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On his long-running Travel Channel show No Reservations, celebuchef Anthony Bourdain drinks as often as he eats—and maybe more. In interviews, he's often said that his favorite cocktail is a good gin Negroni with an orange-slice garnish. But, this being the man who's gamely eaten an...
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The interior is exactly what you're looking for when trying to escape February's alternating snow/sleet/freezing wind. For a space that takes up the better part of a condo tower floor, it's surprisingly inviting. Big couches line the walkway in a variety of configurations leading to smaller...
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Valentine's Day |
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Town Hall :
Wed., February 15, 7:30pm
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“Girl power” has never looked more different and … well, more pink than it does today. Building on her much-discussed 2006 New York Times essay, Peggy Orenstein examines the phenomenon of starter makeup and Disney Princesses in Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the...
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Hipster Runoff once called Animal Collective "a band created for/by/on the Internet," but that distinction might be more appropriate for Die Antwoord. The South African hip-hop group emerged into the Internet’s collective consciousness in early 2010 when its video for “Enter the...
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It's a rite of passage for the male journalistic elite to write at length about sports (see: Remnick, David). Add to the ledger Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing (Knopf, $26.95), in which New York Times Pulitzer winner Jim Yardley follows...
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Downtown
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Sports - Spectator, Literary Events |
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Various locations :
Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., January 6 until Sun., February 26
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Skip the snack cart, windmills, and any concern for general safety. This spring's Smash Putt has opted for a dimly-lit SoDo madhouse with a fully stocked bar. Once you've flashed your ID and signed the safety waiver, head straight to the drink line and order a Ginger Zelenka. It...
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Golf Courses, Food & Drink, Sports - Participatory, Nightlife |
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ACT Theatre :
Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., February 2 until Sun., February 12, 8:00pm
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Seattle composer Wayne Horvitz's latest musical tribute to America's labor movement of relates the 1916 Everett Massacre in song-cycle form (soprano plus piano). Seattle union members from the IWW (aka "The Wobblies") came in support of striking mill workers; they were fatally met by police...
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Downtown
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Opera, History |
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Like most of Seattle's Mexican restaurants, Guaymas Cantina serves standard Tex-Mex fare, and its patrons tend to be office drones who come for the sake of convenience. But so far as finding a good downtown happy hour goes, perched high above the Harbor Steps, it's one of your best bets. Twice...
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Food & Drink, Happy Hours |
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Cut through a berm at a King County sewer pumping station, stainless-steel plates flank Laura Haddad's 2003 Undercurrents, an etched-metal sluiceway aimed into Elliott Bay, ringed by a pleasant circular plaza. Added in '09 to help disguise a mechanical vault for the giant $140 million project...
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Visual Art, Parks & Preserves, Arts, Art - Ongoings |
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Since opening, the Olympic Sculpture Park has somehow eclipsed and subsumed the identity of Myrtle Edwards Park, which was established (with a different name) back in 1964, when SAM was still a small institution confined to Capitol Hill. The narrow old shoreline park was renamed in 1976 for the...
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Visual Art, Arts, Art - Ongoings |
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Years have passed, and the downtown library designed by Rem Koolhaas has agreeably woven itself into the urban fabric. You may not like the ramps or shelving or noise inside, but tourists love to photograph the glassy, faceted exterior, and most architectural critics agree on its modernist...
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Visual Art, Family Events, Arts, Art - Ongoings |
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Henry Moore (1898-1986) is not someone whose name you often hear these days. Once a progressive, modernist force, not a conceptualist or particularly clever, his legacy seems tied to the avant-garde innovations of the ’20s and ’30s, pre-WWII, pre-irony, pre-Pop, pre-Andy Warhol and...
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Visual Art, Arts, Art - Ongoings |
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5th Avenue Theatre :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., February 4 until Sun., March 4
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Although the 5th Avenue is billing the show as Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! (to distinguish it from, what, the Bertolt Brecht version?), you hardly need those legendary names to advertise whose fabled state you’re entering. The exclamation point says it all. And for this...
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Seattle Art Museum :
Every week Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday, 10:00am-5:00pm
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Some downtown office workers may feel deterred from merely browsing at SAM because of, well, the ticket price. If there's not some big marquee show to see, wandering at random through the galleries doesn't seem a good value. But for the cost of absolutely nothing, if you have 45 minutes to...
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Visual Art, Arts, Art - Ongoings, Art - Museums |
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Various locations :
Second Saturday of every month, 6:00pm-9:00pm
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The February edition features Seb Barnett at American Pie, Angielena Vitale Chamberlain at Bella Vitale, and Kat Houseman's animal paintings at Calamity Jane’s. Down at the Georgetown Arts and Cultural Center, there's an "Ahh Nuts!|Art Against Allergies" silent art auction. Various arts...
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Visual Art, Music, Food & Drink, Fashion & Style, Arts, Art Openings & Events |
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It’s the day you’ve been waiting for. Your closest family and friends are gathered, sun-drenched in their finest, inhaling the sweet fragrance of the twin rows of rose bushes. The flower girl, her bow tied just so, swings her petal-filled basket. In the distance, the majestic Olympics...
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Sports - Participatory, Parks & Preserves, Nature, Family Events |
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If you’ve already got your tie on, and your seats are saved across the street at Benaroya Hall, The Brooklyn’s cheap drinks and snacks are on your radar. But if you’re headed for the underground transit tunnel en route to the U-District, this chop house isn’t as out of reach...
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Happy Hours |
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The Diller Room :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 4:30pm-7:00pm
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Back in the day, there was a narrow bar-cum-restaurant on First and Virginia called The Virginia Inn. This bar sold good drinks and delicious yet minimal food, and turned up the house beats and fuzzed-up guitars just enough to pump a little extra life into the after-work situation called happy...
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Happy Hours |
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Ivar's Acres of Clams :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
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It’s amazing what price will do for a person’s perspective. Ask a non-tourist to go to happy hour at Ivar’s and you’re gonna get laughed at. Tell them it’s the Ivar’s on the waterfront at Pier 54, and the chuckling only gets louder. Volunteer that the happy hour at...
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Happy Hours |
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Patricia Rovzar Gallery :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., February 3 until Mon., February 27, 11:00am-5:00pm
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Downtown
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Visual Art, Arts, Art - Ongoings, Art - Galleries, Art - Announcements |
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SAM Gallery :
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., January 12 until Sat., February 11, 10:30am-5:30pm
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Downtown
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Visual Art, Arts, Art - Ongoings, Art - Galleries |
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Women Painters of Washington Gallery :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Tue., January 31 until Fri., April 20, 11:00am-4:00pm
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Downtown
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Visual Art, Arts, Art - Ongoings, Art - Galleries, Art - Announcements |
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Seattle Art Museum :
Every week Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., February 11 until Sun., April 22, 10:00am-5:00pm
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Downtown
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Visual Art, Arts, Art - Ongoings, Art - Museums |
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Il Fornaio :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 4:30pm-6:30pm
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Admittedly, Il Fornaio comes off a bit stuffy. But don’t let the spiral staircase, classical music, and overwhelming number of graying women in pantsuits put you off. This Italian restaurant inside Pacific Place is well worth a visit during happy hour on weekdays from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. It...
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Happy Hours |
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Sazerac :
Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 4:00pm-8:00pm
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Sazerac is the Southern-themed bar and restaurant next to the über-trendy Hotel Monaco. Its celebrity sightings have included Adam Lambert, Fergie, and Sean Penn in an intense discussion with Eddie Vedder. But it’s the Monday-Saturday happy hour, not the potential for A-list...
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Happy Hours, Food & Drink |
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