Food & Drink
New Lunch Spot (and Bar), the Blu Grouse, Now Open in Georgetown
Not only do south-end eaters have the just-opened Cafe con Leche (aka, the reinvented Paladar Cubano) serving up Cubano sandwiches, and the slick-looking Sodo Kitchen at Starbucks for new lunch options (not to mention my longtime standbys Maruta Shoten and Hudson Diner), now there’s one more place to check out: The Blu Grouse, which opened…
Our Top SIFF Film Picks! Think Local
Survive SIFF overload by focusing on Seattle-made films.
SIFF! Is! Here! So much indie film goodness… it’s overwhelming, isn’t it? One way to make the SIFFxperience more manageable is to go locavore—plan to see as many of the locally produced films as possible. This year, SIFF is supporting local filmmaking in a big way, screening 8 narrative features, 6 documentaries and 34 short…
Fremont’s Deluxe Junk Closing, Huge Rummage Sale Planned
Deluxe Junk (self-described as “Fremont’s little vintage department store”) is closing. As Fremont Universe reports, owner David Marzullo has decided to retire. It’s bittersweet, since the vintage shop is such a landmark, but the good news is they are wrapping up 34 years of business with an epic, blow-out sale, including an outdoor sale this…
Can Seattle Scientists Save Orcas from Extinction?
Limited numbers of orcas swim the Salish Sea—and new troubles await them.
This February, a young killer whale washed up on the chilly shores of southwest Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula. Scientists looking at the markings on its dorsal fin and saddle patch (the dark gray splotch behind the dorsal fin) identified the whale as L112, a female just over 12 feet long born in 2009. She belonged…
Sushi Kappo Tamura One of Bon Appetit’s 10 Best New Sushi Restaurants
This month, Bon Appetit lists the 10 Best New Sushi Restaurants in the US, and coming in at number 8 on their list is Eastlake’s lovely Sushi Kappo Tamura. Well, we agree: Sushi Kappo was our pick for the Best New Restaurant in Seattle last year. And it’s always good when a standout local restaurant…
Knute Berger Reads from His New History of the Space Needle
The Space Needle’s writer in residence, and our own editor at large Knute Berger, has just published Space Needle: The Spirit of Seattle. The 50th-anniversary history follows the Needle from a cocktail-napkin sketch to a Life magazine cover story, exploring both weird trivia (the builders who worked atop the Needle never wore harnesses!) and all…
UW to Offer Digital Publishing Continuing-Ed Program
If you’re interested in blogging professionally, self-publishing digitally, creating e-books—or your employer wishes you knew more about such things, look into the University of Washington’s new certificate program in digital publishing. The nine-month-long course launches this fall, and it promises a good mix of hands-on training and theoretical insight about many of the legal, aesthetic…
PubliCola Writers Moving Over to Crosscut
It’s really too bad that news blog PubliCola is suspending publication. However, we’re glad to hear that its senior contributors Josh Feit and Erica C. Barnett will continue to cover news part-time over at Crosscut. Both Feit and Barnett were included in our “Most Influential People of 2011” list. Here’s what Seattle mag contributor Karen…
Local Mother’s Day Gift Ideas
We’ve never met a mom who turned down a good pedicure, and Julep (multiple locations including Bellevue, downtown Seattle, U District and Gig Harbor) is always a great gift choice. Their parlor menu includes dozens of options and upgrades, and Julep Nail Color does not contain formaldehyde or any other nasties. Go for a gift…
Bumbershoot 2012 Music Lineup Announced
Bumbershoot (9/1-9/3) announced its 2012 music lineup today, featuring mainstage acts Jane’s Addiction, Tony Bennett, Skrillex and more. On the regular lineup are The Vaselines, Blitzen Trapper and, of course, a few local acts, including, Damien Jurado, Sera Cahoone and THEE Satisfaction. And of course, there’s also a very long list of groups to discover,…
9 Ways to Celebrate Mother’s Day
Yep, it’s time to show mom how much you love her, and everyone and their mom wants to help you do it. Here are a few of the special Mother’s Day dining events going around town. Lunchbox Laboratory says, “Hey, Mom. Show us your tats!” Moms willing to reveal some inked skin on Mother’s Day…
Café Nordo’s Compelling New Food Manifesto
Wending through the creaky, unlit passages that served as intermissions during the nearly four-hour long Café Nordo’s Cabinet of Curiosities “show”, I couldn’t stop thinking about Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Not the gory, traumatizing moments in the movie (I still get chills around long stretches of patterned carpet)—but, specifically, the scene where Jack Nicholson’s character…
An Even Tastier Reason to Go to the Space Needle for Dinner
Awesome as it is, most of us usually feel like we need a good reason to have dinner at the Space Needle’s restaurant, SkyCity. Your Uncle Bob and Aunt Harriet are visiting from Muskogee. Your boyfriend wants to put a ring on it. Or, as in the case of Seattle magazine’s own editor Rachel Hart,…
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