SEVEN Salon
January 2012 Seven Salon 600 Pine Street Pacific Place, Second Floor Seattle, WA 98101 www.7salon.com Written By Steven Dolan Photo By Michael Walmsley SEVEN Salon is not the place to be pampered or to receive a haircut in the hopes of being a celebrity lookalike. The Seattle-bred business places more importanceon the energy...
The Sexton
January 2012 Photo by Anne Cho Written By Evan Carter For Ballard, by Ballard Walking into a place for the first time shouldn’t feel this comfortable. There is something about The Sexton that makes you feel like you are at your neighborhood bar. To many Ballardians, this IS their local bar. Even...
The Coterie Room
January 2012 The Coterie Room 2137 Second Avenue Seattle, WA 98121 (206) 956-8000 Photographer: Ernie Sapiro Writer: Jacklyn Tran Dana Tough and Brian McCracken, the brilliant minds behind Belltown’s Spur Gastropub and Capitol Hill’s Prohibition-era inspired cocktail bar Tavern Law, have done it again. The dynamic duo, with a growing list of accomplishments,...
Less Primping, More Sipping!
December 2011 New Services at Gene Juarez to Save Time and Glam Up Your Holidays By Loren Boyd Photo by Danielle Bortone-Holt This holiday season, it’s out with the old and in with the new. Say goodbye to mascara, flaky dry skin, frizzy hair and smudged manicures. From lash extensions to shellac...
Jazzbones
December 2011 Written By Elisa Beall Photo by Samil Pena The staple of entertainment in the south end. Perhaps the most common misconception of Tacoma is that it’s a ghost town. So while the paper mill used to permeate the air with an unwelcoming stench, within the inner city, Sixth Street is ablaze...
The State of Liquor
December 2011 Written By Aleko Lilly June 12, 2008 may seem like an innocuous date, but for the Washington state liquor enthusiast, it was a momentous occasion. This was the day state laws changed, allowing craft distilleries to start making and selling spirits. Since then, we’ve seen a blossoming of small batch spirits produced...
Skillet
December 2011 Skillet 1400 East Union Street Seattle, Washington 98122 (206) 420-7297 Photographer: Sam Cook Writer: Jacklyn Tran With the brisk cold air quickly settling in for the impending winter, finding different ways to escape the chilly days and bitingly frosty nights in exchange for a warm and fuzzy feeling is increasingly of...
Viper Creek Club
November 2011 Generous Beats By Joe Gustav Photo by Casey Sjogren Local electro-pop duo Viper Creek Club gives listeners the memory-making jams they want with a new EP “It’s more like blasting you for 30 minutes” If it is true that memories are the best gifts of all, then Viper Creek Club is in...
Murs
November 2011 Written By Joe Gustav Photo by Martin Adolfsson Few musicians in any genre have been able to turn independent success into lengthy, successful careers. LA-bred rapper Murs is undeniably one of those artists. His winding path through the underground has taken him from Def Jux to Warner Brothers and now to...
James Riley
November 2011 Getting to know: James Riley By Sheena Nguyen Photo by Jane Gershovich From being a board member of the Special Olympics, to making weekly visits to “Hope Place” throughout 2011 to support troubled women and kids at the Union Gospel Mission, and being a key organizer of the annual 7-A-Side tournament...
Dude York
Discovered November 11 Dude York Written By Joe Gustav Photo by Isabel Blue Playing music is supposed to be fun. Dude York, this month’s Discovered pick, gets that. A sly irreverence punctuates their output, such as pausing mid-song during a recent live set at the Comet to ask the score of the game and titling...
Ageless in Seattle
November 2011 Look great, feel great, give back! Written by Loren Boyd Photo by Danielle Bortone-Holt It’s that time of year for pumpkin spice lattes, holiday parties, shopping excursions and reawakening the spirit of giving. And just as the leaves change, so can our skin with the harsh cold of winter. So before you...
