Food & Drink
Glasses by Iris Apfel
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, but as a middle-aged woman, I’ll channel my inner “geriatric starlet” (to steal her phrase) and wear sunglasses by the inimitable Iris Apfel, the 92 year-old interior decorator and fashion icon instantly recognizable by her big, round black framed glasses and layers of amazing jewelry….
Nancy Guppy Interviews The Cave Singers’ Morgan Henderson
In her debut column, Nancy Guppy chats up one of the city's most versatile musicians.
COFFEE DATE: Musician Morgan Henderson, who recently joined Seattle neo-folk rockers The Cave Singers and plays on their new album, Naomi. The band hits the Showbox at the Market this month (5/4; thecavesingers.com).SCENE: The café at Elliott Bay Book Company, a Wednesday morning in FebruaryMORGAN’S ORDER: A bacon, cheese and spinach omelet Nancy Guppy: You’ve…
Make a Lasting Bouquet at Clementine Shoes
Enjoy your Mother’s Day a little early and head to this fun fabric flower making demo at West Seattle’s Clementine Shoes on Saturday, May 11 from 12 to 4 with local milliner Izzie Lewis. In addition to a fun frill to take home, Clementine will be offering special deals and $20 in Clementine Cash for…
Davenport Opens in Madrona
One store was not enough to contain the amazing talent of cousins Dustin Nelson and Erica Sheehan, whose original Madrona shop, Hitchcock Madrona, is the stuff of jewelry lovers’ dreams. Their newest project, Davenport, also on 34th Ave. (in the old Cameos and Crowns space), Madrona’s main shopping drag, is filled with more treasures, from wearables…
Allison Narver Directs Boeing Boeing at Seattle Rep
Seattle director Allison Narver finds something fresh in a 1960s time capsule.
Boeing-Boeing will remain forever a 1960s set piece for two reasons. First, the acrobatic machinations of the plot hinge on a printed timetable of airline schedules, whereby the main character, Bernard, juggles his painstakingly timed liaisons with three hoodwinked fiancées, all flight attendants on different airlines. Second, the lothario’s deceitful world begins to collapse thanks…
Portland Envy and Danish Pancakes
Road trippin’ down to Portland is always such a pleasure and a wee bit of pain. Because as much as I adore SEA, the nifty Rose City almost always brings on pangs of Portland envy. On this overnighter, the jealousy was mostly about the Umläut. Of course, I hit up the famous food carts in…
Seattle Farmers Market Calendar
The sun’s been shining, the weather’s warming up. It’s that time of year again, when Seattle’s neighborhood farmers markets are on the verge of their 2013 seasons. In fact, three neighborhood markets are open this week: The Issaquah farmers market, which sells produce, baked goods and crafts on Saturdays from 9am to 2pm; the Broadway farmers market,…
Endless Knot Warehouse Sale
The Endless Knot Warehouse Sale started Thursday, April 25 and runs through Sunday, April 28. This is a sale that always sneaks up on me and always happens on a weekend that I’m already busy, but Endless Knot is one of the best, under-the-radar shops in town, which makes me think that their warehouse sale…
An Ode to Pioneer Square Shopping
Pioneer Square has long struggled to maintain itself as a retail destination, but with a few recent additions to the scene, this historic neighborhood’s star is on the rise. Joining old favorites, like Fireworks, Laguna Vintage Pottery (seriously one of the most underrated and coolest stores in town) and Seattle Lighting— shops who have held on…
Two Local Bloggers Host Cuyana Trunk Show
Cuyana is a San Bay area company run by founders Shilpa Shah and Karla Gallardo who travel the globe on the lookout for chic, high quality materials, think textiles and metals, that can be transformed by local craftsmen into chic, high quality and limited-edition goods and accessories that they sell on their web store. Cuyana…
Seth Damm’s Deconstructed Rope Jewelry
Fine artist Seth Damm creates wearable art from cotton rope.
Fine artist Seth Damm (sethdamm.net) knew he was on to something early in the creation of his Neon Zinn rope necklaces. “There’s just something about them that makes people want to touch them.” And wear them. Using 100 percent organic cotton rope made by a small family business in Pennsylvania, Damm dyes, deconstructs and reforms…
Give Back with Miir Bikes
Buy a Miir bike, and this Queen Anne company donates one to someone in need.
Since 2010, Queen Anne–based water bottle company, Miir, has built nine wells that supply clean water to some of the 1 billion people worldwide who do not have access to it. Last September, spurred by a desire to benefit underserved people in other ways, Miir CEO Bryan Papé added a line of bicycles to the…
Death and Taxes: Chanel Reynolds’ End-of-Life Planning Website
Chanel Reynolds helps take the terror out of end-of-life planning.
It sounds like a classic object lesson: a successful freelance project manager who planned for others’ every contingency, but didn’t cover her own bases. That’s exactly the situation Chanel Reynolds found herself in when her husband died in a bike accident and she faced the biggest project she’d ever manage: getting her financial life in…
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