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Wearable and Responsible Kids’ Jeans
Bainbridge Island-based Kicky Pants has super-soft jeans for kids that you'll feel good about buying
For kids who say “no!” to wearing too-stiff denim jeans, local parents Erin and Nick Cloke offer an alternative: cute, kicky denim styles made from eco-friendly and ultrasoft bamboo. The Bainbridge Island pair, owners of KICKY PANTS kids’ clothing (kickypants.com), use bamboo denim for their collections of kids’ jeans, which come in dark and light…
Laura Veirs’ New Kids Album
The Portland artist's latest, Tumble Bee, is filled with American folk classics and charming lullabi
Too often, music that has the power to soothe a savage toddler meltdown is tooth-achingly sweet; downright intolerable for adults. Not so with the new release by Portland-based musician Laura Veirs. Her new kids’ album, Tumble Bee, is filled with spirited American folk classics, charming lullabies that meander into minor keys and a even a…
Meet Me at the Burger Brawl
Stuffed with beautiful pictures of giant burgers, shimmering with cheese- and bacon-covered goodness, our January Best Burgers issue makes me want a burger so bad, sometimes it hurts. I don’t think I’m alone. The tireless Seattle mag event staff has kicked it into high gear and organized a creative new event called the Burger…
Downton Abbey: An Antidote to Our Confused, Crass Times
PBS’ Masterpiece hit series returned this Sunday and proved itself more than worth the money I, inexplicably, shelled out for local TV in the meantime. WHAT IT IS: The best thing to further confuse and distort Americans’ perceptions of historical events since Mad Men. NO, REALLY, WHAT IS IT? An all around well-made British drama…
The week’s best local sales: Sweet frocks at SPUN, Clementine’s shoe sale and 75% off wares at Sur La Table
If there is still any room left in the budget after paying off those holiday credit card bills, here are three local spots to stop by this week for killer sales deals of up to 75% off (hey, it’s never too early to shop for next Christmas, is it?): Local designer Sara Seumae is making…
Caspar Babypants Has Two New Books
The West Seattle rock'n'roller is more in to bedtime stories these days.
One of the heavy hitters in Seattle’s booming “kindie rock” scene is branching out into books. West Seattle’s Caspar Babypants (aka Chris Ballew of the Presidents of the United States of America) has teamed up with his wife, artist Kate Endle, to release two kids’ books, complete with sweet sing-along songs. MY WOODLAND WISH ($16.99),…
Rejected Ideas for Seattle’s World’s Fair
From a Space Needle atop Mount Rainier to a “Carveyor,” Knute Berger dishes on the World’s Fair that
The Seattle world’s fair of 1962 is fixed in civic memory: the Space Needle, the Science Center, the Monorail. But just as interesting as the fair that was is the fair that wasn’t. The Century 21 Exposition had many possible incarnations that remained on the drawing board. So consider this column the opposite of Elvis…
Reader, I Ate An Entire Cow
Indulge me as I complain about my job, just this once. I know, I realize that it’s not easy to imagine how eating for a living could be anything but a glamorous, caviar-studded chimera wherein breakfast, lunch and dinner consist of splendid gastronomic fairyland moments of bliss. It really is that, most of the time….
The 25 Best Burgers in Seattle
We dare you to try them all.
Oh, thank you, Earl of Sandwich, the first man to put meat between slices of bread. And thank you, too, people of Hamburg, Germany, who, legend has it, made a steak of ground meat and called it a hamburger. That was 300 years ago, give or take. Since then, the splendid taste of a salty-meaty…
Four fun facts about the floating-bridge commute
Things are settling down a bit for us cross-lake commuters, but it’s hard to say if next week will be better or worse. On the one hand, according to WSDOT, people are still deciding what their commute will be as tolling continues for the next 45 years. Some who tried to outwit the toll monsters…
Our Famous Friends’ Favorite Burgers
Local notables' share their favorite burgers, and how they take them.
1. Knute Berger (Crosscut columnist and editor-at-large of Seattle magazine): The Scoop Burger at Scoop Du Jour ($8.95) in Madison Park, without cheese but with tomatoes, pickles, onions, and a pile of shredded lettuce. 2. Jesse Jones (KING 5 consumer reporter): The regular Beef Verde Burger at Red Mill ($6.38), with bacon and lots of…
Best Yuppie Burgers
Upscale, expensive burgers worth every penny.
We’re living in some peculiar culinary times: Geoduck has been upgraded from anonymous chowder clam to star of the raw bar, and the food illuminati eat beef tongue and sweetbreads, know the names of egg farmers and have gotten awfully snooty about their strawberries. And now we’re seeing burgers that cost more than a used…
Best 5 Burgers Under $5
With these burgers, you have plenty of cash left over for delicious brews or desserts.
Hamburger All the WayFive GuysRenton, Northgate and Redmond$4.99Sure, it’s a national chain, but at clean, bright and friendly Five Guys, you’ll find what is easily one of the best burgers around for $5. The best part: All the toppings—grilled onions and mushrooms, pickles, lettuce, tomatoes, green peppers, jalapeños, relish and more—are free. Bacon CheeseburgerBroiler BayBellevue$4.69Charbroiled…
Best Beefy Burgers
The classics you crave: from mushroom swiss to plain ol' American burger.
All-American BurgerButcher’s Grind House Burger at Local 360 Belltown$11 The rustic, casual Belltown spot’s outstanding burger is made of a secret blend of local beef cooked perfectly medium, as requested, and has a nice steak-like flavor, a loosely bound texture and a salty crust. Comes with a gorgeous slice of tomato, a pile of greens,…
Recommended Reading Inspired by The Off Hours
If you missed the latest installment of The Off Hours reading series at Sole Repair last night, you missed several special moments: A man proposed to his girlfriend on top of the bar at intermission; reader Jose Bold found 100 dollars in the bathroom and bought drinks for everyone within earshot; and just before the…
Fashion + Style Friday: New downtown blow-dry bar, Suzabelle’s spring collection and darling locally made daypacks
Now that we are all back from the holidays (well, physically at least, my brain might still be on vacation) it’s time to welcome back our weekly round-up of all things related to shopping and style: – Mane Blow Dry Bar opens up shop today at 7th and Pine downtown and holy moly, have they…
A Chat with Mario Campos, Chef of The Publican
Fremont beer temple Brouwer’s opened its sibling bar/restaurant, The Publican, in Greenlake’s Tangletown neighborhood last week, revamping the former Bandolero space into an upscale neighborhood pub. For Mario Campos, Brouwer’s former sous-chef, it’s his opportunity to finally run his own show. “It’s a really interesting type of art,” says the 28-year-old longtime Seattle resident, who…
The Must List: Delicious Pho, Downton Abbey and Smash Putt!
MUST TASTEPho at Pho BacEveryone already has their favorite pho spot. Our food editor Allison Austin Scheff’s heart belongs to the once purple but now red (and boat-shaped!) Pho Bac, on the corner of 14th and Jackson. It earns that distinction partly for sentimental reasons, partly because of the kitsch of the plastic flowers hanging…
Today’s quandry: A latte or an easy commute?
If you’re an east-west driver, you’ve already grappled with this one: Is it worth the price of two lattes to breeze across the lake? With peak tolls running $3.50 each way ($5 if you don’t have a “Good to Go” pass; $200 a month, people!), that 520 bridge is now a serious budget item for…
New Tiffany Colors Creative Studio Debuts at the Pioneer Square Art Walk Tonight
When Tiffany Lowry, one of our favorite local beauty and makeup experts (see: her appearance in our Best of 2011 issue), got rained out of yet another photoshoot this fall, she decided it was high time to have a dedicated (non-drippy) place to create glorious hair and makeup styles. Lowry (left) with frequent collaborator…
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