Sarah Stackhouse
Fave Five: Early Signs of Spring
Where to go when everything starts waking up.
March and April always blend together in my head. Around here, there’s still plenty of rain, but it feels a little more manageable as the green sprawls and the crocuses unfurl right before our eyes. This is the time when things respond to moisture and attention, and when getting back into it feels better than…
Right on the Mark
Flight Club brings high-tech darts and a little London energy to South Lake Union.
When was the last time you played darts? For me, it was in a friend’s garage. Most of the darts were missing and the rest were bent. There was no real scoring system, but no one was keeping track anyway. That’s the game many of us know. This is not that. Flight Club opens March…
Best Places to Live: Normandy Park
A place apart —but still close to everything.
Normandy Park is a place people choose deliberately. First laid out in 1929 as a suburb, the area grew after the city incorporated in 1953, but it was still home to fewer than 2,000 residents. Much of the land had previously been logged or farmed, and even as Seattle expanded nearby, Normandy Park took shape…
Best Places to Live: Black Diamond
Where to live if you want more space (and love the outdoors).
Black Diamond has always felt like a town apart—not just in distance from Seattle (39 miles), Renton (18 miles), and Bellevue (28 miles), but in pace and personality. Located in southeastern King County, the former coal mining hotspot dates back to the late 19th century, taking its name from the Black Diamond Coal Mining Company….
What Trump’s Climate Rollback Could Mean for Washington
A policy expert explains how repealing the EPA’s endangerment finding could weaken federal rules and shift more responsibility to states.
In February, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the repeal of the endangerment finding, a key rule that has supported federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions since 2009. Established during the Obama administration, the endangerment finding determined that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. That determination gave the EPA authority under the Clean Air…
Taste of Iceland Returns to Seattle
The three-day festival brings Icelandic food, music, art, and culture to venues across the city.
I have always been mesmerized by Iceland. It probably started in high school, when I was listening to Icelandic musician Björk. In the video for “Jóga,” she sings about her home country with such intensity while sweeping cliffs, mossy rocks, and jagged coastlines move across the screen. I remember thinking: what an incredible place. And then…
Studio Sessions: Tininha Silva
Brazilian-born fiber artist Tininha Silva talks about building a life in the Pacific Northwest and the coastal landscape that influences her work.
Along the shores of the Salish Sea, textures are everywhere—seaweed tangled in the tide, stones worn smooth by water, the strange geometry of coral and barnacles. Those details are finding their way into the work of artist Tininha Silva. Silva grew up in Brazil’s rugged Pernambuco region before moving to Seattle in 1999 after earning…
Palace Kitchen Celebrates 30 Years
The Belltown staple still feeds the city after 10 p.m.
After the last tickets come off the rail, floor mats are hauled out to be hosed down, oven hoods are scrubbed, aprons come untied, and someone counts the drawer. It’s a familiar ritual in restaurant cities everywhere. When the shift ends, cooks and servers go looking for a drink and something to eat. For three…
Protein Without the Pressure
In her new cookbook, Seattle author and dietitian Rachael DeVaux keeps healthy eating grounded in real life.
Rachael DeVaux is not afraid of beef. That might sound obvious, but in a wellness culture still haunted by plain chicken breast and low-fat everything, her enthusiasm for grass-fed ground beef feels almost radical. The Seattle-based New York Times bestselling author, personal trainer, and founder of Rachael’s Good Eats has built a following of more than 3.5…
Becoming Bruce Lee
Seattle Children’s Theatre’s 'Young Dragon' traces how five formative years in Seattle shaped a global icon and reminds young audiences that excellence is built, not born.
The dragon first appears as a flicker. Bruce Lee is not yet the untouchable icon of posters and slow-motion flying kicks. He’s a teenager with a temper, wrestling with a little hot dragon inside him—the fire that flares before he knows what to do with it. It’s a feeling many kids (and adults) in the…
Sing Her Name
Seattle Women’s Chorus Centers Women’s Stories at Benaroya Hall.
The lights will dim at Benaroya Hall, and 75 voices will rise together. That collective sound has long defined Seattle Women’s Chorus. This weekend, the chorus presents Legacy, a show built around women’s lives and the histories they carry. Onstage February 28 and March 1, Legacy moves between protest songs, contemporary choral works, and familiar…
The Piano Teacher: Payam Khastkhodaei
The instructor rethinking the approach to music lessons.
When Payam Khastkhodaei began teaching piano to a family friend’s daughter in his Bothell home at 16, he relied on the same method he had been taught as a kid—classical songbooks, rigid practice, and pieces he never connected with. It didn’t take long to see she was losing interest. “I had learned from the Alfred…
Under the Big Top With ECHO
Cirque du Soleil’s latest show brings live music, astonishing feats of the human body, and circus magic to Marymoor Park.
The moment the lights dropped inside the Big Top, I squeezed my 11-year-old daughter’s arm. The collective thrill of being packed into the circus tent felt palpable, and you could tell everyone was thinking the same thing. Center stage sat a massive cube. What was it going to do? Crack open? Spit people out? We…
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