Food & Drink
Wine, Beer and Booze Alert: 7 Dates for Your Liquid Calendar
The lingering days of winter seem easier to bear with all sorts of fun sipping opportunities in the near future: 1. Loads of terrific vintners, distillers, cider makers and brewers will be pouring at Sunday’s Seattle Food and Wine Experience at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall. More than 20 restaurants will be serving all sorts…
Earth Day 5K Training Week One: Done
Week one of my training for the Earth Day 5K went…MUCH better than expected. It was a mercifully gentle ramp-up that consisted of a quick warm-up followed by alternating two-minute runs with a cool down period, for 20 minutes total, every other day. At first when Lori, my mentor and trainer at West Seattle Runner, gave…
What’s New With WyattOrr
Meet Liise Wyatt and Karly Orr of WyattOrr. They’ve been designing separately and together since 2006, which makes them veterans in the Seattle fashion scene. They knocked our socks off in the 2008 Seamless in Seattle contest, which they both won separately with their individual eponymous collections. We caught up with them recently to check…
Amazon’s New Kindle Ad Loves Gay Marriage
Seattle-based retail giant Amazon.com just launched a national ad for its Kindle Paperwhite. The star of the ad isn’t the new e-reader, though. It’s the subtle notion presented that gay marriage is a totally benign and normal aspect of life. Oh, and any thinking that defaults to heterosexuality as a norm. Well, that’s sort of…
Five Cocktails to Serve at Your Oscars Party
The lights, the glamour the red carpet (oh, and the movies)—they’re all part of the yearly parade that is Oscars night. But without the right cocktail at your Oscars soirée, you won’t be winning any awards. Serve up one of the following, though, and you might earn a standing ovation from your guests. Vesper Add…
Call For Info: Long Gone Seattle Shops
I’m on a quest and hope you can help. I’m talking to those of you who have lived here a long time, and have memories of a favorite store or two you used to love to frequent that is no longer around. I want to hear them! Dreamland? Retro Viva? Lipstick Traces? Klopfenstein’s? John Doyle…
Fashion Icon: John Doyle Bishop
Join MOHAI’s Costume and Textile Specialist Clara Berg on Sunday, March 24 from 1 to 3 p.m. for a presentation on John Doyle Bishop, a Seattle designer and shop owner from the 1940s-70s who was known at the time for his flamboyant character and belief in the chicness of Seattle’s collective style. He was famously…
Updated! It’s True: Matt Dillon’s Bar Sajor is Opening in Pioneer Square
Update! Bar Sajor just announced it will opens for limited service tomorrow (Thursday, February 21) at 4pm and on Friday. Regular hours will begin Monday, February 25, when Bar Sajor will begin serving lunch and dinner on weekdays, opening at 11am (with a limited menu on Mondays). Weekend hours are still TBD. Original post: Signs…
The Urban Girls Garage Sale
Ever wanted to raid the closets of Seattle’s most fashionable? Get ready to on Sunday, March 17 at 1927 Events for the Urban Girls Garage Sale. Over 40 local sellers will be selling their gently used, still-stylish clothing, accessories and small home goods, with all remaining items going to the Seattle Goodwill. The sale is…
A Bucket List for the Seattle Chocoholic
If we could create our dream box of chocolates, these 10 local treats would be in it.
Chocolate grows on trees, but after testing and tasting everything Theobroma cacao, we’ve learned one thing: Not all chocolate is created equal. It’s all made from seeds from a football-shaped fruit that grows in the globe’s equatorial regions. But everything from where it’s grown to how it’s made affects taste and quality—and some chocolate treats…
Seattle’s Best Sipping Chocolate
We scoured the city for its best liquid indulgences: thick, rich, hot melted chocolate and milk.
ChocolatiCayenne Hot ChocolateIf you’d abandon subtlety and nuance in favor of a hot chocolate with eye-popping flavor, Chocolati’s flavored hot chocolate menu is for you. Try the cayenne, with big, hot high notes that hit your sinuses right as you sip, then mellow as you get farther into the cup. $2.95 for 8 ounces of…
Seattle’s Classic Chocolates
Tried-and-true favorites from longtime local chocolate makers.
DilettanteLet’s zoom out on this a bit: There’s a restaurant in Seattle’s Capitol Hill ’hood that makes almost a dozen versions of chocolate martinis ($10.50) any night of the week, and it’s busy—all the time. We haven’t flipped back to 1990; Dilettante Mocha Café is genuinely popular. Which means that no matter how much we…
Spring Arts Preview: Seattle Sees Itself on the Big Screen
Two new gigantic outdoor video screens are coming to Seattle for two very different purposes.
You could say Seattle is heading into a season of self-reflection. Come this spring, two new gigantic outdoor video screens positioned in prominent locations will project likenesses of our city—its weather, its landscape, its people and culture—via a stream of moving images. The first is Mirror, Seattle Art Museum’s new permanent installation (kickoff viewing party,…
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