Food & Drink
RedTri: 7 Kids Costume Shops in Seattle
Ghosts and goblins and witches, oh my! Are you looking for a frightfully cool Halloween costume for your little one? We’ve scoured the city in search of the best costume shops and compiled a list of our faves. From the spookiest to the silliest to the sweetest, Seattle offers plenty of pint-sized costumes guaranteed to…
Bellevue Collection Fashion Week Recap: Front Row Fashion Presented by Vogue
Editorial assistant Brittany Allen gives us her take on last Saturday’s 3rd annual Bellevue Collecti
It’s no little secret, but Vogue takes fashion seriously. And the Front Row Fashion Show Presented by Vogue was a seriously good time at Bellevue’s Hyatt Regency Hotel on Saturday night. The team at our beloved fashion bible brought their authority on all things fashion from the East Coast to the Eastside, inspiring the mostly…
Restaurant Preview: Momiji is Really, Really Pretty. And it Has Pretty Food, Too.
Every detail in the pristine space that is now Momiji (the magnum opus of Steven Han’s Japanese restaurants) — from the tables, hand-carved by master woodworker Craig Yamamoto, to the ethereal, cloud-like lighting fixtures woven from traditional Japanese paper fibers by artist Yuri Kinoshita — has been masterfully planned by Han’s dream team of artisans….
Spectrum Dance Wakes Up The Beast
Amid floor-shaking violence and depictions of brutal, un-consenting sex acts – the scariest moment in Spectrum Dance Theater’s The Beast is when the lead woman (Kate Monthy), visibly panting from physical abuse she has suffered at the hand of her husband (Donald Jones, Jr.), closes her eyes and accepts his apologetic embrace—relief and contentment settling…
On the Bright Side: Despite Zune, Microsoft Still on the Map
I know. We’re all bummed that Microsoft’s Zune player has officially gone the way of the cassette tape. But on the bright side: Microsoft has added to its search engine, Bing, a special airport map function that lets you find the Burger King at SeaTac Airport within a moment’s notice. Phew! Back on top.
West Seattle Stands the Line: Mobile Chowdown Recap
Cheers to everyone who came out to West Seattle Junction and helped make Mobile Chowdown VI a huge success – including the weather. An estimated 5,000 or more hungry people showed up to enjoy delicious foods from our participating food trucks, which churned out an incredible quantity of food (considering the square footage of kitchen…
Red Tricycle Recommends: Kid Friendly Events Sept 30 – Oct 2
This weekend’s roundup includes a date night out (or in!), a super-fun pool party, a concert with lots of fiddle tunes, a two-day neighborhood celebration, a wildly popular fish festival and parade, a family day on the trails, and a show with the famous Fee-fi-fo-fum giant. If you’ve got multiples, be sure to check out…
The Must List: Nordic Fashion, Oktoberfest and Mobile Food Trucks
MUST GAWKFriday (9/30) – Nordic Fashion Biennale Opens Surely there is no better name than Hrafnhildur Arnardottir, the New York–based Icelandic artist famous for her outlandish sculptures, installations and costumes made of braided hair and wildly woolly fabrics. Arnardottir, who also goes by the handle “Shoplifter” and is a frequent collaborator with Björk, is the…
Meet Me at Mobile Chowdown This Sunday, October 2
The foodie trucks are coming! The foodie trucks are coming! If I were more musical, to really celebrate I would compose a jingle the likes of Coca-Cola’s joyous “Santa Packs are Coming” (to my dismay, a few savvy editors here do not remember this commercial, which confirms my suspicion that I am a nerd –…
Kindle Fire Enters the Tablet-Hunger Games
News of Amazon’s trio of new gadgets released today is spreading like wildfire — namely about the hopeful iPad competitor, Kindle Fire. Local news site Tech Flash reports: The Kindle Fire’s strengths lie in a swift Web browser running on Amazon’s EC2 cloud, Amazon’s souped-up version of the Android app store, connections to the retailer’s…
Recommended Reading (Once You’ve Finished Seattle Mag, of course)
This weekend, I made lemonade out of having no WiFi in a crowded airport terminal and indulged in reading whole articles published in physical magazines I don’t work for. Find a way to swim to your own quiet, unwired island sometime this week and check out my favorites: 1. Louis Menand’s essay in The New…
A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Name (If You’re a Nerd)
Julia Hughes and Ross Maddox are hosting the inaugural Nerd Nite in Seattle. These community gatherings are part of an international organization devoted to exchanges of highly nerdy and topical information in a highly boozy and social environment. We sent a few questions over to Julia and Ross to get a feel for just how…
Meet Seattle Busker Gregory James Blanke
Seattle mag editorial assistant Patrick Hutchison and local musician Matt Badger, of Ravenna Woods, team up to explore Seattle’s street music scene, recording the stories and songs that help compose our city’s soundtrack. The fourth in a five-part series: While you read, listen to this live performance of “Living Waters”, an original piece by Gregory…
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