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Local Spirits and Liqueurs to Sip After Thanksgiving
One of the best days of the year, Thanksgiving delivers a big, bountiful meal. It’s a meal where almost everyone overindulges (it’s so hard not to with all the good food). But don’t just sit around feeling overfull, sip on one of the local digestifs below and help aid your digestion. Or, if you’re feeling…
The Must List: Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, 24th Annual Gingerbread Village and Can’t-Miss Local Retail Events
Must Watch Balanchine’s The Nutcracker (11/25-12/28, times vary) It’s one of Seattle’s favorite holiday traditions, and this year marks the sophomore season for Pacific Northwest Ballet’s revamped and redesigned version of The Nutcracker as choreographed by George Balanchine. The two-act ballet promises ballet fans—especially young ones—visions of sugar plums dancing. mccawhall.com Must WonderSheraton Seattle’s 24th…
8 Creative Accents to Set Your Holiday Table Apart
Give fall meals flair with decorations and serving pieces you make—or make better—yourself
This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. It’s that time of year again, when dried leaves crunch under the soles of your boots, the evening air is crisp and it’s time to gather with family and friends for food and drink. I recently asked some experts — including a stylist, a florist and a chef —…
Band of the Week: Talktin and Easy
A new project from the Seacats universe and "Milton's Orchids" single premiere
With so much happening in Seattle’s bustling music scene these days, how do you even know where to start? Allow the highly trained culture curators of Seattlemag.com to help with Band of the Week. This week, we catch up with Josh Davis from Talktin and Easy, a spin off from the cast of Weezer-worshipping musicians…
Validated, a New App, Gets You Around the City for Free
Like many Seattleites, Tov Arneson enjoys the growing riches of restaurants and shops the city offers. But he found that the cost of getting to these spots—in parking fees or via a rideshare service—was becoming a challenge. That’s when he and his friend Ian Lyman came up with an idea: Why not let businesses buy…
Seattle’s Future World: Our Crystal Ball Predictions, Part 3
Trying to predict the future is humbling—but even when we know we’ll probably be wildly wrong, it’s fodder for good conversation
Click here for Seattle’s Future World: Our Crystal Ball Predictions, Part 2 The Melting of the Seattle FreezeIn 30 years, the climate will be a little nicer and the Seattle Freeze will have melted. All that will be left of our purported Nordic lack of camaraderie will be a few puddles of aloofness and a spattering…
Seattle’s Future World: Our Crystal Ball Predictions, Part 2
Trying to predict the future is humbling—but even when we know we’ll probably be wildly wrong, it’s fodder for good conversation
Click here for Seattle’s Future World: Our Crystal Ball Predictions, Part 1 Policing the City Acknowledging the potential game-changing repercussions of even a single unanticipated variable (say a cataclysmic act of terrorism, or “The Big One” in the Cascadia subduction zone), I hazard this guess of what the Seattle Police Department will look like in 25…
Seattle’s Future World: Our Crystal Ball Predictions, Part 1
Trying to predict the future is humbling, but even when we know we'll probably be wildly wrong, it's fodder for good conversation
Had I been making predictions about the future back in the 1960s, I would have been wildly wrong. Monorails aren’t whisking us everywhere. Flying cars haven’t made freeways obsolete. The Kingdome didn’t outlast us all. Supersonic jets never caught on—in fact, not building them helped plunge Seattle into a deep recession. People who did bet on…
Three Impressions of Flint Creek Cattle Co.
Opening just a few weeks ago on October 24th, after a little wait (due to building out their big space and the tragic explosion up the block), Greenwood’s FlintCreek Cattle Co. is from the same folks behind Fremont’s popular RockCreek. I recently ducked in to FlintCreek with my wife and a pal to check out…
Bedtime Stories: Dress Your Guest Room to Impress
This story originally appeared on Houzz.com. With the holidays just around the corner, it’s time to consider the best ways to host your houseguests. The following checklist has 12 ways to make overnight visitors as comfortable as possible. We follow a guest’s journey from arrival to awakening, pausing to reflect on the elements that will…
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