February 2021
Amazon Go Opens In Downtown Seattle and it Features A Surprising Number of Local Favorites
We went to the store and skipped checkout for Day One of Amazon's latest experiment.
Hundreds of shoppers clutching free orange tote bags crowded into the fairly snug Amazon Go store in downtown Seattle on opening day, lots of them snapping photos, shooting live vids, some even buying stuff. It was just the kind of buzzy scene PR teams dream about for the premiere of the brave new world of…
Progressive Northwest? White Supremacists Think It’s the Perfect Place to Sow Hatred
Our progressive region may seem like an odd place for the alt-right. But Knute Berger explains why that’s a myth.
Here it is, 2018, and we’re talking about Nazis. It’s hard to believe. Divisions over race in this country suggest that the American Civil War is not yet settled more than 150 years after Appomattox. But there’s unsettling evidence that that isn’t our only unresolved war: We’re apparently still fighting WWII. The Pacific Northwest has…
Pearl Jam’s “Home Shows”: Two Safeco Field Concerts, Millions of Dollars to Fight Homelessness in Seattle
The band is playing in Seattle for the first time in years, and will be donating $1 million toward efforts combating homelessness in the city and county.
Pearl Jam is headed back to the Seattle stage, and will be bringing a purpose to the performance. The band is announcing “The Home Shows” — two shows at Safeco Field taking place on Aug. 8 and 10. Not only will the legendary Seattle band be performing “the largest headlining concert event in Seattle since…
We Went to the Opening Party for SPiN Ping Pong Bar
The event uniquely captured Seattle's current odd cultural moment.
Descend the stately brass stairwell from the door on 6th Avenue and you’ll find yourself not in elegant, if old-fashioned, Morton’s Steakhouse with white tablecloths and french doors that formerly occupied the space, but in SPiN a concrete warehouse space with street-art murals pulsing with bass from the DJ booth. It’s crowded, and the wall of…
Alaska Airlines’ New Uniforms by Designer Luly Yang Are Ready For Take Off
Fasten your chic-belts.
Alaska Airlines debuted a new uniform collection with more than 90 items–clothing and accessories– designed by the darling of Seattle’s fashion scene, Luly Yang, on Thursday. Thousands of Alaska and Virgin America Airline employees filled an airplane hangar at SeaTac that had been fitted with a 30-foot runway and three large screens to ensure that…
Is the Jewish Deli Seattle’s Next Restaurant Trend?
Whether or not they're the next big thing Seattle, we’re definitely looking forward to an influx of knishes and kipper salmon in 2018.
The last five years have happily marked the rise of new-wave Jewish delis across the country. Russ & Daughters, the 100-year-old New York staple, expanded to include two new cafes. Mamaleh’s in Cambridge Massachusetts was nominated for Bon Appetit’s Best New Restaurant of 2017. Atlanta’s deli-meets-brasserie, General Muir, has been nominated for three James Beard…
Must List: St. Vincent, “Trojan Women,” Dark Beer and Chili
Your weekly guide to Seattle's hottest events.
MUST SEE Trojan Women: A Love Story (1/16–1/28) “My plays are broken, jagged, filled with sharp edges,” says American playwright Charles Mee. “That feels good to me.…It feels like the world. And then I like to put this…into a classical form, or some other effort at civilization.” Mee has done just this with this student…
Find Island Style and Innkeeper Memories at the Jerk Shack
Much has remained at this Belltown bar and restaurant, but the menu has a spicy new kick to it.
Our local bar and restaurant scene is ever-changing – which keeps things hopping, but also sadly can mean a spot you liked is replaced. Sometimes the new place is worse, sometimes better. Rarely, though, when one restaurant moves in to a space previously occupied by another does it keep the same character – or cigar-box…