You really haven’t seen obscene hand gestures until you’ve seen them performed by a fully nude, slightly sweaty, winking blond woman. In playwright Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show, playing at On the Boards through Sunday night, Amelia Zirin-Brown (aka Lady Rizzo) performs this hilariously filthy solo, using only her pantomiming skills and her incredibly expressive face. It’s one of many truly funny moments in this show, which is performed entirely in the nude and with no dialogue.
The problem with most age-defying lotions, creams and serums is that the molecules in most cosmoceuticals, like hyaluronic acid (a naturally occurring material in our bodies) are too large to be absorbed into the skin, which means that we're not really getting the biggest bang for our skincare bucks.
Call it a match made in heaven: leather designer Aykut Ozen will be showing his rock and roll and vintage workwear-inspired jackets during the Saturday, April 13 Ballard Art Walk at the stellar vintage shop Lucky Dry Goods (sister store to U District's Lucky Vintage). And when I say stellar, I mean, Lucky Dry Goods has an incredible array of pristine vintage for sale. Whatever your era of choice, you will find something there. Seriously.
** Pink Ginger has been saved! Find it as store-within-a-store in Ballard Home Comforts on Ballard Ave. late May/early June. More in for here.
Sad news for plus size shoppers and the small, but cute, corner of Queen Anne retail on and around W. Crockett St. (Rhinestone Rosie’s and Meadow)—Pink Ginger is closing at the end of the month.
Spring has sprung at Far4, so they’re cleaning house. Head to this downtown boutique on Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6 between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. and shop their sale table overflowing with items ranging in price from $1 to $50, with most ringing in at around $15.
MUST SEEMaster Harold...and the boysOngoing (thru 4/21) — Apartheid, class issues and ballroom dancing blend in South African playwright Athol Fugard’s acclaimed Broadway drama. Longtime local theater fans will be thrilled to learn that this contemporary take is directed by Burke Walker, founding artistic director of the dearly departed Empty Space Theatre, and stars another Seattle theater vet, G. Valmont Thomas, whose performance is so good, he may just break your heart.
Take it from me: though it isn’t a regular cocktail staple, sake is a versatile and entertaining base to build drinks on.
Made from a special strain of rice—one you wouldn’t want to serve in a stir fry—the fungus Aspergillus oryzae (used during fermentation) and water, sake usually has around 15 percent alcohol by volume (and 18 to 20 percent before it’s diluted), so it’s a stitch stronger than most beer and wines.
Finally! Got to eat dinner at Altura on Capitol Hill, Seattle mag’s Best New Restaurant of 2012, at last and, oh, man, it lived up to the lofty expectations.
April 1 — Seattle's booming South Lake Union is about to get taller. In anticipation of a neighborhood up-zone, a developer has dusted-off Frank Lloyd Wright's 1956 idea of a mile-high tower to handle density. The building will be more than 18 million square feet.
As word of the 500-story skyscraper leaked, officials were quick to react. "This solves the city's density issues in one fell swoop," said city council member Richard Conlin. "If we do this in SLU, we won't have to go denser in other neighborhoods. Seattle can be Seattle."
During a week when attention was focused on the Supreme Court considering the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Facebook profile pics and Twitter avatars showed pink-on-pink equal signs in support of marriage equality for all, it seems especially fitting to share some sparkling good news:
Égalité, the first-ever wine created in support of equality for gay Americans, has arrived in Washington, making it the first state on the West Coast to carry the fast-growing French bubbly brand.
First it was Irene Wood, she of the amazing beaded necklaces, who upped and move to Brooklyn last year, and now we’re losing handbag designer Crystalyn Kae to the Big Apple. While we wish them both success of course, alas we can’t help but feel a little bereft at the loss to our accessory design community here in Seattle.
Seattle’s iconic Baby & Company is back home in their spot in the Terminal Sales Building at First Avenue and Virginia Street. After 84 days of construction, the store, opened in 1976 by Baby and Uri Bursten and later purchased by long-time employee Jill Donnelly, features a new full men’s department, luxe dressing rooms, a larger shoe department and a restoration to the space’s former glory, circa 1923, as envisioned by the building’s architect Henry Bittman.
I’m totally into juicing. Even bought myself one, a Breville, for $99, and fix myself a stiff one every couple of days. I try to push myself with chard and kale, but mostly rely on apple, carrot, beet and celery combos, sometimes with a little pineapple thrown in. Easy stuff.
For many years throughout my 20s and early 30s I worked as an herbalist (before becoming a shopping writer, natch) and have been interested primarily in natural beauty products since then. I like to put the purest ingredients possible on my body, just like I like to put the purest food (and best wine) in my body.
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