Seattle Mag
Meet Artist Erin Jorgensen
The Seattle-based marimba player, singer and composer on her collaboration with producer Steve Fisk.
PERFORMANCE: “Redemption,” a live marimba performance with ambient music orchestrated by Seattle producer Steve Fisk (known for his work with Nirvana and Mudhoney). Brangien Davis: This new piece is billed as a “concept album and self-help manual.” Come again? Erin Jorgensen: Ha ha. Well, it’s a concept album in the sense that we conceived it…
Ryan Boudinot’s Fabulist Fiction
Seattle writer Ryan Boudinot takes readers on a sprawling, surreal tour of the post-apocalypse.
Ryan Boudinot wrote his first story in first grade. Called “The Lion,” it was a retelling of the ancient fable of Androcles, a runaway slave who pulls a thorn from the paw of a fearsome lion and is rewarded with the beast’s eternal loyalty. Boudinot’s take was more autobiographical: “I bring the lion home, and…
Rock Jock
Local musician Mike Marsidi exudes Seattle rocker cool in cardigans and sportswear.
WHY WE LOVE THE LOOK: Former pro snowboarder turned musician and producer Mike Marsidi has one-upped Grease’s Danny Zuko, managing to walk the style line between sports jock and rocker T-bird with ease (and without the tragic gray sweatpants). While oozing 1950s cool in fitted leather jackets and high-top sneakers, he also blends in slim-cut…
Gorgeous Fair-trade Diaper Bag
Kasala furniture owner Daniel Flickinger brings Cambodian weaving to a new line of beautiful bags.
If your lifestyle necessitates a bag worthy of carrying puzzles, books and snacks for your brood while containing your entire office on the go (files, laptop, iPad, etc.), look no farther than the City Tote by Push Pull Cambodia, a gorgeous, sturdy cross-body messenger bag. The brainchild of Kasala furniture owner Daniel Flickinger, Push Pull…
Save on Babysitter Services with Sitting Co-ops
A new website makes it a no-brainer for parents willing to swap sitting duty.
Date night in Seattle can quickly add up, so if springing for a sitter—in addition to dinner at that new Capitol Hill hot spot and a movie—makes a night out a budgetary no-go, check out SittingAround.com, an online baby-sitting co-op. Launched last year by Phinney Ridge parents Erica Zidel and Ted Tieken, Sitting Around is…
Beacon Hill Heats Up
Beacon Ave S has amassed a trove of new tastes, out-of-the-box art and community musc spaces to expl
Seattle’s South End hilltop neighborhood is heating up. Long treasured for its diversity, Beacon Hill is amassing a trove of new tastes, out-of-the-box art and community music spaces—not to mention the new light rail station that provides quick and easy access for residents and day-trippers alike. TASTE >> Longtime favorites such as Kusina Filipina (3201…
The Bridge
A friendly, casual vibe makes this watering hole a new local favorite.
Longtime friends and bartenders Trevor Garand and Rita Dixson opened casual neighborhood bar The Bridge this year in dive-bar Redline’s old space in West Seattle. It’s now a clean, welcoming bar (hooray!) with an outdoor patio and a fresh food and drink menu. The VibeWarmly lit with deep red walls and single candles atop dining…
Gourmondo’s
Savor these creamy, dreamy and locally-made salad dressings.
Countless recipes. Thousands of taste testers. Bacon. All of these ingredients were essential in Alissa Leinonen’s plan to make her dream of producing a line of fresh salad dressings a reality. Leinonen’s light, flavorful dressings—which are included in the popular boxed lunches created by Gourmondo Catering, her 15-year-old South Park company—have long infatuated locals, who…
Hot Chocolate
Cozy up for five of the richest, sweetest cups in Seattle.
CAFÉ PRESSE Straight from Paris, the rich, silky chocolat chaud is made with 71 percent origin unico (single origin) solid chocolate, French Cacao Barry cacao, half milk and half cream. Served Parisian style with fresh whipped cream on the side. $5/8 ounces. CHOCOLOPOLIS Infused with red chiles and spices, the milk in the spicy dark…
Shuck it yourself!
Langdon Cook offers tips for foraging your own wild oysters.
“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I…
Allen Stone Brings Back an Old-school Sound
This guy can sing the hell out of an R&B song.
The phrase “old soul” is overused, but it’s perhaps never been more appropriate than in the instance of 24-year-old Allen Stone, the local singer/songwriter whose voice brings to mind Stevie Wonder, Prince and anyone else who can sing the hell out of an R&B song. Hailing from the small town of Chewelah (north of Spokane),…
Seattle’s Most Famous Celebrity Couple
Knute Berger looks back to the 1950s, when a pair of celebrity gorillas revealed our city’s gender a
Seattle generally doesn’t give locals the tabloid treatment, but that wasn’t always so. In the 1950s and ’60s, the press was obsessed with Seattle’s answer to Brangelina, the gorillas Bobo and Fifi. Bobo was the 500-pound local-celebrity primate, an ape raised by humans since infancy that became the number-one attraction at the Woodland Park Zoo….