I’m going to be honest with you – I don’t know a lot about Macklemore. I know that he’s a Grammy award-winning artist from Seattle, and one of the people behind the song “Thrift Shop,” but that's all. So when photos announcing Macklemore’s free show at Neumos circulated my social media feed yesterday, I wasn’t too stoked to get out of bed.
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Through the crowd chatter comes the opening melody to “Cell Block Tango” from the motion picture version of 2002’s “Chicago.” An uproarious cheer ignites once the crowd see’s the guest of honor take the stage. Willow Pill, season 14 winner of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, struts onto the stage, blonde-wigged and wearing a black sheer dress adorned with strands of diamond chains that sway with each movement she gives to the song.
Capitol Hill’s new Jewish deli, Ben & Esther’s Vegan Jewish Deli, opened last fall to excitement and curiosity. Seattle’s bagel scene gets a new fighter every year, but the cruelty-free brisket and fishless Gefilte fish…
Between Boylston and Belmont at 606 E Pine St. is El Lugar, a neighborhood market, bar, and cafe. When you’ve got so much homework, but so little time, all you want is somewhere to relax…
Every day, more and more research finds that being outside positively affects mental health. Several ideas have been suggested; one theory is that being outside awakens the connection to nature inside of us, which goes back to our first human ancestors.
From its roots in Yosemite Valley in the 1920s, rock climbing today has taken to new heights, and not only because of how high rock climbers have climbed, literally, but also because of the amount of people who are rock climbing professionally and recreationally.
Just like some of you reading this, coyotes came to the Pacific Northwest and other U.S. territories for good food and a good time. To understand why, we need to go back a century.
It is quite noticeable that the act of smoking is embedded in Seattle’s identity, as it is in many places in the world. Packs of Newports on the ground, perfumed clouds from vapes, and the flicking of lighters are part of urban culture, despite anti-smoking law-making.
Labor Day, 1993. Jonathan Borovsky’s kinetic sculpture, Hammering Man, which resides outside the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), bore a new attachment: a seven hundred-pound, 19-foot circumference ball and chain, constructed of sheet metal and plate steel. Its cuff was lined with rubber, so as not to damage Hammering Man. There, the guerilla art piece stood for two days, a statement against working-class oppression, before it was removed on Sep. 8 by the Seattle Engineering Department. And as the attachment was detached, the legend was born.
“We’re like the farmers market that’s open seven days a week.” Jayne Truesdell, owner of The Naked Grocer, has combined her history in business logistics, design, and food to bring a “waste-less” store into the…