Progressive Taxation

Coalition of Businesses Launch a Campaign to Overturn the Head Tax

The group filed a campaign, called No Tax On Jobs, with the Seattle Ethics & Elections Commission on Friday.

05/21/2018 By Hayat Norimine

Opening Dispatch

Super Bueno Opens Today on Stone Way

Ethan and Angela Stowell have been busy—first a downtown Italian haunt, now a supremely casual family friendly taco hangout.

05/21/2018 By Allecia Vermillion

Culture Fix

What to Do After Work May 21–24

The Paramount keeps the party swinging, raconteurs hit the stage, and a cult film rises from the dead.

05/21/2018 By Mac Hubbard

Fred Hutch

Fred Hutch Premier Chefs Dinner

On May 20, the 27th Annual Premier Chefs Dinner at SoDo Park by Herban Feast raised more than $1,470,000.

05/20/2018

Bloodworks Northwest

Bloodworks Ball

Nearly 500 supporters joined Bloodworks Northwest on May 19 to celebrate their impact on patients locally and across the globe, raising a record $855,000.

05/19/2018

Sponsored Content

Meet Patricia Venegas-Weber, a Literacy/ELL Instructor and Assistant Clinical Professor at Seattle University

As a Chilean Spanish-speaker, she brings her own experiences—both positive and negative—in learning a new language to Teacher Education classrooms filled with students of diverse cultural, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds.

05/18/2018

Exhibitionism

A LONE Is an Exhibition on a City-Sized Scale

Mount Analogue, Vignettes, and Gramma Poetry team up to make artists—and loneliness—visible.

05/18/2018 By Mac Hubbard

Retail Wire

Follain Brings Its First West Coast Shop to University Village

The clean beauty purveyor is slated to open sometime this summer.

05/18/2018 By Katheryn Grice Edited by Rosin Saez

Culture Fix

Weekend What to Do May 18–20

Five lesbians eat quiche, NW Film Forum revisits Basquiat's chaotic teenage years, and independent radio gets noisy.

05/18/2018 By Mac Hubbard

Shifts & Shakeups

This Week in Restaurant News: Soft Serve, Street Food, and Seafood Towers

Plus, James Beard awarding–winning chef Scott Carsberg returns with Bisato in the fall.

05/18/2018 By Cassie Sawyer

King County

Career Public Defender Will Run for King County Prosecutor

Daron Morris is challenging 11-year incumbent Dan Satterberg.

05/17/2018 By Hayat Norimine

Fiendish Conversation

La Luz’s Shana Cleveland Talks LA, Nightmares, and Seattle Show Vibes

La Luz returns to Seattle with two shows and their first LA album.

05/17/2018 By Stefan Milne

Fun with Listicles

7 Central District Gems to Explore Right Now

Bike on over to a bike shop that doubles as a cafe, try some Ethiopian food, and indulge in custom ice cream sandwiches.

05/17/2018 By Nosh Pit Staff

(Free) Ticket Alert

Death Cab for Cutie Announces a Free Show at the Paramount

Comedian Hari Kondabolu will host the event celebrating the Paramount's 90th anniversary.

05/16/2018 By Stefan Milne

Opening Dispatch

Ethan and Angela Stowell's Cortina Opens Downtown

It's the restaurateurs' biggest place yet, with the menu (and bar) to prove it.

05/16/2018 By Allecia Vermillion

This Washington

State Will Pay for Postage on Ballots for All Voters Outside King County

"This is about leveling the playing field and making elections equal for all citizens of Washington state."

05/16/2018 By Hayat Norimine

Virtual Virtues

I Went to the SIFF VR Zone

Organizers turned the former BCBG store into mini virtual reality film fest.

05/16/2018 By Stefan Milne

Food & Drink

Nosh Pit Weekly Planner May 16–22

The week in which: You can learn to cook a Filipino feast, dine by the sea, and get nerdy with ice cream.

05/16/2018 By Grace Madigan

YWCA King County

YWCA Inspire Luncheon King County

On May 15, 2018 over 2,000 guests gathered to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of YWCA’s Inspire Luncheon in King County.

05/15/2018

Nooooooo

E. Smith Mercantile Will Close Up Shop in June

Get your bar gadgets, home goods, and other ephemera by June 30, the shop's last day. Oh—and one last dram for old time's sake.

05/15/2018 By Rosin Saez