Food & Drink
This Week Then: Looking Back on Tacoma’s Early Days
Plus: Seattle's annexation spree of 1907
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Tacoma’s Early Days April 1 marks two important dates in the early history of Tacoma. The first occurred on April 1, 1852, when Nicolas Delin began building a sawmill at the head of Commencement Bay. The bay had been named nearly 11 years earlier, just after Lt. Charles Wilkes “commenced” his survey of…
Must List: Moisture Festival, Mariners Opening Day, VegFest
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST ENTERTAIN Moisture Festival (Through 4/7) Seattle’s festival of weird celebrates its 16th year in Seattle. Thrilling crowds with its audacious circus and burlesque acts for four weeks in the spring, Moisture Festival claims to be the world’s largest comedy/varieté celebration. Dancers, comedians, jugglers and…
Your Seattle Restaurant Questions Answered: Comfort Food Edition
Where to find the area's best reubens, raclette and barbecue
The weather may be turning warmer, but that doesn’t mean Seattleites aren’t still treating themselves to comfort foods. This week’s edition of our Instagram Food Q&A with Chelsea Lin is full of hot spots for craveable quiche, barbecue and cheesy raclette. We also have recommendations for brunch, high tea and Mountlake Terrace dining. Have a question…
Get Lit at the Second Annual Orcas Island Literary Festival
A word party returns to Orcas Island
This article appears in print in the April 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Considering Orcas Island’s reputation as the artsy jewel of the San Juan islands, you may wonder why no one had launched a literary festival prior to 2018. But last year’s inaugural Orcas Island Lit Fest proved worth the wait; basking in the afterglow,…
A Little Night Music: A Few Hours During Octave 9’s Music Marathon
The Seattle Symphony shows off its innovative concert space with a new-music marathon-meets-slumber party
Have you ever been to a concert in the middle of the night? No, neither had I until this weekend, when the Seattle Symphony christened its new Octave 9 performance space, in the Second and Union corner of Benaroya Hall, with a 24-hour marathon concert of contemporary chamber music, 5 p.m. Saturday to 5 p.m….
A Seattle Optometrist Is Prescribing Style with Vintage Eyewear
A new Capitol Hill boutique offers a curated collection of vintage eyewear that has Seattleites seeing clearly
DIFFERENT SHADES: Find vintage designer frames, such as these made by, from top to bottom, Berthet Bondet, Christian Dior, Laura Biagiotti and Pilar Crespi at Eye Eye
This Week Then: Celebrating the Women of Washington State
Plus: Looking back on Seattle's biggest sports accomplishments
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Women of Words This week HistoryLink celebrates Women’s History Month with a look at a few of Washington’s notable women authors, journalists, and poets. We begin with Ella Higginson, a Bellingham writer and Washington’s first poet laureate. Other Washington poets include Colleen J. McElroy, who…
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