Stories with 'books' tag

34 gifts for every Seattleite on your list

Shirt from Cold Cube Press, bag from Hood Famous, coffee from Boon Boona, cocktail kit from Aswad. The holidays will be a bit different this year, and many of us will be celebrating without the people and traditions that usually mark the season.  The good news: Gift-giving is a tradition that can easily overcome the […]

/ December 8, 2020


9 books flying off the shelves of Seattle’s only just-poetry book shop

April is National Poetry Month, and we called Open Books: A Poem Emporium in Wallingford to hear what poetry titles by Northwest authors or presses have been flying off the shelves this season.

/ April 25, 2018


Why are Seattleites all reading this novel together this spring?

Grab yer reading glasses, folks. The whole dang city is reading and discussing “Homegoing” by Ghanian American author Yaa Gyasi this season.

/ March 23, 2018


Cars are hard: Seattle’s week in two minutes

Fake parking signs in Seattle, millennials moving around more often than anyplace else, and a state senator wants Seattle to become its own King County. Here’s your Seattle week in two minutes.

/ April 28, 2017


Eat books, join a ‘Shadow Council,’ and 12 more awesome things to do in Seattle this week

Seattle’s best events this week include a political satire, a festival of edible books, and a bouncy house wonderland.

/ March 27, 2017


What’s your favorite spot in Seattle to do creative work? Tell us for a chance to win a copy of Scott Berkun’s ‘Dance of the Possible’

Is it a coffee shop, a park, a bar? Tell us your favorite Seattle spot to get creative work done and we’ll enter you into a drawing to get a copy of best-selling Seattle author Scott Berkun’s book, “Dance of the Possible.”

/ March 15, 2017


Our top 16 things to do around Seattle this week

Dance for love, hear a grab-bag of 5-minute talks, catch the State of the City address, and find the meaning of everything at a weekend book festival.

/ February 20, 2017


Best books for Seattle newbies plus two more things to know

In today’s three things to know: A list of fiction and non-fiction books for Seattle newbies, Seattle’s bike share program is dead and our city is 20 percent trees.

/ January 17, 2017