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Your Seattle Restaurant Questions Answered: Barbecue, Filipino Food and Natural Wines
Plus: Where to get Seattle's best doughnuts, macarons and Turkish coffee
We love our Emerald City and all it has to offer, but it’s a lot of work to keep up with all the restaurant openings, new trends and seasonal menus that keep our city exciting. Thankfully, food and lifestyle editor Chelsea Lin knows Seattle’s cuisine scene like the back of her hand and graces us…
A Bold New Waterfront Is Coming to Seattle Soon
After more than 65 years of being cut off from downtown Seattle, a new waterfront is set to unfurl, dramatically changing the city’s landscape
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue and is part of our Seattle Waterfront feature. See PDF version of waterfront map here. Click here to subscribe. Seattle’s new downtown waterfront—a combination of projects so monumental in their collective scope that it’s hard to think of them as a single program—is finally coming into view. Squint just…
An Afternoon at the Frye With Cherdonna, Cher, and DONNA
Campy and surreal, a new exhibit showcases Seattle’s Lady Dada
The title is a slang term in lesbian-separatist circles for female genitals, but your kids don’t need to know that if you take them to Ditch, Jody Kuehner’s installation/performance piece at the Frye. If they have a healthy attention span, they’ll probably enjoy seeing Kuehner’s vivacious alter ego, Cherdonna Shinatra, and her dance troupe DONNA in…
Seattle Waterfront Gets Artistic
Arts and culture are a significant focus of the vision for Seattle’s new waterfront, including permanent art installations by local and internationally renowned artists
This article is part of our Seattle Waterfront feature. Shaun Peterson, a member of the Puyallup Tribe and a contemporary Coast Salish artist, is developing three bronze and red cedar figures that will overlook Puget Sound, reflecting the historic connection between the Coast Salish tribes and the Seattle waterfront. Many of Winnipeg-based Cedric Bomford’s previous…
How Seattle’s Waterfront Plan Took Shape
See Seattle waterfront's milestones
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue and is part of our Seattle Waterfront feature. Click here to subscribe. 2001February: Nisqually Earthquake occurs and damages the State Route 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct 2009January: City, county and state governments agree to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a tunnel December: City forms Central Waterfront Partnerships Committee 2010September:…
This Week Then: Celebrating Black History Month in Washington
Plus: How King County got its name
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Firsts of the Month February is Black History Month, and this week HistoryLink notes some of Washington’s many African American “firsts.” We begin with George W. Bush and his family, who in 1845 were among the first Americans to settle north of the Columbia River,…
Book-It Repertory Theatre’s ‘American Junkie’: In Seattle, a Fix Is Still a Shot Away
Set in grunge-era Seattle, its grim portrait of addiction remains relevant today
In Book-It’s most recent adaptation from prose to play, director (and founder) Jane Jones finds inspiration in Edmonds native Tom Hansen’s 2010 memoir American Junkie. A raw look at the deleterious effects of drugs, Jones (who co-adapted the book with local actor and writer Kevin McKeon), preserves the author’s no-nonsense style, pairing caustic humor with…
Must List: Seattle Wine and Food Experience, Northwest Flower & Garden Festival, Chilly Hilly
Your weekly guide to Seattle's hottest events.
Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST INDULGE Seattle Wine and Food Experience(2/21-2/24) Seattle magazine’s long weekend of fine local food and drink kicks off on Thursday with Comfort, featuring bites and sips from the area’s best gastropubs. On Friday, dress up for the weekend’s upscale champagne and seafood event, Pop!…
A Look at Mayor Durkan’s State of the City Address
She makes a strong case for her accomplishments—but how much can she really claim?
Last year, when she delivered her first State of the City speech after just three months in office, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan called herself “the Impatient Mayor,” and laid out a laundry list of goals for her first year in office. On the list: free college for all high school graduates; “bust[ing] through gridlock” by…
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