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Belltown Unites for the Homeless
Save Your Sole consignment boutique and other Belltown/Midtown businesses have joined together in Belltown Unites, a partnership dedicated to helping keep some of the 2,500 homeless people sleeping on the streets of Seattle warm this winter. Each business has created a special promotion to donate warm wool blankets to the homeless community with a goal…
A Smart Conversation about Guns
Last night, Town Hall hosted a forum on gun violence that didn’t devolve into a shouting match and included only one mention of Ann Coulter. Entitled “Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis,” this first of three February civic forums was an evidence-based look at the patterns, impact and cost of gun-related “unintentional” deaths, suicide and…
Local Bartenders to Compete in Speed Rack
This Sunday, Speed Rack comes to Seattle. This local iteration of the national batending competition will feature top local “mixtresses” from Seattle, Portland, Spokane and Denver competing in timed heats in which they mix cocktails picked randomly from a selection of 50 classics. Judges evaluate each drink on accuracy, taste and presentation. This rounds’ judging…
Help Kickstart Michael Cepress
I’m a little obsessed with Kickstarter—the popular crowd-funding website—and often get lost in the site, checking out the cool, weird and improbable campaigns that people launch. I’ve always loved the thought of being a benefactor, and Kickstarter is a great way to do that on a micro-level, since a few bucks often makes all the…
Vancouver-Based Aritzia to Open at University Village
Vancouver, BC-based retailer, Aritzia, has announced that their first Seattle location will open on March 14 in University Village. If the name is familiar, it’s because they already have a boutique in Bellevue Square, their first in the US, which has been open since 2007. The brand started out as one boutique in Vancouver in…
Seattle Reign Owner Has Tough Words for the Sounders
Last we spoke with Seattle entrepreneur Bill Predmore, he was discussing his love of Pop and street art (if you liked the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, his personal art collection would have you drooling). These days he’s gearing up for the first season of Seattle Reign, the first professional women’s soccer team in…
Sugar Coated: Previewing the February 2013 Issue
Editorial director Rachel Hart reflects on the bigger picture of our latest issue.
About a year ago, hereditary cholesterol issues started catching up with me and I gave up cheese, after my doctor told me, “It’s like pouring fat directly into your veins.” That pretty much took all the fun out of it (thanks, Marti!), though I still occasionally indulge in a few crackers full of my favorite…
A Treasure Trove in Ballard
A new vintage boutique offering fashion and home wares.
After years of thrift-shopping for personal wear and pleasure, vintage fans Sara Leonard and Cyrena Preszler, took the plunge into retail last October, opening Trove Vintage Boutique in Ballard. This treasure-filled shop, with walls of lemon yellow and white stripes, accented by robin’s egg blue, and lit by hanging Mason jar pendant lamps, is filled…
Field Guide to Seattle Chocolate & Candy
The complete compendium of Seattle’s best sugary treats including plenty of chocolate.
No gift rings more cliché than a box of chocolate or candy for Valentine’s Day—except maybe in Seattle. Our city harbors a mind-blowing array of amazing boutique chocolate producers, from purveyors such as Fran Bigelow, whose famous brand Fran’s is now in its 30th year, to sourcing experts such as Theo Chocolate, which is now…
Sweets + Lardo = Drooling Over Seattle Mag’s Chocolate Issue
Leslie Kelly experiences severe cravings while perusing our latest issue.
What a bittersweet mistake! I sat down late last night with the February issue of Seattle mag, and immediately started drooling over the gorgeous photos and mouthwatering prose describing the city’s finest chocolate makers and treat purveyors. [Get a digital copy for your tablet here.] The big bad burn was that my cupboards were bare,…
Best Brioche at Seattle Bakeries
The buttery shape-shifting dough, somewhere between bread and cake, appears in local bakeries as rolls, buns and shells filled with a delicious array of the sweet and the savory. Inès PatisserieNohra Belaid’s crème fraîche brioche hails straight from her home region in France and arrives as a crimped, tart-like shell with a warm crème fraîche…
It’s Not Easy Building Green
A Seattle neighborhood's complaints about a "deep green" building raise key questions about zoning.
She is nine months pregnant on this sunny fall day. But that doesn’t stop Katherine Bragdon from taking a walk (more like a waddle) from her picture-perfect, red-shingled Wallingford bungalow to the nerve center of the neighborhood where Stone Way rolls down to the north shore of Lake Union. “South Wallingford is a special neighborhood,…
Try the Tropical Flavors of Rumba
A block east of Pike and Boren’s clamorous intersection, Rumba offers a brief Caribbean idyll.
Island DrinksFrom the lovingly displayed 250-ish brands of rum and rhum behind the bar, it’s immediately evident that owner Travis Rosenthal and manager Kate Perry (both of Tango restaurant, Rumba’s next-door neighbor) want the spot to be a shrine to these sun-infused spirits. If you aren’t familiar with it, rhum is distilled from fresh sugar…
Unlocking Lake Union’s Underwater Mysteries
Unlocking Lake Union’s waterlogged secrets—one sunken treasure at a time.
The beam of a scuba diver’s flashlight cuts through murky water, illuminating sediment that resembles an ash storm at night, until the glow catches on something white. It’s the hull of a World War II minesweeper, coated in algae and mud, completely intact, with rooms and corridors, even a mess, you could still walk around…
Meat-focused Bars Are the New Black
Serving cured, smoked and sliced meats seems to be a hot trend around Capitol Hill bars.
If three of a kind constitutes a trend, then bars that serve cured, smoked and sliced meats are the new black, at least on Capitol Hill. First came Cure, the wee bar in an alley behind Broadway, which opened two years back. There charcuterie and cheeses, olives and pickles, Euro wines, several beers and cocktails…
The Diverse Pleasures of Red Mountain Wines
The petite Red Mountain AVA packs a punch when it comes to flavor—and diversity of wines.
For years, Red Mountain has been known for its intense red wines, produced by wineries all over the state that gain high scores and fetch high prices. But as the 12-year-old American Viticultural Area (AVA) develops, people are also starting to talk about its growth, diversity of vineyards and uniqueness of terroir—right down to the…
Searching for Sasquatch
A Seattle scientist plays skeptic on Animal Planet' shit show 'Finding Bigfoot'.
Let’s be clear: Scientist Ranae Holland, who can be seen on the Animal Planet reality show Finding Bigfoot tromping around various woods, sporting night-vision gogs and listening carefully to weird sounds, absolutely does not believe Sasquatch exists. Nevertheless, the 42-year-old research field biologist, who attended the University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences…
The Perfect Leather Tote
We love this bag collection from Tacoma-based designer Laurel Dasso.
A simple leather tote bag, reliably versatile and able to carry almost anything asked of it, can weather the winds of time. In fact, a little bit of weathering, over years of use, is exactly what makes classic leather bags so perfect. It is in that spirit (simple, durable, affordable) that Tacoma-based designer Laurel Dasso…
Extra Starch: Previewing the January 2013 Issue
Our editor-in-chief reflects on the bigger picture of the latest issue of Seattle magazine.
When we were brainstorming ideas for our January issue, thinking about what we crave this time of year and pontificating on what constitutes Seattle’s ultimate comfort food, it didn’t take long to come to the conclusion. When winter (OK, fall) comes to Seattle, we chase away the damp chill with giant, steaming bowls of noodles,…
Deathcake Ice Cream, Music Videos on the Big Screen and Other Weekend Musts
MUST TASTE Deathcake Ice CreamCupcake Royale is expanding its line of cupcake-inspired ice creams to include a devilishly rich Deathcake flavor. If you haven’t tried it before, the Deathcake is a tiny cupcake that packs a wallop of intense chocolate. Find the new flavor through February only at Cupcake Royale scoop shops in Ballard, Capitol…
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