February 2008
2013 Spotlight Award Winner: Lacey Leavitt
Filmmaker Lacey Leavitt captures the sparkle of the Emerald City
You could say Lacey Leavitt is OK with getting hit from all angles—especially since the shy and steady Ballard-based filmmaker has spent time as a local roller derby skater for the Tilted Thunder Rail Birds and Rat City Rollergirls. Her competitive name, Rambo Connection, says it all: On the track and on the set, Leavitt,…
2013 Spotlight Award Winner: Klara Glosova
Multimedia artist Klara Glosova makes the mundane remarkable
Klara Glosova makes ceramic sculptures that look like tube socks. She flattens clay with a rolling pin from her kitchen, cuts it into sock shapes and fires it in the kiln in the basement studio of her Beacon Hill home, then precisely paints the forms in colors that look straight off a soccer field. In…
2013 Spotlight Award Winner: Jerick Hoffer
Performer Jerick Hoffer is ready for his close-up
On a sweltering day in June, Jerick Hoffer is carefully stretching a second pair of nude-colored dance tights from his toes up to his waist. The Portland-raised, First Hill–based drag performer customarily wears four pairs of these thick pantyhose on stage, plus a couple of Spanx undergarments to make his form more feminine. But for…
Haiti Babi Turns One
!–paging_filter–pOne year ago this week, Seattleitenbsp;Katlin Jackson launched a href=”http://local.seattlemag.com/article/helping-haitian-families-one-blanket…“Haiti Babi/a, a Haitian-based organization that teaches the women there a skill (knitting and crocheting) and offers them a chance to use that skill to provide for themselves and their children by making cotton baby blankets that are then sold a href=”http://www.haitibabi.org/” target=”_blank”online/a and in retail…
Brian Scheehser: Chef, Farmer And Now, Award-Winning Cheesemaker
!–paging_filter–pspanCongrats to a href=”http://www.trellisrestaurant.net“Trellis/a chef Brian Scheehser, who recently won a second-place ribbon at the annualnbsp;a href=”http://www.cheesesociety.org/“American Cheese Society/a competition in Madison, Wisconsin, for a carrot-nasturtium Monterey Jack he made with Blaine Hages from Cherry Valley Dairy in Duvall./span/ppConsidering there were more than 1,800 different types of cheese entered in this prestigious competition, this is…
Summer Sipper Recipes
Not sure of how to make use of tasty Washington gin? Here are three cocktail recipes
Gin and TonicA perfect G&T on the veranda as the sun sinks is a true pleasure. But to get there, you need four things: good ice, good tonic, good gin and a fresh, ripe lime.Ice cubes, you need decently sized ice cubes here, not cracked or tiny things2 ounces Washington state gin (any of the…
5 Reasons To Visit Pike Place Market Right Now
!–paging_filter–pspanYes, Pike Place Market is teeming with tourists this time of year, crowds of visitors clogging the streets and walkways, snapping shots of flying fish./span/ppIt’s mighty tempting to avoid the Market during the summer, but that would be a big mistake. As local farmers set up on the cobblestones and new places open and old…
Cocktail Mixers You Should Make, Not Buy (and How to Make Them)
!–paging_filter–pa href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com/five-essential-home-bar-tools” target=”_blank”In a previous post/a, we talked about essential bar tools you can buy. But when setting up your home bar, and especially when getting prepared to host a happening party, there are a couple mixers that I suggest you make, instead of buy. Partially because it’s fun, but also because what you buy…
3 Seattle Restaurants are Nominees for Bon Appetit’s Best New Restaurants
!–paging_filter–pIn a run-up to announcing their Top 10 Best New Restaurants in the country, Bon Appetit a href=”http://www.bonappetit.com/restaurants-travel/2013/08/top-new-restaurant-…” target=”_blank”has given us a peek at the 50 restaurants they whittled their list from/a. This longer list (from which final 10 will be chosen; look for that list in their a href=”http://instagram.com/p/ct6Qs0jYm3/#” target=”_blank”huge-looking Best Restaurants Issue/a in…
The Must List: PhinneyWood Festival and One Sublime Sale
What to do this weekend
!–paging_filter–pstrongMust Hit the Streets/stronga href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com/events/phinneywood-summer-streets-festival“strongbrPhinneyWood Summer Streets Festival/strong/abrFriday (8/9, 6 to 10 p.m.) — Walkers and wheelers reign supreme during this evening-long closure of Phinney and Greenwood avenues (between 67th and 87th streets). A celebration of the season’s long, warm nights, the temporary pedestrian paradise will be punctuated with art, live music, circus performers—and, of…
W Seattle’s Wear Wednesdays
!–paging_filter–pa href=”http://www.starwoodhotels.com/whotels/index.html” target=”_blank”W Hotels/a have three passion points: music, design and my personal fave, fashion. Starting in August, the a href=”http://www.wseattle.com/” target=”_blank”W Seattle/a is launching a new monthly event aptly called Wear Wednesdays (WW)./ppI’m thrilled to report that emSeattle/em mag is a part of the inaugural WW on Wednesday, August 21 where our Seamless in…
And Then There Were Two: McGinn versus Murray for Mayor
Primary Day is finally over and Seattle has whittled the hefty playing field of nine candidates down to just two contenders for mayor: state Senator Ed Murray and Mayor Mike McGinn. According to Knute Berger over at Crosscut.com, come November we should be prepared for “a fascinating race between a City Hall insider who’s happiest…