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Get Ready for the Second Annual Seattle Boylesque Festival
Expect acrobatics, fire performers and straight up stripping at the April 28 and 29 shows
If you live in Seattle, chances are you’ve heard of burlesque – the sex- and body-positive cabaret-style performance art that includes showing a little (or a lot of) skin. But, what you may not have heard of is boylesque, the all male version of this art form. Interested? Good! Because on Thursday, April 28, and…
Celebrate National Poetry Month with Poems and Local Spirits
Poem and local spirit combos to help you honor the most poetic month of the year
It’s April, which means National Poetry Month is in full poetic swing. In honor of that, and because reading poems and having a good drink go together in such a lovely manner, I have some poem-and-local-spirit combos to help you celebrate the month right. (Last year, we paired poems with drinks at local bars, but…
Sugarfina candy boutique launches at Downtown Seattle Nordstrom
Beverly-Hills based candy boutique also hits Alderwood Nordstrom on April 29
If your idea of candy involves two guys named Mike and Ike, get ready to have your mind blown. Beverly Hills-based candy boutique, Sugarfina, make premium caramels, chocolates and gummies sourced from artisan candy makers around the world. And they’re setting up a permanent little space – not a full-fledged boutique like the one in…
Where do our Food Writers Really Dine?
Our food critics' choices offer a tasty peek into their eating habits
Sure, it’s their job to chase down and road-test the latest trends and hot spots, but where do our food writers really dine? What do they recommend to friends and visitors looking for a restaurant? Our food critics’ choices offer a tasty peek into their eating habits. Jessica YadegaranSeattle magazine food editor Jessica Yadegaran grew…
Winners of our Best Restaurants Readers’ Choice Poll
We asked and you voted: Reader picks for the best in the city
Best Neighborhood RestaurantPorkchop & Co.Ballard, 5451 Leary Ave. NW; 206.257.5761; eatatporkchop.com Best Eastside RestaurantCafé Juanita Kirkland, 9702 NE 120th Place; 425.823.1505; cafejuanita.com Best Splurge RestaurantCanlis Queen Anne, 2576 Aurora Ave. N; 206.283.3313; canlis.com Best Cheap-eats PlaceDick’s Drive-In Multiple locations; ddir.comBest BrunchSix Seven RestaurantBelltown, at The Edgewater Hotel, 2411 Alaskan Way; 206.269.4575; edgewaterhotel.com Best Independent Coffee ShopCitizen…
What Makes a ‘Seattle Dog’?
The cheesy story of Seattle’s signature snack
Most of us associate cream cheese with a certain mid-Atlantic city—but slather it on a frankfurter and suddenly the all-American food-cart fave becomes a “Seattle Dog.” So, what gives? Former Seattleite Hadley Long is widely credited with starting the craze in the late 1980s, when he sold bagels in Pioneer Square. “I didn’t want to…
ChefSteps’ Cofounder Dishes on his Colorful, Accessible Wardrobe
ChefSteps cofounder shares his recipe for great style
STEP BY STEP: For the past three years, Grant Crilly, cofounder of Seattle startup ChefSteps (chefsteps.com), has whetted the appetites of more than a million followers worldwide with his company’s instructional videos, which break down the most difficult of recipes for home cooks at all levels. This attainable culinary credo has garnered ChefSteps devoted users…
Foodie alert! Denmark’s My New Roots blogger Sarah Britton comes to Tallulah’s
Capitol Hill restaurant hosts family-style dinner for wildly popular blogger
Plant-based eating is growing faster than a zucchini at the height of summer (you know who you are, growers of mammoth squash). In Seattle, healthy, fast-casual restaurants like Sweetgrass Food Co (downtown) and just-opened Jujubeet Cafe (Bellevue) are finally making kale something to crave. In the global blogosphere, it is people like Sarah Britton of Copenhagen,…
Recipe of the Week: Spring Green Salad with Lemon Feta Dressing
Seattle health guru Sarah Adler calls this one a 'life changer'
What happens when you grab a few ingredients and throw them into a bowl? If you’re me: a giant disaster. If you’re the savvy Queen Anne-based cookbook author, nutrition coach and Simply Real Health blogger Sarah Adler, you get a beautiful bowl of pure magic. Adler concocted this springy salad with a zesty lemon feta…
Seattle Superheroes: Sub Pop Founder Bruce Pavitt
The Emerald City music legend is a superhero
Seattle Superheroes is a regular series on seattlemag.com wherein artists depict standout people in our community as superheroes. While we’ve taken some artistic license with the narratives, the sentiment behind them is very real. Once upon a time, a young man found himself in his dorm room tinkering with a few ideas. The college? Evergreen….
Must See: brownsville song (b-side for tray) at the Seattle Rep
The new play at the Seattle Rep is emotional and wonderful
When the house lights go down, all you can see on stage is a small, smoldering fire. It’s a symbol for many things, including the survival of the human spirit, the love a parent has for a child and the little light we keep burning as we hope for a better day. This little fire stays…
7 Ways to Make Your Bedroom a Sanctuary
Get a dreamy and relaxing bedroom with these decorating moves
This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. Your bedroom can be more than just a place to sleep. It can also be your inner sanctum, where you begin and end the day by reading, relaxing or just unwinding. If your bedroom needs more serenity and less drama, try these seven ideas to create the comfortable, restful…
6 Seattle Restaurants with Designs that Wow
Prettiness on the plate this year is only rivaled by inventive, transporting restaurant design
Stateside Capitol Hill, 300 E Pike St.; 206.557.7273; statesideseattle.comThe breezy, tropical feel of Stateside is the work of Callie Meyer (barnardandmeyer.com), a local photo stylist who traveled through Vietnam for a month with co-owner Seth Hammond and chef/co-owner Eric Johnson. Given full control of the interiors, Meyer used places she visited in Hanoi as inspiration….
Three New Seattle Steak Houses to Try Now
Sure, veggies are pretty, but bring on the steak
In late October, Americans got their collective panties in a twist when a meeting of experts brought together by the World Health Organization concluded that red meat “probably” causes cancer. That “probably” is a loaded one—scientists found a limited link in studies, yes, but the evidence isn’t sufficient to make us give up on steak…
Where to Buy the Best Loaves of Bread in the City
Pricey loaves and why they’re worth it
Artisanal bread has deep roots in Seattle’s food culture; Essential Baking has been making organic hearth breads here since 1998, and Grand Central (based in Portland, Oregon) arrived to open its first Seattle bakery in 1989. But since Columbia City Bakery—maker of what many consider the best breads in Seattle—opened a decade ago, there’s been…
The Best Restaurants in Seattle 2016
In a city of ever-changing flavors, we invite you to tuck into our tastiest year yet
The Best of Dining NowWith the rapid-fire succession of restaurant openings we’ve experienced of late comes an equally great diversity of cuisine. The days of Pacific Northwest Pan Asian fare are long gone as chefs drill down to the nichiest of foods in a culinary showcase that can only be described as fabulous. Behold, some…
Chef Ericka Burke on Surviving in the Kitchen and Skipping the Ego
The Volunteer Park Cafe chef and owner will host her FareStart Guest Chef Night on April 21
Sponsored by FareStart Seattle’s Ericka Burke knows a thing or two about being at the helm of successful restaurants. In 1994, she opened the grab-and-go health food cafe Sweet Potato while living in New York and, after a mere six months, had expanded to three total locations. She served as executive chef at the now-shuttered…
Instagram Inspiration: Tacos and Tequila
We're craving this combo of zesty flavors
I’m originally from Santa Barbara, Calif., and although I love living here in Seattle, sometimes I get a little homesick for the fiery salsas, fresh, hot tortillas and marinated meats that are common in Southern California cuisine. But there’s no shortage of flavorful tacos and of course, the accompanying margaritas here in Seattle. From Red…
The Must List: Cinema de Paris, Ahamefule Oluo at the Moore
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must ScreenSeattle Art Museum Presents Cinema de Paris(3/31 to 5/26, times vary) This series is a salute to Paris and features the Seattle restoration premieres of seven films by Claude Sautet starring Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Romy Schneider. Also included are films by Jacques Becker, Claude Autant-Lara and Francois Truffaut….
New Exhibit Explores the Legacy of Cornish College of the Arts
Unveiling the history of Cornish College of the Arts
THROUGH 5/1 David Martin, curator of the newly opened Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, may well be our region’s leading authority on Northwest art history. His extensive knowledge, which encompasses the many forgotten strains of local painters and photographers, has been put to great use in creating Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Centennial Tribute to…
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