Food & Drink
Scoop:Eddie Bauer Archival Revival
Eddie Bauer celebrates 90 years of outdoor outfitting this year with a Smithsonian-caliber archive o
Eddie Bauer celebrates 90 years of outdoor outfitting this year with a Smithsonian-caliber archive of historic items from the Seattle-based brand. Open since May, the archive sweeps adventure aficionados through a timeline of EB’s impressive firsts, including the first American shuttlecock (the company started as a tennis shop in the ’20s and expanded to badminton…
Rockin’ it Old School
Old musicians never die, they just... keep circling the globe on tour
Revisit the classic sounds of Motown with the Temptations and The Four Tops (7/11; 7 p.m.; prices vary; Tulalip Casino, 6410 33rd Ave. NE, Marysville; 800.745.3000; ticketmaster.com) and let the grandfathers of soul take you to “Cloud Nine”—fee-fi-fo-fum, look out baby, ’cause here they come! Next, fly like an eagle to Woodinville for the Steve…
Summer Guide 2010: Outdoor Music
Looking for more summer events? Check out our Festivals and Outdoor Movies guides. SEATTLE Seattle Peace Concert Series6/13–9/19Get out and enjoy Seattle’s city parks at these free, family friendly concerts held on Sundays featuring local and regional musicians. Canned food donations for Northwest Harvest appreciated.Must-see shows/bands: Adrian Xavier (8/29 Volunteer Park), Kuli Loach & Andy Coe…
Datebook: Pavement
Pavement--One of the first bands in America to embody the term “alternative rock”
9/5 One of the first bands in America to embody the term “alternative rock,” Pavement came onto the scene in the early ’90s. Playing together for the first time in 10 years, their “one time only” reunion tour will feature the California–based band’s biggest songs (also celebrated on their album Quarantine: The Best of Pavement,…
Editor’s Note: The Outsiders
If you aspire to be “an outsider” but fall in the clueless category like me, this is the issue for y
The Outsiders We all have that friend—the one we admire for his or her ability to do something for which we are completely missing a gene. It may be the friend who effortlessly throws lavish dinner parties. Or the one who remembers every special occasion and every birthday. For me, it’s my friends who are…
Perfect Pastries
With the right accompaniment, a good cup of coffee plays on a much larger stage. Here are some of ou
The figgy maple scone from Volunteer Park Café is utter perfection. Buttery, with bits of fig scattered about in the flaky dough, it may be the best in town. Capitol Hill, 1501 17th Ave. E; 206.328.3155; alwaysfreshgoodness.com No local bakery can match James Miller’s croissant expertise at his decade-old Café Besalu. Pull it apart slowly…
Spotlight Shorts: City Arts Fest, 100 Ways & more
Local art that matters
ARTS FESTS Two new arts events erupt all over town this monthJust when you thought it was time to crawl into your winter cave, gloomy October is proving itself to be quite the festive month for artsy goings-on in Seattle. The first City Arts Fest (10/20–10/23; times, prices and venues vary; cityartsfest.com), helmed by Michael…
Datebook: Andy Reynolds
Don't miss the work of Andy Reynolds, known for his hyper-real, alternately funny and disturbing por
9/3–10/3 Local photographer Andy Reynolds, who shot Spotlight Award winners Jody Kuehner, Ricki Mason and Debra Baxter for this issue (Fall Arts Preview article) has become known for his hyper-real, alternately funny and disturbing portraits of people caught in the act of something odd (a woman being consumed by a vacuum cleaner; a staged family…
Summer Guide 2010: Mural Quiz
Category: seattlepi.com teaser headlines 1. In Greenwood, near 85th Street and 3rd Avenue. Painted by John Osgood. 2. In Green Lake, between the lake and Woodland Park Zoo, under Aurora Avenue. Painted by Josh Howard. 3. In West Seattle, outside Café Revo (2940 Southwest Avalon Way). Painted by Glenn Case. 4. In Sodo, near…
The Foodie’s Blind Spot
Seattle mag food editor Allison Austin Scheff reconciles her struggle with eating only sustainable,
In January, seattle magazine’s Grey Matters columnist Knute Berger aired our dirty teriyaki-loving laundry all over the front page of The New York Times food section, when he was quoted in an article on Seattle’s love of teriyaki thusly: “Seattle likes to talk about local foods, about ridiculous things like fiddlehead coulis. Seattle yuppies love…
Spotlight: Next of Kindle
What does the ink-and-paper landscape look like in the city that spawned the hugely successful e-rea
The Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair takes place this month (October 9–10; seattlebookfair.com), enticing local book lovers with the promise of fragrant and crumbly yellowed pages, and at the same time prompting the question: Aren’t all ink-and-paper books becoming a bit antiquarian? In an interview with Newsweek last December, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos praised the physical…
Datebook: 40th Bumbershoot–Bob Dylan and More
The 40th Bumbershoot gives Seattle the gift of an American legend
When rumors started swirling that this year’s Bumbershoot headliner was Bob Dylan, many Seattleites were disbelieving. The Bob Dylan? At our little Bumbershoot? But then it turned out to be true. (And people are still in disbelief.) Perhaps not since the ’60s, when Elvis visited the World’s Fair and the Beatles played the old Coliseum,…