Food & Drink
High Style: Erika Dalya Massaquoi
The visual arts curator and educator is making a bold statement in Seattle
Personal Style: Leschi’s Erika Dalya Massaquoi is a fashion chameleon, absorbing and reflecting the many moods and styles of her influences, which are as diverse and far reaching as the Miami of her childhood and her parents’ interest in civil rights and modernism. “I’m all about the high/low mix,” Massaquoi says. “You see me in…
The Newest Spray Park in Town
Beacon Mountain Spraypark sets a high water mark
Hooray for August, when we can finally say it’s summer without feeling the impulse to knock on wood. After spending most of the year complaining about the rain, we find ourselves seeking out precipitation—in the form of spray parks and fountains. While the International Fountain at Seattle Center wins big for, well, sheer bigness, there’s…
Ampersand As Apostrophe’s Buffalo Parcel Bag
One bag, seven ways to wear it
Chinatown–International District-based Jessica Park, the designer of the ultrachic Ampersand As Apostrophe line of bags (and one cool necklace), is really into the concept of transformation. “Almost all of my bags can be transformed for multiple ways to wear,” she says. Her most popular bag, the Buffalo Parcel ($795), for example, has at least seven…
Capitol Hill Block Party Was A Feast For All Senses
!–paging_filter–pspan Wow. Just WOW!/span/ppThe Capitol Hill Block Party delivered the full-on sensory overload I was expecting–it was my first time, be gentle./ppWhen I told friends I was going, they served up some stern warnings: Yeah, good luck with that massive clustercuss. Or, words to that effect./ppBut I love the electric buzz of crowds and the…
Kiehl’s LifeRide for amFAR Kicks Off at U Village
!–paging_filter–pa href=”http://www.kiehls.com/” target=”_blank”Kiehl’s/a fourth annual a href=”http://www.kiehls.com/LifeRide/liferide,default,pg.html” target=”_blank”LifeRide/a for a href=”http://www.amfar.org/” target=”_blank”amFAR/a, a nine-day motorcycle race to raise funds for HIV/AIDS research, is kicking off this year at the a href=”http://www.uvillage.com/” target=”_blank”University Village/a store on Wednesday, July 31. Celeb riders, including dreamboats John Corbett and Gilles Marini, will be on hand for photo opportunities and…
Humble Pie Now Open in the Central District
!–paging_filter–pI drive past the home of a href=”https://www.facebook.com/humblepieseattle” target=”_blank”Humble Pie/a (at 525 Rainier Ave, at Weller Street) on the edge of the nbsp;International District (technically it’s the Central District) almost daily on my way to and from the south end. And strongfor over a year, I’ve watched as owner Brian Solazzi gradually built decking, planted…
All the Details on the Forthcoming Willows Inn Cookbook
!–paging_filter–pWhen Joe Ray called, saying he felt like spilling some beans, I had an inkling that it might something big. a href=”http://joe-ray.com/” target=”_blank”Ray’s/a writing and photographs have been featured in The Boston Globe, the New York Times and dozens of other publications. He wrote a story on Riley Starks’a href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com/article/tackling-chicken-butchering-workshop” target=”_blank” chicken butchery workshop for…
Kimberly Baker Opens Ship Song in Former Hip Zephyr Space
!–paging_filter–pJewelry designer a href=”http://kimberlybaker.com/” target=”_blank”Kimberly Baker/a has moved her shop a few times, from Fremont to a href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/welcome-back-kimberly“Green Lake/a, and has now landed (or moored, as the case may be) in Phinney Ridge. Her new shop, Ship Song (hence the moored reference) is taking full advantage of the prime corner shop recently vacated by a…
The Must List: Capitol Hill Block Party, Arts in Bellevue and a Just Opened Online Jewelry Shop
!–paging_filter–pstrongMust Rock/stronga href=” http://bit.ly/1aJxMxQ” target=”_blank”strongbrCapitol Hill Block Party/strong/abr(7/26 to 7/28, times vary) — It’s the sweatiest, loudest, most rockin’ party of the summer, when local musicians and the hipsters who love them swarm Capitol Hill’s Pike/Pine corridor. With more than 60 bands (including The Flaming Lips!) performing over three days, this is musical mayhem you…
The Best Photos From Last Night’s Not-so-secret Macklemore Video Shoot
There have been oodles of ceiling references swirling about the Internets this morning (“the ceiling did hold them after all!”), due to Macklemore et al filming a video on top of Dick’s Drive-In in Capitol Hill. (Underneath rock-dwellers: His song “Can’t Hold Us” mentions that, in fact, a ceiling perhaps may not hold them.) The…
Make Room for White Space
!–paging_filter–pMagnolia-based, New York transplant designer Khadjiah Fulton has just launched a href=”http://www.whitespacejewelry.bigcartel.com/” target=”_blank”White Space/a, a pretty, pretty jewelry line consisting of sweet, minimalistic, slightly rough-hewn pieces with a chic and modern sensibility./ppI’m in love. This gal’s work is fantastic./ppAnd it should come as no surprise. Fulton has a BFA from Parsons and has designed for…
Where to Eat in Capitol Hill if You’re Not Going to the Big Block Party
This would be the weekend to avoid (most of) Capitol Hill if you aren’t into crowds. The crazy, three-day hipster-filled bash that is the Capitol Hill Block Party begins tomorrow, so expect the Pike/Pine corridor to be teeming with swarms of sweaty, music-loving revelers. (If you do need a ticket, go here. Single-day passes are…
Jeweler Moorea Seal Opens Online Shop
!–paging_filter–pa href=”http://\/\/seattlemag.com/article/designer-watch-moorea-seal“Moorea Seal/a, emSeattle/em magazine’s Designer to Watch for jewelry in 2012, has opened a super-cool online shop (with a huge a href=”http://www.mooreaseal.com/pages/about-us” target=”_blank”team/a of helpers), called, appropriately, a href=”http://www.mooreaseal.com/” target=”_blank”mooreaseal.com/a. The site is focused on beautiful artisan-made items by US-based designers, including a href=”http://www.mooreaseal.com/collections/moorea-seal” target=”_blank”Seal’s jewelry line/a, a href=”http://www.mooreaseal.com/collections/balue-co” target=”_blank”Balue/Co/a (another emSeattle/em mag a…