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Make It Work! Seattle’s Arts Enablers: Lyall Bush
Category: Arts + Events Articles In 2006 Lyall Bush took over the directorship of Richard Hugo House (hugohouse.org), Seattle’s premier center for writing and reading. Since then, he has revamped the organization’s programming by curating eclectic showcases of nationally known writers, such as Rick Moody, and local upstarts, such as David Schmader, while continuing…
Make It Work! Seattle’s Arts Enablers: Stuart Smithers
Category: Arts + Events Articles In 1993, Stuart Smithers, a professor of Buddhist studies at the University of Puget Sound, began work reinventing an old dairy farm near Arlington as a 360-acre arts utopia. Fifteen years after its inception, Smoke Farm (smokefarm.org; named after the original owners) is now a place where local artists…
Make It Work! Seatle’s Arts Enablers: Steve Peters
Category: Arts + Events Articles Musician Steve Peters heads Nonsequitur (nseq.blogspot.com), a nonprofit dedicated to experimental music and sound art. Since moving to the Pacific Northwest from Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2004, Peters has worked tirelessly for countless musicians, artists and poets in an effort to expand the city’s aural horizons. In March 2007,…
The Stylish Seattle Home: Crafting Comfort for Your Guests
Create a welcoming room for your summertime visitors
Category: NW Home Articles When summer arrives travel begins for many people, and that means preparing for houseguests. Whether your guests travel short or long distances, arriving to a room stocked with thoughtful amenities lets your guests know that you care about their comfort and the quality of their visit. With just a few…
Annie Leibovitz Comes to Seattle and Other Can’t Miss Events
Not that we're suggesting you miss a single event in our fall arts preview, but here is lean list of
Category: Arts + Events Articles Literary: 10/7 Marilynne RobinsonThe American novelist’s first book, Housekeeping, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and her second, Gilead, won one. Not too shabby for a literary get-go. She’s just published a third book, Home, a companion novel to Gilead, from which she’ll read at the Seattle Public Library….
Make It Work! Seattle’s Arts Enablers: Carlo Scandiuzzi
Category: Arts + Events Articles In the past year, ACT Theatre’s Central Heating Lab (acttheatre.org/Community/CentralHeatingLab.aspx)—an initiative providing space and resources for a wide range of up-and-coming artists to develop new work—has put on a showcase for local filmmakers, a poetry slam, a stand-up comedy night and a performance by the Seattle Dance Project, to…
Forget the South King County Jokes; Why You Should Head to Burien
Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles Just south of Seattle, nestled between Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Puget Sound, is Burien, one of the area’s oldest, longest-established communities. Any town with a 100-plus-year history is apt to have tales to tell, and Burien does: It languished for decades after Southcenter Mall, built in nearby Tukwila in…
Parisian Crepes In Seattle
Enjoy a cup of tea and a bite of sweet lemon and pancake; La Cote brings Parisian street food to the
Category: Eat + Drink Articles In Paris, where crêpes are considered street food, it’s easy to make a warm, quick, mobile meal of a thin pancake filled with Nutella or slices of ham and Gruyère. And while a handful of crêpe stands have popped up—most notably the yummy buckwheat versions at the U-District and…
Smells Like Teen Spirit When All-teen Dance Crew Hits the Paramount Stage
All-teen dance roster brings a fresh look at culture through dance
Category: Arts + Events Articles 7/19 • A veritable world tour of ethnically and stylistically diverse dance performances, ranging from Asian cultural dances to tap, the 10th annual DANCE This… has one foot, so to speak, in tradition and the other in innovation. The all-teen, all local roster of performers, including Apna Bhangra Crew,…
Fast and Fabulous
A Seattle Companies Prefab Homes
Category: NW Home Articles Looking for a stylish vacation home in a hurry? Check out Method Homes’ (9700 24th Ave., Seattle; 206.789.5553; methodhomes.net) first pre-fabricated, green modular home, The Method Cabin. Designed by Seattle’s Balance Associate Architects, the cabins are built fast, deliverable in just four to six months, but aren’t cookie-cutter. From…
Ballard’s Lunchbox Laboratory Reinvents the Burger Joint
In our July Cheap Eat, we'll show you where you can overindulge whild eating over-the-top comfort fo
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Scott Simpson knows comfort food: His Blue Onion Bistro (now under new ownership) became a cult favorite for its homey fare. He’s also flirted with high-end high jinks, sous vide steak and lobster corn dogs at the short-lived Fork. But he’s finally hit his full stride with Lunchbox Laboratory,…
The Saint: Get A Taste Of Mexico At This Capitol Hill Bar
Category: Eat + Drink Articles A little Mexican oasis on Capitol Hill, 5-month-old The Saint (1416 E Olive Way; 206.323.9922) lines up mucho tequila, fresh salsas and a breezy atmosphere TheVibe: Hipsters, dapper gay couples and career women frequent this jewelbox in the grit of Capitol Hill. Clean white walls and turquoise bluetrim, vintage…
Ballard Gets Some Much-needed Vietnamese Food
Even when tamed, the Monkey Tree offers uniquely Southeast Asian flavors
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Ballardites have long bemoaned their neighborhood’s lack of Vietnamese cuisine—cravings for anything beyond pho required going elsewhere. Not anymore: The Monkey Bridge, named for the river-spanning bridges common in rural Vietnam, opened in March in the once-stark corner space, formerly occupied by a pharmacy. The interior has been transformed…
Best of Shopping 2008 Vintage
Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles Best Shop for Whimsical Vintage Clothes Pretty Parlor Capitol Hill, 119 Summit Ave. E; 206.405.2883Anna Lange, owner of this fanciful closet-like shop, is impossibly picky about quality of fabric, pattern cuts and great colors for the vintage threads she stocks. She also repurposes vintage pieces for her House of…
Joule Brings East and West To the Table With Korean and French Flavors
Category: Eat + Drink Articles It’s unique, when you think about it. Unlike most cities, where the heights of gastronomy are found in glitzy downtown palaces, many of Seattle’s most intriguing eateries are tucked into tree-lined neighborhoods, waiting to be happened upon by diners who never suspect they’re about to have their world turned…
Enotria in Laurelhurst
Seattle's food editor dishes on her recent meal and asks: Did I order the wrong thing?
Category: Eat + Drink Articles When I’m served a clunky dish in a seemingly popular restaurant, my knee-jerk reaction is to assume that I’ve simply ordered the wrong thing. That’s what kept running through my mind at Enotria, the dimly lit Italian date spot that replaced Laurelhurst’s Union Bay Cafe last August. The pricey…
Tigertail Adds An Asian Twist to Ballard’s Growing Nightlife
Category: Eat + Drink Articles The Vibe: Toned-down tiki, with soft golden lighting and a sorghum-topped bar, draws a diverse crowd: hipster overflow from local watering hole The Tin Hat, local bungalow dwellers, Ballard fishermen and artisans who frequent a happy hour (Mon.–Sun., 3–6 p.m.) that offers $1 Pabst Blue Ribbons, $3 well drinks,…
Blueberry Fields Forever
Top picks of this year's U-picks
Category: Arts + Events Articles Arm yourself with a bucket and nimble fingers, and taste the sweet fruits of labor at one of the area’s U-pick blueberry farms. Along with acres open for berry-pickin’, farms also offer traditional array of blueberry goods, like Canter-Berry’s savory chutney with ginger and brown sugar, or berry-themed evenings, like…
Scoop: Get Your Own Blueberries! U-Pick Blueberry Farms
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Beat the blues by picking some of your own at one of the many blueberry farms within a peach stone’s throw of Seattle. July is peak season, and many of the berries are organic, so you’ll be able to eat copious amounts of them right out of your baskets…
Grilled Fish Tacos at Flyin Fish Make the Perfect Summer Meal
Every year, like clockwork, the warm July weather awakens my south-of-the-border taste buds, and I don’t have a choice: I must have fish tacos. And, though I’ve strayed through the years, sneaking off to newer, younger restaurants to taste their seafood offerings, I keep returning to Christine Keff’s venerable Flying Fish for the simple pleasure of…
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