Seattle Mag
The Quirky Stories and Characters That Took Our Minds Off the Mayhem in 2017
This year’s "shiny things" were a welcomed respite from the news cycle.
Check out the rest of our 2017 Year in Review package. Poses like “downward-facing goat” were routine at the various goat yoga classes in the area, incorporating goats into a playful practice for yogis of all ages. The world’s largest rubber duck, Mama Duck, made a splash into the Thea Foss Waterway for Tacoma’s Festival…
It Took Nearly a Century, But Seattle Found Its Second Female Mayor
Jenny Durkan emerged from a slew of candidates to take Seattle's top job.
Check out the rest of our 2017 Year in Review package. For all our self-congratulatory posing as a forward-thinking metropolis, Seattle seldom has strayed from (white) males when it comes to who runs this city. The lone female exception was a corruption- and bootleg-busting firebrand, Bertha Landes (1926–28). Landes was ousted by voters on her next…
Seattle Crime 2017: From the Gross to the Grotesque
The crime stories that shook Seattle.
Check out the rest of our 2017 Year in Review package. Two people were arrested at a Sammamish Papa John’s Pizza store (and three others elsewhere) during “Operation Extra Olives” (who says cops don’t have a sense of humor?) in June. The six-month-long King County Sheriff’s Office undercover investigation followed a tip that some employees were…
