October 2017

Road Trip Snacks Are Not to be Taken Lightly. Here’s What We’re Packing

You put gas in your car to keep it running, but what keeps you fueled on the road? Our road-trip writers share their favorite snacks.

There's no more appropriate place to eat beef jerky.

Seattle Magazine Staff

Whether Hiking or Bar-Hopping, Stay Dry With Stylish Footwear for the Northwest’s Rainy Season

These boots and shoes are functional and fashionable.

From left, Pendleton Heritage National Park Rain Boots, Xtratuf Salmon Sisters Legacy Boot.

Hilary Meyerson

The Struggle to Save Seattle’s Urban Trees in the Face of Development

In a changing Seattle, efforts are underway to measure and preserve our leafy canopy.

Not all neighborhoods have the same amount of tree canopy; some south-end areas have as little as 6 percent, while those in the north, such as Fremont pictured here, have a much higher percentage.

Maria Dolan

Some of Washington’s Best Indie Bookstores Require a Ferry to Get To

Happy things happen when you let your reading passion take the wheel.

Catch an early ferry to Vashon Island.

Hilary Meyerson

Amid Bakery Renaissance, Former Techie Takes Artisanal Bread to Insane New Levels

Modernist Cuisine’s Nathan Myhrvold is back with his follow-up work: a new, five-volume, 2,642-page cookbook set on bread.

The $625, five-volume cookbook set includes recipes, techniques and scientific information about making breads, from bagels to an intricate Brioche black and white spiral loaf.

Chelsea Lin

Seattle Hotels Are Wooing Guests With Weird Amenities Like Loaner Shoes

Hotels across the city compete in the amenities game.

The Edgewater Hotel’s loaner Brooks running shoes

Danny Sullivan, Callie Little

Snicker if You Must, But Seattle’s Pickling Movement is Impressive

Salty or sweet, funky or fresh, these preserved foods improve every meal.

Scoop up some of Britt’s Mix, a relish of cauliflower, carrots, celery and peppers.

Chelsea Lin

Here’s a List of Seattle-Based Scary Movies for Halloween

Spy familiar sights around the city in these thrilling, scary or supernatural-themed, Seattle-based flicks.

Get spooked and spot downtown Seattle locations in "The Ring."

Max Rose

There’s an Artisanal Yarn Revolution Happening in Bellingham and It’s Awesome

Bellingham knitters now have a bounty of yarn colors and styles.

In Bellingham, a burgeoning community of yarn enthusiasts is helping knitters get cozy in style, hand-spinning and hand-dying yarns that stand strands and hues apart from their commercial brethren. Scarlet Tang of Huckleberry Knits (online only, huckleberryknits.com) uses wool from lesser-known sheep breeds, such as Targhee or Bluefaced Leicester, for a yarn that is softer…

Megan Lamb

Craft Beer’s Yellow, Fizzy Revolution Hits Washington

Lagers, once dismissed by the craft beer movement, are getting new respect.

Local lagers, such as Reuben’s Brews’ pilsner, are on the rise with craft brewers

Kendall Jones

This Eve Dish is an Ode to a Seattle Classic That Was Ahead of Its Time

Fremont’s bastion of clean eating, shares the secrets to its hot bowl.

Two years ago this month, Eve co-owners Debra Russell and Jill Buchanan created their restaurant’s famous hot bowl after a decade of nostalgic cravings. The dish pays homage to the Capitol Hill juice joint Gravity Bar (open from 1986 to 2005), which was one of Russell’s favorite spots. Its simple menu, she notes, was “ahead of…

Callie Little

This Hong Kong Street Food is Taking Over Seattle

The egg waffle has quickly become an obsession.

A year ago, you’d be hard-pressed to find an egg waffle—a Hong Kong street food snack, also called a bubble waffle or egg puff, that looks like the love child of bubble wrap and pancake batter. Now, egg waffles have popped up all over town, largely taking the place of waffle cones (though far fluffier,…

Chelsea Lin

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The Pac-12 has no one to blame but itself

The Pacific Coast Conference had a hell of a run for something conceived on a Thursday night in a Portland hotel. It has been more than 100 years since five schools came together on Dec. 2, 1915, at the Imperial Hotel, forming the conference that has won more NCAA team championships than any other collegiate…

Danny O’Neil

The Twisted Tales of Seattle

New ‘tourism’ book highlights bizarre, infamous, and obscure historical sites

You’ll never hear Seattle tourism officials bring this up, but, like it or not, Ted Bundy is part of the fabric of this region. So is the Green River Killer, the suicides of musicians Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley, the murder of Gits singer Mia Zapata, and the ship pilot who crashed into a West…

Rob Smith