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Slightly Pickled: May 2012
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Monday, May 28, 2012. Burgundy's Côte de Beaune at RN74. Loving Burgundy is like having a high-maintenance girlfriend: mercurial, maddeningly fussy, self-absorbed, but ultimately irresistible. So it was with some trepidation that I accepted an invitation to attend a Burgundy seminar at Seattle's RN74. Part of their monthly "Saturday with the Somms" series. The wines were paired with tidbits from the kitchen. "We're fanatical about food and wine pairing," Lindsay-Thorsen said. Seis Kamimura, RN74'...Dr Ge...
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Opus Opera: May 2012
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Arts and Entertainment Dispatches. Friday, May 11, 2012. Butterfly's tragic tale of trust and betrayal. Seattle Opera photo by Elise Bakketun. The story is straightforward, as grand opera plots go: a naval officer deceives a poor young girl and pretend-marries her, gets her pregnant and leaves town. When she learns, three years later, that he has for-real married someone else, she turns the child over to his new wife and kills herself. Currently playing at Seattle Opera. Midpoint, comes "Un Bel Di," the ...
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Opus Opera: Free the prisoners!
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Arts and Entertainment Dispatches. Sunday, October 14, 2012. Seattle Opera photo by Elise Bakketun. Beethoven's lone opera, Fidelio. Returns to the Seattle Opera. Stage just in time for election season. The contemporary staging emphasizes the modern-day relevance of this two-century-old story. After all, what could be more touching than the heroic story of a political prisoner and the loyal wife who comes to his rescue? It was guest conductor who made the call to begin with the so-called Leonora III over...
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Opus Opera: More Cafe Nordo? Yes, Please!
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Arts and Entertainment Dispatches. Wednesday, June 13, 2012. Cafe Nordo, the imaginative, even zany pop-up restaurant and dinner theater. Has extended its current run of "Cabinet of Curiosities" through June 23rd. It's a look at the history of food, with an emphasis on poisonous mushrooms, immortal vegetables, and mysterious soups. Under the aegis of the imaginary "Chef Nordo Lefesczki" patrons are served three appetizer courses in lavishly decorated rooms of Capitol Hill's venerable Washington Hall.
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Opus Opera: Seattle's Cinderella season lives on
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Arts and Entertainment Dispatches. Monday, January 14, 2013. Seattle's Cinderella season lives on. You won't see this Cinderella story at the Clink (you wouldn't have, even if the Hawks had made it past the Falcons), but Seattle Opera is staging. Gioacchino Rossinni's delightful retelling of the Cinderella story, this month at McCaw, complete with wacky costumes, wicked stepsisters and half a dozen supportive rats. A young Italian maestro, Giacomo Sagripanti, was responsible for the music's sprightly pac...
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Opus Opera: This old coat
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Arts and Entertainment Dispatches. Monday, February 25, 2013. Mimi languishes with Rodolfo at her bedside; Musetta waltzes; Colline bids his coat goodbye. Photos: Elise Bakketun. The music and plot of Puccini's La Bohème. Are so familiar that it's a little like going to Disneyland with your friends from summer camp. You practically want to hum "It's a Sad World After All.". Which also provided the tune for Della Reese's biggest hit, "Don't You Know," in 1959). Seattle Opera's General Director, Speight Je...
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Slightly Pickled: Be still: how to make Big Gin
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Friday, February 1, 2013. Be still: how to make Big Gin. In Louisville, KY, a part of the country where distillation (licit and illicit) is an industry with a cultural history as important as, say, aerospace is out here. The product of the legal effort (legal since the state gummint eased up on craft distilleries in 2008) is called Big Gin, produced by Capdevielle and his gang under a corporate umbrella named Captive Spirits. Works with the Liquor Board to expand access to out-of-state markets. Location:...
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Slightly Pickled: Cocktail gets crafty ... and frisky
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Thursday, June 27, 2013. Cocktail gets crafty . and frisky. The cocktail shelf is getting crowded! We wrote last month about two Negroni. Books; we've got books galore about seasonal cocktails lying around from national stars like Katie Loeb and local cocktail mavens like Maggie Savarino. There isn't a self-respecting saloon in Seattle that doesn't have a "Craft Cocktail" list to upsell from a vodka-tonic to some lavender-infused concoction that takes ten minutes to prepare. Aphrodisiacs With a Twist.
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Opus Opera: October 2012
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Arts and Entertainment Dispatches. Sunday, October 14, 2012. Seattle Opera photo by Elise Bakketun. Beethoven's lone opera, Fidelio. Returns to the Seattle Opera. Stage just in time for election season. The contemporary staging emphasizes the modern-day relevance of this two-century-old story. After all, what could be more touching than the heroic story of a political prisoner and the loyal wife who comes to his rescue? It was guest conductor who made the call to begin with the so-called Leonora III over...
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Opus Opera: April 2012
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Arts and Entertainment Dispatches. Tuesday, April 3, 2012. River Lost, River Found. By coincidence, an earlier book of Harden's has just been re-released in time for a documentary in the PBS "American Experience" series. The TV show is called "Grand Coulee Dam," to be broadcast tonight, April 3rd, at 8 PM; it's based on Harden's book, "A River Lost: the Life and Death of the Columbia.". Piffle. With casual racism, the manager of one of the irrigation districts blames the river's condition on the impo...
