Seattle Mag
The Must List, featuring Eliza Doolittle and a Build-Your-Own-Soup Adventure
MUST SEEPygmalionOngoing through Sunday (through March 11) – There’s only a few more opportunities to see Seattle Shakespeare Company’s solid production of this George Bernard Shaw classic, which inspired the popular musical My Fair Lady. Jennifer Lee Taylor’s portrayal of Eliza Doolittle’s transformation from Cockney flower girl to debonair duchess is quite powerful. And R….
520 for Dummies: This Overpass Is Coming Down! And Other Cool News from WSDOT
Another weekend, another 520 bridge closure, but this time there will be a concrete rain the likes of which we haven’t seen since…well…a few months ago when the Viaduct came down. The old Evergreen Point Road overpass in Medina (the skinny road in the foreground, left) will be torn apart and hauled away. But…
Catching Up with Amy Pennington Before Her Debut on ‘Check, Please!’ Tomorrow
“Have you seen Wayne’s World?” asks Amy Pennington, host of the new local restaurant review show Check, Please! Northwest on KCTS-TV. “I constantly think: ‘Camera 1, Camera 2.’ I’m a total fish out of water.” Pennington, 37, may be new to the role of television host, but her love of good food is longstanding. Having…
Fashion + Style: Behind the Scenes of The Forecast’s Fishermen-Inspired Runway Looks
Though spring officially doesn’t start until March 20, around here we’re counting March 14as the first day of the season as our new spring fashion show, The Forecast, storms the runway at Benaroya Hall next Wednesday night. The outerwear-laced fashions will be broken up into five themed sets that scream Seattle style, from biking-ready frocks…
King 5: Washington Gas Prices Increase 43 Cents in a Month
The pain at the pump increases across the State of Washington. AAA Auto Club reports the average price of a gallon of gasoline in Washington is $3.94, an increase of 8 cents in a week and 43 cents in a month. Average prices for a gallon of gas in Bellingham Monday reached $4.10, $4.04 in…
Brian Christian On Why Computers Still Need Humans. Sort Of. We Hope.
If you have ever felt unsettled, confused—or even overjoyed—by the way computers have changed our lives, you should go and listen to writer Brian Christian talk about his critically acclaimed book The Most Human Human on Wednesday at Town Hall. He can’t exactly soothe any irrational (or rational) fears about an Artificial Intelligence-dominated apocalypse (translation:…
There’s No Getting Around It: Seattle’s Transportation Issue
It’s the least sexy, most flammable cocktail-party topic around: transportation. The horror story about a one-hour crosstown crawl. The strategy swap about how best to cross the lake during a Mariners home stand. And the sharply divisive rhetoric about which multibillion-dollar projects our region really needs—and how to pay for them. Why would we put…
Vote Local: Food & Wine’s People’s Favorite Chef
The contest for the People’s Best New Chef in Food & Wine magazine was such a hit (remember Canlis’s all-out campaign to get Jason Franey the win last year? Alas, Jason Bissonnette of Boston’s Coppa took the prize) that they’re doing it again this year. Several Pacific Northwest nominees hail from Portland, Idaho and Hawaii,…
Vote Local: Food & Wine’s People’s Favorite Chef
Last year’s polls were such a hit–remember the all-out campaign Canlis put on to get Jason Franey his win?–that again this year, Food & Wine Magazine has come up with a list of nominees and is asking “the people” to vote for their favorite chef. This year’s nominees from the Pacific Northwest include several from…
Monarch’s Tales: Luly Yang Couture’s Cutest Gown Fittings
With designer Luly Yang’s couture show just eight weeks away (tickets are now on sale for the April 27 event), we continue our behind the scenes journey with Yang’s smallest fittings. And by smallest, we don’t mean the task at hand: As the show’s beneficiary, Seattle Children’s Hospital plays a huge role in event, and…
The Must List, featuring Playing with Clay and Pina in 3D
MUST PLAY-DOHOpen for Construction Opens Thursday (3/1–4/14) – In conjunction with the NCECA conference (read: ceramics storm) coming to town this month, SOIL art gallery has transformed itself into an interactive clay-making “office,” where you can can get your hands dirty helping artists build an evolving landscape out of one ton of clay. Check out…
W Seattle’s TRACE to Open This Week
Earth & Ocean, the W Seattle Hotel’s restaurant, was for many years a sort of culinary finishing school; John Sundstrom left E&O to open Lark; Maria Hines cooked there previous to opening Tilth. More recently, though, the restaurant has struggled to find a local audience. So this month, the W reopens its restaurant with a…