Seattle Mag
Choreographer Donald Byrd is Flying High This Season
At age 62, Spectrum Dance Theater's director has more moves than ever.
Donald Byrd is staging an intervention. Seattle’s renowned contemporary dance choreographer is unsettled by America’s craving for the “mythologized,” candy-coated version of love portrayed in popular movies (see: the re-release of Titanic in 3-D this month) and he wants to help curb our addiction. “I think it gets us into trouble in the real world,”…
Luly Yang’s Couture Cycle
Seattle magazine looks back on the last decade of this celebrated local fashion designer's career.
In 2000, then graphic designer Luly Yang entered a fashion show on a whim, crafting an exquisite butterfly dress entirely out of paper. The awed—and awesome—reception to the gown soon inspired a career change. Now, after enlivening the fashion community for 10 years, gaining fame for her thematic annual runway shows and elegant bridal and…
Better, Lighter, Faster
This locally made outdoor gear boasting high-tech fabrics and sweet features is a must-have for spri
Seattle’s Outdoor Research, which just turned the ripe old age of 30, is blazing new trails with the introduction of the 13.5-ounce Axiom jacket ($375), the company’s first shell that uses Gore-Tex’s most breathable and waterproof stretch fabric, Active Shell. And for adventurers who don’t have time to change before hitting the bar, the Termini…
Mind the Gap
Poor and minority kids are falling through the cracks at Seattle schools. Can a Supreme Court ruling
Imagine receiving a telephone call from your child’s teacher asking you about your family’s academic goals and how you can work together to achieve them. It’s happening in areas of Seattle as part of an innovative new strategy to turn around a troubling trend among local schoolchildren. These “sunshine calls,” along with home visits from…
The Monarch’s Tales: The Luly Yang Couture Ball Gown Guessing Game
You know that ye ol’ contest where you have to guess how many marbles are in the jar? It is always surprisingly difficult (I once guessed 490 for a jar of 200,000 marbles, but math is not my strong suit) and the results can be somewhat astounding. Well, welcome to our fashion version! The question:…
Hot Cakes
Delicious, decadent molten chocolate cakes-in-a-jar.
I pity the poor souls who’ve never tasted one of Autumn Martin’s decadent molten chocolate cakes-in-a-jar, baked to an oozy middle and deeply, darkly delicious. The Theo Chocolates (featured in our inaugural Seattle Food Establishment list) alum has been selling her desserts at local farmers markets to much acclaim, and so we’re thrilled to report…
Cooking with Szechuan Peppercorns
Lorna Yee sets taste buds buzzing with a spicy Szechuan peppercorn sauce.
What it is: Known to the Chinese as “hua jiao,” this numbing yet addictive spice zings taste buds with its slightly lemony flavor in many popular Szechuan dishes, including Grandma’s Pockmarked Tofu (or “ma po dou fu”). These small, dark brown pods are normally sold whole, then toasted and ground at home before being used…
Honest Biscuits
Light, fluffy, Southern-style biscuits get a local twist.
Although Art Stone launched his new company, Honest Biscuits, last October, he traces its roots to his boyhood in North Carolina, where he used to help his grandmother make traditional Southern biscuits. After moving to Seattle last year, Stone turned his childhood memories into a business, selling fresh biscuits at farmers markets. Like many Southern…
The Must List, featuring the Compost Cupcake, Funboy Watches and Jonah Lehrer
MUST TASTECompost Cupcake In honor of Earth Day, Cupcake Royale’s special flavor of the month is the odd, but delicious, Compost Cupcake. The chocolate cupcake comes with a capricious mix of extras thrown in, including coconut, coffee grounds, oats and Tim’s Original potato chips. Amazingly, the frosting really looks like compost, but…
Cupcake Royale Introduces Ice Cream, and Scores a Prime New Locale
Cake and ice cream go together like PB&J, but until now none of our local cupcake shops made both: you’d have to get a cupcake here and then get the ice cream there. Not for long! Demand, meet supply: Cupcake Royale is launching a cupcake-inspired ice cream line this summer. Flavors will include Salted Ganache…
Our Favorite Omelettes and Scrambles
Try these Seattle restaurants for a delicious new take on two beloved breakfast staples.
BASTILLE CAFÉ & BARLocal ingredients are key to Bastille’s menu, and the smoked salmon omlette is no exception, with organic eggs from Yelm, salmon from the Ballard Market (smoked in-house!), milk from Lynden (for the house-made fromage blanc) and herbs from the café’s rooftop garden. $14. Ballard, 5307 Ballard Ave. NW; 206.453.5014; bastilleseattle.com CAFÉ PRESSEChefs…
Toast National Poetry Month with Five Cocktail and Poem Pairings
Poetry should be celebrated year round, but it’s good, I think, to have one month of focused celebration, where we can gather with friends (and a glass in hand) and toast poets near and far, new and old, tall and short, formalist and free-verse. But what cocktails are appropriate when honoring poets? I recommend the…