Sarah Stackhouse
A Spa for People Who Are Bad at Relaxing
Circle Wellness is bringing its private thermal circuit to Seattle, where a calm voice keeps time so you don’t have to.
From the outside, Circle Wellness does not look like a spa. It looks like the sort of large black structure you might hesitate to enter without first texting someone your coordinates. I arrived at its Vancouver, B.C., location on an unusually warm June afternoon and found no windows, almost no signage, and one massive steel…
Rearview Mirror: Storytellers in Clay, Wild Seattle, and an Alaskan Feast I’ll Never Forget
Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).
CLAY RELATIONS I went to see the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s new Kondō family exhibit expecting beautiful ceramics, and there are plenty. What I didn’t expect was a fascinating story that starts with samurai. Long before pottery became the family trade, earlier generations guarded Kiyomizudera, a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto. That role vanished when…
Studio Sessions: Jennifer Leigh Harrison
Seattle artist Jennifer Leigh Harrison uses layers of paint and abstraction to explore what we carry beneath the surface.
Jennifer Leigh Harrison’s paintings are dense with movement. Color and texture gather into mosaic-like fields, as if they have been fractured and reformed. There are places in the work where a frenetic buzz seems trapped between the canvas and the first layer of paint. That energy runs through Patterns of Belonging, her current exhibition at…
The Concert Hall Has Left the Building
Pianist Hunter Noack’s IN A LANDSCAPE brings classical music outside, where the piano, the audience, and the scenery all get to move a little.
Find a tree to lean against or look at. Put your feet in the water. Sit down and make a flower crown out of dandelions. Spread a blanket over the grass and close your eyes. “You can experience this show in really whatever way you want to,” says pianist Hunter Noack. “The people next to…
Rearview Mirror: A Timber Stage, Goodwill Vinyl, and the Summer Camp Hack I Needed
Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).
STAYING POWER So, the World Cup in Seattle is over. Our final match was Monday, July 6, when the U.S. unfortunately lost to Belgium, but man, was the whole thing fun while it lasted! Seattle broke attendance and transit records, the streets were packed, and there seems to be a collective sense of, Hey, our…
World Cup 26 Is Keeping the Region Busy. So Are Its Recycling Bins.
A local expert explains what actually happens after a plastic bottle leaves the bin.
Seattle is buzzing right now. In the first 11 days of World Cup 26, Waterfront Park recorded more than 451,000 visits, including nearly 85,000 on June 19 alone. SEA Airport has also seen some of its busiest travel days ever, with match-day crowds and summer travelers moving through the city. That is a lot of…
Rearview Mirror: A Striking Mural, Winery Nights, and a Beautiful Vancouver Dinner
Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).
A SOFT LANDING There’s a new reason to look up in Pioneer Square. Seattle painter Cristina Martinez’s new mural, A Soft Place to Land, fills a wall along the Occidental Promenade with a dreamy woman stretched out in daisies. The mural measures 70 by 150 feet near Lumen Field Event Center, where Seattle Art Fair…
Studio Sessions: Nakisa Dehpanah
Artist Nakisa Dehpanah’s new show uses suspended textile forms and movement to explore identity as something layered and always changing.
Seattle artist Nakisa Dehpanah’s work hovers between sculpture and performance. First developed during a residency at Base Art Space, Suspended Selves is now on view at Method Gallery in Pioneer Square, where billowy, vessel-like sheer fabric forms hang with geometric clay elements integrated into them. They seem like soft shelters or skins waiting for an…
Eat the World in Seattle Southside
World Cup visitors don’t have to go far from the airport to find one of the region’s most global dining corridors.
With World Cup 26 underway, Seattle is full of visitors looking for the obvious things: the stadium, a jersey or scarf, a good pint (or three), and a great place to eat. But some of the region’s most interesting food is waiting a few miles south of the downtown crowds, in Seattle Southside, near Seattle-Tacoma…
Dinner With Purpose
FareStart’s Guest Chef Night series brings some of Seattle’s top chefs into the kitchen with students. Don’t miss this season’s lineup.
There are plenty of good reasons to go out to dinner in Seattle. FareStart’s Guest Chef Night series gives you one more. The longtime nonprofit is back with a strong summer lineup of local chefs, each cooking alongside FareStart students for a three-course dinner served by volunteers. All revenue and donations from the series support…
Seattle Father’s Day Gift Guide
Local finds and easy outings for making his day feel special.
Father’s Day gifts can be tricky, mostly because so many dads insist they don’t need anything. Sometimes the best plan is simply giving the day a little shape, whether that means getting out on the water, picking up something handsome for the kitchen, or making room for the small rituals he already loves. Here are…
Rearview Mirror: Icelandic Art, Airport Views, and Trailhead Direct
Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).
Art Is Everywhere Last week, I was in Iceland for Reykjavík Arts Festival, the biennial celebration of the arts, and I was blown away by how much it seemed to touch every corner of the city. Seattle and Reykjavík have been sister cities for 40 years, and this trip was about looking at what that…
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