Seattle Mag
St. Patrick’s Day Celebrations In & Around Seattle
Get in on these Irish celebrations happening throughout Washington
Yinz ready for a good ole’ Irish celebration? Pull out the cable-knit sweater, bury the corned beef in a potato-carrot stew, prepare ye Irish soda bread, play that harp and fiddle through the speakers, and gather ’round the Guinness, because St. Patrick’s Day is brewing and celebrations are to be had all over the state. Grab…
Seattle’s Middle Class is Vanishing. Why?
Half of all new households in King County are poor, and the other half rich
The Seattle Times puts hard data to the trend all of us are feeling: the diminishment of Seattle’s middle class. The numbers show that half of all new households in King County are poor, and the other half rich—giving truth to the old line about “how the other half lives.” Half of the new households…
Seattle Dances Gala, Potential Pedestrian Street & More News
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Movers and Shakers. On Saturday night, sequins and shimmys were rampant on the dance floor during the sixth-annual Plymouth Housing Group’s “Seattle Dances” gala at Seattle’s Fremont Studios. Channeling “Dancing with the Stars,” the event paired a local celebrity from the business and civic world with a dancer from Century Ballroom – and together they…
Serious About Learning to Cook? 2 Local Culinary Schools Explored
Art Institute and Seattle Culinary Academy deans discuss advantages of formal culinary study & more
When I started culinary school several years back, food lovers sometimes got a dreamy look when they found out. Through their questions, they tried to assess if the experience was for them—and, perhaps most to the point—if the Poet Laureate Charles Simic was right when he told the The New York Times that people looking…
Recipe of the Week: Two-Ingredient Pancakes
Sarah Adler's recipe proves breakfast can be sweet, healthy and delicious
I have this distinct memory of eating banana macadamia-nut pancakes on a rainy Seattle morning when I was growing up. They were fluffy and perfect, and probably doused in syrup. While I still love a breakfast on the sweet side, I don’t love the idea of having to carry on with my day feeling like…
Porch.com Expanding, Uniqlo Coming To Seattle & More News
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Latin Cuisine Adds a Gyro Machine. Ever since Columbia City’s Grecian Delight went temporarily out of business after an SUV ran into the space last August, locals complained for the loss of Greek fare in their neighborhood. Eater Seattle said the owners of Grecian Delight–who also operate La Isla del Mojito–are solving this problem by moving the…
Your 2015 Spring Arts Guide
45 arts events--theater, music, film and more--to experience this spring
Among the many signs that spring has arrived are the wealth of excellent performances, exhibits and concerts suddenly competing for space in our calendars. Will you get to know a Lizard Boy, indulge in Splurge Land or buckle up with Chastity Belt? We recommend all three—and 42 more arts events—in our guide to the best…
Throwback Thursday: Seattle in Transit
Definitive motor ways of the past pave way for the future
As a city that’s had plenty of recent transportation quirks–Bertha delays and getting stuck, for one–Seattle public transportation has plans to trudge forward in a big way. Just this week, Car2Go announced it will up its Seattle fleet by 50 percent, and on Monday Mayor Ed Murray rolled out a new initiative that is slated…
New Fiction By Washington-Based Authors
These two local authors place powerful characters amid vivid landscapes
Black River by S.M. Hulse (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24) This striking debut novel by Spokane writer S.M. Hulse is a contemporary Western that has earned critical comparisons to the work of Larry McMurtry, Annie Proulx and Wallace Stegner—and deservedly so. Hulse uses spare language to craft a rich portrait of inland Northwest as a backdrop…
The Must List: Genre Bender, Bourbon Bash & More
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must BlendGenre Bender Showcases Inspired Artist Collaborations(3/6 to 3/7, 8 p.m.) It’s time once again for Genre Bender, an exceptional performance event that pairs up local artists from different fields and asks them to go forth and make something together. This year features five promising duos—including conceptual artist C. Davida Ingram with composer Hanna Benn,…
Talking Irish Whiskey with Teeling Founder Jack Teeling
Say no to green beer and yes to classic Irish whiskey this St. Patrick's Day
St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, and I can’t think of a better way to start the celebration than by spreading the word about Irish whiskey, and to help sway you towards better drinks (i.e. skip the green beer) this year. Lucky for us, we recently were able to speak with Jack Teeling,…
Cocktails and Cheese: Pairing Four Drinks and Four Cheeses
Nothing goes better with a good cocktail than a good slice o' cheese
Cocktails of all sorts and stripes are of course all the rage (as they should be). And more and more, cocktail and food pairings are showing up on menus. It’s nowhere near the amount as with wine, but progress is being made matching up particular drinks with particular culinary flavors. And a great way to…