August 2021
Barneys Fashion Director’s Top Mom’s Day Gift Ideas
!–paging_filter–pThere are all kinds of mom who get all sorts of things for Mother’s Day, from a kiss to something from Cartier, and everything in between. But if your mom is a a href=”http://www.barneys.com/” target=”_blank”Barneys/a kind of lady, we have the perfect list for you, straight from the style file of the store’s fashion director,…
A Very Real Account of What Opening a Restaurant is Like
Molly Wizenberg’s new memoir reveals the dark side of the restaurant dream
!–paging_filter–pMolly Wizenberg, Seattle author of best-selling memoir emAnbsp;Homemade Life /emand renowned food blog Orangette, never imagined she would open a restaurant, let alone a wildly popular pizza destination in Ballard. Five years after opening a href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/delancey“Delancey /awith her husband, Brandon Pettit, she admits that it still feels like a stretch for her. “I would really…
Want to Talk About Death? Head to the Cafe
Over on our sister site, Seattle Health, editor Niki Stojnic reported on a rather difficult, serious-sounding subject: death. And more importantly the efforts of Bastyr University to make that subject a little less difficult and serious-sounding. Stojnic writes: Bastyr University is tackling [death] head on, inviting the community to discuss everything morbid at its Death…
Spectacular Creole Food at Fremont’s Roux
!–paging_filter–pWhat do you do when you take on the shell of a 72-year-old dive bar? If you’re Matthew Lewis, owner of Where Ya At Matt food truck, you use it to reinvent your mobile Creole mecca. After a long search for a brick-and-mortar location, Lewis opened Roux (4201 N Fremont Ave.; 206.547.5420;a href=”http://www.restaurantroux.com” target=”_blank” restaurantroux.com/a)…
The New German Beer Hall in Pioneer Square
Hang out, drink beer, eat and play games at Altstadt
!–paging_filter–pLast August when Brendan McGill, chef/owner of Hitchcock on Bainbridge Island, announced that he was opening a German beer hall in Pioneer Square with partners Lex Petras and Ward Van Allen, he explained that he was going to call it Altstadt (209 First Ave. S; 206.602.6442; a href=”http://www.altstadtseattle.com” target=”_blank”altstadtseattle.com/a), German for “old town,” because to…
Blaine Wetzel from the Willows Inn Wins James Beard Award for Rising Star Chef
!–paging_filter–pThe highly anticipated a href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com/2014-jbfa-seattle-finalists-announced-why-its-…” target=”_blank”2014 James Beard Awards/a ceremony was last night, and Blaine Wetzel from the a href=”http://www.willows-inn.com/” target=”_blank”strongWillows Inn/strong/a on Lummi Island walked away with a medalion for Rising Star Chef. He tied with Jimmy Bannos Jr. of Chicago’s stronga href=”http://thepurplepigchicago.com/” target=”_blank”Purple Pig/a/strong./ppOther than that, it was a disappointing evening for the…
The Hollywood Script Critique of Our March 2014 Issue
!–paging_filter–pJust days before the March Oscars broadcast, reader Kevin Barry e-mailed us a Hollywood-movie-script-style critique of our March 2014 ZIP code story. We wanted to act it out and film it, but were too busy planning our next “lazy and lowbrow” batch of stories. brbremInterior Conference room with ten person table, tastefully but sparsely decorated…
Gear Up for the Seattle Foundation’s Give Big
!–paging_filter–pThe Seattle Foundation’s one-day,a href=”http://www.seattlefoundation.org” target=”_blank” online-only Give Big event /ais back on Tuesday, May 6, from 12 a.m. to 12 a.m., encouraging you to donate to your favorite local arts, environmental, civic, educational and health-related nonprofit organizations. Browse SF’s extensive database of nonprofits to find the one (or several!) that calls to you and…
Our Sea Stars Are Dying. And No One Knows Why
What is causing the sudden death of countless West Coast sea stars?
!–paging_filter–pAnyone can see the evidence on YouTube: a sea star (also known as a starfish) at the a href=”https://youtu.be/mjrp3Eckr-E” target=”_blank”Vancouver Aquarium falling apart over seven hours in a one-minute time-lapse video/a. First, the middle of the star’s dark body flattens. Then, as the animal squirms all over the tank, its arms twist, pull free of…
Photographer Matika Wilbur’s New Exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum
Photographer Matika Wilbur shows us what real Indians look like
!–paging_filter–p“What does it mean to be an indian? What is Indian enough?” These are questions artist Matika Wilbur asks her subjects as she travels across the country interviewing and photographing members of more than 560 federally recognized Native American tribes. You can hear the diverse answers via audio clips—and see the similarly varied portraits—in the…
Mossback Monday: $15 Minimum Wage News, Pot Lottery Results and Waterfront Makeover Contradictions
!–paging_filter–div class=”storify”script src=”//storify.com/seattlemag/mossback-monday-46.js?header=falseborder=false”/scriptpnoscript[a href=”//storify.com/seattlemag/mossback-monday-46″ target=”_blank”View the story “Mossback Monday ” on Storify/a]/noscript/div
Genetic Gifts
The biotech pioneer on improving science education and creating unprecedented health research
!–paging_filter–pYou need introduce just a hint of a topic to Dr. Lee Hood to get him talking—and you had better be ready to keep up once he does. The National Medal of Science recipient (2011), inventor of the DNA sequencer and co-founder of 15 different biotech companies, including Amgen, has been on the leading edge…