Around the World in Many Days

The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race Is Headed for Seattle

When a fleet of globe-sailing yachts arrives in April, don’t be surprised if you decide to join a crew.

03/23/2018 By Allison Williams

Olympia Dispatch

10 Changes You Should Know the State Legislature Made This Year

What did a Democratic majority accomplish?

03/22/2018 By Hayat Norimine

Mollusk Matters

Slurp Down Briny Bivalves at These 13 Oyster Bars

Step one: Grab a glass of wine or a crisp beer. Step two: Dig into a platter of freshly shucked oysters. Repeat.

03/22/2018 By Nosh Pit Staff

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Behold! Safeco Field's New Food Offerings

Din Tai Fung and Jack's BBQ headline a new lineup of grub options to pair with Mariners baseball. Please don't try to eat these photos.

03/22/2018 By Darren Davis

Culinary Cinema

SIFF Lines Up Food and Drink Films for the Coming Festival

An ode to the scotch whisky industry. A Bavarian barman visits the most prestigious bars in the world. A look into the universe of Michelin stars. The annual film festival (May 17–June 10) doesn't skimp on movies for the gourmand-cinephiles.

03/22/2018 By Rosin Saez

City Hall

Seattle Officials Want a Law to Require Gun Owners to Lock Up Their Weapons

"Their message to us as leaders has been clear—we have failed them and we must act."

03/21/2018 By Hayat Norimine

Lookbook Land

Louisa Meng Is Not Your Type

The style blogger turned curatorial brain behind Not Your Type is reinventing the narrative of vintage clothing.

03/21/2018 By Rosin Saez

Urban Float

Urban Float: Grand Opening

Urban Float celebrated the grand opening of its flagship location on Capitol Hill, the company’s fourth Seattle-area store and the largest float pod center on the West Coast.

03/21/2018

Food & Drink

Nosh Pit Weekly Planner: March 21–27

The week in which: Taste Washington and the Washington Cask Beer Fest come to town, Plate of Nations returns, and Cow By Bear brings humor to the popup.

03/21/2018 By Trevor Keaton Pogue

Wild Brews

Meet Washington’s Coming Contingent of Farmhouse Brewers

Garden Path Fermentation and Fair Isle Brewing will bring nuance to this wild beer style.

03/20/2018 By Stefan Milne

Culture Fix

Things to Do After Work: March 19–23

Seattle Art Museum screens an Alfred Hitchcock classic, MoPop relives iconic television shows from the 1990's, and 5th Avenue Theatre presents 'Ride the Cyclone'

03/19/2018 By Kaelan Hicks

Morning Matters

Seattle's Newest Food Truck, Sunny Up, Is All About Breakfast Sandwiches

Fancy a Ruth Bacon Ginsburg? Perhaps a Sausage Patti Smith?

03/19/2018 By Allecia Vermillion

Fun With Listicles

A Few Places for Fiery Chicken Around Town

There's chicken and then there's hot chicken. Here are some spots for the latter.

03/19/2018 By Nosh Pit Staff

Oeno files

Taste Washington Is This Weekend. Here's What to Drink.

Not-to-be-missed sips during Seattle's weekend-long vino fest happening March 22–25.

03/19/2018 By Sean P. Sullivan

Feature

Darren Berg on the Run: Inside the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in Washington State History

He owned yachts and sped around the country in Lear jets—spoils from the more than $100 million he bilked from investors—before he was convicted and sent away to serve an 18-year sentence in federal prison. Then, late last year, Darren Berg disappeared.

03/19/2018 By Ciara O'Rourke

City Hall

Seattle's Human Services Director Steps Down

Lester in a statement said the decision was "both difficult and personal."

03/16/2018 By Hayat Norimine

Opening Dispatch(es)

2 Restaurant Openings Are Happening This Weekend

Former chef de cuisine for Thierry Rautureau debuts Petite Galerie, a French-influence brasserie in Madison Valley. Over in Belltown, Babirusa is reborn in larger digs.

03/16/2018 By Rosin Saez