February 2015
Local Hula Classes Available for Moms and Babies
Mothers are encouraged to bond with their infants during this 45-minute workout
New parents have been known to go to great lengths to wangle a much-needed nap for their babies (and themselves): long car rides, pushing the stroller mile after mile…and now, hula classes. Especially if Marcie Mahinakealo Cheung, a longtime dancer and cofounder of the new dance program A Honu World of Hula (ahonuworldofhula.com) has anything…
Capitol Hill’s Robin Held Dresses Without Limits
Independent curator expounds on the virtues of donning clothing creatively
CURRICULUM VITAEFor Capitol Hill’s Robin Held, there are no boundaries when it comes to sartorial self-expression. “I like convertible clothing,” says the creative strategist and cultural entrepreneur who has held prominent positions at Henry Art Gallery, Frye Art Museum and Reel Grrls. “I have skirts that make great tops.” When she travels, Held packs just…
Northwest African American Museum Celebrates 1970s Cartoons
'Funky Turns 40: The Black Character Revolution' honors Fat Albert and more
If you were a kid in the early 1970s, you likely spent Saturday mornings sprawled on the living room floor in front of cartoons—and just as likely, you were unaware of the radical act taking place on the tube. But 40 years ago, Josie and the Pussycats, The Harlem Globetrotters and The Jackson 5ive were…
Seattle-based Web Series ‘Rocketmen’ Will Debut Soon
Filmmaker Webster Crowell won 'The Stranger' Genuis Award for film in 2003
“The first thing that got kicked off the budget was the flying rig,” says filmmaker Webster Crowell. A contraption that facilitates the illusion that actors are flying would have come in handy on Rocketmen, his retro sci-fi adventure story, but this is a low-budget, seven-episode Web series. So the flying rig went out the window—as…
Local Delivery Service Brings Booze to Your Doorstep
Imbibing just got more convenient with Drizly now in Seattle
February is all about hunkering down and hoping for a dry spell, but a new company is making it a bit more pleasant by delivering drinks to your home. Boston-based Drizly (drizly.com) recently set up shop in Seattle, offering an alcohol delivery service that works in a fashion similar to Uber. After creating an account,…
3 Local Memoirists Explore Devastating Personal Histories
True Stories by Jason Schmidt, Litsa Dremousis and Kyle Boelte make excellent reads
A List of Things That Didn’t Kill Meby Jason Schmidt (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2015) From the opening line of the prologue, which grabs you by the hair and drags you into a blood-spattered home, this coming-of-age memoir is a page-turner. Schmidt recounts a harrowing 1970s and ’80s youth spent in Eugene and Seattle…
Kirkland’s Lady Yum Serves Up Sublime Macarons
These meringue-based sweets come in toffee flavor, toasted coconut and more
They’ve been wooing us for years with their flirty pastel colors, their delicate crackle, tender chew and cream filling. French macarons first caught our eye at Bakery Nouveau, then at Belle Epicurean and Crumble & Flake. Now, at Kirkland’s ladylike Lady Yum, the meringue-based cookies have a fitting showcase: a chandeliered shop dedicated to the…
A Filipino Food Movement is Rising in Seattle
In this epicenter of Asian cuisine, Filipino flavors are finally gaining traction
In Seattle, we start early, serving toddlers long noodles from shared bowls of steaming pho, ordering salty edamame for the kids, who eat it like it’s popcorn. We learn there’s hardly a better way to connect with friends than to meet on weekend mornings, pacing to keep warm on the chilly sidewalks outside Harbor City…
Trove Offers a Quartet of Korean-infused Offerings
The new Capitol Hill eatery boasts a Korean barbeque, a parfait walk-up window and more
When it opened in September, expectations for Trove couldn’t have been higher. The place—a 4,000-square-foot, four-concepts-under-one-roof, renovated auto-shop space on Capitol Hill housing a Korean barbecue, a cocktail bar, a noodle bar and a parfait walk-up window—had been the talk of the town for months. Its chef/owners, Rachel Yang and Seif Chirchi, impressed first at…
Thanks to Amazon, Seattle is Awash in Fortune-seeking Men–Again
Influx of male workers, investment in infrastructure and more indicate that Klondike 2.0 is here
Seattle is booming. Newcomers are swarming to town. A largely male workforce is spending big, driving up rents and real estate prices, but no one wants to complain as the good times roll; after all, the boom is following a bust that temporarily slowed Seattle’s growth plans. The transportation system is expanding—streetcars, bike lanes and…
Unhappy Endings: Seattle’s Sex Economy Boom
If massage parlors are driving Seattle’s sex industry, why aren’t the police shutting them down?
Last year, the U.S. Department of Justice released a landmark study on the American sex industry. Commissioned by the DOJ, it set out to collect nationwide data on the underground sector for the first time, focusing on eight major American cities, including Denver, San Diego, Dallas and Seattle. Researchers spoke with hundreds of sex workers,…
How to use Hemp Seeds in Your Cooking
Chef Colin Patterson of vegan restaurant Sutra Seattle gets creative with hemp
Cannabis sativa is having a moment—from selling out in our first recreational marijuana stores to adding heft as hemp to vegetarian dishes around town. And while everyone is talking about the former, we’re here to celebrate the latter. Hemp seeds (which have no psychoative effects) are a favorite of Colin Patterson, chef and owner of…
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