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Holiday Gift Guide: Tech-Savvy Accessories
The best Northwest-made accessories to bestow on beloved gadget geeks this season.
Still those texting fingers for a millisecond and redirect your iThing’s browser to these Northwest-based “techcessories” (also known as protective accessories for your personal playthings) to bestow on your fellow gadget geeks this holiday season. >>iPad: Portland-based Grove’s leather and bamboo iPad case is one talented multitasker: Accenting the laser-cut “Two Birds” design by…
For the Love of Old Cameras
At Rare Medium, nostalgic photographers find a shop and gallery space just for them.
Vintage-camera aficionados and Instagram-loving cell-phone photographers are saying cheese in response to Rare Medium, the instant-camera shop/gallery/workspace that opened last month on Capitol Hill. While renting art studios in the 619 Western Building, former Microsoft engineer Cory Verellen, his astrologer wife, Tali Edut, and Seattle visual artist Justin Mata had a vision of an artistic…
Give the Gift of Grunge
Grunge fans will dig these new books chronicling the music genre, its players and its predecessors.
This year marked the 20th anniversary of several seminal events in Seattle grunge history—Nirvana released Nevermind, Pearl Jam released Ten, and Soundgarden released Badmotorfinger, all in 1991—which is why we’re awash in grungy nostalgia. If you’re hoping to keep the dream alive (or wondering what all the fuss is about), dig into these new books…
Charming Holiday Frocks for Girls
Why we love this Beacon Hill designer’s new line of little girls' dresses.
If a party, high tea or afternoon at The Nutcracker is on your little girl’s dance card this year, consider these fashion-forward creations from Beacon Hill designer Ana Louie’s debut Holiday 2011 collection. Inspired by Paris in the 1950s, this line started as sketches done by Ana Louie, founder Ann Marie Louie’s 8-year-old daughter. Using…
New Life in Japantown
One of Seattle's oldest neighborhoods is sprouting new galleries and shops.
It may be one of Seattle’s oldest neighborhoods, with roots stretching back to the late 1800s, but Japantown is quickly becoming the city’s newest art destination. The vibrant, diverse spirit of the ’hood (which is anchored by the historic Panama Hotel and runs along Fifth and Sixth Streets between S Jackson and Main) is the…
How 1962 Changed Seattle Forever
Knute Berger on two men and one book that helped shape Seattle’s opinion of itself.
This last year, I’ve spent a lot of time in 1962, as I research and write a history of the Space Needle. Every week, I appear on KUOW-FM’s Weekday news roundtable to discuss such things as the Alaskan Way Viaduct, the tunnel, marijuana and the mayor, but honestly, I’ve been more fascinated with the politics…
Homemade in Seattle: A Book of Wonders
If you already have tickets to SAM Remix, you can get a FREE copy (1 of 50 limited editions) of a beautiful hand-bound, two-sided book fresh “off the presses” from Folio 2011. The book represents a lovely-sounding combination (I haven’t gotten my copy yet) of several “homemade” works by local artists, including musings and graphics…
More Things to Do This Halloween Weekend
Trick-or-treating? We’ve got you covered. Want to stay in a watch a good scary movie? Double check. Have an awesome costume and want to find something better than your typical, stand-around-until-the-punch-dries-up sorta party? Voila: HalloQueen — tenth anniversary performance by the local Queen tribute band led by Chris and Rick Friel, sons of legendary auctioneers…
Best Scary Movies to Watch on Halloween
In case the weekend shut-ins among us need a little help rounding off the perfect horror movie marathon. (Watch at your own discretion – we can’t be responsible for any “accidents.”) Listed in no particular order: The FlyYou will never look at Jeff Goldblum the same way again. Night of the Living Dead (1968)The zombie…
Who Were Those Liquor-Loving Ladies? LUPEC, That’s Who
As Ken Burns recently illuminated for us, women were at the forefront of the two most significant developments in our country’s history of drinking: the enactment of Prohibition, and then its repeal. And when ladies’ thirst roared in with the ’20s, it wasn’t pink cosmos they were drinking. Around Seattle for the last year or…
The Must List: Remember Rin Tin Tin, Eat Pasta, and Scream as Loud as You Can
MUST SCREAMHorror Film Exhibit at EMPRest up your vocal cords—EMP’s new exhibit Can’t Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film explores the human fascination with scary movies. Indulge in classic film screenings (such as Nosferatu, Bride of Frankenstein and The Exorcist), iconic artifacts (the axe from The Shining and Freddy Krueger’s original glove) and the…
Where to Trick-or-Treat in Seattle
RedTri.com: Maybe your ’hood doesn’t have great sidewalks for trick or treating, or maybe your neighbors are Boo-Humbug and don’t pass out good Halloween loot, or maybe you just want to do something new and go somewhere different around Seattle to show off your adorable costumed kids. Try these various Seattle venues and neighborhoods for…
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