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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,…
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….
West Seattle’s Sweetie Boutique to Close after Ten Years
I received a sad email today from Joeanna Purdie, owner of West Seattle boutique, Sweetie, with the announcement that after ten years in business, she’ll be closing her shop at the end of April. This comes on the heels of the news that Pink Ginger, on Queen Anne, is also closing at the end of…
The Swans in Rehearsal
As Swan Lake prepares for takeoff at Pacific Northwest Ballet (4/12-4/21), the company is posting some rehearsal videos that are pretty irresistible—in large part because they offer a peek at backstage ballet fashion, which never fails to mesmerize. How do the dancers end up wearing such a colorful mishmash of leotards, tights, heat wraps, flouncy…
Go Green (Eileen) in Columbia City on April 20
Green Eileen is open in Columbia City. The store, at 4860 Rainier Ave. S, is the company’s first outside of New York, where 90,000 pieces of gently worn Eileen Fisher clothing have been resold and $1.5 million donated to charities. The idea behind Green Eileen is brilliant: for every piece of almost-new Eileen Fisher clothing…
Joss Whedon’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ to Open SIFF 2013
There will be much ado, indeed, at SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival) this year. The festival opens with Joss Whedon’s take on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, starring Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Nathan Fillion, and Clark Gregg. The film was shot in twelve days, uses the original text and apparently was edited on a laptop…
Going to My Happy Place
Editorial director Rachel Hart reflects on the bigger picture of our latest issue.
When my husband and I first bought our home, we felt somewhat banished in pre-cool Ballard. (This was 2001, and the sleepy Scandinavian burg was the most affordable neighborhood closest to Lower Queen Anne, where we’d been happily living in an apartment.) But then we stumbled upon Ballard Market and discovered that the humble-appearing grocery…
Drifting Arrows Swimwear Opens Online Mercantile
Swimwear line Drifting Arrows has announced the launch of an online mercantile filled with everything you need for the beach while wearing one of their hip, locally-designed suits, including espadrilles, a towel, sunnies and a floppy hat, and a chic bag to carry it all in. I’m dying over this site—it’s so cool. When the…
Feminism Can Be Fun
You really haven’t seen obscene hand gestures until you’ve seen them performed by a fully nude, slightly sweaty, winking blond woman. In playwright Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show, playing at On the Boards through Sunday night, Amelia Zirin-Brown (aka Lady Rizzo) performs this hilariously filthy solo, using only her pantomiming skills and her incredibly…
Beauty Break: Jenu
The problem with most age-defying lotions, creams and serums is that the molecules in most cosmoceuticals, like hyaluronic acid (a naturally occurring material in our bodies) are too large to be absorbed into the skin, which means that we’re not really getting the biggest bang for our skincare bucks. In response to this pickle, a group…
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