Seattle Mag
Coyle’s Bakeshop, a Pastry Pop-up, Debuts at Book Larder in May
I think it’s safe to say: Pop-up restaurants are the new food trucks. The way it works? Chefs essentially borrow a restaurant on a night/time of day the restaurant would usually be closed, serving food and drink just as they would if the space were theirs full time. Pop-ups are a great way to get…
Updated: A Sneak Peek at our Second Annual Food Establishment List
Have you seen the April issue of Seattle magazine yet? Drool!! Not only do Allison Austin Scheff and Sara Dickerman walk you through the ideal places to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in their fun-to-read Best Restaurants coverage, there’s also the second annual Food Establishment list to devour and debate about. Lemme tell you, this list…
See a New Take on Kafka, Shop Designer Leather and Other Weekend Musts
MUST WATCHKafka’s The TrialOngoing (4/5–4/28) — New Century Theatre Company is staging an appropriately claustrophobic new take on Kafka’s classic, The Trial, housed (also appropriately) in Seattle’s former INS building. Audience members are categorized and “processed” as they enter, and sit in a “jury box” to watch the unsettling proceedings. Starring veteran Seattle actors Darragh…
Update: Pink Ginger to Open a Store-in-a-Store at Ballard Home Comforts
A nice update from Tina Christou, the owner of Pink Ginger, who announced her store closing last week: she’ll be sharing space with Ballard Home Comforts starting in May, right smack dab on one of the most foot-trafficked streets in town, Ballard Ave. So happy to hear she’s found a great place to land and…
Cocktail Recipe: Summer in Madagascar
I know the springtime refrain as well as you: April showers bring May flowers. But the April gloomy skies make it hard to stay chipper, even if May blooms are imminent. In fact, the gray tinge of the last few weeks has me singing a line from a different song, a favorite from the past,…
Earth Day 5k: You Are What You Eat
A few years ago I heard about an archaeological dig in China that unearthed a Chinese woman in her fifties who was so well preserved by her cypress wood tomb layered with clay and charcoal that she was perfectly intact, including her last meal of honeydew melon, the seeds of which were still in her…
Go Local to the Max
Just when you thought buying local couldn’t get any closer to home, it has, and there is already an apt hipster word for it: “uber-local.” As opposed to “local”, which designates food from within roughly 350 miles of the consumer, the term describes food products grown or produced within a radius of only ten miles….
Climate Change: When Rising Tides Do Not Lift All Boats
Will all neighborhoods be protected equally as the city adapts to climate change?
Most of the streets in the South Park neighborhood end at the Duwamish River. Local children and their parents often play and fish on the river’s shoreline, even gathering there for bonfires. Every spring, Concord International School 5th grade teacher Kate Ayers educates her students about the environmental issues that have plagued the waterway: that…
All Aboard? The Strange Case of the Seattle Waterfront Trolley
Will Seattle’s vintage streetcars make a triumphant return to the waterfront?
Seattle’s central waterfront is getting a huge, decade-long face-lift: a new tunnel for State Route 99, a new ferry dock, a new seawall, pedestrian promenades, maybe even a mist machine to remind summer visitors that they’re in Seattle. But so far, there’s no sign of those antique streetcars that rumbled down Alaskan Way in the…
Bainbridge Island Gets an Art Museum
Bainbridge Island showcases local bounty with a new, eco-friendly museum dedicated to area artists
Creatively focused, eco-obsessed, possessing an urban sensibility and locavore leanings, beautiful without being braggy—the new Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA) might well be considered the embodiment of the island community itself. And just as the residents prefer the island’s laidback vibe to Seattle’s comparative bustle, BIMA supporters and staff have no intention of trying…
Better with Age: Chinook Wines and Yakima AVA Turn 30
When Kay Simon and Clay Mackey first put down roots in Prosser in 1983, there were only about 40 wineries in the state, and the Yakima Valley had just been established as the state’s first American Viticultural Area (AVA). The inspirational couple behind Chinook Wines, Simon and Mackey went on to carve a niche for…
Go, Daddy! Meet Rock Star Dad Tom Baisden
Lead guitarist for Seattle kindie rock band The Not-Its! makes music cool
Even as hipsters age and have kids, there are a few key things they’re unwilling to let go of, the foremost being good music. If they fill their iPods with the right stuff, these particular parents can steer their brood into the capable hands of local “kindiependent” rock bands like The Not-Its!, whose infectious blend…
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