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Marination Goes Brick and Mortar
Seattle's favorite Korean-Hawaiian taco truck is setting up a permanent shop in Capitol Hill. Alliso
We’ve long been fans of Roz Edison and Kamala Saxton’s Korean-Hawaiian truck, Marination Mobile. Now comes news that Edison and Saxton are setting up a stationary shop in which to sling their vittles, tentatively called Marination Station. It’s scheduled to open in early April in the Harvard Market, on the Harvard Avenue side of the building housing…
Sustainable City: The P-Patch Approach to Growth
Pugetopolis is going to continue to urbanize, but we still lack key ingredients for success
I attended the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962, and it shaped my expectations for the 21st century. I expected to live in a world of atomic cars, video phones and Space Needle penthouses. I can take pictures with my cheap Nokia cell phone, but other parts of that future remain elusive, perhaps for the better….
Shopping find: Sport Seahawk pride in style with locally-made earrings
Jewelry designer THINKNOW gets you playoff ready with limited-edition green and blue danglers
Though many of us wouldn’t have predicted the Seahawks improbable and spectacular journey into the playoffs this year, now that they are in the second round (they meet the Bears in Chicago on Sunday in the divisional playoff smackdown), we can’t help but feel an extra dose of hometown pride this week. One of our…
Tequila 101: Get a Spirited Primer on Agave from Matador Owner Zak Melang
What’s the difference between a $15 bottle of tequila and a $300 bottle? How do you cure a tequila hangover? Matador owner Melang answers our burning agave-related questions in this Seattlemag.com piece produced by our new video intern Alex Kummerow. Tequila 101 from Seattle magazine on Vimeo.
Spotlight: Screaming Flea Productions’ Third Season of Hoarders
With a third season of Hoarders in the works, the Seattle-based production team offers a behind-the-
Let’s get this out of the way: The name Screaming Flea Productions (SFP) is not a reference to the conditions commonly seen on Hoarders, the popular reality show the Seattle-based company produces for A&E. Though the SFP team is all too familiar with infestations—and other unpleasant consequences of living amid piles of newspapers and herds…
Revel Introduces Brunch THIS Weekend
Head to Fremont this weekend for a Korean brunch from the folks that brought you Joule
Fremont’s newest casual Korean dining spot, Revel, starts its brunch program this Saturday. From what we’re hearing, the brunch menu is taking a nod from chefs Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi’s Asian-inspired dinner menu (which features noodles; dumplings; salads; rice dishes; etc.). Head to Fremont this weekend to find sweet and savory pancakes, sandwiches and…
Fashion + Style Friday: Locally-made, must-have essentials for 2011
A luxe calendar for the new year, the weekend’s big wedding show and save the date for our 2011 Seam
Happy New Year! You may have noticed that Seattlemag.com got a facelift for the new year, one of our office’s goals for the year. Personally, I can’t say I’m much for New Year’s resolutions normally, especially since I have a tendency to make crazy-sauce vows like giving up all sugar and caffeine (I did not…
Tune Into KUOW for Food Convo with Allison Austin Scheff and Sara Dickerman
Seattle mag's dining editor takes it to the airwaves tomorrow to talk Comfort Food with Steve Scher.
UPDATE: Listen to live, streaming video of Ali’s KUOW debut, here. Public radio geeks and foodies, tune your radio dial to 94.9 FM at 9 a.m. TOMORROW morning. Ali told me via email that she and former Seattle mag dining editor Sara Dickerman will be talking about new restaurants that opened, and the restaurants that closed this year…
From Picasso to Spring Hill’s Sunday Night Supper, Our Top To-do’s of the Week
Last chance to see Picasso, Hamlet at the National Theatre Live and more
MUST SEEMasterpieces from the Musée National PicassoThrough 1/17 – Unless you’ve been working at the International Space Station for the past six months, you’re probably aware there’s a Picasso exhibit in Seattle this fall. It’s a genuine big deal, featuring more than 150 works—representing all 80 years of Pablo Picasso’s career—pulled from his personal collection,…
Food News: the Latest on Local 360, Serious Pie in South Lake Union, High 5 Pie, More
Worthwhile openings in Belltown, Fremont, South Lake Union and Capitol Hill
Local 360, a Melrose Market-esque collection of shops anchored by a restaurant, is slowly, bit-by-bit opening in the former Flying Fish space in Belltown. Right now the coffee bar is open, and soon (in the next couple of weeks, I’m told) they’ll add breakfast and lunch. The butcher and cheese counters will follow in February….
Cookus Interruptus: Steel Cut Oats for Breakfast
Man up to a big bowl of hot oat cereal in the morning.
Breakfast sets the metabolic pace for the rest of the day. A good one contains carbohydrate, protein, fat and fiber. All of the nutrient groups. Don’t leave one out. Put some nuts or granola and a little butter on a warm bowl of steel cut oats and you’ve got it all. Printable recipe here. Cookus…
Most Influential: King-5 News Susannah Frame
King-5 News Investigative Reporter Susannah Frame
When Susannah Frame launched her “Waste on the Water” series in March, detailing a state ferry system financially running amok, she unleashed a wave of citizen ire seldom seen in Seattle. Among her revelations: a decades-long tradition of reimbursing some ferry employees—mostly relief and so-called “special project” workers—for their time and mileage to and from…