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Must List: Moisture Festival, Mariners Opening Day, VegFest
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST ENTERTAIN Moisture Festival (Through 4/7) Seattle’s festival of weird celebrates its 16th year in Seattle. Thrilling crowds with its audacious circus and burlesque acts for four weeks in the spring, Moisture Festival claims to be the world’s largest comedy/varieté celebration. Dancers, comedians, jugglers and…
Your Seattle Restaurant Questions Answered: Comfort Food Edition
Where to find the area's best reubens, raclette and barbecue
The weather may be turning warmer, but that doesn’t mean Seattleites aren’t still treating themselves to comfort foods. This week’s edition of our Instagram Food Q&A with Chelsea Lin is full of hot spots for craveable quiche, barbecue and cheesy raclette. We also have recommendations for brunch, high tea and Mountlake Terrace dining. Have a question…
Get Lit at the Second Annual Orcas Island Literary Festival
A word party returns to Orcas Island
This article appears in print in the April 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Considering Orcas Island’s reputation as the artsy jewel of the San Juan islands, you may wonder why no one had launched a literary festival prior to 2018. But last year’s inaugural Orcas Island Lit Fest proved worth the wait; basking in the afterglow,…
A Little Night Music: A Few Hours During Octave 9’s Music Marathon
The Seattle Symphony shows off its innovative concert space with a new-music marathon-meets-slumber party
Have you ever been to a concert in the middle of the night? No, neither had I until this weekend, when the Seattle Symphony christened its new Octave 9 performance space, in the Second and Union corner of Benaroya Hall, with a 24-hour marathon concert of contemporary chamber music, 5 p.m. Saturday to 5 p.m….
A Seattle Optometrist Is Prescribing Style with Vintage Eyewear
A new Capitol Hill boutique offers a curated collection of vintage eyewear that has Seattleites seeing clearly
DIFFERENT SHADES: Find vintage designer frames, such as these made by, from top to bottom, Berthet Bondet, Christian Dior, Laura Biagiotti and Pilar Crespi at Eye Eye
This Week Then: Celebrating the Women of Washington State
Plus: Looking back on Seattle's biggest sports accomplishments
This story was originally published at HistoryLink.org. Subscribe to their weekly newsletter. Women of Words This week HistoryLink celebrates Women’s History Month with a look at a few of Washington’s notable women authors, journalists, and poets. We begin with Ella Higginson, a Bellingham writer and Washington’s first poet laureate. Other Washington poets include Colleen J. McElroy, who…
Must List: Cask Beer Festival, Plate of Nations, DiveBar FilmFest
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Love the Must List? Get it right in your inbox. Subscribe. MUST BREW Cask Beer Festival (3/23) Fremont, Kulshan and Postdoc Brewing are only a handful of 30 breweries from the Seattle area that will be pouring under the same roof for the Cask Beer Festival. The 20th anniversary of the event features wood barrel-aged and…
Seattle’s Skinner Chimes Are Not What You Think
Those noon chimes? Here’s where they come from
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. The Landmark: The Skinner Chimes The Location: The Skinner Building, downtown, 1326 Fifth Ave. The Backstory: Each day at noon, Seattleites in the downtown area may hear chimes, yet the sound can’t be traced to any nearby church or cathedral. Listeners might be disappointed to…
Fashion Designer Isaac Mizrahi Talks Seattle, Wardrobe Essentials and His New Memoir
The acclaimed fashion designer and TV-host discusses his new memoir, life on tour and what’s in his suitcase ahead of his autobiographical cabaret show at the Neptune Theater tonight, March 19
Seattle magazine: Are you excited to be in Seattle? Isaac Mizrahi: It’s been a minute since I visited but I remember liking it alot. It lived up to its reputation weather wise because it rained the entire time. But I also remember feeling safe there in terms of my political self, it felt like being…
This Seattle Fashion Brand Has an International Cult Following
Maiden Noir’s new spring/summer collection is inspired by one of Brazil’s most famous landscape architects
The topic of Pacific Northwest style can be a humorous anecdote for some and a point of agitation for others. After all, our casual-first mindset does not scream high fashion, and the abundance of scenic activities just a short drive away make outdoor attire a priority. But for a fashion-forward few, and a growing number…
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