Food & Drink
How to Not Take Labor Day for Granted (And Still Have Fun)
I’m pretty much slathering on sunscreen as I write this. I cannot wait to enjoy that 79 degree weather I keep hearing about, preferably as close to a large floating vessel or bevy of grilled hot dogs as possible. However, considering the trends of unemployment and cutbacks that define our current historic moment, I do…
The Weekend Must List: One Last Splash of Summer, Trailer Park Shopping and Bugs for Dinner
MUST…EWWW!Bug BanquetWednesday (9/7) Seattle’s own David George Gordon, also known as the Bug Chef, is presenting a four-course meal at Seattle’s Café Racer, featuring grasshopper kabobs, a cricket-and-pasta salad, bug juice and other unimaginable treats. Bug-eaters can also enjoy insect-themed art and a locally-grown mounted insect collection. Don’t be scared. Give it a try –…
Men Up to Their Elbows in Mud: Geoduck Hunting on The Perennial Plate
The folks at The Perennial Plate are on a foraging kick, similar to our Cook’s Adventures: Eat from the Sea piece in the August issue. They just released a new video on their website about three natural ingredients that can be (somewhat) easily found near the ocean on the West Coast: greens, giant clam and…
Sneak Peek: Jamie Boudreau’s Canon, Opening Later This Week!
Jamie Boudreau finally gets to eat his cake. A Canadian who escaped a far more sober life as a would-be physiotherapist, he has established himself as one of the Northwest’s most respected bartenders, with stints at Tini Bigs, Vessel (now defunct), his own cocktail show on the Small Screen Network, and a standing reputation as…
Dreams Do Come True at Bumbershoot: The Best Reader Entries from Our Platinum Pass Contest
Our favorite reader entries from the Bumbershoot tickets giveaway
We asked readers to share their favorite memories of Bumbershoots past – and their most vivid fantasies of future Bumbershoots. The most outstanding entry on our Facebook would receive a free pair of Platinum Passes to the 2011 festival. We had a fantastic response – and the editors had great fun reading the posts,…
The Big Idea
If money were no object, what one thing would you do to fix Seattle?
Like most who live here, we’re fiercely in love with Seattle—but our love isn’t blind. Along with our singular natural vistas, thriving neighborhoods, leading-edge innovations and savvy, well-read locals, we have hideous transportation issues, under-performing schools and the all too common big-city heartbreakers: homelessness and hunger. If money were no object, what one thing would…
Orcas Landing Livens Up Hillman City
The glue to any good neighborhood is, of course, its neighborhood bar. Green Lake has The Latona, Phinney Ridge has The Park Pub, South Park would be lost without Loretta’s, and the epicenter of Columbia City is Lottie’s. Beacon Hill came a little undone with the closure of its beloved dive, The Beacon Pub (though…
Updated! A La Bonne Franquette, Belle Epicurean Open, Nettletown Closed
Two Frenchy-French spots open today, one of which is simply frosting on what’s already a thoroughly convincing “Little Paris” in Seattle. Surely a croissant taste-test of the luxuriously buttery ones at Inez Patisserie and the flaky ones at the newly opened second location of Belle Epicurean needs to happen. Belle Epicurean has long been snugging the pants of downtown dwellers…
Fashion + Style Friday: SPUN Sample Sale, Stylish Rain Ponchos and Vancouver’s (Hip) Version of the Croc
It’s been a big week around here: Our fall shopping and style-packed September issue has hit the newsstands. In case you missed it, earlier this week, I gave readers a little behind the scenes peek at pulling the issue together –and trying to fit in over 100 local finds–here. In that same issue, we call…
Behind the Scenes of our September Issue: So Many Finds, Only So Many Pages
Sometimes I am my own worst enemy: Back in March when I first suggested to Editorial Director Rachel Hart that we feature only local products in our fall fashion and shopping issue, I had no idea what I was getting myself into (or that I would play stylist for a day!). As the (delightful) research…
3 Don’t Miss Food Events This Weekend
Friday: Sunset Supper at the Market What if the all-you-can-eat buffet your parents used to take you to as a kid was suddenly being staffed by the city’s best chefs, took place in one of its most beautiful and iconic settings, and instead of your money going to some guy with a bad comb-over who…
Viaduct for Dummies: Voters Surprise Themselves, Tell Mayor: ‘Bore Me!’
That tunnel vote has been fodder for spirited talk ’round Seattle Mag World Headquarters of late (though it’s curiously quiet today). But it’s less about which camp you’re tunneled into (dig it or ditch it) and more about what the whole morass says about Seattleites and that over-used (but overly apt) term, “the Seattle Process.”…
Meet our latest obsession: Vancouver, B.C.-based Native Shoes. The hipper, better-fitting Crocs.
Moms (and Dads) of Seattle tired of schlepping your kids to the pool and getting your cute shoes all wet, rejoice! I have discovered a comfy new pair of shoes for you to knock around in and wear from the pool to the grocery store and even to work if you’re lucky to be in…
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