Multimedia Circus
Wine-and-cheese convos at Artopia (artopia.seattleweekly.com)? Probably not. Your typical neighborhood gallery crawl this ain’t. Georgetown’s annual carnival-art-music mash-up, usually held at the end of June (watch our calendar pages for the date), is a raucous and totally rad display of the region’s most ripe, underreported, and underground talent (you’re in the land of no-rules thing makers and rusty old anti-industrialists, remember). Spotted last year: power tool races, spin art stations, graffiti walls, glassblowing, tribal belly dancers, 10-foot-tall bicycles, postmodern performance art—in the midst of musicians and street performers whooping it up. We’re talking overstimulation at its only-in-Seattle best.
When you need to escape the cacophony, caffeine kicks await at All City Coffee (1205 S Vale St, Georgetown, 206-767-7146; allcitycoffee.com), and chocolate, malty dark porters from the nearby Georgetown Brewing Company are on tap at 9LB Hammer (6009 Airport Way S, Georgetown, 206-762-3373; ninepoundhammer.com). When you’re hungry, keep with the nabe’s low-rent vibe and order the wildly popular, piled-so-high-they-teeter nachos at Georgetown Liquor Company (5501B Airport Way S, Georgetown, 206-763-6764; georgetownliquorcompany.com) before a few rounds of old-school videogames. Souvenirs? Yeah, sure. Hit Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery (1201 S Vale St, Georgetown, 206-658-0110; fantagraphics.com) for alterna-lit paperbacks, and Fruit Cocktail Collectibles (1210 S Bailey St, Georgetown, 206-669-0540; fruitcocktailcollectibles.com) for oddities of days gone by.
A stop at Western Bridge (3412 Fourth Ave S, Georgetown, 206-838-7444; westernbridge.org), the avant-garde contemporary art space, is akin to transporting to an abstract universe that speaks to you via emerging voices in photography, video, and installation.
Your Little Deuce Coupe
Are drive-in movie theaters next on the national endangered species list? Everett’s Puget Park will likely be replaced by a medical building by the time sunroofs and drop-tops are in season again, and Auburn’s six-pack of outdoor screens could face a similar fate within a few years. There’s no time to waste. Near the end of a cloudless day, get to XXX Rootbeer Drive-In (98 NE Gilman Blvd, Issaquah, 425-392-1266; triplexrootbeer.com), roll down your window, and request a three-quarter pound Triple X burger, onion rings, and a root beer float. If you’re lucky, a fleet of Fords and Chevys from one of the local classic car clubs will cruise through, fuzzy dice bobbing in the windows and Bobby Darin blaring on the oldies station. If you’re back on I-90 headed west to 405 by 7:30, you’ll sail into the Valley Six (401 49th St NE, Auburn, 253-854-1250; valleydriveins.com) by eight o’clock, when the box office opens. The cost of admission gets you a double feature, so make sure little ones are pajama-clad before the main feature begins.
Enjoy the Fruits of Your Labor
Recipe for successful midsummer blueberry picking: Travel 30 miles east on I-90 to Bybee-Nims Farms (42930 SE 92nd St, North Bend, 425-888-5745; bybeenimsfarms.com) at the base of Mount Si. Arrive in midafternoon; it takes roughly 30 minutes to gather a pound (picking pails and take-home containers are provided), which goes for $2, and you’ll probably want at least three of them. Give little ones some experience in the field; the best berries are at an average six-year-old’s eye level. Finish picking by four o’clock, in time for the Italian-music dance party that breaks out in between the rows of Bybee-Nims’ six varieties of blues.
Recipe for Blueberry Crisp
INGREDIENTS
1½ pints fresh blueberries
¾ cup unsalted butter
1¾ cups flour
¾ cup unrefined granulated sugar
½ cup brown sugar
1 tsp high-quality ground cinnamon
Pinch of salt
DIRECTIONS
Butter a 10-inch baking dish and fill it with the blueberries, leaving room for topping mixture. Combine remaining ingredients in a stand mixer or by hand, then refrigerate for about 40 minutes or until slightly firm. Using your hands, crumble pebble-size pieces of the mixture over the blueberries until they’re covered completely. Place filled dish on a baking sheet and bake 15 to 20 minutes in a 365 degree oven until the crisp topping turns golden brown and the blueberries start to bubble. Remove from oven and cool slightly before serving.
Published: November 2009
Hola and Good afternoon
My name is CESAR AUGUSTO PISCOYA ANGELES from PERU.
I am Architect and work in The Royal Tombs of SIPAN Museum here in my city CHICLAYO.
Visiting Seattle some days in march and i want know if can help me and learn about Seattle (buildings, museums,places, parks, etc) architecture and tecnology in the construction.
I want know how much price is this tour or maybe i can help and change information about me work here.
Thank you very much and hope a answer soon.
Greetings
Cesar
Old Thyme Aviation’s okay, but it’s insanely expensive for what they offer. There are other, better vintage ride options around Seattle for much cheaper.