Food & Drink

"Porgy and Bess" Returns to Seattle Opera With Two Beloved Cast Members

“Porgy and Bess” Returns to Seattle Opera With Two Beloved Cast Members

It opens August 11

Opera Man: Tenor Jermaine Smith returns to McCaw Hall to reprise his role as Sportin’ Life for Seattle Opera’s 2018 production of “Porgy and Bess”

Gavin Borchert

5 Things You Need to Eat and Drink in August 2018

5 Things You Need to Eat and Drink in August 2018

Meatball subs! S'mores! Lox and bagels!

Sawyer chef Mitch Mayers may be known for his savory dishes, but look at that choco taco.

Chelsea Lin

This New Snack Shack at Golden Gardens Sells More than Your Standard Beachside Fare

This New Snack Shack at Golden Gardens Sells More than Your Standard Beachside Fare

Time to try a new kind of beach picnic

Dutch pancakes, called “poffertjes,” are a menu staple, here served with butter and powdered sugar

Chelsea Lin

Sub Pop at 30: The Seattle Magazine Mixtape

Sub Pop at 30: The Seattle Magazine Mixtape

Seattle magazine editors and writers chose their favorite Sub Pop tracks for this playlist celebrating the legendary record label's 30th anniversary

Sub Pop artist photos at Hotel Max.

Gwendolyn Elliott and Dan Shafer

Kamonegi Is Having Its Best Week Ever

Kamonegi Is Having Its Best Week Ever

The Fremont soba shop made it on Bon Appetit's top 50 list, with JuneBaby and Wa'z

Enjoy Kamonegi’s cold soba noodles with a warm dipping sauce (as shown here.)

Chelsea Lin

A Seattle Artist Is Making 3-D Printer-Created Ceramic Sculptures With the Help of a 'Potterbot'

A Seattle Artist Is Making 3-D Printer-Created Ceramic Sculptures With the Help of a ‘Potterbot’

At her Slip Rabbit studio, ceramic artist Timea Tihanyi pursues the possibilities of 3-D printed pottery

Ceramic artist Timea Tihanyi created this angular porcelain vessel with the help of a 3-D printer

Gwendolyn Elliott

Sub Pop at 30: Charting the Legacy of the Seattle Sound

Sub Pop at 30: Charting the Legacy of the Seattle Sound

How Sub Pop, a scrappy independent record label with the slogan ‘Going Out of Business Since 1988’ established the ‘Seattle sound,’ weathered the volatile music business and continues to make its mark on the city--30 years and counting

This article appears in print in the August 2018 issue. Read more from the feature story here. Click here to subscribe. Like Kurt Cobain, Nirvana and so many of the homegrown cultural forces it first nurtured, the origins of Seattle indie record label Sub Pop formed organically and humbly, specifically, in the 1980 dorm room of Evergreen State…

Gwendolyn Elliott

Sub Pop Employees Have Been Pulling Epic Pranks for 30 Years

Sub Pop Employees Have Been Pulling Epic Pranks for 30 Years

Founded on April Fools’ Day, Sub Pop has taken the date to heart, pulling notorious pranks over the years. Here are a few classic examples

Sub Pop CEO Megan Jasper, the woman behind the legendary “Lexicon of Grunge”

Gwendolyn Elliott

The Sub Pop Timeline

The Sub Pop Timeline

A highly abridged version of the label’s notable cultural contributions

Soundgarden’s first EP, 1987’s “Screaming Life,” was among Sub Pop’s first releases

Gwendolyn Elliott

Take a Self-Guided Tour of Seattle's Sub Pop Sights

Take a Self-Guided Tour of Seattle’s Sub Pop Sights

Bone up on your Sub Pop history with this tour of the city’s label-affiliated sights

MoPOP’s exhibit “Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses”

Gwendolyn Elliott

Sub Pop's Creative Director Waxes on the Label's Album Art

Sub Pop’s Creative Director Waxes on the Label’s Album Art

Sub Pop albums are defined by a certain aesthetic, and for the past 24 years, the label’s creative director, Jeff Kleinsmith, has helped convey it through the label’s record covers. Here, he waxes on a few favorites

Creative director Jeff Kleinsmith and office Sub Pup Kenny

Gwendolyn Elliott

James Beard Foundation's Night of Culinary Stars Hits Seattle October 19

James Beard Foundation’s Night of Culinary Stars Hits Seattle October 19

Yeah, yeah, it's only July, but you'll want to get tickets for this a.s.a.p.

Edouardo Jordan at JuneBaby

Chelsea Lin

Street Style Star Nick Wooster Is Launching a New Men's Shoe Collection at Nordstrom

Street Style Star Nick Wooster Is Launching a New Men’s Shoe Collection at Nordstrom

Our Q&A with the fashion icon

From the moment you meet him, Nick Wooster makes an impression.   At Nordstrom’s flagship store in Seattle, the designer and fashion guru was dressed in black and white polka dotted shorts, black tube socks, and a Yohji Yamamoto jacket (“I was in Vancouver B.C. yesterday and picked up this jacket because I forgot the one that paired with these pants,” he…

Andrew Hoge

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