Seattle Mag
Seattle Broadcasters and Podcasters Detour Traditional Airwaves for Online
Luke Burbank, Hollow Earth Radio and Spilled Milk prove that podcasting isn’t dead.
Inside the sound room at Hollow Earth Radio, Sasha Morgan (DJ Mama Molasses) uses an Internet provider tracking site to see who’s listening to her final selection of the day, an eight-minute avante-disco piece by Arthur Russell that probably wouldn’t get airtime anywhere else. Hollow Earth’s free-form approach to radio is part of its…
How Climate Change is Altering Allergies in Seattle
If you think your allergy attacks are lasting longer, you’re probably right.
As If melting glaciers and monster rainstorms aren’t enough, it now appears likely that climate change can be blamed for the increasing misery of allergy sufferers in the Puget Sound region who sniffle over the blooming of alder and cedar trees every spring. While our trees make the Northwest beautiful, they promise to increasingly afflict…
Will standardized testing of students really weed out Seattle’s bad teachers?
In Seattle, the MAP test and the new MSP, which replaced the controversial WASL, are part of the red
Taking the measure of a teacher: It’s the cry of education reform in the 21st century—in Seattle and nearly everywhere else. If you can figure out who is a good teacher, or at least a good-enough teacher, you can reward him or her while simultaneously culling the bad ones from the classroom. And when you…
Vertical Gardening is Growing Up in Seattle, Enlivening Walls with Upwardly Mobile Greenery
Local green thumbs are using Woolly Pockets and other “living wall” systems to grow plants up, up an
At the industrial Portland warehouse of solar-power and green-roof purveyor SolTerra Systems, 1,200 plants do the dusting. “We used to mop twice a week,” says SolTerra president Brian Heather of office life before greenery. “Now we mop and dust maybe once every two weeks.” These leafy merry maids, which take up particulates through their leaves…
The Harvest Vine Not Such a Sure-thing
Allison Scheff checks out Harvest Vine and discovers that the 13-year-old restaurant has yet to rega
It’s been a tumultuous couple of years at The Harvest Vine in Madison Valley. There was a major shakeup behind the scenes of the iconic tapas restaurant, as chef/owner Joseba Jiménez de Jiménez and his wife, Carolin Messier, divorced in late 2009. (Messier now owns the restaurant; Jiménez was last moonlighting at West Seattle’s Swinery…
A Can’t-Miss Handheld Minipie
Pie shops are hot on the heels of cupcake stores in the every-neighborhood-must-have-one stampede. T
Pie shops are hot on the heels of cupcake stores in the every-neighborhood-must-have-one stampede. They’re popping up all over town, and the latest to debut is PIE, a homespun space in Fremont where owners Jess Whitsitt and Renee Steen specialize in handheld minipies. That’s where you’ll find this fluted-edged lemon meringue beauty ($4.50). The crust…
Rosemary Roasted Potatoes
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(Steve gets deep)Find out how to prepare perfectly roasted potatoes and get tips on enticing kids to eat more vegetables all in the same video! Printable tips and recipe? Click here. Cookus Interruptus is devoted to educating viewers about how to cook fresh local organic whole foods via 140+ short humorous videos. Visit cookusinterruptus.com …
Food Event: See Super Star Chef Grant Achatz tonight
Chef Grant Achatz (pronounced AK-etz) is a visionary, multi-award-winning chef/owner of Chicago’s Alinea, a foodie fave and an inspiration at age 36 who lost the ability to taste – and nearly his life – from tongue cancer several years ago. His health and incredibly-tuned sense of taste are back, thanks to a progressive treatment program…
Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan: How to Help by Dining Out in Seattle
It seems that people and food come together in times of great tragedy. This week, Seattle restaurants have begun announcing various dinners and specials to help fundraise for Japan disaster relief. Here’s our roundup of local restaurants donating all or a portion of their proceeds to aid our neighbors to the East. 3/15/2011 (TODAY) Blue…
Outdoors: Put On Your Sailing Shoes
The Mountaineers Will Tie Them For You
How can you live in Seattle — right between the ocean and the lake — and not know how to sail? Now is your chance to make it right. The Mountaineers‘ Seattle four week sailing course begins on April 6, and includes four Wednesday evening classroom programs as well as at least one training sail…
Seattle’s Pie Peddlar: Piecycle Brings Eco-friendly Treats to the U-District
Max Kraushaar, a UW theater and photography major, spends weekend mornings baking pies in his apartm
Max Kraushaar, a UW theater and photography major, spends weekend mornings baking pies in his apartment. At night, he delivers them in the University District via bicycle. The protocal for his business, the piecycle, is simple: Text Kraushaar on Friday or Saturday night (9:30 p.m.–3 a.m.) for a slice ($3) or a pie ($20), and…
Modernist Cuisine, and My Conversation with Nathan Myhrvold
Today's the day the book is officially published, and I recall my conversation with the genius behin
In the fall, as we worked on our February celebration of nerds (see the Nerd Issue), it fell to me to interview Nathan Myhrvold, the man behind Modernist Cuisine, the 2,438 page, six volume tome that aims to be the first, last and every word in between on molecular gastronomy. Only, don’t call it that…