Food & Drink
Seattle’s Champion Grocery Bagger to Appear on Letterman
Last month West Seattle’s own Metropolitan Market grocery bagger Andrew Borracchini, 18, claimed the hotly contested title of “Best Bagger” in 23 states—along with $10,000—in a bagging competition held as part of the National Grocer’s Association convention in Las Vegas. Tonight (Monday, March 25) at 11:35 pm,Borracchini has a chance to show off his gleaming…
Donald Byrd’s New, New Normal
The renowned choreographer celebrates his 10th year with Spectrum Dance Theater.
It’s been 10 years since choreographer Donald Byrd alighted in Seattle to take the helm at Spectrum Dance Theater. Previously, he gained acclaim for his work as founding artistic director (1978–2002) of the Los Angeles–born and later New York City–based Donald Byrd/The Group. Once here, he continued to garner notice, thanks to his daring, dark…
Epic Ales Finally Opens Gastropod! Celebrates With Whole Roasted Pig This Weekend
Cody Morris’s Sodo nanobrewery, Epic Ales, is a beer-lovers oasis. Tiny, with just a few stools front and center behind which Morris often stands, tasting folks on beer and talking shop, it’s the sort of place you really want to succeed, but still don’t want to tell anyone about. Morris makes clever but always tasty…
See Moisture Festival, Remember a Local Fashion Icon & Other Weekend Musts
MUST MARVELMoisture FestivalOpens Thursday (3/21–4/14) — It’s another welcome sign of spring when Hale’s Palladium in Fremont suddenly fills with contortionists, comedians and a variety of clowns. This marks the tenth year of the Moisture Festival, which showcases a veritable circus of audacious, hilarious, gravity-defying and sometimes risque vaudeville acts. A few highlights among over…
On Our New Collaboration with Crosscut
Alongside our signature Best Restaurants story, which hones in on the most memorable meals of the year, you’ll find something totally new in the April issue of Seattle magazine: an experiment in collaboration. We teamed up with the editors at Crosscut.com (one of our favorite local sources for thoughtful political coverage and analysis) to co-produce a feature…
Calling All Local Designers: It’s Time for Seamless in Seattle 2013
Ok, my people, start spreading the news. It’s time for Seamless in Seattle 2013. We’ve changed the rules and added two new categories, Established and Accessories, to the competition, joining Emerging and Students. We’ve removed the Bridal category, but if you are a bridal designer feel free to enter as either Established or Emerging. Winners…
Casting Call: Project Runway Season 12
Got an email today from the peeps over at Project Runway—they’re putting out the call for designers for season 12. Applications are available here and are due April 8. Winners have the chance to show at New York Fashion Week and win $100,000 to foster their line. They’ve raised the maximum amount of sales a…
SAM Gallery Turns 40
SAM Gallery celebrates 40 years of playing art matchmaker.
In the dating world, many consider the three-month mark a pivotal moment—when paramours have learned enough about each other to decide whether it’s worth going forward or cutting bait. As it turns out, that time frame makes sense for art lovers, too. SAM Gallery, Seattle Art Museum’s rental and sales sibling (housed in the Seattle…
Ameen and Deep Dhillon Bring a Global Perspective to Art Collecting
Two local painters collect colorful art from around the globe.
In Ameen and Deep Dhillon’s backyard, the chickens do double duty—as egg layers and as models. Ameen, an artist who teaches art classes for kids (studio-kids.com) in the green-roofed, sky-lighted studio Deep designed behind their Ballard home, opens the coop for her “life drawing” classes, so the students can study the birds’ movement and capture…
Carole McClellan to Show at Vancouver Fashion Week
I am totally intrigued by Vancouver Fashion Week and have often thought of heading up there to see if I could glean any insight into what it takes to throw a successful multi-day event like this. The event organizers seem to draw a nice group of emerging and established local and international designers, and it…
Spring Cleaning Sale at Kimberly Baker
Kimberly Baker, one of our fave local jewelry designers is having her biggest sale of the year this Saturday and Sunday, March 23 and 24. She’ll have one-of-a-kind and vintage pieces, as well as items from her main collection on sale, with earrings starting at $15 and necklaces from $20. The sale is in-store only…
Totokaelo to Open a Store Just for Men
**Update: I guess they had a few glitches and didn’t open Sunday. Stay tuned for more info** Big fashion news on Capitol Hill today. TotokaeloMan is opening below Totokaelo. It’s a huge space, skillfully merchandised with men’s clothing, accessories and shoes from Rick Owens (of course, who does it better in the universe Totokaelites traverse?),…
Beauty Break: Malie Organics
Everyone and their neighbor is in Hawaii right now, or getting ready to go. This is a blissful time of year if you’re one of the lucky ones heading off to paradise and a maddening one if you’re not. So if you’re with me, in the homebound camp, let’s develop a coping mechanism to get…