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Best Local Shopping in 2011
The Seattle products and boutiques we couldn't stay away from this year.
Best New Home and Gift Shop: Butter Home The sentiment “Go to your happy place” became a physical, rather than mental, destination after the arrival of sweet charmer Butter Home last December. Tucked under the rafters in the new Melrose Market, gifts and wares range from the eclectic (felted gazelle-head taxidermy-like wall hangings!) to the…
Best Food and Drink in Seattle 2011
Or, why we couldn't stop eating in 2011.
Best PieSeattle Pie Company It was the year of the pie! Proof: A half-dozen new pie shops opened this year, A La Mode, American Pie, High 5 Pie and the easy-to-remember Pie among them. But after eating our way through miles of crust and pounds of filling, we’re convinced that the shop that makes the…
28 Holiday Happenings Not to Miss
Glad tidings abound in the Emerald City!
Dance Pacific Northwest Ballet: The Nutcracker Try and spot the Wild Thing hidden within Maurice Sendak’s famous set display during the ballet’s iconic presentation of The Nutcracker. 11/25–12/27. McCaw Hall; pnb.org Land of the Sweets: The Burlesque Nutcracker Naughty nutcrackers are back at The Triple Door with new choreography by favorite performers Waxie Moon, Kitten…
‘Shiro Says’: Words to Use at the Sushi Counter
Seattle’s first sushi chef, Shiro, whose new memoir we excerpted in our December issue, offers several helpful tips in the book for consuming sushi like a pro. Over the years, the sushi bar has developed its own special jargon, including its very own way of counting, which allows the chef to bark out the total…
The Nerd Report
Breakthroughs and news from the local geek crew
Sure, your smartphone can talk the talk, but can it do the robot? Seattle-based robot enthusiasts Peter Seid, Phu Nguyen and Keller Rinaudo are the human minds behind local startup Romotive (romotive.com) and the company’s pride and joy: “Romo,” a mobile robot that resembles a plastic toy tank and uses a smartphone as its brain….
Weird Yoga: Embrace Your Hang-ups
Aerial classes turn yoga on its head
January is the month for overly optimistic New Year’s resolutions, so why not dream big by signing up for an aerial yoga class? The exercise trend is taking wing all over the city, and involves airborne workouts similar to traditional yoga (focusing on core strength, flexibility and coordination) but performed while hanging from a ceiling-suspended…
Oregon Truffle Festival
Dig up your own truffles and train your dog to help!
WHERE: Eugene, Oregon, for the seventh annual Oregon Truffle Festival WHY: The fancy fungus festivities include a truffle recipe contest, cooking classes, a grand truffle dinner and a BYOD (bring your own dog) truffle-hound training seminar (limited to 18 well-behaved dogs; if you leave your pooch at home, you can sign up to “audit”). QUICK…
Special Delivery
Pagliacci Pizza’s new topping is the box itself
It’s been said that big things come in small packages, and what better package for a “big thing” than a pizza box? In the spirit of sustainability, Seattle’s own Pagliacci Pizza is now using delivery cartons that artfully explain a box’s journey from tree to compost pile. (Yes, you can and should compost greasy pizza…
Chino’s Brings Back Old School Street Food and Tiki Drinks
Long before James Beard Award-winning chefs began taking it to the streets, food trucks were feeding L.A. on the fast and cheap for decades, with immigrants serving primarily Mexican staples like tacos, tinga and offal, or the classics of Asia: steamed buns, fried noodles and boiled peanuts. It’s the stuff that L.A. natives Mari and…
Best New Seattle Bands
The local musicians, singers and songwriters that keep us moving.
Alt-Country/FolkCase Studies Sounds Like: Leonard Cohen meets Fleet Foxes First Album: The World Is Just a Shape to Fill the Night; released in August The story: Hipster hearts broke last year over the disbanding of The Dutchess and the Duke. Thankfully, Jesse “the Duke” Lortz (and friends) didn’t wait long to pick up where D&D…
Comedy Filmed at Seattle Mag’s Office Headed to Sundance!
A new comedy that was filmed in part in the Seattle magazine office is headed to Sundance Film Festival. Indiewire has the details on the full lineup. Safety Not Guaranteed, written by Derek Connolly, was inspired by an Internet meme about a supposedly real newspaper classified ad (shown above), in which a man earnestly seeks…
Best Local Arts in 2011
The shining stars in Seattle literature, theater, visual art and film in 2011.
LITERATURE #notavailableonkindle Most Innovative Approach to the Literary Journal: Filter Sometimes, thinking outside of the box means thinking inside of a box. Jennifer Borges Foster’s hand-ornamented and hand-sewn literary journal Filter is always a thing of beauty, but for this year’s volume (the third), she went completely above and beyond the bounds of the literary…