Fairs and Carnivals

Paula Becker & Alan J. Stein

Paula Becker and Alan J. Stein

Paula Becker and Alan J. Stein

New at the Puyallup Fair: Deep-Fried Kool-Aid

​Fisher Flour will sell over one million scones during this year's edition of the Puyallup Fair, but there's more to eat at the fair than pastry. This week, Voracious spotlights four new-to-the-fair foods worth checking out should the scone lines grow unbearably long. The problem with fried b ... More >>

New at the Puyallup Fair: Leavenwurst

​Fisher Flour will sell over one million scones during this year's edition of the Puyallup Fair, but there's more to eat at the fair than pastry. This week, Voracious spotlights four new-to-the-fair foods worth checking out should the scone lines grow unbearably long. Scones may be the signat ... More >>

New at the Puyallup Fair: Fried Bubblegum

​Fisher Flour will sell over one million scones during this year's edition of the Puyallup Fair, but there's more to eat at the fair than pastry. This week, Voracious spotlights four new-to-the-fair foods worth seeking out should the scone lines grow unbearably long. The iconic image of fair ... More >>

Bright Lights, Sky City

The Space Needle's rotating restaurant has never been about food.

So Much for Navy Blue and Forest Green Cotton Candy

​Millennial eaters have tolerated green ketchup, blue French fries, and bright pink margarine, but stadium concession experts say cotton-candy fans are ultra-conservative on the question of color. At a recent Mariners' game, I began wondering why ballparks don't peddle cotton candy in team co ... More >>

Get A Load Of Shophouse, Like No Other Thai Food In Seattle

Photo by Leslie KellyWiley Frank creates authentic Thai dishes each Monday at Licorous.​We're so fired up about the one-night-a-week "pop-up" restaurant from Lark's well-seasoned sous chef Wiley Frank and his wife, Poncharee Kounpungchart, aka PK. On Mondays, at Licorous, the couple use pristi ... More >>

Tonight: Kele at Chop Suey, Willie Nelson Does the Puyallup, Verellen Amps Showcase at Neumos

​Kele, with Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Innerpartysystem. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8000. 8 p.m. $18. Put your opinions about Bloc Party aside, because Kele Okereke's album, The Boxer, has next to nothing to do with his band. The artist spent some time in Berlin, came out as gay this ... More >>

Willie Nelson

​Kele, with Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Innerpartysystem. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8000. 8 p.m. $18. Put your opinions about Bloc Party aside, because Kele Okereke's album, The Boxer, has next to nothing to do with his band. The artist spent some time in Berlin, came out as gay this ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

​Kele, with Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Innerpartysystem. Chop Suey, 1325 E. Madison St., 324-8000. 8 p.m. $18. Put your opinions about Bloc Party aside, because Kele Okereke's album, The Boxer, has next to nothing to do with his band. The artist spent some time in Berlin, came out as gay this ... More >>

In All Fairness

Kay ChamberlainKrist at the grill. Where are the gastronauts?​This last week I was involved in the great American tradition of the county fair. It's that one time of the year when cotton candy and the fried dough called elephant ears are good for the soul. The fair is a celebration where local ... More >>

Evergreen State Fair

Kay ChamberlainKrist at the grill. Where are the gastronauts?​This last week I was involved in the great American tradition of the county fair. It's that one time of the year when cotton candy and the fried dough called elephant ears are good for the soul. The fair is a celebration where local ... More >>

Urban Craft Uprising

Kay ChamberlainKrist at the grill. Where are the gastronauts?​This last week I was involved in the great American tradition of the county fair. It's that one time of the year when cotton candy and the fried dough called elephant ears are good for the soul. The fair is a celebration where local ... More >>

Guinan

Kay ChamberlainKrist at the grill. Where are the gastronauts?​This last week I was involved in the great American tradition of the county fair. It's that one time of the year when cotton candy and the fried dough called elephant ears are good for the soul. The fair is a celebration where local ... More >>

President Taft Visits Seattle, on TV Tonight!

​This is the centennial year of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), or, as tonight's hour-long television documentary would have it, "Seattle's Forgotten World's Fair." But local historians are doing everything they can to discourage that cultural amnesia. There are at least two photo ... More >>

The NC-17 Corn Maze?

​Halloween is nigh, and suddenly the Bartell is stocked with weird orange candies suggesting fall harvest and horror. Meanwhile, out in Snohomish, Stocker Farms opens its "Field of Screams" tomorrow. This year's theme to its haunted house is Carnival of Carnage, which amounts to a live theatri ... More >>

Flickr Pool Photo of the Day: Giant Wheel

​ Taken at the Evergreen State Fair in Monroe by bisonium. See more good stuff and post your own in the pool.

Gregory Blackstock's Collections

​ Taken at the Evergreen State Fair in Monroe by bisonium. See more good stuff and post your own in the pool.

P.U.S.A.

Saturday, March 15

Sausage Fest, Bra!

A meaty great time in Everett

Young Americans

Friday at the Speedway

Fake City, Real Blood

A local author plumbs the bloody underside Of the Chicago World's Fair.