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Weekly Must List: Nick Cave’s Soundsuits at SAM, Seattle Dances! and Myrhvold’s Modernist Cuisine
MUST WALKBlitz Capitol Hill Arts WalkThursday (3/10) – Put on your rain gear and head to Capitol Hill for its monthly art walk, now in it’s second year. Explore more than 50 venues, covering visual arts, musical performances, artist receptions, tastings, food and beverage specials, movie screenings, book readings, DJ performances, and more. Navigate the…
Vote for Your Favorite Seattle Neighborhood!
Head to our Facebook page to "like" your favorite Seattle neighborhood featured in our March cover s
Head to our Facebook page to “like” your favorite Seattle neighborhood featured in our March cover story. The winner will get a shout out on our Facebook page and bragging rights for the next year. To vote, check out the entire Facebook gallery. Or follow the direct links below to “like” your favorite neighborhood! 34th…
Outdoors: Consider Rediscovering Discovery Park
Follow a Docent on a Hike Through Seattle's Premiere Park
If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of touring Discovery Park in Magnolia, join a Seattle Park’s docent on a 3.5 mile walk there this coming Wednesday morning from 9:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. (ages 18+ only). Plan on some slight elevation gain and, given that this is Seattle, be prepared for mud and rain….
Fashion + Style Friday: Spring makeup trends, flirty rain boots and one last hoorah for Oslo’s
Get thee to Nordstrom’s Cosmetics Trend Show, 2009 Seamless winner Out of Line debuts a kickin’ spri
I will get up early on Saturday mornings—but it had better be for a darn good reason (because otherwise, sleep, reading the paper and drinking approximately 5 cups of coffee is the name of the game). However, it is well worth my time—and yours too—to get up early, grab that latte to go and get…
Weekly Must List: Dahlia Workshop’s Biscuit Bar, a NW Indie Fest with Damien Jurado and More
Our editors' picks for the can't-miss events of March 3 - 9, 2011
Must SeeFirst Thursday art walk: Joey Veltkamp Thursday (3/3) – Seattle artist and local art blogger Joey Veltkamp has a well-documented owl obsession (his last show featured more than 30 papier-mâché owls), but now he’s on to something new—ghosts. For this show, he’s fired more than 20 ceramic spooks, using paint and resin to give…
Food News: Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine
Three and a half years ago technologist/chef/inventor/photographer/physicist Nathan Myhrvold (whom we wrote about in last month’s Nerd issue) set out to write the definitive book on modernist cooking and molecular gastronomy, a la elBulli’s Ferran Adrià, Alinea’s Grant Achatz, and The Fat Duck’s Heston Blumenthal. Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking (available March…
Video: From Farm to Fashion with Adrienne Antonson
When I asked Seattle mag videographers Alex Kummerow and Dylan Priest to shoot this video, I had no
Seattle mag videographers Alex Kummerow and Dylan Priest headed to Vashon Island last month to tour the alpaca farm that inspired artist and designer Adrienne Antonson’s exclusive new clothing line for Capitol Hill shop NuBe Green. If you’re unfamiliar with Antonson’s work, you’ll know that she sources her line exclusively from items sourced from within…
Coconut Peanut Sauce
Dreamy creamy stuff for dipping, pouring, licking
(Steve imagines roasting a turkey)Dreamy creamy Thai-flavored sauce made from coconut milk, peanut butter, maple syrup, fresh ginger and toasted sesame oil. Pour it over fried tofu, cooked, greens, rice, grilled chicken, blanched vegetables and more. Printable recipe here. Cookus Interruptus is devoted to educating viewers about how to cook fresh local organic whole…
Outdoors: Climbing the Walls
Jonesing Rock Climbers Head Inside
If you’re climbing the walls in your house with all the bad weather this winter, maybe you should check out one of Seattle’s indoor rock climbing gyms. Vertical World (daily rate for non-members: $16; monthly membership: $70) started it all off when it opened the doors on the world’s first indoor climbing gym in Ballard back…
New Column Alert: Cook’s Adventures Debuts This Month!
Fat of the Land author Langdon Cook will write a bi-monthly column on foraging, fishing, crabbing an
I’m thrilled to announce that Fat of the Land author Langdon Cook is our newest columnist at the magazine. Lang, as he’s known by friends, is the kind of guy that, when he says he’ll be “off the grid,” really means it; he’s known to disappear down the coast and up to the wilds of British Columbia for weeks…
Finding Edible Weeds in Your Garden and Lawn
Seattle author and expert forager Langdon Cook on how to see your backyard as an exotic produce aisl
Adventurous eaters need not stray far from home for a unique meal. Just step outside. It’s springtime, and the eatin’ is easy. Here in the Puget Sound region, with its temperate climate, we can harvest a bumper crop of nutritious and toothsome weeds from our gardens and lawns nearly year-round. If that sounds gross, consider…
Recipe: Lorna Yee’s Crispy Sweetbreads with Tarragon and Lemon
Ingredients:2 whole veal sweetbreads, weighing about ½ pound each1 tablespoon saltJuice of 1 lemonWater (for soaking) 1 cup flour1 cup panko bread crumbs1 teaspoon salt½ teaspoon ground black pepper6 tablespoon vegetable oil or peanut oil for frying For the herbed mayonnaise sauce:1 shallot, finely chopped1 clove garlic, finely choppedJuice of half a lemon (or to…