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Mother’s Day is Coming: Best Brunch Spots in Seattle
Belly up to these favorite spots for the most important meal of the weekend and Mother’s Day.
Only Brunch service hours are listed in this article. For complete restaurant info, including directions, follow links to individual listings in our comprehensive Seattle restaurant guide. BALLARD Bastille Café & Bar [FRENCH] The hyperlocal mission that guides this restaurant’s menu extends through the weekend, naturally. The house-made granola is sweetened with honey from the rooftop…
One Year Later: Cafe Racer and the Gun Control Discussion
One year after a Seattle shooting claimed six lives, questions persist about gun violence.
Walter Stawicki remembers exactly where he was on May 30 last year, when his wife called to say she’d just seen a surveillance photo of their son on the news: Ian was holding a gun inside Café Racer, where five people had reportedly been shot. “I was on the freeway…around Northgate,” Stawicki recalled in an…
Ken Griffey Jr.’s Seattle Legacy
Knute Berger mulls over the best and the worst of the Mariners.
As the Mariners ramp up their annual campaign, the best and the worst of Seattle baseball will come together at Safeco Field this season. Longtime fans are already well acquainted with what the worst feels like: If you endured the wretched Mariners teams in the 1970s and ’80s, you remember two decades of joyless seasons…
Mother’s Day Gift Ideas
You can never fully pay back the woman who raised you, but you can sure spend your life trying.
ScarfRedmond-based Satoko Pettersson draws inspiration from kimono fabrics, minimalism and mid-century design for Handarbete (“handicraft” in Swedish), her collection of textiles for body and home. Her scarves—handwoven from Italian cashmere cotton, merino and cashmere silk—are whisper soft and incredibly chic. From $110. handarbete.etsy.com Give her a thrill with these locally made gifts—chosen carefully with love,…
Mary Iverson’s Cargo Cult
Shipping containers go rogue in the paintings of this Seattle artist.
Living in a port city means getting so used to seeing stacks of shipping containers that we hardly see them at all. But that’s not the case for Seattle artist Mary Iverson (maryiverson.com), a graduate of both UW and Cornish College, whose work brings the colorful metal boxes to the foreground. In her hands, the…
Coyle’s Bakeshop, a Pastry Pop-up, Debuts at Book Larder in May
I think it’s safe to say: Pop-up restaurants are the new food trucks. The way it works? Chefs essentially borrow a restaurant on a night/time of day the restaurant would usually be closed, serving food and drink just as they would if the space were theirs full time. Pop-ups are a great way to get…
Updated: A Sneak Peek at our Second Annual Food Establishment List
Have you seen the April issue of Seattle magazine yet? Drool!! Not only do Allison Austin Scheff and Sara Dickerman walk you through the ideal places to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in their fun-to-read Best Restaurants coverage, there’s also the second annual Food Establishment list to devour and debate about. Lemme tell you, this list…
See a New Take on Kafka, Shop Designer Leather and Other Weekend Musts
MUST WATCHKafka’s The TrialOngoing (4/5–4/28) — New Century Theatre Company is staging an appropriately claustrophobic new take on Kafka’s classic, The Trial, housed (also appropriately) in Seattle’s former INS building. Audience members are categorized and “processed” as they enter, and sit in a “jury box” to watch the unsettling proceedings. Starring veteran Seattle actors Darragh…
Update: Pink Ginger to Open a Store-in-a-Store at Ballard Home Comforts
A nice update from Tina Christou, the owner of Pink Ginger, who announced her store closing last week: she’ll be sharing space with Ballard Home Comforts starting in May, right smack dab on one of the most foot-trafficked streets in town, Ballard Ave. So happy to hear she’s found a great place to land and…
Cocktail Recipe: Summer in Madagascar
I know the springtime refrain as well as you: April showers bring May flowers. But the April gloomy skies make it hard to stay chipper, even if May blooms are imminent. In fact, the gray tinge of the last few weeks has me singing a line from a different song, a favorite from the past,…