Rearview Mirror: Don’t Miss Dance, Street Sips, and Notebooks Galore 

Three’s the Charm

It’s uncommon after I attend a mixed-bill dance efficiency and stroll away liking all three items equally. Last weekend I attended Spring ’26, the present closing out up to date dance firm Whim W’Him’s 2025/26 season. Speaking earlier than the present, inventive director Olivier Wevers warned the viewers that we had no thought the place we had been about to get transported. Static Bloom, choreographed by Los Angeles-based James Gregg, opened like a clap of surprising thunder. Set to Osheyack’s hypnotic, droning observe, A River’s Mouth (together with different songs), the piece makes use of all seven firm members, deploying them in what can solely be described as a pulsating, high-energy, choreographic marvel. It felt recent and thrilling, half night-at-Berghain, half intricately crafted studio work. A feat of endurance and sharply executed motion, the choreography showcased the corporate’s collective ability, blowing open the anticipated into a type of items you possibly can’t cease eager about for days after it’s over. 

Black Moon

Photo by Jim Coleman

The different two items on the invoice, Rena Butler’s Black Moon, and Wevers’ Dark Echoes Come Shining, are equally as memorizing, if in a extra conventional means. Black Moon appeared to be a meditation on solitude—melancholy, loneliness, anxiousness—and the increasing ring of hope that happens by connecting with different individuals. Beautiful group work had dancers stretching, reaching, and bending into silhouettes that delivered to thoughts group photos in an Italian Renaissance portray, their feelings laid naked with every movement. The duets in Dark Echoes Come Shining had been elegant, balanced, and heartfelt, with signature Wevers thrives: lifts that catch the breath, crackling emotion between the dancers, and rigidity in transitions that has an electrical edge. I took my fiancé to the present, and even he, who didn’t have a lot publicity to bop earlier than we began courting, was nonetheless speaking about it the subsequent day.  

DON’T MISS OUT: There are two extra alternatives to see Spring ’26, which runs by Saturday at Cornish Playhouse. Tickets here. 

Paper Passion

I’m positive it’s no shock that I like paper items and every thing related to them. Notebooks, pens, stationery units. I’ve all the time been into writing down my ideas and sending snail mail. So, after I heard concerning the opening of the Outpost, a brand new paper items retailer in Pioneer Square, which has every thing you have to equipment out an workplace in excessive type, I knew I needed to test it out. From German notebooks to a rainbow of Le Pens, metal Japanese toolboxes, old-school Penco clipboards and organizational trays—it’s very easy to rack up a invoice right here. The store’s colourful merchandise pop towards navy blue floor-to-ceiling shelving, and a stationery bar lets prospects check out pens and notebooks earlier than they purchase. I’m choosy about what I write with—right down to the width of pen tip and shade of ink—so this selection is clutch, and it’s enjoyable to see the messages and drawings individuals go away as they take a look at the wares. 

Courtesy of Seattel Public Utilities

Sip, Sip Hooray

I drink a LOT of water. Anyone who has been round me for an prolonged time period has in all probability seen me chugging from one of many many, many branded water bottles I’ve been gifted throughout my years as a member of the press. Lucky for me—and, properly, the remainder of town too, Seattle Public Utilities put in seven free consuming water refill stations downtown final week. Adorned with illustrations from native artist Stevie Shao that “celebrate Seattle’s mountain-sourced and watershed-protected drinking water,” in response to SPU’s web site, the dispensers are on the following areas:

• 1000 2nd Ave.
• 501 Olive Way
• 1398 third Ave.
• 898 third Ave.
• 298 James St.
• 100 Pike St.
• 201 Occidental Ave. 

Image by Seattle journal

Get Social with Seattle Mag

Last week, Seattle magazine launched Page 12, Seattle’s Society Pages, a digital vacation spot the place you possibly can share your pics from occasions, auctions, fundraisers, openings, galas, style reveals, and extra. Check out the individuals, locations, and happenings shaping town’s social scene, and subsequent time you’re at an occasion, snap some photographs and submit them right here. Your photographs could also be featured on the positioning. Warning: We can’t assure that looking the web page gained’t go away you with at the least somewhat FOMO. 

Courtesy of Brown Family Vineyards

Perfect Pairing

In recognition of Nordstrom’s one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary, Browne Family Vineyards has launched an unique méthode champenoise Brut. The limited-edition glowing wine is accessible now at Nordstrom Cafés nationwide, bringing collectively two Washington powerhouses and celebrating the success and legacy of Northwest enterprise. Using the identical methodology historically used within the Champagne area of France—the place secondary fermentation takes place within the bottle—Browne crafted a Brut that’s crisp and brilliant, with notes of inexperienced apple and citrus. It’s the perfect summer season sipper. 

FUN FACT: This isn’t the primary time that Browne and Nordstrom have crossed paths. According to a press launch concerning the collaboration: Courtney Browne, proprietor of Browne Family Vineyards, labored at Nordstrom throughout her faculty years.