The Restaurant: A jaded Northwesterner might view January with disdain for its rotten weather and post-holiday melancholy. Snow threatens closures, rain hisses down with a vengeance and wind chokingly whips in from the Sound. In pursuit of happiness, locals tend to seek out sunnier elements and warmer conditions, such as Mexican excursions and Caribbean island crawls.
Wallingford’s Tangletown neighborhood welcomes a restaurant and bar from the owners of Brouwer’s Café and Bottleworks. The Publican only opened a few weeks ago, but don’t be fooled by the modest exterior – business is booming inside.
What: This month, the Northwest Video Workshop aims to teach journalists the importance of great visual storytelling. This workshop covers all the basics, and featured speakers will discuss their experiences in the field.
Celebrate the 2012 Lunar New Year — the Year of the Dragon — in Seattle’s International District! Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year, is considered to be the most important holiday in China and celebrated throughout much of East and Southeast Asia.
Pacific Northwest Ballet is proud to announce the American premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s “Don Quixote” at Seattle Center’s Marion Oliver McCaw Hall on Saturday, Feb. 3. The show was originally created for the Dutch National Ballet, and premiered in Amsterdam in 2010.
“Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself,” Parisian designer Hubert de Givenchy told “Vogue” in 1985. With this in mind, Kirkland’s GEM Salon invites men, women and children of the Eastside to stop in for a visit — and possibly leave with a completely different look.
With the 84th Academy Awards ceremony scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 26, Seattle Theatre Group and Trader Joe’s invite you to relive the glory and glamour of old Hollywood. Presented at The Paramount Theatre, the 10th Annual
South of Leschi and north of Columbia City, the Mt. Baker neighborhood is an oft-ignored bleak patch in Seattle’s “Technicolor Dreamquilt” dining scene. Case in point: there is a pizza joint with pies that taste like they come from a mall and a thicket of toddlers underfoot so dense you feel like drunk Bigfoot bushwhacking through them to the register.
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