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Six Seattle Kickstarter Games to Watch This Summer
Fund or follow these local indie games
Summer’s a great time for outdoor fun in the Pacific Northwest, but it’s also a good time to plan for the return of those rainy days that never really left. Whether you prefer card, video, mobile or puzzle games; fancy a retro, forward-looking, or simple art style; or don’t care about any of that and…
La Bête’s New Incarnation: A Nod to Spaghetti Westerns?
Aleks Dimitrijevic is closing his Capitol Hill restaurant La Bête on August 16, three days before its fourth birthday “We hope that you all pay us a visit over the next four weeks to say goodbye, lord knows that I’ll need as good of a send off as possible to make the next phase less…
How to Prepare the Spicy Sambal Sauce
Wild Ginger executive chef Jacky Lo on the art of making the famed restaurant’s fiery sambal
A face shield and eye goggles aren’t common kitchen tools, unless you’re executive chef Jacky Lo, who, along with his team of cooks at Wild Ginger, gears up each summer with a full-on production line—cooking with more than 3,000 pounds of chiles—to prepare sambal. While they make more than 10 different sambals throughout the year,…
Locally Made Bow Ties and Accessories For the Dapper Man
“Bow ties really reflect an individual’s pride and attention to detail,” says Erin McCoy, owner of Hank’s Haberdashery, a snappy line of dapper bow ties ($40) and pocket squares ($20) available on Etsy. The Eastlake-based McCoy started Hank’s Haberdashery in 2012 as a way to indulge her creative side (she’s a women’s health researcher at…
A Plan for a Mountain Bike Trail is Creating Divisions
Ambitious plans for a neglected green space sparks debate over Seattle Parks’ mountain bike policy
In South Seattle, a forested green space The Seattle Times once called “Walden Pond in urbania” is now a battleground between mountain bikers seeking to bring the sport back to Seattle parks and advocates for undeveloped natural areas that protect wildlife and wetlands. The contested ground in question is Cheasty Greenspace, a 43-acre natural area…
The 2014 Washington Wine-Buying List
Bookmark this list of all the winners and finalists from our 9th Annual Washington Wine Awards
*Download this list as a PDF WHITE WINES White Wine of the YearChateau Ste. Michelle 2012 Eroica Riesling, Columbia Valley, $22 Sauvignon Blanc, $20 or lessWinner: Lobo Hills 2012 Sauvignon Blanc, Yakima Valley, $17 Finalists:Guardian 2012 Angel Sauvignon Blanc, Red Mountain, Klipsun Vineyards, $20 SOLD OUTEfestē 2012 Feral Sauvignon Blanc, Ancient Lakes, Evergreen Vineyard, $20Cedergreen…
Ikea’s 2015 Catalog is Coming (So is a New Store)!
Oh, so very soon, our mailboxes will be welcoming that familiar chunky shopping tome: the Ikea catalog. The 2015 edition (access it digitally on July 24th at 2015 Ikea Catalog) focuses on “Where the Everyday Begins and Ends,” namely, in our bedrooms and bathrooms. As well as an abundance of new looks—bed frames to towel…
Family Meal of the Week: Dahlia Lounge
There are meals in almost every restaurant serving off-menu items that you would never be lucky enough to eat unless you worked in the restaurant. They’re called family meals and they’re served before or after service to feed those who work tirelessly to bring good food to your table — staff members who rarely get a…
2014 Washington Wine Awards Methodology
Nominations for this year’s Washington Wine Awards were solicited via a survey of Washington wine and food professionals. The top vote-getters in the wineries, winemaker, vineyard and sommelier awards were selected as winners. The more than 100 wines receiving the most votes in the varietal categories qualified as finalists for a blind tasting, which took…
9th Annual Seattle Magazine Washington Wine Awards Tasting Panelists
The participants were involved in our March 3, 2014 tasting
Nominations for this year’s Washington Wine Awards were solicited via survey from a panel of Washington wine and food professionals. Read more about how we determined the winners. Tasting panelists who are winemakers were excluded from voting in categories in which their wines were finalists. The names of tasting panelists who were also on the…
How Our 107-Year-Old Pike Place Market Survived
Knute Berger visits Pike Place Market 50 years after its reputed demise
In his poem “Bubbs Creek Haircut,” Beat poet Gary Snyder drew on impressions from a trip through Seattle in the mid-1950s: Seattle has the best for logger gearonce found a pair of good tricouni boots at the under-the-public-market store, Mark Tobey’s scene, torn down I hear—… Not so fast, Snyder. That’s not what happened. At…
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