November 2017

Longtime Canlis Piano Man Gets a Nod From Sub Pop

Longtime Canlis Piano Man Gets a Nod From Sub Pop

Canlis’ former pianist Walt Wagner releases his first album on a label.

Fans of former canlis house piano man Walt Wagner—a fixture behind the keys at the iconic restaurant for 20 years—can now listen to his last Canlis show, recorded live during his final gig at the restaurant last October. The album, Reworks, will be released November 17 via Sub Pop. It isn’t the first release for Wagner,…

Gwendolyn Elliott

Healthy Desk Lunches Don't Have to be Boring With These Nutritious Takeout Hits

Healthy Desk Lunches Don’t Have to be Boring With These Nutritious Takeout Hits

The sad, high-calorie desk lunch should be a thing of the past.

The Cobb Your Enthusiasm salad from Evergreens.

Chelsea Lin and Jess Thomson

Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Organizers of the Womxn’s March on Seattle

Most Influential Seattleites of 2017: Organizers of the Womxn’s March on Seattle

Meet the Seattle leaders of the women-led resistance.

In the days after last November’s presidential election, many Seattle women talked of crossing the country to attend the Women’s March on Washington, planned for January 17, the day after the inauguration. Instead, within days, they found a local alternative: the Womxn’s March on Seattle.  Thanks to the power of social media and conference call…

Alison Krupnick

A New Exhibit at the Frye Explores Appropriation and Emojis

A New Exhibit at the Frye Explores Appropriation and Emojis

The museum's new show appropriates the appropriated.

Portraits like Marks’ 2014 “Wat’sa with a Pearl Earring” appropriate familiar imagery to bizarre and unsettling effect.

D. Scully

Most Influential Seattleites 2017: The KEXP Gathering Space

Most Influential Seattleites 2017: The KEXP Gathering Space

Seattle Magazine presents the Most Influential Seattleites of 2017.

When Chris Cornell died in May 2017, Seattle's community converged at KEXP.

Gwendolyn Elliott

The Best Takeout Food in Seattle

The Best Takeout Food in Seattle

Looking for a healthy not-so-sad desk lunch or a last-minute indulgence? Bring the restaurant experience home with our favorite dishes to go.

Box it up and feast.

Chelsea Lin and Jess Thomson

This Floating Home on Lake Union is a Primo House Party Boat

This Floating Home on Lake Union is a Primo House Party Boat

A floating home on Lake Union provides everyday peace and a place to entertain.

Docked in the Eastlake neighborhood, the first floor of this floating home houses the master bed and bath, with the communal spaces just above, and roof access via sliding ladder.

Nia Martin

Retrace These Retro Washington Road Trips, Updated for the GPS Era

Retrace These Retro Washington Road Trips, Updated for the GPS Era

Drive the state’s historic scenic byways with an updated version of a 1940s-era road trip guide.

Cruise through Leavenworth’s downtown.

Max Rose

Seattle Journalist 'Spyhops' the Alt-Right in Essential New Book

Seattle Journalist ‘Spyhops’ the Alt-Right in Essential New Book

David Neiwert has one of the more interesting beats.

Award-winning Seattle journalist David Neiwert covers an interesting beat: killer whales and politics (his blog, Orcinus, describes his efforts as “spyhopping the right”). He explores the latter subject in his recently published book, Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump (Verso, $29.95), essential reading for anyone who is—as Neiwert notes—“startled…

Gwendolyn Elliott

New South Lake Union Coffee Shop Wants to Connect Tech Workers, Homeless and Everyone in Between

New South Lake Union Coffee Shop Wants to Connect Tech Workers, Homeless and Everyone in Between

Seattle Coffee Works' newest location looks to fit a neighborhood in transition.

Cascade Coffee Works is now making sweet latte art in South Lake Union.

Chelsea Lin

It's Actually a Good Thing That Bike Shares Are Being Left in Trees

It’s Actually a Good Thing That Bike Shares Are Being Left in Trees

Seattle’s new bike sharing programs deflate cycling's air of moral superiority.

Seattle's new bike-share programs make biking for the people again.

Knute Berger

Seattle Symphony’s Grammy Award–Winning Record Label is a Reputation-boosting Innovation

Seattle Symphony’s Grammy Award–Winning Record Label is a Reputation-boosting Innovation

The labor of love is making waves in the industry.

Key players in the Seattle Symphony's recording venture are (left to right) CEO Simon Woods and Grammy-winning chief recording engineer Dmitriy Lipay.

Gavin Borchert