Seattle Mag
Drifting Arrows Swimwear Opens Online Mercantile
Swimwear line Drifting Arrows has announced the launch of an online mercantile filled with everything you need for the beach while wearing one of their hip, locally-designed suits, including espadrilles, a towel, sunnies and a floppy hat, and a chic bag to carry it all in. I’m dying over this site—it’s so cool. When the…
Feminism Can Be Fun
You really haven’t seen obscene hand gestures until you’ve seen them performed by a fully nude, slightly sweaty, winking blond woman. In playwright Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show, playing at On the Boards through Sunday night, Amelia Zirin-Brown (aka Lady Rizzo) performs this hilariously filthy solo, using only her pantomiming skills and her incredibly…
Beauty Break: Jenu
The problem with most age-defying lotions, creams and serums is that the molecules in most cosmoceuticals, like hyaluronic acid (a naturally occurring material in our bodies) are too large to be absorbed into the skin, which means that we’re not really getting the biggest bang for our skincare bucks. In response to this pickle, a group…
Lucky Dry Goods Welcomes Aykut Ozen
Call it a match made in heaven: leather designer Aykut Ozen will be showing his rock and roll and vintage workwear-inspired jackets during the Saturday, April 13 Ballard Art Walk at the stellar vintage shop Lucky Dry Goods (sister store to U District’s Lucky Vintage). And when I say stellar, I mean, Lucky Dry Goods has…
Queen Anne’s Pink Ginger to Close
** Pink Ginger has been saved! Find it as store-within-a-store in Ballard Home Comforts on Ballard Ave. late May/early June. More in for here. Sad news for plus size shoppers and the small, but cute, corner of Queen Anne retail on and around W. Crockett St. (Rhinestone Rosie’s and Meadow)—Pink Ginger is closing at the…
Super Surprise Sale at Far4
Spring has sprung at Far4, so they’re cleaning house. Head to this downtown boutique on Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6 between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. and shop their sale table overflowing with items ranging in price from $1 to $50, with most ringing in at around $15. Cash is preferred and enticements…
Bloedel Reserve’s Plant Sale, Edible Book Fest and Other Weekend Musts
MUST SEEMaster Harold…and the boysOngoing (thru 4/21) — Apartheid, class issues and ballroom dancing blend in South African playwright Athol Fugard’s acclaimed Broadway drama. Longtime local theater fans will be thrilled to learn that this contemporary take is directed by Burke Walker, founding artistic director of the dearly departed Empty Space Theatre, and stars another…
How to Make Sake Cocktails
Take it from me: though it isn’t a regular cocktail staple, sake is a versatile and entertaining base to build drinks on. Made from a special strain of rice—one you wouldn’t want to serve in a stir fry—the fungus Aspergillus oryzae (used during fermentation) and water, sake usually has around 15 percent alcohol by volume…
Cupofsugar.com? Helpful Neighborhood Websites
A pair of neighborly websites help build community at the micro level.
Forget leaning over the hedge, that’s so Home Improvement. Seattleites who want to borrow a rake, report a loose dog or just meet the family next door are turning to the Web as a substitute for—or a spur to—old-fashioned front-stoop chitchat. San Francisco–based Nextdoor.com, launched in 2011, connects neighbors through a sort of geographically restricted version of…
Madrona: Best Seattle Neighborhoods 2013
An in-city neighborhood that feels like a leafy village.
Technically, I don’t live in Madrona. I live in neighboring Denny Blaine, the tiny sliver of a ’hood whose biggest claim to fame is being where Kurt Cobain killed himself. But I strongly identify as a Madroner, because Madrona is where I walk to get coffee every morning; Madrona is where my husband and I…
Edmonds: Best Seattle Neighborhoods 2013
A picturesque escape from the city—close enough that you can keep your day job.
After a long stint of renting in Seattle’s lively Phinneywood neighborhood, I felt like I was “taking the black” (see: Game of Thrones) when I purchased my first home in suburban Edmonds last year. But, as a first-time home buyer, I couldn’t ignore the affordable prices, practically palatial square footage, gorgeous greenery and close proximity…
South Lake Union: Best Seattle Neighborhoods 2013
The new center of the universe (apologies to Fremont).
Ambition and energy permeate South Lake Union. It feels hopeful, forward thinking, exciting—a place where creative and brilliant people are working, in many cases, to better the world. But amid the bevy of new apartments, bakeries, restaurants, shops, coffeehouses, event spaces and more is still plenty of old Seattle flavor—rustic warehouses and Alaska-bound fishing boats….