Prepare your skin for the airplane air and over-eating extravaganzas of the holiday season with a facial at Skoah. The Canadian spa describes their treatments as “personal training for your skin”. They have three new locations in Seattle (Bellevue, Downtown and Capitol Hill) and they’re are offering
Beer.
Sweet, beautiful, delicious, complicated, confusing, beer. When will I finally understand you and your gigantic family of fermentation? Today? Tomorrow? Oh wait,
Saving Mr. Banks may as well have been called How Walt Disney Saved The Day From The Curmudgeonly P.L Travers. It’s as whitewashed a narrative as can be, oozing Disney hallmarks to reinvent the notorious asshat that is Walt Disney into a salt of the earth type inspirationally adept at picking himself up by his bootstraps. He’s the American Dream personified and he circles Emma Thompson‘s P.L. “put the milk in the tea first” Travers with the predatory knack of a hawk.
Only those fond of cliffhanger endings and tease as tale will truly appreciate the second lackluster installment in Peter Jackson‘s The Hobbit trilogy. Certainly there are things to love; Bilbo’s character progression and his untimely addiction to one precious ring is welcome (although not nearly as prominent as it ought to be), the set design and telescopic vistas are almost as epic as ever, seeing the majesty of gold-diggin’ dragon Smaug realized in impressive CG tantalizes the little boy in me (the one who listened to The Hobbit audiobook until it wore out), and one particularly fun scene involving dwarves in a barrel is a blatant film highlight; but other elements that ought to stand out fall flat on their face and never recover.
Three or four years ago, Adam Katz Sinding was one of the most respected, well-known names in fashion photography in the Pacific Northwest. Known for his discerning taste-level and dubbed the “Sartorlialist of Seattle” by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, his site, Le 21Eme, featured the most stylish and thought-provoking fashion subjects about Seattle proper. A full-fledged New Yorker now, we’re catching up with the Seattleite fashion photographer gone international.
Seattleite: How have the past few years in NYC treated you? We’ve seen you in some highly coveted fashion magazines…
A Raunchy Christmas Adventure at the Triple Door
Who: If you’re looking for a sweet cookie cutter performing arts experience this season, well this one just isn’t for you. Classic ballet and burlesque legend Lily Verlaine pairs up with jack of all trades musician/performer Jasper McCann for an anything but traditional rendition of the Nutcracker. Land of the Sweets: The Burlesque Nutcracker is in its 8th season at the Triple Door, and will satisfy newcomers and delight returning patrons as this year has some surprise twists and turns, with an all star cast from
Tumwater-based Windfall Lumber had been in business for nearly five years when Scott Royer, a Wisconsin-born transplant, purchased the company from its original owners in 2001. Under his leadership, Windfall has become one of the state’s leading providers of tables, countertops, wall
It seems fitting during this holiday season, whilst celebrating with our friends, family, and delicious food, to take a moment to pause and revel in all that we have. We are truly blessed with so much. Let’s take a moment to give back to those who may be less fortunate than us. No one should ever go hungry in our community, especially during this chilly winter. Here is just one opportunity for you to
Like whiskey? Like beer? Like genius combinations of the two? Good, now only 18 questions to go. Unless you’d rather I just tell you about the awesome new hopped whiskey 3 Howls Distillery is launching. Yeah I’ll do that instead.
Looking for a way to share the Northwest this season without shipping out boxes of snow globes and commemorative spoons? Here’s a list of 12 one-size-fits-all gift ideas with Northwest flair featuring locally made
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