August 2021
Fashion + Style: Behind the Scenes of The Forecast’s Fishermen-Inspired Runway Looks
Though spring officially doesn’t start until March 20, around here we’re counting March 14as the first day of the season as our new spring fashion show, The Forecast, storms the runway at Benaroya Hall next Wednesday night. The outerwear-laced fashions will be broken up into five themed sets that scream Seattle style, from biking-ready frocks…
King 5: Washington Gas Prices Increase 43 Cents in a Month
The pain at the pump increases across the State of Washington. AAA Auto Club reports the average price of a gallon of gasoline in Washington is $3.94, an increase of 8 cents in a week and 43 cents in a month. Average prices for a gallon of gas in Bellingham Monday reached $4.10, $4.04 in…
Brian Christian On Why Computers Still Need Humans. Sort Of. We Hope.
If you have ever felt unsettled, confused—or even overjoyed—by the way computers have changed our lives, you should go and listen to writer Brian Christian talk about his critically acclaimed book The Most Human Human on Wednesday at Town Hall. He can’t exactly soothe any irrational (or rational) fears about an Artificial Intelligence-dominated apocalypse (translation:…
There’s No Getting Around It: Seattle’s Transportation Issue
It’s the least sexy, most flammable cocktail-party topic around: transportation. The horror story about a one-hour crosstown crawl. The strategy swap about how best to cross the lake during a Mariners home stand. And the sharply divisive rhetoric about which multibillion-dollar projects our region really needs—and how to pay for them. Why would we put…
Vote Local: Food & Wine’s People’s Favorite Chef
The contest for the People’s Best New Chef in Food & Wine magazine was such a hit (remember Canlis’s all-out campaign to get Jason Franey the win last year? Alas, Jason Bissonnette of Boston’s Coppa took the prize) that they’re doing it again this year. Several Pacific Northwest nominees hail from Portland, Idaho and Hawaii,…
Vote Local: Food & Wine’s People’s Favorite Chef
Last year’s polls were such a hit–remember the all-out campaign Canlis put on to get Jason Franey his win?–that again this year, Food & Wine Magazine has come up with a list of nominees and is asking “the people” to vote for their favorite chef. This year’s nominees from the Pacific Northwest include several from…
Monarch’s Tales: Luly Yang Couture’s Cutest Gown Fittings
With designer Luly Yang’s couture show just eight weeks away (tickets are now on sale for the April 27 event), we continue our behind the scenes journey with Yang’s smallest fittings. And by smallest, we don’t mean the task at hand: As the show’s beneficiary, Seattle Children’s Hospital plays a huge role in event, and…
The Must List, featuring Playing with Clay and Pina in 3D
MUST PLAY-DOHOpen for Construction Opens Thursday (3/1–4/14) – In conjunction with the NCECA conference (read: ceramics storm) coming to town this month, SOIL art gallery has transformed itself into an interactive clay-making “office,” where you can can get your hands dirty helping artists build an evolving landscape out of one ton of clay. Check out…
W Seattle’s TRACE to Open This Week
Earth & Ocean, the W Seattle Hotel’s restaurant, was for many years a sort of culinary finishing school; John Sundstrom left E&O to open Lark; Maria Hines cooked there previous to opening Tilth. More recently, though, the restaurant has struggled to find a local audience. So this month, the W reopens its restaurant with a…
Where to Get a Good Cup of Tea in Seattle
On a dark winter’s day, there’s nothing better than a hot cup of tea or hot cocoa served with dainty sandwiches and sweet treats. Special events or spur of the moment outings, frilly to casual – we’ve got a list of Seattle’s best tea houses fit for every occasion. If you’re feeling experimental, and want to…
New Vietnamese-Filipino Food Truck Coming
What do you get when Vietnamese food and Filipino food get married and make babies? Banh mi with chicken Adobo filling, of course! Husband-and-wife team Cathy and Romano Basilio are rolling out their gastronomic love child, Xplosive Mobile Food Truck, sometime in late spring or early summer. In addition to Adobo, their foot-long banh mi…
Viaduct for Dummies: Another SR99 slowdown coming; 520 taking shape
There’s a lot of discussion today about the fate of tolling on the soon-to-exist SR 99 tunnel, on the heels of yesterday’s “tunnel tolling committee” meeting. Seems something interesting is happening around here since the 520 tolls went into effect: People are surprisingly willing to sit in terrible traffic to avoid paying tolls. Tell me…