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Fried Rice and Pastrami? Yes, It’s Really Good
This noodle house’s best dish doesn’t actually include noodles
This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Even if you’re the sort of food fanatic who can’t overhear the word “fusion” without a lethal dose of side-eye, hear us out: Reckless Noodle House, which opened in the Central District in January, is making a wok-kissed, salty-sweet fried rice ($16) whose star…
Change of Haute: Seattle’s Fashion Scene Is Undergoing a Sea Change
Our city's fashion scene is morphing, much like the Seattle waterfront. This fall, we're embracing stylish and refreshingly practical looks.
This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Photography by Hayley Young | Creative Direction by Andrew Hoge | Styling by Angeline Brunk As our city’s skyline reaches new heights, there is a true sense of change; familiar landmarks are undergoing redesign, and we welcome hundreds of new residents from around the…
Reconsidering Seattle’s Unwritten Rules of Conduct
Where some Seattle behaviors are concerned, Knute Berger is coming around to the need for a little more broad-mindedness
Right of Way: In the past, ferry captains often had an audio signature that identified them; today, that blast probably signals a boater playing chicken
Check Out These Bright New Textiles for Gray Seattle
Pulp Design Studios in Queen Anne is partnering with renowned fabric company S. Harris on their first textile collection
This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Pulp Design Studios’ principal interior designers, Beth Dotolo and Carolina V. Gentry, love color. They also understand the stereotypical Pacific Northwest aversion to it. Textiles, they say, are perhaps the easiest—and least committal—way to incorporate new colors and patterns into Northwest home decor. To…
Look Smart at One of These Elliott Bay Book Company-Produced Events
It’s time to trade in your trashy summer novels for something with more substance
This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. It’s time to trade in your trashy summer novels for something with more substance; look smart at one of these Elliott Bay Book Company–produced events 9/4 Kim Brooks discusses her Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear, which explores how and why parenting…
This Week Then: 50 Years Ago, 20,000 Hippies Converged in Washington for the Sky River Rock Festival
The event featured Santana, Grateful Dead and many more 60s legends. Plus: The time Elvis Presley performed where Bumbershoot will be held this weekend and more from this week in our state's history
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Sky River Rock Fifty years ago this week, on August 30, 1968, hordes of hippies descended on Sultan near the Skykomish River for the Sky River Rock Festival, one of America’s first multi-day, outdoor rock concerts. Over the next three days, approximately 20,000 fun-loving freaks frolicked…
Must List: Bumbershoot, Summer Rewind Film Festival, Bremerton Blackberry Festival
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MUST LOVE MUSIC Bumbershoot(8/31–9/2) Bumbershoot is supposed to be a festival, but it’s always had a slightly melancholy end-of-summer vibe—and it doesn’t help that it’s named after an umbrella, callously reminding us that eight months of rain are around the corner. Bold-face names in this year’s lineup include Lil Wayne and Fleet Foxes; other offerings…
How Backyard Cottages Could Help Seattle’s Homeless Problem
Through the Block Project, one Seattle Family is opening its heart -- and its backyard- to a homeless man
Once homeless, Bobby Desjarlais, right, now lives in a small home built in the backyard of Dan Tenenbaum and Kim Sherman’s Beacon Hill property
The New Seattle Restaurants Doing One Thing and Doing It Well
This is the year of the singular sensation
This article appears in print as the cover story of the September 2018 issue. Read more from the Best of the Best Restaurants feature story here. Click here to subscribe. Westman’s Bagel and CoffeeCapitol Hill, 1509 E Madison St.; westmansbagel.comSure, there are other bagel shops in Seattle. But none so closely resemble that East Coast staple—and, perhaps more importantly,…
A 12th Man Guide To Tailgating
When your blood runs green and blue, here’s how to tailgate like a true 12
This article appears in print in the September 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Catching the game on TV garbed in team colors is fine, but during home games, the most dedicated Seahawks fans take it to the next level. Want to join them this year? You have options. Head to the fenced-off, pedestrian-based Hawk Alley Tailgate area…
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