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SEAtoday’s 2025 holiday gift guide: 90+ finds for everyone you love
Including gifts for significant others, retirees, holiday parties, young people, and gifts that ship fast.
October 21, 2025 11:17 AM
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Emily Shea-Owen
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Retail
The best Valentine’s Day gifts for 2024
Shop Valentine’s Day chocolates, couple’s games, cookware, candles, and fuzzy socks to spread the love.
January 25, 2024
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Vagney Hampshire
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Culture
Where to find sweet costumes year-round in Seattle
Halloween isn’t the only time you might to dress up — not when you’ll need a costume for ECCC or the Renaissance Fair.
January 24, 2024
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Alina Hunter-Grah
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Food
Seattle’s 10 James Beard Award semifinalists for 2024
The semifinalists for the 2024 James Beard Awards were announced on Jan. 24.
January 24, 2024
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Gabe Guarente
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Travel and Outdoors
Winter gardening tips for Seattle, WA
How to prepare your garden and what to plant in the winter months.
January 9, 2024
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Jessalin Heins-Nagamoto
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Retail
Where to find the coveted Stanley cups in Seattle
The brand has its headquarters in town.
January 9, 2024
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Gabe Guarente
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Sweetgreen makes its Seattle debut next week
With local partners, in-season vegetables + unprocessed ingredients, Sweetgreen offers a farm-to-table twist on fast food.
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History
Seattle decades: the 1960s
Advancements from Boeing, the addition of the SuperSonics, and the World Fair made the 1960s quite the time to live in Seattle.
January 4, 2024
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Alina Hunter-Grah
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Small Business
How Eighth Generation empowers Native artists
The shop near Pike Place continues to grow by leaps and bounds.
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Gabe Guarente
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Business
Costco’s history in Seattle
The very first Costco location is still in operation on Fourth Avenue.
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