Your roundup of this week’s most widely-read, shared, and discussed stories.
• Our most-read story this week was a write-up of a Capitol Hill brewery’s gender-neutral bathroom. Faced with a space shortage, Optimism Brewery decided to eschew building gendered bathrooms, and instead built a corridor of unisex loos. The luxurious lavatory features a circular, communal hand-washing station, diaper changing stations, but no mirrors. A comment from Optimism’s co-owner notes that mirrors will be installed soon.
• Until this week, there were zero interviews with innovative jazz drummer Joe Gallivan on the Internet. Now there is one.
• Jen Graves reviewed the Tacoma Art Museum’s survey of Northwest art NW Art Now,. She says the show reflects the world we have, and not the world we want. The exhibit runs until Sept. 4th, which gives you plenty of time to check it out for yourself, and little excuse not to.
• Did you know that Woody Guthrie spent a month pickin’ and a-singin’ in the Pacific Northwest? Greg Vandy and Daniel Person cover that and more in 26 Songs in 30 Days. “Though Vandy and Person’s language never quite does justice to the events they describe,” Rich Smith writes in his review, “Guthrie’s story on these shores is a fascinating one.”
• Charles caught Amazon building its glass balls, and mused about what will come of Seattle when they’re completed. “As the plates of spaceship-grade glass are added to Amazon’s biospheres, a strange feeling is slowly coming together…” he writes.
• What do The Seattle Times, Monorail Espresso, and Pony have in common? You’re taking them all for granted. You’re also taking for granted 47 other Seattle businesses we wrote about in this week’s feature. You can support these bars, coffee shops, and restaurants by patronizing them right now. “Or what?” one commenter asks. Or you’ll miss them when they’re gone.
• Memorial Day weekend is upon us. What will (most of) you do with all this whole extra day of freedom? If that thought paralyzed you, then here are some ideas. Make your way over to Renton’s Spice King for the best bread in town. Hit up the always lively Folklife festival—or do any of these 38 cheap and easy weekend activities. You could giddily stand in line to see one of our highly-recommended SIFF films, or skip the line and catch one of our highly-recommended, specifically non-SIFF films. After the movie, try the new steakburger chain that just arrived in downtown Seattle, and tell us whether the Frisco Melt is as good as everyone says it is.
Enjoy the clouds this weekend.