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Exclusive Interview with Giuliana Rancic
On Sunday, September 14, 2014, E! host Giuliana Rancic hosted a champagne brunch benefiting Fab-U-Wish at Westfield Southcenter Mall. The event featured a runway fashion show, beauty bars, prizes, champagne and nibbles. Seattle magazine sat down with Giuliana for an exclusive interview following the event to hear her thoughts on the fundraiser.
The Must List: Beer Gardens, Robotics and a Lantern Parade
What to do this weekend
Must Go EastKirkland Arts Center’s InflorescenceOpens 9/20 — Roughly based around the concept of a cluster of flowers growing from a single stem (“inflorescence”), this group show features three Washington artists (Jean Bradbury, Lisa Conway and Patty Haller), each working from her own aesthetic but within a common theme of the plant world. Must DrinkBest…
But What Is Feast Portland Really About?
The third annual Feast Portland is underway. It kicked-off last night around 6 p.m. with the popular carbfest known as the Sandwich Invitational. For me, I’m wrapping up a three-day pre-Feast media trip that has been more educational than I had imagined, the focus being on where many Portland chefs source their food and produce….
Your Feast Portland Survival Guide
How to do the epic, four-day food frenzy right. (Hint: bite, bite, toss)
This week, the Northwest’s most star-studded food festival hits Portland for the third year, and attendees are gearing up for Feast’s epicurean onslaught. It’s four days of the most delicious, diet-busting, tastebud-dazzling food and drinks you can cram down your gullet. If you’re headed to Feast, we offer two rules for managing the madness. Rule…
#Throwback Thursday: 40 Years of Seattle Sounders Soccer
This week we’re celebrating Seattle’s premier soccer team’s 40th year
It was 1974 when the first iteration of Seattle’s superstar soccer team, the Sounders, was founded. Originally playing in the North American Soccer League, the team came out with a winning first season, but succeeded off the pitch (that’s a soccer field for any fùtbol neophytes) as well. The Sounders were the first team in…
Seven Sensational Spas in Seattle and on the Eastside
Soothe the senses with luxe treatments from seven of our favorite pampering spots
Sensory overload from the work week already? We’ve been there. Seattle has a host of lush locales to sweep you off of your tired, working feet. We’ve made your search trés facile by rounding up seven swanky spas located here and on the Eastside. We also chalked up some notes from our visits to help…
Filson Stays True to its Authentic Brand DNA
One of Seattle’s oldest retailers finds new life among authenticity-seeking millennials
The Filson flagship store sits near Safeco Field, at the base of an off-ramp from the tangle of elevated roadways that lead to the freeways. Most people drive past the unassuming building on Fourth Avenue South with nary a glance, let alone a clue as to the retail wonderland that lives inside—or the legacy of…
It’s Tailgating Season–Are You Ready?
Four drinks to make at your next Seahawks (or other beloved team) tailgating party
The college and pro football season has already kicked-off, but don’t worry, if your tailgating efforts to date have been a bit behind, there is still plenty of time for you to make a run towards tailgating triumph before the season’s end. Instead of the trotting out the same old drink formations, throw the below…
Home of the Week: An Angular Abode on the Medina Waterfront
Architect Wendell Lovett designed this home to have virtually no right angles
Each week, we’ll be featuring one Seattle-area home that we think is interesting, inspiring or just a downright feast for the eyes. Some of them, like the angular beauty spotlighted today, are actually on the market, while other homes will offer enviable style tips–courtesy of their ingenious owners–that you can steal for your own abode….
Local Mom Launches Service to Fight Hunger
A Laurelhurst mom aims to teach kids how they can help drive away hunger one car ride at a time
For Jennifer Porter, thinking inside the box led to inspiration: Two years ago, the mother of two elementary-age schoolchildren stashed a leftover box from a gingerbread decorating party in the trunk of her car, thinking to fill it with donations for area food banks. “Having it in the car kept it top of mind,” says…
What to See This Fall: Film
That Filmy Feeling’Tis the season when we’re starting to feel less guilty about heading out of the sun and into darkened movie theaters. Test the waters with the local premiere of Lynn Shelton’s new movie, Laggies, set in Seattle and starring Keira Knightley and Sam Rockwell, which SIFF will screen one night only (9/18; siff.net)…
Recipe of the Week: Baba Ghanoush
Eggplant is so September. Craft this easy and healthy recipe and wow your family and friends
Get your palates ready for a savory dish that originated in a land far, far away. Baba ghanoush, if you’ve never sampled it at any local Mediterranean eateries (like Petra on 4th and Wall…yum), is a Levantine dish made of roasted eggplant, garlic and fragrant olive oil. Heather Christo, Queen-Anne based chef, blogger, and enertainment…
8telier at Wear Wednesdays
W Seattle continues its Wear Wednesdays series on September 17 with 8telier, a new Seattle-based label that will very soon be well known for its chic, wearable, comfortable and slightly edgy clothing. We wrote about them in our current October issue—read all about them here then head downtown to the W for your chance to…
Gap’s #Dressnormal Pop Up Comes to Seattle
Sometimes a fashion phenomenon comes along that unexpectedly catches fire and this year, it’s Normcore. In case you’re out of the loop, Normcore is all about dressing, wait for it, normally. Which means sensibly, anonymously—conspicuously inconspicuous—in mom jeans, practical shoes, fleece and often an oversized tee shirt with a logo on it from the 90s…
Good God, Surge Soda is Back
I drank this in high school. And I eagerly await the moment I can do so again
There was a day during my sophomore year of high school (year withheld) when the marketing arm behind Coca-Cola’s newest fizzy bev Surge set up a table in The Commons (fancier term for cafeteria) and offered us all free cans of the citrusy, poor-man’s Mountain Dew. I remember this event as Surge Day, or the…
A Vegetarian Goes to The State Fair
There's a light at the end of the bacon-filled tunnel for the vegetarian fairgoer
I have been a vegetarian my whole life for cultural and animal rights reasons. I am a food lover as well. This may seem contradictory to some, but I have never felt like I was missing out on anything. And Seattle, out of all the places I have ever lived, is one of the most…
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