Food & Drink
Fall Arts Preview 2016: Theater
Shows that will get you on your feet
Dining Among the Dead – Cafe Nordo Now firmly ensconced in Pioneer Square in Nordo’s Culinarium, at the former location of The Elliott Bay Book Company, the once itinerant but always lavishly produced and provocatively entertaining Café Nordo has found a permanent home to present its shows. These productions inhabit a unique intersection of culinary…
Fall Arts Preview 2016: Dance
Kick off the season with the best on the dance floor
Mother of Invention – Ezra Dickinson Seattle choreographer, dancer, and performance and visual artist Ezra Dickinson is a familiar and always arresting presence, whether dancing on Seattle’s stages or on its gritty downtown streets. A standout performer in the Seattle-based Maureen Whiting Dance Company and co-director of The Offshore Project dance group, the ballet-trained Dickinson’s…
Where to Get Your S’mores Fix on National S’mores Day
Celebrate in style with these local eateries
Did someone say s’mores!? Hang on to your camping gear: Wednesday, August 10, is National S’mores Day. Thankfully, Seattle has no shortage of places and ways to celebrate. Check out these local treat-havens and raise a glass (of milk) to the unofficial dessert of the summer. S’mores Day at Hot Cakes Molten Cakery On August…
Why It’s Time to Make a Trip to Willows Inn
A pilgrimage to Lummi Island reawakens a passion for local foods
When you feel compelled to leave the city and immerse yourself in nature, when you seek to sit in quiet amazement at the wondrous foraged and farm-raised foods our Pacific Coast region provides, and to be waited on with warmth by a knowing staff but without the formality of a fussy setting, it’s time to…
Learn How to Bake Bread at Skagit Valley’s Bread Lab
Skagit Valley’s Bread Lab offers classes and much more
For an obsessive home baker, visiting King Arthur Flour’s flagship campus in Norwich, Vermont, was something of a religious pilgrimage worthy of the hours-long detour I took during my Boston vacation last year. This fall, fellow obsessives won’t have to travel to the East Coast to learn how to roll layers of laminated dough (think…
Fall Arts Preview 2016: Arts & Technology
Tapping into the best tech-related events
Seattle in Parody – Maria Semple No author has captured the comedic absurdity of Seattle with more success than novelist Maria Semple, who moved here in 2008. In her 2012 novel, Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Semple gave the world an incisive, hilarious look at the manners and social mores of the Microsoft-era city-state. Its narrative…
Fall Arts Preview 2016: Film Festivals
What to watch for on the big screens this season
Every autumn, our city’s numerous and diverse film festivals present hundreds of short features and full-length movies to Seattle audiences, opening up views into a wide, diverse spectrum of human experience. One of the most important is the Local Sightings Film Festival (9/22–10/1), the Northwest’s premier showcase of new films, produced by the Northwest…
Fall Arts Preview 2016: Visual Arts
Welcoming a variety of mediums to kick off the season
Family Tree – Gail Grinnell, Samuel Wildman and Eric John Olson Since 2014, MadArt Studio has operated a storefront in South Lake Union where selected local artists are given a residency of several months to create large-scale, site-specific sculpture and installation work. Visitors can witness art in the making and in its completed form. The…
The Best Getaways for Food and Wine Lovers
Seattle has no shortage of great dining options, but sometimes eating out is about the journey
Eating your fill takes on a whole new meaning when you travel to these destinations. It’s all about the food you experience, from highbrow to low and everything in between. PortlandYou say you’re going to Portland for the forested hikes, the riverside views and the tax-free shopping. But let’s face it—you’re really just going to…
Sasquatch Books: Raising the Region’s Literary Bar for Decades
Local publisher helps shape Seattle's literary scene
Seattle has long been known as a book lover’s haven, and Sasquatch Books, a venerated local publishing company, has played a major role in helping to mold and shape the city’s lit life. For three decades, Sasquatch has been introducing new and unique titles to the region’s (and lately, the nation’s) readers, while cultivating some…
Seattle arts programs expand outreach, take on homelessness together
A look at the impact of experiential arts programs on people living in homelessness
Last November, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray declared a State of Emergency for King County’s homelessness crisis. While addressing the concern has proven to be a lofty task for councilmembers and citizens alike, Seattle’s arts programs continue to take initiative on the complicated social issue. On June 21, the Seattle Symphony announced “Simple Gifts,” a multi-year,…
New Eatery Tarsan I Jane Brings Valencian and Catalan Flair to Seattle
The Spanish Revolution comes to Fremont
Cooking is in PerfecteRocher’s bones. The self-taught Spanish chef, who has worked in Michelin-starred restaurants in London and San Francisco, grew up among the orange trees and rice fields of Villalonga, a mountain town in Valencia, where his grandfather ran a popular paella restaurant called Tarsan. Rocher practically lived in that kitchen, playing soccer…
Woodinville’s Des Voignes Satisfies Beer Lovers and Wine Connoisseurs Alike
Des Voigne Cellars and B-Side Brewing make wine and beer under one roof for the first time
You know when couples or friends go wine tasting and there’s always one person who would rather be drinking a beer? Two worlds finally collide at Des Voigne Cellars and B-Side Brewing, a first-of-its-kind in the area boutique winery and craft brewery in Woodinville’s Winery Warehouse district on Artisan Hill. Inside their 5,000-square-foot industrial warehouse,…
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