August 2021
Fall Arts Preview 2016: Theater
Shows that will get you on your feet
Dining Among the Dead – Cafe Nordo Now firmly ensconced in Pioneer Square in Nordo’s Culinarium, at the former location of The Elliott Bay Book Company, the once itinerant but always lavishly produced and provocatively entertaining Café Nordo has found a permanent home to present its shows. These productions inhabit a unique intersection of culinary…
Fall Arts Preview 2016: Dance
Kick off the season with the best on the dance floor
Mother of Invention – Ezra Dickinson Seattle choreographer, dancer, and performance and visual artist Ezra Dickinson is a familiar and always arresting presence, whether dancing on Seattle’s stages or on its gritty downtown streets. A standout performer in the Seattle-based Maureen Whiting Dance Company and co-director of The Offshore Project dance group, the ballet-trained Dickinson’s…
Where to Get Your S’mores Fix on National S’mores Day
Celebrate in style with these local eateries
Did someone say s’mores!? Hang on to your camping gear: Wednesday, August 10, is National S’mores Day. Thankfully, Seattle has no shortage of places and ways to celebrate. Check out these local treat-havens and raise a glass (of milk) to the unofficial dessert of the summer. S’mores Day at Hot Cakes Molten Cakery On August…
John Sundstrom of Lark announces new pizzeria, Ericka Burke closes Chop Shop, and other restaurant news
The casual pizzeria, Southpaw, will feature quarter-pies for $5 in Capitol Hill
OPENINGS James Beard Award-winning Lark restaurateur John Sundstrom announced today that he plans to open…wait for it….a counter-service, wood-fired pizzeria in the original Lark space on 12th Avenue in Capitol Hill. Together with his Lark partners, Kelly Ronan and JM Enos, the celeb chef, who already knows his way around a counter joint with Slab…
Dine, Sleep and Relax in Luxury at The Inn at Langley
Langley’s inn continues to deliver
Matt Costello, the longtime genius chef behind the food at The Inn at Langley (Langley, 400 First St.; 360.221.3033; innatlangley.com) is known for his disarming combinations made with ingredients primarily from Whidbey Island. As an experience, the single-seating, multicourse meal ($155 per person) is as much entertainment as dinner. A dish called “rhubarb” might come…
Why It’s Time to Make a Trip to Willows Inn
A pilgrimage to Lummi Island reawakens a passion for local foods
When you feel compelled to leave the city and immerse yourself in nature, when you seek to sit in quiet amazement at the wondrous foraged and farm-raised foods our Pacific Coast region provides, and to be waited on with warmth by a knowing staff but without the formality of a fussy setting, it’s time to…
Learn About the Source of Food at Quillisascut Farm School
At Quillisascut, food lovers learn the A–Z of the domestic arts
Years before the current farm-to-table trend hit Seattle, Rick and Lora Lea Misterly were carting baskets of their small-batch goat cheese from their farm in Rice, Washington, to the kitchen doors of small, chef-owned restaurants around the city. Today, after the farm’s 25 years of slow but steady growth, cheese isn’t the only thing they…
Learn How to Bake Bread at Skagit Valley’s Bread Lab
Skagit Valley’s Bread Lab offers classes and much more
For an obsessive home baker, visiting King Arthur Flour’s flagship campus in Norwich, Vermont, was something of a religious pilgrimage worthy of the hours-long detour I took during my Boston vacation last year. This fall, fellow obsessives won’t have to travel to the East Coast to learn how to roll layers of laminated dough (think…
Fall Arts Preview 2016: Arts & Technology
Tapping into the best tech-related events
Seattle in Parody – Maria Semple No author has captured the comedic absurdity of Seattle with more success than novelist Maria Semple, who moved here in 2008. In her 2012 novel, Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Semple gave the world an incisive, hilarious look at the manners and social mores of the Microsoft-era city-state. Its narrative…
Fall Arts Preview 2016: Film Festivals
What to watch for on the big screens this season
Every autumn, our city’s numerous and diverse film festivals present hundreds of short features and full-length movies to Seattle audiences, opening up views into a wide, diverse spectrum of human experience. One of the most important is the Local Sightings Film Festival (9/22–10/1), the Northwest’s premier showcase of new films, produced by the Northwest…
Fall Arts Preview 2016
A complete list of this season's theater, dance, music and more
The leaves may not yet be falling, but the calendar is filling up with dates—a sure sign that the new season of theater, dance, music and more is upon us. This year doesn’t disappoint. From a new book by a Seattle transplant with a wicked sense of the absurd to a show in which the…
Fall Arts Preview 2016: Visual Arts
Welcoming a variety of mediums to kick off the season
Family Tree – Gail Grinnell, Samuel Wildman and Eric John Olson Since 2014, MadArt Studio has operated a storefront in South Lake Union where selected local artists are given a residency of several months to create large-scale, site-specific sculpture and installation work. Visitors can witness art in the making and in its completed form. The…