December 2019

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…

Best of 2019: Readers' Choice Poll Winners

Best of 2019: Readers’ Choice Poll Winners

Our readers' take on the best of Seattle

Homer wins Best New Restaurant

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…

Sharpen Your Culinary Skills with Help from This Local Duo’s Online Cooking Show

Sharpen Your Culinary Skills with Help from This Local Duo’s Online Cooking Show

Dak & Ju's easy-to-digest tutorials run around 10 minutes and will inspire you to attempt their signature creations

This article appears in print in the December 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Eating might be the least complicated part of the holidays, but cooking up feast-worthy fare at home can be a challenge. Fortunately, longtime friends and culinary enthusiasts Dakota Mackey and Julie Dahlen—better known as Dak & Ju on the web—are simplifying things for home…

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 Walkable, Culture-rich City of Victoria Makes a Perfect Winter Escape

The Walkable, Culture-rich City of Victoria Makes a Perfect Winter Escape

Spend your next weekend getaway in the Great White North

Beacon Hill Park

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

Seattle’s First BYOB Members Club Opens on First Hill

Seattle’s First BYOB Members Club Opens on First Hill

Members can reserve private rooms for special events—a bonus for urban Seattleites with limited space for hosting at home

This article appears in print in the December 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. In a First Hill carriage house, built in 1901 and once part of the Stimson-Green Mansion, discerning Seattleites can now scan their fingerprints for entrée into a new private social club and bottle cellar, Birch Road Cellar. The Seattle outpost of this Chicago-based club…

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