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A Bucket List for the Seattle Chocoholic
If we could create our dream box of chocolates, these 10 local treats would be in it.
Chocolate grows on trees, but after testing and tasting everything Theobroma cacao, we’ve learned one thing: Not all chocolate is created equal. It’s all made from seeds from a football-shaped fruit that grows in the globe’s equatorial regions. But everything from where it’s grown to how it’s made affects taste and quality—and some chocolate treats…
Bill: The Man Behind the Chocolate Man
After more than 20 years of making chocolates, teaching others and supplying local professionals with tools and products, chocolatier Bill Fredericks opened his own storefront and classroom last year. His Lake Forest Park shop, Chocolate Man, sells all the raw materials needed for making chocolate, from cocoa butter and single-origin chocolate bars to molds, special…
Seattle’s Best Sipping Chocolate
We scoured the city for its best liquid indulgences: thick, rich, hot melted chocolate and milk.
ChocolatiCayenne Hot ChocolateIf you’d abandon subtlety and nuance in favor of a hot chocolate with eye-popping flavor, Chocolati’s flavored hot chocolate menu is for you. Try the cayenne, with big, hot high notes that hit your sinuses right as you sip, then mellow as you get farther into the cup. $2.95 for 8 ounces of…
How to Run a 5K for the First Time (at 40)
I love to eat and hate to exercise. That’s about it. That’s also why, suddenly at 40, I’m in dire need of a major attitude adjustment. So when I was approached by the promotions team at the magazine to train for our upcoming Earth Day 5K (April 20th, registration is open), and blog about the…
Best Bars in Seattle for Five Different Types of Dates
It's date night. Here is where to go
Take my advice: don’t go to the wrong bar on the wrong date. Follow the pairings below to make your pairing more successful. First DateBait ShopThis new-ish north Broadway spot (606 Broadway E) has oodles of ’70s style, providing lots of conversation starters, from the Firebird hood on one wall to the stuffed fish on…
Seattle’s Ugly Past: Segregation in Our Neighborhoods
Tracing the history of organized intolerance in Seattle.
Newcomers to Seattle love the variety of neighborhoods. We’re a counterpane of livable places with modest and grand homes often tucked together in a green and pleasant landscape. It’s a residential smorgasbord of cultures, home styles and enclaves, from houseboats to high-rises, bungalows to classic boxes. But that excitement of choice wasn’t always there for…
Spring Arts Preview 2013
The must-see shows in Seattle this season.
Arts and culture editor Brangien Davis picks the top shows coming to Seattle this spring. Get recommendations for shows, performances, readings and more, featuring rebooted classics, empowered leading ladies and inventive new takes on old favorites. Follow the links for detailed listings in each of the following categories: Editor’s PicksAbsolute must-sees in a variety of…
Seattle’s Classic Chocolates
Tried-and-true favorites from longtime local chocolate makers.
DilettanteLet’s zoom out on this a bit: There’s a restaurant in Seattle’s Capitol Hill ’hood that makes almost a dozen versions of chocolate martinis ($10.50) any night of the week, and it’s busy—all the time. We haven’t flipped back to 1990; Dilettante Mocha Café is genuinely popular. Which means that no matter how much we…
ChefSteps: A Free Online Cooking School
A local team makes modern cuisine manageable.
When former Microsoftie Nathan Myhrvold’s six-volume, 2,438-page book, Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, was released in 2011, it was deemed nothing short of a culinary revolution—and established Seattle’s reputation as a hotbed of molecular gastronomy. Now two of Myhrvold’s culinary cohorts—chef and principal coauthor Chris Young and food photographer Ryan Matthew Smith—have…
Karen Bit Vejle: Scissor Sister
A Nordic artist transforms paper into astounding panoramas.
It’s rumored that Danish poet and paper-cutting artist Hans Christian Andersen always kept a small pair of scissors on his person, just in case he was suddenly struck by the urge to snip out a scene. Called psaligraphy, the art of paper cutting has long been a tradition in Denmark, where every spring, sweethearts exchange…
Spring Arts Preview 2013: Books
Some of the country’s best writers are reading in Seattle this season.
Saying Joyce Carol Oates has a new novel out (Daddy Love, a riveting story of child abduction) is like saying a Kardashian made the cover of People magazine. She’s phenomenally prolific, but Oates also happens to be tremendously skilled at crafting compelling stories. Ask her how she excels at both quantity and quality during this…
Spring Arts Preview 2013: Three New Venues Rethink Arts Space
New local arts venues are being built on expansive thinking and creative workarounds.
Walden Three If you build it, they will come, right? What if you get a schematic of the place drawn up, build a website for it and write blog posts reporting on (fictional) arts events that (never) took place at the (imagined) space? Then will they come? Seattle’s Greg Lundgren aims to find out with…
Spring Arts Preview 2013: Film Festivals
Film fans have a busy spring ahead, as the city blooms with exciting festivals and series.
LA Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema Starting in the late 1960s, amid tremendous social unrest, black Americans entered the UCLA film program in unprecedented numbers and began developing a new “black cinema.” These unheralded films—experimental, narrative, documentary—reveal uniquely artful attention to issues of class, history and culture. 3/1–3/24. Times and prices vary. Northwest Film…
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