April 2008
Make It Work! Seattle’s Arts Enablers: Stuart Smithers
Category: Arts + Events Articles In 1993, Stuart Smithers, a professor of Buddhist studies at the University of Puget Sound, began work reinventing an old dairy farm near Arlington as a 360-acre arts utopia. Fifteen years after its inception, Smoke Farm (smokefarm.org; named after the original owners) is now a place where local artists…
Make It Work! Seatle’s Arts Enablers: Steve Peters
Category: Arts + Events Articles Musician Steve Peters heads Nonsequitur (nseq.blogspot.com), a nonprofit dedicated to experimental music and sound art. Since moving to the Pacific Northwest from Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2004, Peters has worked tirelessly for countless musicians, artists and poets in an effort to expand the city’s aural horizons. In March 2007,…
Pleased to meet you
Category: seattlepi.com teaser headlines SAM Gallery’s annual Introductions show brings up-and-coming Northwest artists to light. So you’re thinking that Georgia O’Keeffe painting at the Seattle Art Museum would look awesome in your living room (it matches the sofa!). Well, forget it. Even if you could afford to shop there, SAM’s collection is not for…
Annie Leibovitz Comes to Seattle and Other Can’t Miss Events
Not that we're suggesting you miss a single event in our fall arts preview, but here is lean list of
Category: Arts + Events Articles Literary: 10/7 Marilynne RobinsonThe American novelist’s first book, Housekeeping, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and her second, Gilead, won one. Not too shabby for a literary get-go. She’s just published a third book, Home, a companion novel to Gilead, from which she’ll read at the Seattle Public Library….
Make It Work! Seattle’s Arts Enablers: Carlo Scandiuzzi
Category: Arts + Events Articles In the past year, ACT Theatre’s Central Heating Lab (acttheatre.org/Community/CentralHeatingLab.aspx)—an initiative providing space and resources for a wide range of up-and-coming artists to develop new work—has put on a showcase for local filmmakers, a poetry slam, a stand-up comedy night and a performance by the Seattle Dance Project, to…
Forget the South King County Jokes; Why You Should Head to Burien
Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles Just south of Seattle, nestled between Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Puget Sound, is Burien, one of the area’s oldest, longest-established communities. Any town with a 100-plus-year history is apt to have tales to tell, and Burien does: It languished for decades after Southcenter Mall, built in nearby Tukwila in…
Smells Like Teen Spirit When All-teen Dance Crew Hits the Paramount Stage
All-teen dance roster brings a fresh look at culture through dance
Category: Arts + Events Articles 7/19 • A veritable world tour of ethnically and stylistically diverse dance performances, ranging from Asian cultural dances to tap, the 10th annual DANCE This… has one foot, so to speak, in tradition and the other in innovation. The all-teen, all local roster of performers, including Apna Bhangra Crew,…
Scoop: Get Your Own Blueberries! U-Pick Blueberry Farms
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Beat the blues by picking some of your own at one of the many blueberry farms within a peach stone’s throw of Seattle. July is peak season, and many of the berries are organic, so you’ll be able to eat copious amounts of them right out of your baskets…
The Goods: In the Bag
Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles Local designers Rian and Julie Berry blend James Bond sophistication and Indiana Jones rustic utility in this over-the-shoulder men’s messenger bag. Marked with the sleek jet propeller insignia, the bag features smooth, vegetable-tanned leather and plenty of pockets to stash high-tech gadgets. Photo by Tom Barwick
Tasting Notes: Wines + Rinds
Cheeses washed in wine make for unexpected pairing delights.
Category: Tasting Notes Cheese and wine is a match made in heaven. The only thing better might be enjoying some of our best local cheeses that are actually made with wine—washed in wine, to be exact. Kelli Estrella of Estrella Family Creamery (Montesano, 659 Wynoochee Valley Road; 360.249.6541; estrellafamilycreamery.com) makes several washed-rind cheeses by…
Kate McDermott’s Blackberry Pie Filling
Makes one 9-inch pie
Category: seattlepi.com teaser headlines Makes one 9-inch pie Kate McDermott’s Blackberry Pie FillingIngredients: 1 recipe for double pie pastryThe Pie and Pastry Bible’s recipe on Epicurious.com is a great option. Filling:6 cups fresh picked (about 1 1⁄2 lbs.) blackberries3⁄4 cup sugar plus 2 tbsp. for sprinkling on top of pieA very small grating or…
Tasting Notes: New Heights
Two wineries find new terroir off the beaten path.
Category: Tasting Notes Tucked away in the hills northwest of Yakima, a tiny new winegrowing region is slowly emerging. Naches Heights, eight miles south of Highway 12 in Cowiche Canyon, has long been known for apple orchards and the largest organic raspberry farm in the world. But two wineries—Naches Heights Vineyards, and, more recently,…
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