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Coming Soon, Tickets Going Quickly: Salmon Enchanted Evening
!–paging_filter–pspan Better hook some tickets soon to the feel-good cookout of the summer. The season’s first installment of Salmon Enchanted Evening sold out, with more than 450 folks feasting on one of the beautifully put together meals wrangled by Tom Douglas and his crackerjack crew./span/ppBeyond relishing the heck of a meal deal ($20 for the…
The Best Themed Restaurants in Seattle
Kendall Jones explores the new wave of upscale restaurants with an escapist twist
It is ironic how we spend our days surrounded by a buzzing sea of humanity but live in relative isolation. Even when forced out among fellow humans, we commute with headphones on and eyes fixed to a handheld stream of text message conversations and social media interactions. We forge new friendships 140 characters at a…
Achtung Launch at Essenza
!–paging_filter–pFremont’s scent super-store, a href=”http://\/\/staging.seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/essenza“Essenza/a, is hosting a launch event on August 8 from 4 to 8 p.m. for a href=”http://www.achtungseattle.com/” target=”_blank”Achtung/a, a collab between local perfumer a href=”http://www.matriarch.biz/” target=”_blank”House of Matriarch/a, artist Rick Barchenger and emerging designer Aronhix who has created textiles based on Barchenger’s black and white mandala-style drawings./ppHouse of Matriarch perfumer Christi…
Village Maternity Celebrates 30 Years this September
!–paging_filter–pa href=”http://www.uvillage.com/” target=”_blank”University Village/a opened in 1956 and while all of its original inhabitants (save the a href=”http://www.qfc.com/Pages/default.aspx” target=”_blank”QFC/a) are gone and the mall has changed considerably, a href=”http://\/\/staging.seattlemag.com/directory/village-maternity“Village Maternity/a is celebrating its 30th anniversary in September with a month full of in-store events, a new website with ecommerce and 5 percent of all sales…
Gorilla Perfumes At Lush
!–paging_filter–pThe Westlake Center a href=”http://www.lush.com/” target=”_blank”Lush/a is one of nine US stores receiving a visit from a href=”http://www.gorillaperfume.com/” target=”_blank”Gorilla Perfumes/a Album 2, nine new unisex scents from British father and son team Mark and Simon Constantine. From August 10 through 31 Seattle fragrance lovers will get the chance to sniff the supremely weird scent combos…
The Must List: Seattle Opera’s Ring and Outdoor KEXP Concerts
Seattle magazine top picks for your weekend
!–paging_filter–pstrongMust Bravoa href=”http://bit.ly/17jxNEU” target=”_blank”brThe Ring Cycle/a/strongbr(8/4 to 8/25, times vary) — Running times for The Ring might make your blood run cold (the four mini-epic operas are Das Rheingold: 2.5 hours; Die Walküre: 4.5 hours; Siegfried: 5 hours; and Götterdämmerung: 5.25 hours), but the pros know all this tush time is worth it. There’s simply…
Five Essential Home Bar Tools
!–paging_filter–pOkay, no one likes getting a good cocktail in a bar more than me (well, a few people do). With a happy bartender making me well-crafted drinks, or pouring me a well-poured beer or glass of wine, I’m a happy person. But I also like to make nice imbibables at home–and I’m guessing you do,…
Perfect Wine Pairing: POP Gourmet Popcorn And…
!–paging_filter–pspanI hate the tyranny of traditional meal times, especially this time of year./span/ppEating lunch at noon or dinner at 7 p.m. means facing packed dining rooms, for one thing. When it stays light late, a long, leisurely mid-day meal is one of my favorite summer rituals and I recently savored an incredibly wonderful lunch on…
Bar Cotto
Cozy Italian on Capitol Hill
Bar Cotto (1546 15th Ave.; 206.838.8081; ethanstowellrestaurants.com) is the latest outpost in Ethan Stowell’s growing culinary empire (Tavolàta, How to Cook a Wolf, Staple & Fancy, Rione XIII, Anchovies & Olives). Its snug confines are a tasty paean to Italian cured meats and other treats inspired by “the boot.” Mood Lighting and AmaroNext door to…
Cheap Eats: Rain Shadow Meats Squared
Carnivores, make this spot your next lunchtime stop
Russ Flint’s Pioneer Square butcher shop (the first Rain Shadow lives in the Melrose Market) is an expansive carnivore’s wonderland: beautifully marbled steaks and portly pork chops, plump sausages and house-made mortadella. And with so much space, there’s room for making sandwiches. At lunchtime the shop fills quickly, with folks on bar stools at the…
High Style: Erika Dalya Massaquoi
The visual arts curator and educator is making a bold statement in Seattle
Personal Style: Leschi’s Erika Dalya Massaquoi is a fashion chameleon, absorbing and reflecting the many moods and styles of her influences, which are as diverse and far reaching as the Miami of her childhood and her parents’ interest in civil rights and modernism. “I’m all about the high/low mix,” Massaquoi says. “You see me in…
Bees at Sea-Tac
Sea-Tac airport is abuzz over a new flight path
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has become a whole new kind of hub—for more than 600,000 flying insects. Seattle nonprofit The Common Acre (commonacre.org) worked with local bee-hugger organization Urban Bee Company (urbanbee.org) to install 16 honeybee hives at three locations in the scrub near the runways as a way to help combat the massive wave of…