August 2021
Angela Stowell Steps Out at ESR and Into New Role at FareStart
One of Seattle's most powerful women has a new job with a greater focus on community
“Do you help out at the restaurants?” Angela Stowell says she’s gotten this question more than once—it’s the plight of every chef’s partner, professional or private. It’s patronizing at best, but downright laughable in Stowell’s case, who is at least equally responsible for growing Ethan Stowell Restaurants into its current local mega-empire status as her…
Underneath Amazon’s Shadow, Local Retail Is Reinventing Itself in Seattle
Retailers throughout the city are getting creative in their fight for survival—and many are thriving
GETTING EXPERIENCE: The new SoDo Starbucks Reserve store is tapping into a consumer demand for experiences, sometimes called “retail-tainment”
See Infinity Mirrors and Neon Arcades at Winston Wachter’s ‘Summer Dreams’
A new group exhibit captures the spirit of the season
Neon Saltwater’s “Mindgames Love Arcade” is an immersive staged room installation, with furniture, wallpaper and framed prints (like this one) designed to take the viewer to alternate realms
A New Graphic Novel Will Be Set at the Shuttered Georgetown Steam Plant
The National History Landmark will soon be in the spotlight
This article appears in print in the July 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. In recent years, the Georgetown Steam Plant (6605 13th Ave. S), built in 1906 and used to power Seattle intermittently over the years, hasn’t seen much action. (It was last used by its owner, Seattle City Light, in 1973.) But the shuttered plant, a…
Must List: ‘Jini Dellaccio: Caught in the Act,’ Georgetown Garden Walk, Seattle Street Food Festival
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MUST SEE Jini Dellaccio: Caught in the Act(Through 7/11) Few artists made more of lucky happenstance than Dellaccio (1917–2014), who took up photography on a whim in California, followed her husband to Tacoma and ended up the preeminent portraitist of Northwest rockers (the Wailers, the Sonics). Into her 70s, she shot musicians performing in concert—locals…
