August 2021
Seattle World’s Fair is Cool Again (Thanks to Café Nordo)
Visiting the Space Needle was not on the top of my “must list” when I moved to Seattle six years ago. To be honest, it seemed like one of the city’s miscalculated impulses—like getting a lower back tattoo or a car phone. Maybe that’s because my vision of future worlds is more fired up by…
An Exclusive Musical Tribute to the Viaduct
Our offices are right next to Phase 1 of the Alaskan Way Viaduct demolition, so we’ve had a front row seat to all the machines pick-pick-picking away at the doomed highway. In a surge of nostalgia for the concrete disaster-waiting-to-happen, I wrote a little song about the Viaduct. My husband Daniel Spils, a music producer,…
Queen of Norway Opens in Ballard Next Month
In our November issue, we named restaurateurs and nightlife empresarios (Po Dog, Grim’s, The Social) Laura Olson and Chris Pardo to our list of Most Influential Seattleites. And they seem determined to prove us right on that call: Not only are they opening Manhattan Drugs on Capitol Hill’s already restaurantific 12th Avenue in the next…
A New Book Offers Helpful Advice for Parents
A local mom has published a helpful guide for preserving time, energy and money while parenting.
Ballard mom and publishing consultant Kerry Colburn has a knack for dispensing the kind of useful, no-nonsense advice that every parent wants and needs. Her newest book, Mama’s Big Book of Little Lifesavers: 398 Ways to Save Your Time, Money, and Sanity (Chronicle Books, $14.95), published this past April, is an easy stocking stuffer for…
The Must List: Visqueen’s Last Show, Holiday Shopping and…Skiing?
MUST SHRED…MAYBE?Ski Season Kicks Off at Mt. BakerGood news, snow bunnies. Mt. Baker opened last week! Healthy snow fall and freezing temps are predicted in the next few days, which means regular holiday operations from Mt. Baker’s White Salmon Base Ski Area. Of course, we can’t guarantee what the weather will be (we’re smart, not…
Thanksgiving Cheat Sheet, Part 6: Let the Turkey Rest
Remember that the turkey can sit, cooked, under foil on the counter for 45 minutes and be perfectly fine (actually better!) than if you’re rushing it to the table and cutting into it right away. Meat that is allowed to rest is juicier, so err on the side of having the turkey done early: just tent…
A La Mode Doubles as Pie Shop and Community Center
In case you haven’t heard, pies are the new cupcakes. And with all the sweet shops dotting our landscape, most of them with tasty enough pies, picking the best one comes down to a couple of things for me: experience and proximity. Check and check, ever since Chris Porter (below) opened A La Mode Pies…
Love Thy Neighborhood
Meet five volunteers who are bringing meaningful change to their beloved corners of Seattle.
THE CENTRAL DISTRICTSean Conroe, founder of Alleycat Acres Photo by Hayley Young If you cruised down East Union toward the Central District this past summer, you may have noticed something different on the northeast corner of 22nd Avenue. Tucked between Cappy’s Boxing Gym and a gas station mini-mart were beds of verdant greens, planter boxes…
12 Local Spirits You Must Taste
Our picks for the Washington state top shelf.
Ebb+Flow Vodka$32 A big, full-bodied vodka whose 100-percent malted barley construction doesn’t keep it from leaving a little sweetness and vanilla on the tongue. Sound Spirits, Interbay, 1630 15th Ave. W; drinksoundspirits.com Headlong White Dog Whiskey$34.95 An unaged whiskey, this dog cuddles up close with its bright combination of butter cream, grain and smooth spiciness.Woodinville…
Explore Seattle’s Distillery Boom
The explosion of distilleries in the Northwest is yielding delicious results.
After recently living in Italy for seven months, I returned to Seattle and made a trip to my local liquor store. (I do write about cocktails, so it’s not solely that I was thirsty.) As I browsed the shelves, the number of new bottles boasting local distillery addresses struck me. It seems that in the…
Shiro Worship: Celebrating Seattle’s First Sushi Chef
Local publisher Chin Music Press has a gorgeous new illustrated memoir and cookbook. We bring you an
Seattle’s legendary sushi chef, Shiro Kashiba—still a self-proclaimed “sushi bartender” at age 70—was a locavore long before it was trendy. In his beautiful new memoir, Shiro: Wit, Wisdom & Recipes from a Sushi Pioneer (published by Seattle’s Chin Music Press; $20), he speaks of the bounty of Puget Sound when he arrived here in 1966,…
Bestidy Best Best Bestest of 2011. Ever.
Our fearless editorial director reflects on the year's highs and lows - and on-camera cameos - that
You might have noticed that we at Seattle mag like our “best of” lists. They’re part of our job as a city mag, but we also know you like them, too. (The “best of” issues are almost always the year’s top sellers.) But mainly, we like them because there’s a lot of good stuff to…