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The Must List: Bellevue Collection’s Fashion Week, Kirkland Oktoberfest and Mavis Staples at the Moore
What to do this weekend
!–paging_filter–pstrongMust Runway/stronga href=” http://bit.ly/15mbAG9” target=”_blank”strongbrBellevue Collection Fashion Week/strong/abr(Through 9/29, times vary) — Bellevue Square merchants, Vogue and new this year, GQ, come together for a fashion extravaganza, including a men’s fashion show, a curated-by-Vogue runway show and a hair show from Seven Salon./ppstrongMust Hear/stronga href=”http://bit.ly/1ch9JHs” target=”_blank”strongbrMavis Staples at the Moore Theatre/strong/abr(9/27, 8 p.m.) — A…
Early Fall Bar News
!–paging_filter–pIt’s been a full harvest of bar news and notes, with lots of bubbly things happening in the Seattle bar world, including special events, openings and more. While the below is not an exhaustive list (which would just get, well, exhausting) these highlights will help you set your fall drinking agenda./ppstrongVon Trapp’s Oktoberfest:/strong If you…
Oddball Finds at Kassie Keith’s Home Decor Shop
Capitol Hill–based estate sale and vintage huntress Kassie Keith has parlayed her passion for eclectic home décor into a profession, opening an eponymous store last summer in a former scooter shop smack-dab in the middle of Georgetown. Keith is attracted to “industrial, rustic, odd and unique” curiosities that range from slightly creepy to insanely cool,…
Show Off Your Scream at the EMP
Perfect your shriek at the EMP Museum's Scream Booth
It turns out fake screaming is serious business. The online photo stream from EMP’s popular Scream Booth—where visitors to the ongoing Can’t Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film exhibit enter a dark, soundproof chamber and scream for an automatic camera—reveals the faces of thousands of people who have shrieked, to varying effect. While they’re…
The Seattle Man’s Fashion Moment
Seattle men are dropping fleece in favor of creative license ranging from retro-funky to neo-dandy
I spotted a man on Pine Street the other day wearing an ascot. Just your average Seattle man in weatherproof shoes, coffee in hand, on his way to work. Wearing an ascot. He could have been naked from the waist down carrying an assault rifle, and had a cop interrogated me, I would’ve confessed, “I…
New Find: Ferdinand’s Supply Co.
!–paging_filter–pJenny at a href=”http://\/\/staging.seattlemag.com/far4“Far4 /afound this great new leather line at the Ballard Farmers Market and I’m already in love. a href=”http://ferdinands.bigcartel.com/” target=”_blank”Ferdinand’s Supply Co./a makes (in Ballard) vegetable tanned leather accessories, including a super handy a href=”http://ferdinands.bigcartel.com/product/cast-iron-pan-handler” target=”_blank”cast iron skillet handle cover/a and a super classic a href=”http://ferdinands.bigcartel.com/product/black-mantainance-dopp-medical-c…” target=”_blank”dopp kit/anbsp;(or Mantenence Kit as they…
Neiman Marcus’s 2013 Cusp Event
!–paging_filter–pa href=”http://\/\/staging.seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/neiman-marcus“Neiman’s/a is trying to compete for your fashion attention on Saturday, September 28 with their Cusp Event from 2 to 6 p.m. (luckily you can do this and still make the a href=”http://\/\/staging.seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/fashion-week-bellevue-coll…“emVogue/em show at The Bellevue Collection/a if you’re tenacious). Cusp is Neiman’s contemporary and emerging designer section (Vince, Rag Bone, Alexander Wang,…
DA:DA Colección at Lambs Ear
!–paging_filter–pa href=”http://\/\/staging.seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/lambs-ear-shoes-0“Lambs Ear/a in Fremont is welcoming stylist Ciara Ramos and her new project, DA:DA colección, a pop up shop filled with “wearable vintage that’s interesting looking rather than ‘retro’ looking,” she explains. “I’m doing all the styling and photography myself—the stark, sometimes off-kilter Juergen Teller-esque vibe is very intentional… wanted to try something that…
Jason Wu for Lancome at Nordstrom
!–paging_filter–pa href=”http://www.jasonwustudio.com/” target=”_blank”Jason Wu/a and a href=”http://\/\/staging.seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/nordstrom“Nordstrom/a are totally besties right now. The designer returned to the city for the second time in a month last week (the first was a personal appearance for his Nordstrom exclusive clothing collection, a href=”http://\/\/staging.seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/jason-wu-talks-miss-wu“Miss Wu/a, at the Bellevue store) to chat about his a href=”http://shop.nordstrom.com/c/jason-wu-for-lancome” target=”_blank”Lancome makeup collection/a,…
Rant: Let’s Bring Back The Dress Code
!–paging_filter–pspan Hey dude! Yes, you. The guy in shorts and T-shirt and flip flops walking through the a href=”http://www.themetropolitangrill.com/“Metropolitan Grill/a dining room carrying a bottle of electric blue Gatorade: Get a clue and put on a nice outfit, huh?/span/ppSeriously, the Met is one of the few places in Seattle where people dress up, especially on…
Skateboarding for Girls
Initiating girls into Seattle’s skateboarding culture
For Skate Like a Girl (SLAG) cofounder Fleur Larsen, the best part about teaching girls how to skateboard is opening them up to a whole new world of empowerment. “A lot of learning to skateboard is about trusting your body, taking healthy risks and learning in a community,” she says. Larsen, 34, and business partner…
Sound Transit’s Money Pit: The High Cost of the Sounder North Line
Sound Transit's finances are prompting a lot of head scratching
The autumn nip in the air means one thing—rain is coming. After a hot, dry summer, the shifting forecasts will provoke some grumbles, perhaps nowhere more audible than in Everett, where mudslides canceled 122 trips on Sound Transit’s Sounder north line last winter. For critics of the regional transportation authority (which operates rail and bus…