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Jan 14, 2025 | 
seatoday.6amcity.com | Alina Hunter-Grah |Sarah Leonhardt |Gabe Guarente |Madeline Ewing
Wooo-weee. Between the Capitol Hill Block Party, ECCC, and our other various ferstivals, 2025 is already shaping up to be quite the year for Seattle. It’s time to start marking your calendars, because we have an exciting year ahead of us. Here are what events have particularly caught our eye. January-NovemberThroughout the year, the Seattle Center plays host to a variety of cultural festivals showcasing communities from across the world.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
seatoday.6amcity.com | Alina Hunter-Grah |Sarah Leonhardt |Madeline Ewing
You may have just finished digesting all of your Thanksgiving food, but surely you have enough room for a few maple bacon bars — do-nut you? That’s right — after more than a year’s wait, Voodoo Doughnuts’ new Seattle location is opening on Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 8 a.m. The Portland-based chain’s new Capitol Hill location will be the Seattle area’s first, and to celebrate, it’s offering some .On the first day of business, 20% of sales will benefit local nonprofit FareStart.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
seatoday.6amcity.com | Sarah Leonhardt |Alina Hunter-Grah |Madeline Ewing |Gabe Guarente
Small Business Saturday, an initiative dedicated to celebrating and supporting small and locally-owned businesses + the impact they have in our communities, is on Saturday, Nov. 30. The day falls between two of the biggest shopping days of the year — Black Friday and Cyber Monday — and has become an annual shopping tradition for many since its .
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
seatoday.6amcity.com | Alina Hunter-Grah |Sarah Leonhardt |Madeline Ewing |Gabe Guarente
Seattle may be generally an “early to bed, early to rise” kind of city, but that doesn’t mean we’re without a healthy population of night owls. Whether you’re finishing up some work, cramming for an exam, or taking advantage of a late night creative spurt, sometimes you need a quiet place to work away from home. Hunker down at one of these late-night studying spots around town, open even after the sun’s long gone:Hellbent Brewing Company | Beer’s a brain food, right?
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
seatoday.6amcity.com | Madeline Ewing |Sarah Leonhardt |Alina Hunter-Grah |Gabe Guarente
If you’ve frequented Gas Works Park in the past week, you may have noticed a new addition to Kite Hill —a vintage aerobics bike that seems to have spontaneously materialized. Where did it come from? How did someone even lug that thing all the way up there? Was it aliens? Honestly, we don’t know. But it’s the most Seattle thing ever. Even more Seattle? A local recently took it upon themselves to turn the mysterious addition into an interactive community project.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
seatoday.6amcity.com | Sarah Leonhardt |Alina Hunter-Grah |Madeline Ewing |Gabe Guarente
Get those forks ready. Seattle Restaurant Week (SRW) is back, running from Sunday, Oct. 27 until Saturday, Nov. 9 (so essentially two full weeks). In case you need a reminder, SRW is when restaurants across the city offer special meal deals, which include $20 lunches and multi-course $35/$50/$65 dinners. It’s a great opportunity to try out a new place or rediscover old favorites.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
seatoday.6amcity.com | Madeline Ewing |Sarah Leonhardt |Alina Hunter-Grah |Gabe Guarente
Seattle Waterfront’s much-anticipated Pier 58 has been making strides since it first broke ground in 2022. Beached between the Seattle Aquarium and Miner’s Landing, the pier’s rebuild and redesign aims to reshape how people interact and experience Seattle’s new waterfront. Ready for a whale of a time?
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
seatoday.6amcity.com | Madeline Ewing |Sarah Leonhardt |Alina Hunter-Grah |Gabe Guarente
Whether you’re new here or just want to venture off your usual path, these neighborhoods are the crème de la crème for Seattle trick-or-treating. Ravenna | This northeastern Seattle neighborhood is known for its Candy Corn Lane where the surrounding houses come alive (or undead) for trick-or-treating. Ballard | For all Type-A parents out there, Ballard is a great solution to the typical Halloween chaos with the neighborhood’s interactive trick-or-treating map.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
seatoday.6amcity.com | Alina Hunter-Grah |Sarah Leonhardt |Gabe Guarente |Madeline Ewing
Drumroll, please — after launching the pilot Park CommUNITY Fund initiative this spring, Seattle Parks and Rec has announced the 15 recipients of the$5.2 million allotment. Through project idea submissions and voting, the Park CommUNITY Fund gives Seattleites a more direct hand in deciding which parks-related projects get financial support. Seattle Parks and Rec narrowed down the received 240 ideas from locals into 15 winners, which have been divided into two tiers.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
seatoday.6amcity.com | Madeline Ewing |Sarah Leonhardt |Alina Hunter-Grah |Katie Molck
We’re looking at you, October 22 — on this day in Seattle history, locals were laying the groundwork for inventions, public institutions, and one of America’s most iconic rock bands. Let’s go back in time... Oct. 22, 1914 — Seattle commercial artists and sign painters Ross George + William Gordon file a patent application for their uniquely designed lettering pen. The invention implements various nib shapes and sizes, allowing artists to better customize line width with merely a twist of the pen.
