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Fashion + Style Friday: Spring fashion from Built for Man and Lizzie Parker, plus a fun wine accessory
A new Built for Man showroom, shop watch on Queen Anne and Joan Kelly checks out fashion in Issaquah
We’re playing with numbers this week on Fashion Friday, it’s like good ol’ Sesame Street says: ‘The number of the day is 5.’ As in five, exciting, fun tidbits for share with you this week: 1. The ice and snow held off long enough Tuesday (not spring yet apparently, harrumph) for me to bop up…
An Oscar Party, Dealing with Your Mommy Issues at SIFF Cinema and More Top To-do’s
Must Quote AlongMommy Dearest quote-a-long at SIFF CinemaSaturday (2/26) – See Faye Dunaway channel Joan Crawford in this epic 1981 flick that gives readers an insider’s peek at old school Hollywood and the over-the-top parenting style of a Hollywood starlet. Who wouldn’t want to spend a Saturday night unleashing those pent up mommy issues with…
Cookus Interruptus: How to Use a Pressure Cooker
Save time and increase flavor using a pressure cooker
Today’s pressure cookers are safe and efficient. I love using mine to cook beans, grains and root vegetables, even applesauce. Here’s how. (for printable instrutions, 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 to find printable…
Outdoors: Shelter from the Storm
Head into REI to Learn to Snowshoe and Take Kids Climbing
If you’ve always wanted to try snowshoeing, a winter sport for truly everyone, now is your chance to learn the basics from the experts in a warm dry environment before your own first trip out into the wilds. REI staff will walk through the basics of selecting approriate gear and finding out where to go…
Can You Tiger Mom a Preschooler?
Drilling a 4 Year Old on Reading and Writing is a Test of Wills
Some days, I suck at being a tiger mom. It simply requires more attention to monitoring my daughter’s work than I have time to devote. On those days when I let my daughter watch TV instead of practice writing letters and numbers, the self-flogging kicks in and, perhaps irrationally, I fret that the one, two…
Great Schools Come from Great Teachers
Seattle Public School parent Alison Krupnick wonders where all the bad teachers are.
I wanted to write a blog entry about HB 1609, the “Great Schools” bill, which was debated in Olympia this week, but failed to move out of committee. A similar bill in the Senate, SB 5399, was blocked from public hearing by Senator Rosemary McAuliffe, chair of the Senate Committee on Early Learning and K-12…
Awards Season for Chefs and Restaurants Starts Now
Nominees have been announced for both Food & Wine and the James Beard Awards. Who should win?
It’s not just awards season in Hollywood; in the food world, nominees for two presigious food awards were announced this week. Every year I anticipate seeing who’ll be called out among Food & Wine’s Top 10 Best New Chefs on the cover of the July issue. The editors almost always nail the list. This year…
Fashion + Style Friday: Pop-up clothing sale at Clementine and Capitol Hill’s sugary new shop
Sugarpill Apothecary opens up shop, a stylist sells off her designer duds and a Prize headband
As you might expect, our resident stylist Hope Misterek (who styles fashion features for Seattle Bride magazine, as well as pitching at Seattle) has pretty enviable wardrobe. Lucky for us, she’s cleaning in house and will sell off her designer duds at Clementine in West Seattle over the next two weeks. Starting today, rummage through…
Rat City Roller Girls Fight for Northwest Supremacy and More Can’t-miss Hapennings
Must DerbyRat City Roller Girls v. Rose City Roller Girls Saturday (2/19) – Seattle’s meanest, baddest chicks on eight wheels are taken it to Key Arena for the ultimate roller derby match. The Rat City Rollergirls take on their sisters to the south, Rose City Rollers (Portland, OR) for an epic battle for Northwest supremacy….
Tamari Roasted Nuts
munch on these
(Steve & Darrell schedule a play date)We have to have these around. We need them for a quick, satisfying snack (try jumbling them with raisins and chocolate chips). People ask me to make them as a gift because they believe they are hard to make. Shhh – it’s so easy. Printable recipe here. Cookus Interruptus…
VIDEO: Ethan Stowell Cooks Up Tavolata Rigatoni
Seattlemag.com’s Dylan Priest and Alex Kummerow asked Seattle superchef Ethan Stowell and specialty-food-market veteran Kaela Farrington to show us how to prep a simple and savory meal using noodles from their new pasta line. Lagana Foods Pasta Video with Ethan Stowell from Seattle magazine on Vimeo.