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,…

Seattle magazine staff

Best of 2019: CBD Becomes Seattle’s Favorite Way to Chill

Has everyone around here found bliss or is it just the CBD?

From left: The Royal Treatment, Blackberry Buzz and The Jitterbug from Cleen Craft

Daria Kroupoderova

Best of 2019: Our Favorite Seattle Bites

Editor-in-chief Chelsea Lin eats out more than she’d like to admit—all in the name of research, of course. Here, she shares her 10 best meals of the year

Adjarian khachapuri from Dacha Diner

Chelsea Lin

5 Seattle Chocolate Shops You Must Visit

Consider these next-level chocolate shops when you’re looking for that next cacao fix

EDIBLE ARTWORK: Though self-taught, chocolatier Kevin Morton makes masterpieces of his truffles.

Naomi Tomky

Best of 2019: Seattle’s September Lighting Storm

More than 2,000 lightning strikes occurred between 6 and 11 p.m.

This article appears in print in the December 2019 issue as part of our Best of 2019 cover story. Click here to subscribe. Move over Snowpocalypse, our favorite storm-watching came on September 7, when Seattle saw the most electrifying lightning storm in recent memory. Many of us watched like little kids as lightning strikes—more than 2,000 between 6 and 11…

Seattle magazine staff

Best of 2019: Our Favorite Seattleites

In a year full of awful news, the stories of these everyday heroes helped keep the joy alive

Muralist Desmond Hansen

Ariel Shearer & Jorn Peterson

Best of 2019: Favorite New Hotels

Many new hotels in Seattle use artful decor to liven up their lodgings

A fireplace framed by a circular mirror and teal tile hearth rounds out the Wes Anderson vibe in this cozy lobby lounge

Ariel Shearer

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…

Andrew Hoge

Best of 2019: Favorite Retail Experiences

Who's ready to shop 'til they drop?

PATIENCE, PATIENCE: For the duration of Glossier’s pop-up, the line stretched down the block

Andrew Hoge

Best of 2019: Seattle Museum and Art Space Openings

The Burke Museum’s modern makeover celebrates transparency

HELLO, THERE: This massive mastodon skeleton greets visitors in the Burke’s new entrance hall

Gemma Wilson

Best of 2019: ‘Real Change’ Turns 25

'Real Change' celebrates a quarter-century of making a meaningful difference

This article appears in print in the December 2019 issue as part of our Best of 2019 cover story. Click here to subscribe. The literal meaning of Real Change was impossible to ignore at a gala breakfast celebrating 25 years of our city’s street paper this fall. “Real Change got me out of homelessness, and I can’t ask for more…

Gemma Wilson

Best of 2019: Favorite Seattle-area Innovations

Seattle is a city chock-full of mavericks, so it comes as no surprise that 2019 was a big year when it came to inventions

Courtesy of StixFresh

Lauren Alexander