August 2021
How Seattle’s World Cup Is Centering Coast Salish Culture
As Seattle hosts six matches, the Puyallup Tribe is bringing Lushootseed language and Coast Salish culture to soccer’s global stage.
World Cup 26 has brought Seattle plenty of noise: marches to the stadium, packed watch parties, and fans from Australia, Egypt, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and across the United States. Amid the flags and football frenzy, another kind of welcome is taking shape, a consistent thread honoring the Indigenous heritage of this city and state. During…
The Power of Three
Graphic designer Kelly Goto honors her father’s creative legacy with an award-winning anthology of his popular hand-drawn comics.
Discover "Seattle Samurai," Kelly Goto’s award-winning anthology honoring her father Sam Goto's comic strip and the Pacific Northwest Japanese American experience.
How Bing Cherries Led Me to Ah Bing
My final book-tour stop brought me to Milwaukie, Oregon, where the Chinese immigrant behind the famous fruit is finally getting his due.
The day I visited Ledding Library, I found a cherry tree in the lobby. Not a real one, but a wooden wishing tree where hundreds of library visitors had hung cherry cut-outs personalized with their own hopes and dreams. I was half an hour early for my talk on my new book Bing’s Cherries and…
World Cup 26 Is Keeping the Region Busy. So Are Its Recycling Bins.
A local expert explains what actually happens after a plastic bottle leaves the bin.
Seattle is buzzing right now. In the first 11 days of World Cup 26, Waterfront Park recorded more than 451,000 visits, including nearly 85,000 on June 19 alone. SEA Airport has also seen some of its busiest travel days ever, with match-day crowds and summer travelers moving through the city. That is a lot of…
Rearview Mirror: A Striking Mural, Winery Nights, and a Beautiful Vancouver Dinner
Things I did, saw, ate, learned, or read in the past week (or so).
A SOFT LANDING There’s a new reason to look up in Pioneer Square. Seattle painter Cristina Martinez’s new mural, A Soft Place to Land, fills a wall along the Occidental Promenade with a dreamy woman stretched out in daisies. The mural measures 70 by 150 feet near Lumen Field Event Center, where Seattle Art Fair…
Restaurant Roundup: Covert Cocktails and Lavender Last Call
Here’s what was served up recently in the Emerald City.
While the gray skies and cooler temps may be back for a few days, this week’s heat was just a taste of the summer sizzle to come. One of our favorite ways to chill out is with an icy drink or dessert, and there are plenty of options to do so, from Mia & More’s…
Studio Sessions: Nakisa Dehpanah
Artist Nakisa Dehpanah’s new show uses suspended textile forms and movement to explore identity as something layered and always changing.
Seattle artist Nakisa Dehpanah’s work hovers between sculpture and performance. First developed during a residency at Base Art Space, Suspended Selves is now on view at Method Gallery in Pioneer Square, where billowy, vessel-like sheer fabric forms hang with geometric clay elements integrated into them. They seem like soft shelters or skins waiting for an…
A Seattle-Area Writer Finds Hope in the Suburbs
Ross McMeekin’s new novel, Pepperleaf, follows a fictional neighborhood full of messy lives and unlikely bonds.
A bit more than a decade ago, writer Ross McMeekin and his family moved to a suburb just outside Seattle. “The transition was a bit rough,” McMeekin recalls, “as a lot of transitions are—new community, new culture, new grocery stores—and I soon felt inspired to write funny pieces about where I now lived, if only…
Eat the World in Seattle Southside
World Cup visitors don’t have to go far from the airport to find one of the region’s most global dining corridors.
With World Cup 26 underway, Seattle is full of visitors looking for the obvious things: the stadium, a jersey or scarf, a good pint (or three), and a great place to eat. But some of the region’s most interesting food is waiting a few miles south of the downtown crowds, in Seattle Southside, near Seattle-Tacoma…
Washington’s Wildest Summer Festivals
From pirate invasions and slug races to geoduck shucking, Bigfoot lore, and Renaissance revelry, these festivals prove the state knows how to keep things strange.
We all know how wonderfully weird Washington can be—and perhaps some of the best evidence of this lies in its colorful, eclectic, and sometimes downright bizarre festivals happening throughout the year. While some of the state’s quirkiest festivals have already happened, like Poulsbo’s Viking Fest (third weekend in May) and Rhubarb Days in Sumner (mid-to-late…
So Long Havana Social Club
The Capitol Hill nightlife staple will close with one final Pride weekend.
A little over 20 years ago, Quentin Ertel walked into the space that would become his bar, Havana Social Club. It was near Tenth and Pike, a former auto showroom that had been taken over by REI, before REI moved out of Capitol Hill. “Part of it was falling down,” Ertel remembers, but there were…