museum of Pop Culture celebrates its new name

Kasee Bailey

2016 Cookbook Gift Guide

2016 Cookbook Gift Guide

Three essential local culinary guides for holiday gift giving

COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR: Chef John Sundstrom is one of the Pacific Northwest’s culinary icons, winner of the James Beard Award for best Northwest chef in 2007 and a semifinalist for outstanding chef in 2014. His latest cookbook, Lark: Cooking Wild in the Northwest (Sasquatch, $30), published in August, is an updated version of 2013’s…

Jessica Yadegaran

In the Freezing Snow, the Yule Cat Roams, Waiting to Devour You

In the Freezing Snow, the Yule Cat Roams, Waiting to Devour You

“He roamed at large, hungry and evil/In the freezing Yule snow/In every home/People shuddered at his name”

Gwendolyn Elliott

Cocktail Lover’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide: Local Edition

Cocktail Lover’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide: Local Edition

We’re already waist deep into the winter holiday shopping season, but I’m guessing you haven’t picked out spectacular items for every single person on your list yet–I sure haven’t! If one of those folks who you’re shopping for happens to be a cocktail-making or spirit lover, I’m here to help with six wonderful ideas, all…

AJ Rathbun

The Must List: Merry Mutts and Meows, Fantagraphics Turns 40 and Geekcraft Expo

The Must List: Merry Mutts and Meows, Fantagraphics Turns 40 and Geekcraft Expo

Watch artists carve ice sculptures outside Seattle Center’s Fisher Pavilion each Saturday through New Year’s Eve

Seattle Magazine Staff

Recipe of the Week: Kale Gougères

Recipe of the Week: Kale Gougères

These delicate, one-bite appetizers set the tone for a festive night

Amy Pennington

12 Home Hot Spots for Holiday Decorating

12 Home Hot Spots for Holiday Decorating

This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. Time to dust off those boxes in the garage and clean the spiderwebs from the garland stored in the basement. The holidays are upon us. My two youngest boys have holiday radar. As soon as October 1 hits and the air chills at night, they know it’s time for…

Charmean Neithart, Houzz Contributor

Here's How to Make Your Holiday Shopping Easier

Here’s How to Make Your Holiday Shopping Easier

Knack lets you customize pretty gift boxes perfect for the Seattle-loving foodie in your life—all you need is the Internet and a credit card.

The Seattle Favorites gift set… a favorite.

Chelsea Lin

2016 Crosscut Courage Award Winners

2016 Crosscut Courage Award Winners

The 2016 Crosscut Courage Award winners don't walk away from difficult conversations and challenges

Back row: Honorees Richard Romero, Courage in Business, and Stephen Tan and Joey Cohn, Courage in Culture. Front row: Colleen Echohawk, Courage in Public Service, and Martha Choe, The David Brewster Lifetime Achievement Award

Crosscut Editors

4 Can't-Miss December Concerts

4 Can’t-Miss December Concerts

Four festive shows to get you in the holiday spirit

Get out of the cold and into the arena with these holiday concerts

Kasee Bailey

Best of 2016: Reader’s Choice Poll Winners

Best of 2016: Reader’s Choice Poll Winners

From our December print feature, "2016: The Year in Review"

From ice cream to pie, your best of Seattle 2016 picks

Seattle Mag

Deck the Hall Ball's Eclectic Lineup Offers Something for Everyone

Deck the Hall Ball’s Eclectic Lineup Offers Something for Everyone

Jimmy Eat World performing at its third Deck the Hall Ball concert

Azaria Podplesky

Seattle Magazine's 2016 Gift Guide

Seattle Magazine’s 2016 Gift Guide

Featuring finds from local stores as special as our favorite holiday songs and sayings, our 2016 gift guide proves December really is the most wonderful time of the year

The Land of Must-have Toys… Techy teens can collect the customizable smart bracelets, $69, from Seattle-based start-up Gemio, which light up when a friend, also wearing a band, is nearby. Available for preorder at gogemio.com Take Legos to go with the locally made Swoop mini bag, $26, perfect for toting toys during holiday travel. swoopbags.com Seattle-based industrial…

Jennifer McCullum

Fresh Toast, a Weed-Centric Website, Is Truly Buzzworthy

Fresh Toast, a Weed-Centric Website, Is Truly Buzzworthy

Fresh Toast publisher, JJ McKay

Rebecca Ratterman

Tell Me About That Track: Vaudeville Etiquette's "Let's Spike the Eggnog"

Tell Me About That Track: Vaudeville Etiquette’s “Let’s Spike the Eggnog”

In our new column Tell Me About That Track, Seattle country folk band Vaudeville Etiquette talk about a new holiday single, and a show tomorrow night at Neumos.  Name of Band: Vaudeville Etiquette Name of Track: “Let’s Spike The Eggnog” In three sentences or more, tell us the story of the band: Vaudeville Etiquette is…

Gwendolyn Elliott

Introducing Amazon Go

Introducing Amazon Go

The latest Amazon project is an actual grocery store, but one that promises no lines ever.

The future is awesome. And terrifying. But mostly awesome. Today in Amazon announcements, the local megacorp introduced us to Amazon Go, an 1800-square-foot brick-and-mortar grocery store at 2131 7th Ave, on the corner of 7th Avenue and Blanchard Street, that requires no checkout. You read that right: You simply use the app to scan in…

Chelsea Lin

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