Seahawks! The Ultimate Fan Guide

Seahawks! The Ultimate Fan Guide  

In this issue:

Arts & Culture

Entertainment

Fall Arts Preview 2014

Seattle Met's study guide will help you prep to make the most of the season's theater, dance, books, concerts, films, and visual art. Don’t worry, there won’t be a quiz.

09/01/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Passing Through

Tim and Eric, Capeesh

Tim and Eric and Dr. Steve Brule’s “extravaganza of absurdity” blitzes the Moore.

08/25/2014 By Ariana Dawes

Eat & Drink

News Feed

September Restaurant News

What diners are talking about this month.

09/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

The Explainer

It's Fresh Hops Season

Washington is one of the few places in the US where fresh hop beer is even possible. Here’s how it gets made.

09/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Critic's Picks

Seasonal Restaurants for Harvest Time

September is the month to dine at these microseasonal gems.

09/01/2014

Restaurant Review

Cantina Cuisine: Authentic Mexican Food on Capitol Hill

Tacos, margaritas, and mole have proliferated on Capitol Hill of late. Here’s a handy guide to who does what well.

09/01/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Restaurant Review

The London Plane: Pretty and Potent

Matt Dillon’s new lunch-and-brunch space may be a masterpiece of delicacy—but its food swaggers.

09/01/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Editor's Note

Editor's Note

Sound and Fury

Remember where you were when the Seahawks made it to the Super Bowl?

09/01/2014 By James Ross Gardner

Home & Real Estate

Habitat

Minimalism in a Medina Home

Architecture firm Suyama Peterson Deguchi gives a dream home the less-is-more treatment.

09/01/2014 By Angela Cabotaje

News & City Life

The Ultimate 12th Man Guide

There's Always Room on the Bandwagon

I'm a fan and you're a fan. Can we stop fighting and hate the 49ers together?

09/01/2014 By Hanna Brooks Olsen

The Ultimate 12th Man Guide

This Is How They Do It: 11 Reasons the Seahawks Are So Good

The Hawks had barely hoisted the Lombardi Trophy when pundits started talking dynasty. And when you get geeky with the numbers, it’s not hard to see why they won last year—and why they’re perfectly positioned to do it again.

09/01/2014 By Matthew Halverson

The Ultimate 12th Man Guide

Seahawks Celebrity Fans

The Seahawks’ most famous fans share some of their favorite memories from last season.

09/01/2014

Back Fence

Will Universal Preschool Cure the Common Core?

This fall brings the infamous Common Core to Seattle classrooms—and a possible corrective to the ballot box.

09/01/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

The Ultimate 12th Man Guide

Seahawks Game-Day Bars

We know, we know—every bar is a Seahawks bar on game day. Here are some optimal spots, whatever your sports bar personality.

09/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

The Ultimate 12th Man Guide

The Six Must-Watch Seahawks Games

If you only watch six games in the Hawks' quest to return to the Super Bowl, these should be the ones.

09/01/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

The Ultimate 12th Man Guide

The Biggest 12

How the Russell Investments Center lit up the Seattle skyline with 12th Man spirit—and how it’ll do it again this year

09/01/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

The Ultimate 12th Man Guide

How Well Do Our Politicians Really Know the Seahawks?

Civic leaders talk a good game about their love for the Seahawks, but how well do they actually know the home team? We put Nine of them on the spot with this—we think—easy quiz. Here’s how they did.

09/01/2014 Research by Matthew Halverson, Erica C. Barnett, Josh Feit, and Ezra Parter

Article

Up Close with Wideout Jermaine Kearse

Jermaine Kearse is living a Seattle boyhood dream. Just not his own.

09/01/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Mudroom

Perfect Party September 2014

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.

09/01/2014 By Seattle Met Staff

The Ultimate 12th Man Guide

Awesome Are My Hawks

Or how my Seahawks fandom started out as a religious experience.

09/01/2014 By Luke Burbank

Rainmakers

The Space Rock Race: Mining Asteroids

A Redmond company uses amateur astronomers and stargazers to train its spaceships on asteroids for their valuable resources, such as water—and a larger store of platinum than has ever been mined on Earth.

09/01/2014 By Allison Williams

Quote Unquote

Metro Bus Driver Theresa Tobin, In Her Own Words

As King County Metro faces budget cuts, an 18-year veteran bus driver has her eyes on the road ahead.

09/01/2014 By Matthew Halverson

The Ultimate 12th Man Guide

The Tao of Pom-Pom Pete

How Pete Carroll proved that it’s okay to have fun in the no-fun league.

09/01/2014 By Matthew Halverson

Tech

Where Angel (Investors) Fear to Tread

Tech startups are booming in Seattle. So where are all the investors?

09/01/2014 By Matthew Halverson

The Sporting Life

The Ultimate 12th Man Guide to the Seahawks

The games, the bars, the players - and everything else you need to know this season.

09/01/2014

The Ultimate 12th Man Guide

The Seahawks and the NFL Pot Problem

The Seahawks may play in a state where marijuana is legal, but they won’t get to partake in the party any time soon.

08/28/2014 By Will Leitch

Urban Upgrade

Experimental Innovation: Kremwerk in South Lake Union

The rise of the creative class in South Lake Union proves that the experiment in urban planning is working.

08/25/2014 By Josh Feit

Feature

OMFG It's the PSL!

The pumpkin spice latte got plucked from the dust heap of market research to become a full-fledged fall obsession.

08/25/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Lean and Green

Seahawks Superfan: Seahulk

08/19/2014 By Matthew Halverson

'Til Death Do Them Part

Seahawks Superfans: Mr. and Mrs. Seahawk

08/19/2014 By Matthew Halverson

They'll Never Take His Fandom!

Seahawks Superfan: Kiltman

08/18/2014 By Matthew Halverson

Hair Up To There

Seahawks Superfan: Mr. Mohawk

08/18/2014 By Matthew Halverson

The Ultimate 12th Man Guide

Seahawks Superfans, In Photos

Some Seahawks fans paint themselves from head to toe, dress up like characters from sci-fi movies, and generally act like complete lunatics. This season before heading to the CLink, we could all take a few pointers from the latter.

08/15/2014 By Matthew Halverson

Style & Shopping

Runway Month

Runway, Your Way

Four must-see fashion shows happen this month; here’s how to decide which ones are just your style.

09/01/2014 By Laura Cassidy

Elements of Style

Our Bodies, Our Dress Codes

Here’s how one budding feminist is confronting gender inequality and ambiguous style guidelines.

08/18/2014 By Laura Cassidy