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Beloved Sixth Avenue Doughnut Shop Is Closing This November

A vibrant, family-friendly pastry shop and bakery, Tacoma’s Legendary Doughnuts store is closing. After 14 years of service, the doughnut shop will shut down this weekend. The bakery team cited continued economic challenges and rising rent as the main reasons for the closure. Legendary Doughnuts’ Tacoma Outlet to Close...

Tacoma, WA · 2d

KUOW Public Radio

Jimi Hendrix will represent Washington on the $1 coin

When new $1 coins are minted to represent innovation from Washington state, they will feature rock legend, guitar icon Jimi Hendrix who hailed from Seattle.

Washington · 2d

MyNorthwest.com

‘This could be the start of something’: Gee and Ursula question whether proposed McDonald’s will help Seattle’s Chinatown

A McDonald’s could be coming to a struggling corner of Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID). KIRO host Gee Scott worried it could hurt nearby restaurants and speed up gentrification. “I’m not being disrespectful towards McDonald’s, but I can also understand, like, I don’t know about this,” Gee said on...

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Inside Auburn’s ‘Kitty City,’ a push to stop the next kitten boom

The city of Auburn and Auburn Valley Humane Society are teaming up to spay or neuter about 50 stray cats Friday in a new effort to curb a growing cat population and ease pressure on the shelter. The city will pay for the pilot program, while the humane society will...

Auburn, WA · 18h

seattlebikeblog.com

Two Seattle screenings of Portland-filmed feature ‘A Simple Machine’ already sold out

Filmed in Portland, A Simple Machine is a feature film about a young man struggling under debt who “makes a series of radically frugal lifestyle choices without telling his girlfriend that he’s going to fix up an old bike and go off the grid,” according to the film’s synopsis. The trailer looks great, with a grainy black-and-white style and intriguing dialog. “This is not just a ‘bike film,’” the promotional team said in an email to Seattle Bike Blog about the upcoming screening. “It’s a film where the bike is the philosophy.”

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Fed up with delivery costs, Seattle restaurant owner starts his own service

Spice Waala owner Uttam Mukherjee launched Yaku, an independent delivery service designed to counter sharp revenue drops and inflated customer costs caused by Seattle’s 2024 "PayUp" minimum pay regulations. Yaku operates with hired employee drivers paid by scheduled hours rather than by individual orders, charging a flat $10 delivery...

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This Seattle, Washington Restaurant Has Served A Vegetarian Thanksgiving For 35 Years

An old laundromat in Washington became the home of a holiday dinner with zero turkey on the menu. That dinner has now reached its 35th year. A meat-free Thanksgiving sounds like a quirky experiment, but experiments rarely last three and a half decades. This one did, and the kitchen behind...

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Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena Rejects Macklemore

Macklemore alleges 9 U.S. venues pulled tour dates over his political activism, sparking a debate on free speech and selective venue politics.

Seattle, WA · 3d

seattlemet.com

These Local Restaurants Will Serve Thanksgiving Dinner

Snag a reservation—or a pickup time—and leave the holiday spread to the pros this year. Forget the holiday hassle. Let the experts deal with the basters and meat thermometers this Thanksgiving; several of Seattle’s storied restaurants open for Thanksgiving with special menus and festive decor. Many are stationed in hotels, thus ready to host any out-of-towners and handle all the scene setting, and some do takeout.

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This Downtown Washington Arcade Has 114 Vintage Games Where Skee-Ball Still Clatters Like 1985

The owner once joked to a fan that playing pinball makes you live longer. That’s the kind of line you only hear when pinball is the boss’s favorite thing in the building. This downtown spot in Washington leans hard into 1980s arcade style. Old cabinets, air hockey, skee-ball, and a giant stack of board games share one loud room.

Tacoma, WA · 6d

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Venables Pest Management Explains How to Keep Rodents Out of Your House During Our South Sound Winter

Most of us spend the winter months cozy in our homes, curled up on the couch with the heater or fire keeping us toasty warm. However, you may not be the only beings taking refuge in your house on cold winter nights. Rodents are smart and know the best place to spend the winter is inside our homes too! Venables Pest Management, which specializes in rodent control in Thurston, Mason, Pierce, Grays Harbor, and Lewis counties, explains how to keep rodents out of your house in winter. Need help? Call them today to schedule an appointment for a free rodent evaluation now through the end of December at 360.456.4999.

Thurston County, WA · 2d

KUOW Public Radio

Saving a Seattle family’s restaurant, one social media post at a time

After 50 years, a Seattle family's restaurant is struggling to stay open. The owners' granddaughter is trying to save the business through social media.

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5 Reasons the Chambers Bay Championship Experience Belongs on Your Golf Buddy Trip List

Only six public golf courses in America have hosted a U.S. Open. Pebble Beach, Pinehurst No. 2, Bethpage Black, Torrey Pines South, Erin Hills -- and Chambers Bay, a former sand and gravel mine on the shore of Puget Sound that gave us Jordan Spieth’s 2015 win and Dustin Johnson’s three-putt on the final green.

Tacoma, WA · 1d

Seattle magazine

The Salmon Connection: Don’t Miss Bristol Bay Salmon Week

Every June, Toby Bloom heads to Alaska for a summer that involves very little time on land. By midmonth, he’s aboard a commercial fishing boat in Bristol Bay with three crewmen, catching wild sockeye salmon. They’ll spend the next several weeks working on the water, heading into town only when they need something that can’t… The post The Salmon Connection: Don’t Miss Bristol Bay Salmon Week appeared first on Seattle magazine .

Seattle, WA · 3d

wheninyourstate.com

Walk a mile over Washington’s wild tideland where river, marsh, and sea collide

About eight miles northeast of Olympia, the Nisqually River empties into Puget Sound through one of the last relatively undisturbed estuaries on the water. Salt marsh, mudflats, freshwater wetlands, riparian forest and grassland all press together here in a tight mosaic that earned the site a National Natural Landmark designation.

Olympia, WA · 1d

secretseattle.co

Town & Country Markets just launched its first Seattle Field House restaurant in Ballard

Ballard residents now have a convenient new place to eat out while grabbing groceries. Town & Country (T&C) Markets opened its newest Field House restaurant on November 7 at its Ballard Market, the first in Seattle proper. The opening comes after T&C celebrated its 40th anniversary with the Ballard community...

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7 dishes from the year of Seattle's 1962 World's Fair, from alder-smoked salmon to glazed char siu

The Century 21 Exposition opened April 21, 1962, on a 74-acre site in Seattle, and the Space Needle had gone up from groundbreaking to finished tower in about a year so it would be ready for opening day. Nearly ten million visitors came through before the gates closed on October 21. The food that got the most attention was the Belgian waffle, which Walter Cleyman served with strawberries and whipped cream at two stands, selling more than half a million of them over six months.

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