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Pagliacci Pizza’s new topping is the box itself
It’s been said that big things come in small packages, and what better package for a “big thing” than a pizza box? In the spirit of sustainability, Seattle’s own Pagliacci Pizza is now using delivery cartons that artfully explain a box’s journey from tree to compost pile. (Yes, you can and should compost greasy pizza…
Chino’s Brings Back Old School Street Food and Tiki Drinks
Long before James Beard Award-winning chefs began taking it to the streets, food trucks were feeding L.A. on the fast and cheap for decades, with immigrants serving primarily Mexican staples like tacos, tinga and offal, or the classics of Asia: steamed buns, fried noodles and boiled peanuts. It’s the stuff that L.A. natives Mari and…
Best New Seattle Bands
The local musicians, singers and songwriters that keep us moving.
Alt-Country/FolkCase Studies Sounds Like: Leonard Cohen meets Fleet Foxes First Album: The World Is Just a Shape to Fill the Night; released in August The story: Hipster hearts broke last year over the disbanding of The Dutchess and the Duke. Thankfully, Jesse “the Duke” Lortz (and friends) didn’t wait long to pick up where D&D…
Comedy Filmed at Seattle Mag’s Office Headed to Sundance!
A new comedy that was filmed in part in the Seattle magazine office is headed to Sundance Film Festival. Indiewire has the details on the full lineup. Safety Not Guaranteed, written by Derek Connolly, was inspired by an Internet meme about a supposedly real newspaper classified ad (shown above), in which a man earnestly seeks…
Best Local Arts in 2011
The shining stars in Seattle literature, theater, visual art and film in 2011.
LITERATURE #notavailableonkindle Most Innovative Approach to the Literary Journal: Filter Sometimes, thinking outside of the box means thinking inside of a box. Jennifer Borges Foster’s hand-ornamented and hand-sewn literary journal Filter is always a thing of beauty, but for this year’s volume (the third), she went completely above and beyond the bounds of the literary…
The Year in Recyled Art
One man's trash is an artist's pile of gold.
Best Reason to Skip the Recycling Bin: Scott Fife’s Corrugated Sculptures Local sculptor Scott Fife, who manipulates old cardboard as if it were fresh clay, left little corrugated lines on our hearts when he displayed his gorgeous, life-size bear-head sculptures at Platform Gallery last May through July. Rowr! platformgallery.com Best Use of Grandma’s Bric-a-brac: Nick…
Best Sports Moments in 2011
The best and totally random occurences that make it all so much more than a game.
The Best Use of the JumbotronJonah Duvall’s “Thriller” Stellar fielding replays were rare sights on the Safeco Jumbotron this M’s season (sigh), but the big screen was still put to good use, thanks to 12-year-old Jonah Duvall, who spontaneously broke out a “Thriller” dance to a delighted crowd on July 1. During this, his second…
Best ‘Totally Seattle’ Moments in 2011
From chicken coops to charity, these moments stand as a great reminder of the positive side of Seatt
BIKES Best News for BikersConnecting the “Missing Link”It’s one of the most fought-over stretches of pavement in the city: the so-called “missing link” of the Burke-Gilman Trail. In July, a hearing examiner ruled that the mile and a half of road between 11th Avenue NW and the locks in Ballard can be developed into the…
Best Beauty Services in Seattle 2011
The best places for styling, spa'ing and waxing needs in 2011.
Best New SalonAdele Stylist Amy Quackenbush has returned to her roots: that is, to preventing our roots from showing. In previous years, the former Suede owner found she was spending less and less time styling, so she opened up chic new salon Adele in Fremont in February to get back behind the chair. Clients eagerly…
Best Kids Stuff from 2011
These book clubs, products and party ideas made parents' lives a little easier in 2011.
Best “Mini Me” TrendBook Groups for Children For Seattle’s subadult set, 2011 was the year of the book…group. Across the city, kids are huddling in circles to discuss everything from Hunger Games to graphic novels to Daisy Dawson stories. Best of all: Mockingbird Books‘ free book group, complete with free pizza, just for tween boys…
Worst of 2011
The lowlights of 2011 in Seattle, including sex, drugs, dogs and salmon.
ASININE Yo-ho-ho and a BUI: Seafair boasts 71 people arrested for boating under the influence—an increase from last year’s 62 drunken sailors but down from 2008’s impressive 84. Bad dog! Local pop singer Lisa Dank falls in love with found pooch, refuses to return to rightful owner. Take it to go! Marie Callendar’s in Northgate…
Seattle’s Worst Transportation Moments in 2011
2011 was the worst year in memory to be a Seattle driver. Here are some of the many ways we paid for
Tunnel visionSeattle gets split asunder by a manufactured deep-bore “debate,” which has no actual influence on the already-approved project (but does provide for entertaining and heated “Seattle process” rhetoric). Viaduct and coverTraffic-traumatized Seattleites endure the nadir of no-go during a record nine-day shutdown of the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Many consider moving to the actual state…