Food & Drink
Top 5 Things I Ate Last Week
A week of eating summed up in 5 snapshots
It was another week of marathon eating, this time in Portland, where I spent several days on a media trip exploring Oregon’s bounty. Here are some of the highlights of my last 7 days of feeding: Shrimp tacos at Clyde CommonWhen surveying an unfamiliar lunch menu, there is perhaps no trustier dish than tacos. Served…
The Must List: Beer Gardens, Robotics and a Lantern Parade
What to do this weekend
Must Go EastKirkland Arts Center’s InflorescenceOpens 9/20 — Roughly based around the concept of a cluster of flowers growing from a single stem (“inflorescence”), this group show features three Washington artists (Jean Bradbury, Lisa Conway and Patty Haller), each working from her own aesthetic but within a common theme of the plant world. Must DrinkBest…
#Throwback Thursday: 40 Years of Seattle Sounders Soccer
This week we’re celebrating Seattle’s premier soccer team’s 40th year
It was 1974 when the first iteration of Seattle’s superstar soccer team, the Sounders, was founded. Originally playing in the North American Soccer League, the team came out with a winning first season, but succeeded off the pitch (that’s a soccer field for any fùtbol neophytes) as well. The Sounders were the first team in…
Seven Sensational Spas in Seattle and on the Eastside
Soothe the senses with luxe treatments from seven of our favorite pampering spots
Sensory overload from the work week already? We’ve been there. Seattle has a host of lush locales to sweep you off of your tired, working feet. We’ve made your search trés facile by rounding up seven swanky spas located here and on the Eastside. We also chalked up some notes from our visits to help…
Filson Stays True to its Authentic Brand DNA
One of Seattle’s oldest retailers finds new life among authenticity-seeking millennials
The Filson flagship store sits near Safeco Field, at the base of an off-ramp from the tangle of elevated roadways that lead to the freeways. Most people drive past the unassuming building on Fourth Avenue South with nary a glance, let alone a clue as to the retail wonderland that lives inside—or the legacy of…
What to See This Fall: Film
That Filmy Feeling’Tis the season when we’re starting to feel less guilty about heading out of the sun and into darkened movie theaters. Test the waters with the local premiere of Lynn Shelton’s new movie, Laggies, set in Seattle and starring Keira Knightley and Sam Rockwell, which SIFF will screen one night only (9/18; siff.net)…
8telier at Wear Wednesdays
W Seattle continues its Wear Wednesdays series on September 17 with 8telier, a new Seattle-based label that will very soon be well known for its chic, wearable, comfortable and slightly edgy clothing. We wrote about them in our current October issue—read all about them here then head downtown to the W for your chance to…
Gap’s #Dressnormal Pop Up Comes to Seattle
Sometimes a fashion phenomenon comes along that unexpectedly catches fire and this year, it’s Normcore. In case you’re out of the loop, Normcore is all about dressing, wait for it, normally. Which means sensibly, anonymously—conspicuously inconspicuous—in mom jeans, practical shoes, fleece and often an oversized tee shirt with a logo on it from the 90s…
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