Seattle, November 2011
Features
A Tom Douglas Bender
Sixteen hours and three restaurants in South Lake Union
I’m standing outside the new Amazon campus on a Friday night, struggling to believe that only a few years ago South Lake...
Canon: Buyer Beware
Canon’s high-end cocktails are not the enemy
The only good thing about getting older is making young people feel stupid, which is why all adults must be familiar with the...
Satisfied: Highway 99 Blues Club
Highway 99 Blues Club keeps tradition alive with a distinct Southern flavor
A mural in the lobby of Highway 99 Blues Club depicts an old-time juke joint—the type of place that...
Greatest, Oldest, Grandmotherly-est
The greatest restaurant in Seattle is the oldest restaurant in Seattle.
Maneki opened around the turn of the last century (the exact year is debatable), supplying the city’s...
Making Love in the Kitchen
The most important ingredient of any homecooked meal isn’t food
In our home, music permeates everything we do. In the deluge of a morning shower or the lake of bubbles from a...
Building a Better Destiny
Every November for the last decade, Tacoma has celebrated its arts and the party just keeps getting bigger
In the mid-1990s Mauricio Robalino took numerous train trips between...
Birthday Orchid
This one hates a gaze, givingnothing until sufficiently ignored, but stillit can breathe as my loveless puff & does, throatsthe curtain of leftover bath-steam, & freckles...
Sandwich Fight!
Where to find the best sandwich in Seattle? Disregarding a few outliers, the argument comes down to two neighborhoods.
PIONEER SQUARE
SALUMI Everything made in-house—from...
The Classics
Three Seattle restaurants that have never changed (and never should)—plus a few tips for discovering something new about an old favorite.
Ristorante MachiavelliAs far as cozy...
Belltown Exodus
Condo booms and busts. Yuppies and crackheads. Belltown’s polar tendencies have a way of driving restaurants in and out in waves. While some outposts hold their ground despite...
Dinner and a Show
It’s never been easy to marry the culinary and performance arts without compromising the quality of the fare. (See also: Las Vegas’ orgies of abundance.) A few places in Seattle...
Water, Water Everywhere
Recently, a friend’s Facebook comment struck a chord in me. He was lamenting the lack of credible standard-bearers in music today. I understand this feeling, but where does it...
Here & Now
Q&A with Wild Flag's Rebecca Cole
Wild Flag’s first concert was less than a year ago in Olympia. But this is no band of rookies. Cary Brownstein and Janet Weiss of NW rock icons Sleater-Kinney, plus guitarist...
Q&A with Hey Marseilles' Matt Bishop
Last month, Hey Marseilles played with the Seattle Symphony and appeared at the CMJ Music Marathon. At the former, the septet tested out its baroque and melodic take on...
Kill 'Em With Kindness
W3 Collective (artists Mark Fankhauser, Cory Little and Brandon Ramirez) won the Sept. 29 City Arts Art Walk Awards with this piece, titled Kill ’Em With Kindness, which was part...
Waking the Giant
The Occupy Wall Street protests addressing the gap between rich and poor have inspired Seattleites to take to the streets. Occupier and MC Kathleen Kassis tells City Arts...
What Makes Your Heart Beat
As Visqueen draws to a close, Rachel Flotard starts anew
The night my Dad called and told me he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, I kicked a hole in my bedroom wall and called...
Out of the Basement: Geek Chic’s functional furniture
Seattle is full of gamers. The city’s annual pop culture conventions teem with teenagers and teenagers at heart. There are innumerable World of Warcraft guilds and Wii...
Q&A with Café Nordo's Erin Brindley
Café Nordo’s To Savor Tomorrow is a theatre production/gustatory experience that unfolds aboard Pan Am Flight 892 from Honolulu to Seattle in 1962. The show features original...
And the Gregory Goes To…
Last month, the third annual Gregory Awards filled ACT Theatre with tears of joy and a boisterous (and fashionable) audience as Western Washington’s theatre community honored its...
Editor's Note: Yes, Culinary
Allow me to whet your palate.Art isn’t just ballet and opera, rock and roll. It’s not just about what’s on stage or on the walls. It’s about the way we live.In this spirit we...
Culinary Starts: Cookbook Heaven Opens in Fremont
In Seattle, where literary minds and culinary hearts meet, the cookbook has become a work of art in and of itself. When Book Larder, the city’s first bookstore dedicated solely to...
Sitcom Stars West Seattle
There’s a lot of Seattle in TV. But there isn’t a lot of TV in Seattle. Frasier and Grey’s Anatomy are the standouts among dozens of shows that are set in Seattle, but not filmed...
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