August 2018

Slow Lane: Float and Paddle Down the Deschutes River in Bend, Oregon

Plus: Check out the kayaking at the Sunriver Marina on the Deschutes River

A group of friends enjoy a lazy float down the Deschutes River in Bend, Oregon. Below: The river is also popular with paddle boarders, including the four-legged variety

Danielle Centoni

A Guide to Floating on the Yakima River

A 16-mile stretch of the Yakima River is popular with float fans

This article is part of the cover story for the August 2018 issue. Find more from the story here. Click here to subscribe. Each summer, a 16-mile stretch of the Yakima River between Ellensburg and Yakima along State Route 821 (Canyon Road), with its cool, refreshing, rapid-free water, attracts hundreds of float fans: kids and adults whose idea of…

Sarah Edwards

Your August Music Festival Exercise Plan

If you walked from one Seattle concert to the next, how many miles would you walk?

This article appears in print in the August 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. Suppose you were lucky enough to score tickets (or free entry) to this month’s major music events, but because you’re a fitness-conscious, green Seattleite, you decided to walk? How many miles would you rack up, you Fitbitting fool? KEXP Concerts at the Mural, Fridays,…

Gavin Borchert

Rafting the Wenatchee River Is an Epic Adventure

A ride down the Wenatchee delivers chills, thrills—and family bonding moments

A guide with Blue Sky Outfitters leads a boatload of thrill-seekers through rapids on the Wenatchee River

Roddy Scheer

New Seattle Art Fair Artistic Director on Exploring the Good, Bad and Ugly of Tech

Philly native Nato Thompson says this year’s fourth annual expo will explore changing forces within Seattle’s art scene

Bay Area artist Mark Pauline with one of his art machines

Gavin Borchert

Washington’s Best Rafting Rivers

Plus: when to go, what to wear and how far they are from Seattle

Rafters pause for a moment on the White Salmon River near Vancouver, Washington

Roddy Scheer

“Porgy and Bess” Returns to Seattle Opera With Two Beloved Cast Members

It opens August 11

Opera Man: Tenor Jermaine Smith returns to McCaw Hall to reprise his role as Sportin’ Life for Seattle Opera’s 2018 production of "Porgy and Bess"

Gavin Borchert

This New Snack Shack at Golden Gardens Sells More than Your Standard Beachside Fare

Time to try a new kind of beach picnic

Dutch pancakes, called "poffertjes," are a menu staple, here served with butter and powdered sugar

Chelsea Lin

Day Trip: Everett’s Jetty Island Is a Low-Key Piece of Paradise

The simple pleasures of sand and water attract day-trippers to Jetty Island near Everett

This article is part of the cover story for the August 2018 issue. Find more from the story here. Click here to subscribe. It’s just 2 miles long and a quick three-minute foot-ferry ride from the mainland, but Jetty Island, formed over the past century out of accumulated sediment from the dredging of the Snohomish River, packs a full…

Gwendolyn Elliott

Sub Pop at 30: The Seattle Magazine Mixtape

Seattle magazine editors and writers chose their favorite Sub Pop tracks for this playlist celebrating the legendary record label's 30th anniversary

Sub Pop artist photos at Hotel Max.

Gwendolyn Elliott and Dan Shafer

A Seattle Artist Is Making 3-D Printer-Created Ceramic Sculptures With the Help of a ‘Potterbot’

At her Slip Rabbit studio, ceramic artist Timea Tihanyi pursues the possibilities of 3-D printed pottery

Ceramic artist Timea Tihanyi created this angular porcelain vessel with the help of a 3-D printer

Gwendolyn Elliott

A Trip to the Gulf Islands, the San Juans’ Canadian Cousins

A Gulf Islands trip delivers a calming adventure with thrills of a different kind

Kayakers paddle in the calm waters along the shores of Canada’s Gulf Islands, cousins to the San Juan Islands

Hilary Meyerson

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A ROOKIE TRIES STAND-UP COMEDY, WITH MIXED RESULTS

As with many Tinder dates, things didn’t go quite as I expected. For example, I didn’t intend to have multiple guys I’d matched with in the same place, at the same time. Especially when that place was a comedy open mic that was going to be my first and possibly only attempt at stand-up. After…

Julie Zack

Costco Goes for the Gold

Have a sudden need for gold bars? Better act fast.

The warehouse retailer known for everything from its popular food court to organic maple syrup and bulk, well, everything, is now in the business of selling gold. That’s right. Costco is peddling one-ounce gold bars online. But you have to be a member to buy them. And they’re not cheap. Shoppers have two options: One…

Rob Smith