Seattle Mag
Spectrum Dance’s “Love” Introduces 50 New Shades of Grey
Donald Byrd and his company Spectrum Dance Theater have gone to great lengths for love this season. In the fall, the reprisal of Byrd’s earlier work The Beast terrified with too-real visions of domestic violence. In spring, Petruchska admonished against futile obsessions; and in Miraculous Mandarin…whoops! Didn’t see that one. Apparently the content was so…
Pop Life: Seattle Artist Troy Gua Builds an Icon
Seattle mag Spotlight Award winner Troy Gua continues to experiment with his most enticing muse: manufactured fame. Inspired by his childhool idol the artist (formerly? currently?) known as Prince, Gua constructed a doll that looks just like the pop star, if he were to land a cameo role on the marionette-puppet TV show Thunderbirds. Not content…
What’s New at Canopy Blue, HomeGoods Arrives and Bell Square to Expand
If there is any solace in a rainy June weekend, it’s in the great shopping to be had (all indoors!). Here’s what’s a buzz this week: Demure Canopy Blue in Madison Park has long reigned as a must-stop for women hankering for casual, yet elegant attire. Now, Danielle Ackerly has taken over from original owner…
Modernist Cuisine Meets Social Justice
He had me going there. “We keep quails on the roof at the labs,” chef Maxime Bilet told the table of Modernist Cuisine aficionados on Thursday night. “And we’re playing around with feeding them different things to see how it effects the flavor of their eggs.” Before us sat a small plate with a lovely…
Fist Bumps to High 5 for Pride Pie
I never need an excuse to dive into a slice of pie, but the folks at High 5 are making it extra special this weekend, letting the Pride show with free rainbow-colored whipped cream topping on each order. LOVE that! Might be a bit over-the-top on its brand new bacon cream pie, but then again,…
5 Backyard Baseball Cocktails
Five cocktails to sip when you're rooting for the home team at home.
There’s nothing like seeing a baseball game at Safeco Field. Or any other stadium, for that matter, but I like Safeco best—especially when my pal Mark shares one of his season-ticket-holder seats. To flip the ball over, though, I also believe that listening to a baseball game on the radio in your own backyard when…
Cupcake Royale Expands to Serve Ice Cream
Cupcake Royale founder Jody Hall goes for the cold with her new ice cream offerings.
It’s hard to recall the time before cupcakes were considered an acceptable—and sought-after—adult dessert, but when Jody Hall founded Cupcake Royale (cupcakeroyale.com) in 2003 in Madrona, hers was not merely the sole cupcake shop in town, it was the only cupcake-specific bakery in America outside of New York City. Considered a risky endeavor by many…
A Playlist You Can Hug
Cuddle up to this plush bear outfitted with an MP3 player that holds favorite songs and recordings.
A Queen Anne dad who wanted to say goodnight to his 5-year-old daughter every night—even when away on business—looked no farther than that beddy-bye staple, the teddy bear, for his solution. David LePenske, along with his wife, Cherie, and Queen Anne neighbors Mike Robinson and Denise Podnar, developed Cuddletunes, a soft, plush bear outfitted with…
Sandra Bernhard, PechaKucha, Pride Parade and Other Weekend Musts
MUST LAUGHWin Tickets to See Sandra BernhardFeisty funnywoman Sandra Bernhard presents the Seattle premiere of her new show, I Love Being Me, Don’t You? Backed by a four-piece band, Bernhard (who has also recorded several jazz and blues albums) delivers the snark and satire she’s become known for since kicking off her comedic career in…
The Seattleite Who Danced Around the World (For Free?)
Check out this goosebumps-inducing video from Matt Harding, a 35-year-old Seattle resident who, by chance, landed a sponsorship deal that allowed him to travel to all corners of the world to….dance badly with people on camera. It’s an undeniable feel-good montage. Read all about his journey on his website and also on NPR.
Seattle’s Top Doctors Gather for a Heartfelt (and Surprising) Evening
The BMW’s were thick on the ground at McCaw Hall last night at a gathering of Seattle’s most revered surgeons, doctors and global-health superstars. Chauffered by sponsor BMW to the event were some of Seattle mag’s Top Doctors Hall of Fame inductees–doctors so amazing, they’ve been chosen by their peers as the very best for…
New Distillery Alert! 2 Bar Spirits to Open in Sodo
A newly-renovated Sodo warehouse space will soon be home to Texan-family values...and good hooch.
For Nathan Kaiser, it’s all about the hard work of his grandfather and his grandfather’s fathers before him. Five generations of his family worked the land of the 2 Bar Ranch in Texas, which still exists to this day and conjures images of the era when men were men, and by that I mean in…