Seattle Mag
Meet the Producer: Toboton Creek Ranch
These free-roaming goats are brought up on a balanced hay-and-grass diet
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Since 2001, Dan Di Cicco and his wife, Lynda Kofford-Di Cicco, have raised a lot of kids—but they’re not your typical family. The Di Ciccos, a teacher (him) and nurse (her) by day, are goat farmers who have around 200 goats in their flock annually, raising them primarily for…
An Evening with Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor, beloved host of Prairie Home Companion, brings his humor and candor to Seattle for
Category: Arts + Events Articles 1/22 • Calling all NPR geeks! Garrison Keillor, beloved host of Prairie Home Companion, is bringing his humor and candor to Seattle for one night only. The liberal-leaning orator, who has 30 years of public radio under his belt, is also a prolific author. His latest novel, Liberty: A…
Beethoven
Ring in the new year with a thunderous rendition of the Beethoven
Category: Arts + Events Articles 1/2–1/4 • Ring in the new year with a thunderous rendition of the Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony by the Seattle Symphony. One of the best-known works of the Western World, the best thing about big, bad no. 9 is that it’s easy to sing along with: ba-ba-ba BUUUHHH. 7 p.m….
Trend: Counterpoint
Put away your pocket protectors
Category: Arts + Events Articles Put away your pocket protectors—local high school debate teams are defying stereotypes While most high school students were savoring the remaining days and nights of summer last August, a couple dozen rejected barbecues and lake swims in favor of something a bit weightier—a debate about the environment. But this…
Hot Button: Shock to the System
Could the solution to healthy kids dying on the athletic field be a simple hand-held electronic devi
Category: Arts + Events Articles Could the solution to healthy kids dying on the athletic field be a simple hand-held electronic device? In June 2006, 15-year-old Christopher Giovannetti was in gym class at Woodinville’s Leota Junior High School, running around the track and looking forward to summer vacation. Suddenly, the freshman passed out. When…
Spinasse Restaurant Review
Can pasta be a form of art? Searching for perfection at Capitol Hill.
Upon walking into the modestly sized dining room at Spinasse (pronounced “Spee-NAH-say”), near the fashionable, gastronomically gifted 12th Avenue and Pike Street stretch of Capitol Hill, I felt like I’d been whisked away to an old Italian farmhouse—delicate lace curtains hang in the front windows, rough-hewn beams bear the soaring ceiling’s burden, and mismatched wood…
Food We Love: The Pickle Plate
The ancient art of pickling is reborn at Boat Street Cafe
Category: Eat + Drink Articles The ancient art of pickling—preserving fruits and vegetables using spices and brining—is making a comeback; pickled items have recently popped up on menus at Poppy and Joule. Renee Erickson at Boat Street Cafe (Lower Queen Anne, 3131 Western Ave. ; 206.632.4602; boatstreetcafe.com and boatstreetpickles.com) has been serving her picture-perfect…
Review: Juno
The Arctic Club
Category: Eat + Drink Articles The cornerstone restaurant in the swanky, revamped Arctic Club Hotel, Juno, which opened its doors in July, has all the “hotel restaurant” bases covered: slightly edgy but still plush decor (with plenty of roomy booths) in a pleasing slate gray and yellow palette; a dozen au courant small plates;…
[CLOSED] Olivar: Restaurant Review
Has chef Philippe Thomelin's curse finally been broken?
I’ve got a favorite new restaurant—humble Olivar, tucked into Capitol Hill’s statuesque Loveless Building. I felt the first hints of a crush when I ducked through the old cove-shaped door and was met with the warm scent of roasting chicken and saffron. Last July, Philippe Thomelin, a French-born chef whose résumé includes stints at Il…
Grey Matters: Sweet Harmony
Knute Berger on a new year, a new president and a newly engaged Seattle
Category: Articles After almost a decade of being out of step, the nation is finally playing a beat Seattle can dance to Seattle is entering a new year, and a new reality. Or an old reality. Or maybe just plain old reality. For most of this century’s first decade, we’ve been a city on…
The Celluloid Kid
Children
Category: Arts + Events Articles 1/23–2/1 • From eye-opening documentaries to enchanting fables, adventures to animation, the Fourth Annual Children’s Film Festival Seattle—the biggest yet, with 80 films from 25 countries—has something for every child. Check out JUMP! a documentary about competitive jump roping, or The Snow Queen a part animated, part live-action adaptation of…
Out of the Wood Work
W. Scott Trimble gives boardwalks new meaning
Category: Arts + Events Articles 1/8–1/30 • Seattle sculptor W. Scott Trimble creates works of wood so fluid you almost forget they’re carved from unbendable boards. Past work has called to mind miniature roller coasters, spiral staircases and waves—diminutive scenes so enticing the viewer instantly imagines a mini-version of herself traipsing along them. In…