Food & Drink
The Urban Girls Garage Sale
Ever wanted to raid the closets of Seattle’s most fashionable? Get ready to on Sunday, March 17 at 1927 Events for the Urban Girls Garage Sale. Over 40 local sellers will be selling their gently used, still-stylish clothing, accessories and small home goods, with all remaining items going to the Seattle Goodwill. The sale is…
A Bucket List for the Seattle Chocoholic
If we could create our dream box of chocolates, these 10 local treats would be in it.
Chocolate grows on trees, but after testing and tasting everything Theobroma cacao, we’ve learned one thing: Not all chocolate is created equal. It’s all made from seeds from a football-shaped fruit that grows in the globe’s equatorial regions. But everything from where it’s grown to how it’s made affects taste and quality—and some chocolate treats…
Seattle’s Best Sipping Chocolate
We scoured the city for its best liquid indulgences: thick, rich, hot melted chocolate and milk.
ChocolatiCayenne Hot ChocolateIf you’d abandon subtlety and nuance in favor of a hot chocolate with eye-popping flavor, Chocolati’s flavored hot chocolate menu is for you. Try the cayenne, with big, hot high notes that hit your sinuses right as you sip, then mellow as you get farther into the cup. $2.95 for 8 ounces of…
Seattle’s Classic Chocolates
Tried-and-true favorites from longtime local chocolate makers.
DilettanteLet’s zoom out on this a bit: There’s a restaurant in Seattle’s Capitol Hill ’hood that makes almost a dozen versions of chocolate martinis ($10.50) any night of the week, and it’s busy—all the time. We haven’t flipped back to 1990; Dilettante Mocha Café is genuinely popular. Which means that no matter how much we…
Spring Arts Preview: Seattle Sees Itself on the Big Screen
Two new gigantic outdoor video screens are coming to Seattle for two very different purposes.
You could say Seattle is heading into a season of self-reflection. Come this spring, two new gigantic outdoor video screens positioned in prominent locations will project likenesses of our city—its weather, its landscape, its people and culture—via a stream of moving images. The first is Mirror, Seattle Art Museum’s new permanent installation (kickoff viewing party,…
Spring Arts Preview 2013: New Local Music
A few of our favorite local bands are birthing new albums this season.
Hey MarseillesLines We TraceSound: Charming alt-folk chamber popOf note: Album release party at Showbox at the Market (3/1)Online: heymarseilles.com BoatPretend to Be BraveSound: Irresistible indie-pop rockOf note: Album release party at Barboza (3/2)Online: boat.ohnodisaster.com PickwickCan’t Talk MedicineSound: Sway-inducing neo-soulOf note: A much-anticipated debut by the guys who’ve been selling out shows since 2011Online: pickwickmusic.com MudhoneyVanishing…
Frances McCue Lives Inside Her Art
Behind the scenes of the local writer's art collection.
“I’ve never thought of myself as an art collector before,” Frances McCue says, with excitement. A poet, McCue considers herself more of the literary type, having served as founding director (1996–2006) of the Richard Hugo House writing center and currently teaching writing and literature to undergraduates as writer-in-residence at University of Washington. But step inside…
Online Stationer: Dear Uncle Stu
Self-proclaimed “vintage stationery junkie” Riani Townshend and lover of snail mail has opened Dear Uncle Stu, an online stationery shop inspired by a series of correspondences she had as a teenager with the elderly Col. Stuart Townshend. Townshend offers a sophisticated assortment of embossed cards and beautifully lined envelopes in an array of vintage designs,…
Port Townsend Wearable Art Show
Port Townsend’s Wearable Art Show has officially started accepting entries for its May 11 show. In the spirit of unfettered creative freedom, rules of entry are simple: art that is wearable. Whether sculptural, functional or abstract, all forms of expression (and all media platforms) are welcome. This year’s juror will be Layne Goldsmith, professor of…
Currently Coveting: Anything by Jessalin Beutler
I have been turned on to many local designers in the last few month by retail curator and photographer Charlie Schuck (Object, Frye Art Museum Store), but right now I’m loving the work of Jessalin Beutler, whose designs range from bold geometric shapes to intense fractal patterns and are rooted in the natural world. …
Get Ready for The Look
King 5 is launching a local version of Project Runway
Since November 30, ten local designers have been competing in The Look, a reality fashion TV show co-produced by King 5’s Evening Magazine, IADT’s Monir Zhanghoreishi and Rose Dennis, designer Luly Yang’s publicist. Each week through February 7 the designers, including Lisa Vian Hunter, Tina Witherspoon, Julie Danforth, Justin Zachary Bartle (all former Seamless in Seattle contestants) and…
Tights of Many Colors
Seattle magazine managing editor, Lisa Wogan, always wears the coolest tights. Arts editor, Brangien Davis, isn’t too far behind Ms. Wogan, with her stylish “uniform” of boots, tights and pencil skirts. So once I found these amazing ombre tights ($45, on sale now for a limited time for $30) from BZR on Etsy, I immediately…
Catching Up with Lizzie Parker
I’ve followed Issaquah-based designer Lizzie Parker since her store-within-a-store at the now-closed Tweed in Greenwood, which she stocked with her cozy, comfy, sexy, simple and chic brand of cotton jersey-centric ready-to-wear. Since then Parker has opened and closed her own atelier in Gilman Village, become a reality TV star and seen her career take off…