February 2021
The Must List: Seattle Symphony Plays Psycho
See the classic Hitchcock movie on screen at Benaroya. Oh yeah, and hear the soundtrack performed by
Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories And you thought the shower scene in Psycho was scary before—see how you feel about it when those screeching violins are live. With the Hitchcock classic projected on screen, the Seattle Symphony will play the score (removed from the film; dialogue remains) and raise the suspense to spine-tingling heights. Oct….
Drawings From the Sistine Chapel & Other Treasures
This series of preliminary drawings for the Sistine Chapel kind of shoots down the mystique that div
Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories This series of preliminary drawings for the Sistine Chapel kind of shoots down the mystique that divine inspiration, not ordinary elbow grease, guided the Italian Renaissance master’s genius10/15–1/31/2010 Michelangelo would have been horrified to see this series of preliminary drawings for the Sistine Chapel displayed publicly, as it kind of…
Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey
This exhibition of 50 color and black-and-white pictures by fine-art photographer Joan Myers showcas
Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories This exhibition of 50 color and black-and-white pictures by fine-art photographer Joan Myers showcases the harsh yet magnificent Antarctic landscape as well as its wildlife and people10/3–11/29 If Seattle snow flurries send you running for cover, you’ll be overwhelmed by the Burke Museum’s Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey. The exhibition…
Mysterious Gifts: Theatre of Iran
Mysterious Gifts: Theatre of Iran offers a glimpse into Persian history and culture through t
Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories Mysterious Gifts: Theatre of Iran offers a glimpse into Persian history and culture through the puppetry and bold movement techniques of Iranian performance artist Yaser Khaseb 9/24–10/11 The first installment of Seattle Children’s Theatre’s innovative, multiyear “Connecting Stories” project—a collaboration of theater artists from Seattle, Iran and Holland—Mysterious Gifts: Theatre…
2009 WA Wine Awards: Best of the Rest
From Winemaker to Watch to Best Emerging Varietals, we've got the best in Washington wines in 12 mor
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Best Emerging VarietalMalbecOriginally a blending grape in the Bordeaux region of France and then a varietal in Argentina, this grape is cropping up in Washington because of its ability to grow well in the hot days and cool nights of eastern Washington. Malbec is primarily a moderate to dark,…
Urban Safari: Marysville
Forty-five minutes north of Seattle is a small town brimming with global flavor
Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles Forty-five minutes north of Seattle is a small town brimming with global flavor Most people travel north to Marysville to shop at Seattle Premium Outlets or to get their thrills gambling at the Tulalip Resort Casino. But on the east side of I-5 lies the quieter—and original—side of this…
Shopping Around: April’s Shopping Finds
Cherry-picked boots for the young set, heirloom chocolate at Claudio Corallo and gourmet food on Phi
Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles The Goods: Puddles are no match for your mischievous tyke in these fanciful red and blue cherry print boots from Kent-based Washington Shoe Company. With 100 percent waterproof natural rubber and a nonslip sole, the boots also have a cozy net lining that will help keep little feet dry and…
Scoop: Send Your Kid Packing
A local company does lunch (at school)
Category: Eat + Drink Articles You’re racing around the kitchen half-dressed, getting yourself ready for work and your kids ready for school—mascara wand in one hand and the mayonnaise jar in the other—when one kid announces she suddenly hates turkey, and the other insists he’ll eat nothing else. Enter Fantazimo Food, Inc., an Edmonds-based…
Profile: Fran Fare
Seattle chocolatier Fran Bigelow celebrates a new store and her connection to President Obama
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Name: Fran BigelowTitle: Founder and owner of Fran’s Chocolates On having Barack Obama as a fan: “It’s really fun…really a surprise…[it] energizes everyone else who comes in.”Why her custom boxes have hand-tied satin ribbons: “They should look as good as they taste.”Favorite chocolate accompaniment: Port. On whether she ever gets sick…
Local Authority: Upper Crust
A local coffeehouse maven takes her offerings up a notch with High 5 Pies
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Dani Cone is one passionate pie lady. After opening Fuel Coffee in 2005, the Seattleite branched into the pie-making business last December with High 5 Pies. Why pie? Cone, 32, argues pie isn’t just for dessert—it’s delicious any time of the day, especially with your morning joe. Her handmade…
Scoop: Morphing Menus
How have Seattle
Category: Eat + Drink Articles How have Seattle’s longstanding restaurants survived? Perpetually popular menu items. While a “tantalizing butter sauce” from the 1950s may have been replaced by today’s “spiced mango coulis” (likewise, a mysterious “dressing” was booted by a “sherry glace”), the core entrées haven’t changed—and Dick’s is still a deal. Canlis 1950s…
Scoop: Poetry Course
In honor of National Poetry Month
Category: Arts + Events Articles Seattle, and Other Culinary Delights By Ed Skog Writer-in-residence at Richard Hugo House; his first book, Mister Skylight, will be published in July by Copper Canyon Press 1.Coming back from Port Townsendwith a bag of collards andone leek like a guitar neck,my dinner on the ferry deckis carrot washed against my…