Seattle Mag
Art Feinglass and Seattle’s New Jewish Theater Company
The founder and creative director explains what inspired him to launch this new troupe in April 2011
BD: Why did you start the Seattle Jewish Theater Company? AF: I felt the need to create something personally meaningful and significant. Being Jewish is important to me. While I’m not religious, I do very much appreciate the rich Jewish cultural heritage, especially in theater. I would like to introduce the great plays—provocative dramas, warm…
LxWxH Delivers Local Art in a Box
Seattle artist Sharon Arnold makes collecting art easier, cheaper and a lot more fun
We’re all familiar with the mutual benefits of community supported agriculture (CSA): Farmers get a guaranteed customer base, and subscribers get a box of fresh, locally grown produce delivered on a regular basis (and along with it, the satisfaction of eating sustainably). It’s a win-win. So what if the A in CSA stood for art?…
Black Swan Lands at PNB
A flock of love stories takes flight at Pacific Northwest Ballet
Don your tutu, develop a deranged doppelgänger and sprout unwanted epidermal plumage—“Black Swan” is taking flight at Pacific Northwest Ballet, along with several other besotted ballet masterpieces. With Love Stories, PNB offers a mélange of love’s mercurial moods, including the divertimento from Le Baiser de la Fée (by George Balanchine, with a little help from…
Shopping at Stella+Jack
A simple, green and cheap website to shop for kids' clothes.
Ever since the economy tanked, savvy parents are looking into the most affordable way to keep kids’ wardrobes up to date: consignment shops. But visiting those stores can seem daunting when you have to drag the kids along, and many stores have strict policies, e.g., “You cannot return anything. Ever.” Two local moms, Queen Anne’s…
Kids Can Train for the Seattle Marathon
Consider signing up for this fun, go-at-your-own-pace training program.
November’s gloomy weather can bring out couch-potato tendencies in kids. Not yours, though, because you, smart parent, have signed your child up to run the Seattle Marathon. You don’t need $250 running shoes and a CamelBak; this is a marathon your kids do a little at a time, at a place near home. Print out…
Homemade Toys from Manzanita Kids
Check out these beautiful wooden toys crafted by two Seattle parents in their North Seattle workshop
Is your living room awash in a sea of plastic toys? It doesn’t have to be that way, thanks to this line of handmade wooden toys from MANZANITA KIDS (etsy.com/shop/manzanitakids), made by Seattle dad David Minnery and his wife, Adrienne, a teacher at Ballard’s Adams Elementary School. The duo uses locally sourced hardwoods (walnut, cherry…
Eat, Drink and Shop in Madison Valley
Known for its upper-crust vibe, this walkable nabe, along East Madison between Martin Luther King Jr
Bordered by the sprawling Washington Park Arboretum to the north and Lake Washington to the east, Madison Valley is Seattle’s Parisian gem. Known for its distinctive upper-crust vibe, this walkable nabe, along East Madison between Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Lake Washington Boulevard, is now more accessible than exclusive, with fantastic new eateries and…
In Search of a Happier Seattle
It’s time to start talking about what really matters when making policy decisions for our city: the
When civic disputes get down to arguments over numbers, the point has usually been lost. Debates this year over building heights near the planned Roosevelt light rail station and in Pioneer Square heated up because the numbers symbolize an approach: density versus single-family homes, sustainability versus sprawl, high-rises versus history. These debates, legitimate as they…
To Occupy or Not To Occupy? Seattle is Still Deciding.
Everybody loves a good line-in-the-sand scene. That is, the classic, dramatic moment at the center of the mythic Alamo story, in which a ragtag group of wild men and outcasts occupy a mission in the middle of Mexico, er, Texas, and decide to stay and “defend” it against the encroaching Mexican army. It’s a loaded…
Fashion + Style Friday: Shop openings, the THREAD Show returns and Lisa Simpson’s new shoe line
Greetings shoppers! Here’s our weekly round-up of news you can use, and upcoming style events: First off, it’s over a week old now, but I finally found a few moments to pop into the new West Elm store in South Lake Union this week. (Hey, sometimes we shopping editors have to spend our time ogling…
Beer news: Elysian’s new juniper brew, and a bittersweet beer event
Occupational hazard: I love beer. Didn’t used to, but that was in the dark days before Seattle mag’s epic 24-page beer extravaganza, which could make a beerdo out of anyone. Neophyte that I am, I enjoy sidling up to Washington Beer Blog’s Kendall Jones at beer events and asking him stupid questions, like I did…
Viaduct for Dummies: Japanese firm gets the contract to build the bore
*Updated 10/14 with new information (below) Japanese firm Hitatchi Zosen signed a contract today to build the behemouth boring machine that will blaze the trail for the waterfront tunnel. Read cool details about this sci-fi creation here; then picture what $80 million gets you. My fave highlights from the always-fascinating DOT press release: The machine…