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Road Trip: Ashland Culinary Festival
The culinary festival features food demos, live entertainment, and the heated Chef Showdown
Where: Ashland, Oregon. Why: For the ninth annual Ashland Culinary Festival (11/6-11/8). Sure, it’s a bit of a trek, but the Chef Showdown is worth the travel. Look forward to a weekend of food demos, live entertainment and sizzling competition. Friday-night ticket holders can sip, savor and socialize at the Meet the Chefs event. The…
New IKEA Coming to Seattle Area, Amazon and QVC Announce E-Commerce TV Channels
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
REI Encourages Shoppers to #OptOutside: In a bold attemt to reject the consumerist clusterf*ck that is Black Friday, the Seattle-based outdoor and fitness co-op, REI, will shut its doors this retail holiday. REI is sacrificing a significant loss of profit in order to contest the frenzied introduction to the holiday season. Last year, an estimated…
Bartenders Tell Us: What’s the Scariest Drink to Serve on Halloween?
Seattle bartenders dish on Bloody Marys, Irish Car Bombs and other horror-inducing drinks
It’s nearly the scariest day of the year–Halloween! Really, it’s more scary fun than anything, and if you have the right drinks, scary tasty, too. But are there any drinks that scare bartenders? And what do our local shakers like to sip when the ghouls, goblins, and more modern haunts are traversing our fair streets?…
Giant, $5,000 Italian white truffle hits Capitol Hill restaurant
Altura restaurant features rare Alba truffle for six-course prix fixe meal
Precious Italian white truffles have a very short season–October to December–and when they are sent to America they usually end up at restaurants in New York, Chicago or San Francisco. But, this time, a rare, round, giant white truffle–the largest to be found in Italy so far this season–has been purchased by Altura, the Italian…
Instagram Inspiration: Spooky and Simple Halloween Decorations
Last-minute decorations that require three or fewer materials!
Halloween is right around the corner! For many, this brings anticipated delight, but for those who put off celebrating until the last minute (me), this fact is probably daunting–and not in the pleasantly-scared Halloween way. But have no fear, fellow procrastinators! These Instagrammers have your back. There are plenty of ways you can spook-ify your…
Chef Bill Ranniger Talks Seafood and Sustainability
The executive chef of Duke's Chowder House will be leading FareStart's Guest Chef Night on Nov 19
Sponsored by FareStart Chef “Wild” Bill Ranniger is no stranger to seafood. He grew up catching, cooking, and eating “wild” seafood from a very young age, spending many summers at his family’s cabin fishing, clamming, swimming, and gathering oysters to avoid a lack of electricity and an outhouse infested with raccoons. Duke’s Chowder House executive…
Does Car Sharing Fill Transportation Gaps for Seattle Drivers?
Seattle is in the mood to share when it comes to cars
For Carey Evenson, who shares one car with her husband, Car2Go has been a lifesaver on more than one occasion. But more than a year ago, the car-sharing service, which allows members to rent cars on demand using a per-minute pricing structure, took on an even more important role in her daily life. The Columbia…
Love Indian food? Visit Travelers Thali House this week
The chef-owner is back in the kitchen after year-long battle with cancer
Earlier this month (October 13-21) was the Hindu festival of Navratri, which is dedicated to nine nights of worshipping the female divinity (hell yeah). During this sacred time, Hindus eat special foods, like sweet and sour pumpkin, cheese-stuffed potato dumplings in tomato-cashew gravy, and other dishes made without onion and garlic. At Travelers Thali House,…
‘Sea and Smoke’ Lifts the Haze Surrounding Willows Inn
This new book offers an inside look at the celebrated Lummi Island restaurant
The fog practically lifts off the pages of Sea and Smoke: Flavors from the Untamed Pacific Northwest (Running Press, $40) by Blaine Wetzel and Joe Ray. Wetzel is the young chef and James Beard darling at the wildly hyperlocal Willows Inn on Lummi Island. There, Wetzel and his loyal staff craft a 10- to 20-course…
On-Demand Valet Service ZIRX Gains Traction in Seattle
Your car is now on call via a new smartphone app
For those of you who can’t part with your car, a new company launched last fall promises to make getting around a bit easier. ZIRX (zirx.com), an on-demand valet parking service, works via a smartphone app, much like another popular car service. Users let ZIRX know when they’re on their way to the office, a…
Recipe of the Week: Chocolate Spider Web Cookies
Satisfy your sweet tooth with these spooky (and easy to make) Halloween treats
Halloween is the perfect time to let your creativity run wild! In celebration of the holiday, local Seattle resident and baker extraordinaire, Rachel Conners, created these simple Chocolate Spider Web Cookies that are perfect for friends, family, goblins and ghouls. Conners is an official member of the Krusteaz Baker’s Dozen, a group of the country’s most…
‘Mr. Burns’ Dares us to Conceive How we’d Survive Without Storytelling
The apocalyptic musical drama centers around the telling of a Simpsons episode amid tragedy
There have been many artists whose work has made bold claims for the necessity of art in society. Perhaps none in recent memory have done so with more urgency and deftness than New York playwright Anne Washburn, whose 2012 apocalyptic musical drama Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play is currently on stage at ACT Theatre. The…
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