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What to See this Fall: Theater
Angels in America [DRAMA]This year’s edition of the Intiman Theatre Festival features Tony Kushner’s mid-1990s exegesis of the AIDS crisis, the two-part creation collectively known as Angels in America. Featuring stellar local talent, including Marya Sea Kaminski (as the angel), Jennifer Zeyl (set design) and Mark Mitchell (costume design), the production will remind viewers…
What to do This Fall: New Arts Venues
Fresh arts spaces are popping up all over
Read all of our picks for fall arts, including music, theater, film and more here. FILM: We first heard the glorious news back in May: SIFF is taking over the lease on the Egyptian Theatre, and will renovate and reopen the historic space as a year-round movie theater. The grand opening is set for October,…
Behold, the Glorious Bake Sale at Café Pettirosso
Did you realize that Café Pettirosso on Capitol Hill, once closed on Mondays, now opens its door specifically to hold what is arguable this city’s best (only?) bake sale every week? For the past month or so, sisters Yukiko and Miki Sodos have been using their cute little café—nearly hidden with all the recent construction…
A Creative Trio Takes Interior Design to an Arty Level
Electrifying interior spaces with hand-drawn wallpaper, intricate art installations and more
If you’ve been to the seafood joint Westward, at the foot of Wallingford on the north shore of Lake Union, you’ve likely noticed an oversize ship anchored to the wall behind its bar. But look more closely: Side-view cutaways in the vessel’s wooden hull reveal painstakingly crafted and layered dioramas (and a few are stocked…
Complete Strangers Get Close in this Photography Series
In Richard Renaldi’s photos, strangers share a fleeting moment of intimacy
They clasp hands, link arms or sometimes lay heads on each other’s shoulders. In a few cases, someone kisses another on the cheek. At first glance, New York photographer Richard Renaldi’s street portraits seem to be of oddly paired friends—people you wouldn’t expect to see hanging out together, who paused on the sidewalk for a…
Old World Home on the Bluff Even More Beautified
A 1924 Edmonds-area estate gets a landscape update worthy of its timeless prospect
Just because you’ve had the good fortune to realize that real estate mantra “location, location, location,” it still doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. Such was the case for a 1924 Tudor-style manse in Woodway (an exclusive enclave south of Edmonds harboring a coterie of grand old estates). Situated on a beautiful bluff overlooking…
The Unparalleled Cobb Salad at Matt’s In The Market
Matt (of MITM) turns the expected Cobb salad exceptional
There’s a rather famous item on the lunch menu at Matt’s In The Market (MITM), and it’s not the fried catfish sandwich. The Cobb Salad ($15) has been an afternoon delight at this Pike Place Market perch since 2010. What makes it so special are equal parts flavor and flair. It’s a pile of crispy…
Corretto–The Italian Restaurant On the Block
Delicious food and a neighborhood feel makes Corretto one of our favorites.
The biggest problem with Corretto (416 Broadway E; 206.328.7817; correttoseattle.com) is that it’s too easy to miss. It’s smack dab in the middle of Broadway, where loads of pedestrians walk by every single day without giving so much as a passing glance to anything new on their way to wherever. Owner Travis Rosenthal, who also…
Chinook Fest: A Reel Good Music Festival
Who likes music in the woods? Most Pacific Northwesterners, last time we checked
Perhaps the best way to introduce Chinook Fest–a Seattle-grown roots rock festival held in central Washington–is to explain that it currently occupies the desirable groove between fledgling production and overcrowded mobfest. Founded by Seattle band Cody Beebe & the Crooks three years ago, Chinook Fest has grown from a collection of close musical friends performing…
What to See This Fall: Visual Arts
Seattle Art Museum: Pop Departures Those Pop Art troublemakers have been at it for the last 60 years: shaking up everything we thought we knew about art by incorporating images from advertising, comic books and everyday cultural detritus to challenge the traditions of “fine art.” Now SAM mounts a major exhibition dedicated to showing…
New Fall Restaurant Openings in Capitol Hill
If you thought Capitol Hill reached its restaurant apex five years ago, you'd be wrong
The neighborhood is back for round two, with so many promising new restaurants this fall, it’s head-spinning. Interestingly enough, this time around, most of the new restaurants will be moving into old auto-row-era buildings. We are, after all, a city fond of repurposing. Toward the south end of the hill at Melrose and Pike, Tom…
The 50 Bands Rocking Seattle Music Right Now
Are you up on Seattle's music scene? Test your knowledge with these local bands
What’s your favorite current Seattle band? If you have trouble answering (or if you draw a blank after Macklemore), we’re not going to judge. But we are going to suggest it’s time to check in with the city’s thriving indie music scene. New local bands are exploring sounds, blurring genre boundaries (though we’ve wrestled them…
Four Locally Based Websites that are Changing the Way we Shop
The technology talent and Internet savvy in this town has spilled over into independent retail
Craft & Culture The only constant at Jason Parker and Hana Ryan Wilson’s excellent online marketplace, Craft & Culture (craftandculture.com), is the ever-evolving catalog of designers—local, national and international—who pass their elevated, edgy muster. Parker, who worked on a creative team at Nordstrom, and Wilson, an e-commerce expert, stock the shop with edgy and modern…
A Fresh Crop of Newly Opened Stores in Seattle
New store openings over the summer and into the fall are filling Seattle’s retail scene
[kids’ clothing] Totara Back in July, entertainment industry veteran Daya Marron opened Totara (Madrona, 1130 34th Ave.; 206.765.7581; totarakids.com), a kids’ shop, in the tiny Madrona spot formerly inhabited by Driftwood. Fall brings a collection of artful and design-focused clothing, decor accents, books and toys for newborns to 6-year-olds from organic and otherwise eco-friendly designers…
PLU’s First Doctorate Program: Nursing
Deadlines for applications to Tacoma’s Pacific Lutheran University’s very first doctoral program, a Doctor of Nursing Practice, are coming soon–November 15. The program will start in summer 2015. The degree allows nurses with a BSN degree to pursue a specialty as a family nurse practitioner and become eligible for licensure as advanced registred nurse practitioners…
6 Ways You Can Be the Ultimate 12th Fan
All the things you can do to be a true Seahawks fan this week
Football season is back and it kicks off right in our backyard with our beloved Seahawks playing the Greenbay Packers at CenturyLink Field. Let’s take a look back: Were we, the fans, the reason that the Seahawks won the Super Bowl? Probably not the only reason, but we sure did help. (We do have a…
Recipe of The Week: Pumpkin Spice Cake
Pumpkin spice and everything nice–that's what this cake is made of
My first sweater of the season, football, glimpses of yellow leaves swirling in the wind and falling to the ground—yup, all signs point to fall. And what better way to celebrate the official start of lovehandle-hiding clothes than a slice of pumpkin spice and caramel heaven? Heather Christo, Queen-Anne based entertainment expert extraordinaire and foodie…
(Not) Following Doctors’ Orders
It’s generally accepted that doling out advice is far easier than taking it. Doctors are no exception, as we found when we (nervously) asked physicians to confess to advice they give their patients but don’t follow themselves, and they gamely replied. “It’s often been said that nurses and doctors are the worst patients,” confirms Patricia…
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