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Cactus brings Latin flavors and a sunny disposition to the greater Seattle area.

The Restaurant: A jaded Northwesterner might view January with disdain for its rotten weather and post-holiday melancholy. Snow threatens closures, rain hisses down with a vengeance and wind chokingly whips in from the Sound. In pursuit of happiness, locals tend to seek out sunnier elements and warmer conditions, such as Mexican excursions and Caribbean island crawls.
New watering hole offers craft beer and not-so-typical pub food.
Wallingford’s Tangletown neighborhood welcomes a restaurant and bar from the owners of Brouwer’s Café and Bottleworks. The Publican only opened a few weeks ago, but don’t be fooled by the modest exterior – business is booming inside.
Visit the International District to ring in the Year of the Dragon.

Celebrate the 2012 Lunar New Year — the Year of the Dragon — in Seattle’s International District! Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year, is considered to be the most important holiday in China and celebrated throughout much of East and Southeast Asia.
The timeless novel is at the heart of a dazzling new production.
Pacific Northwest Ballet is proud to announce the American premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s “Don Quixote” at Seattle Center’s Marion Oliver McCaw Hall on Saturday, Feb. 3. The show was originally created for the Dutch National Ballet, and premiered in Amsterdam in 2010.
Enjoy some of cinema’s greatest treasures with live musical accompaniment.
With the 84th Academy Awards ceremony scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 26, Seattle Theatre Group and Trader Joe’s invite you to relive the glory and glamour of old Hollywood. Presented at The Paramount Theatre, the 10th Annual
A La Bonne Franquette puts an underdog Seattle neighborhood on the culinary map.

South of Leschi and north of Columbia City, the Mt. Baker neighborhood is an oft-ignored bleak patch in Seattle’s “Technicolor Dreamquilt” dining scene. Case in point: there is a pizza joint with pies that taste like they come from a mall and a thicket of toddlers underfoot so dense you feel like drunk Bigfoot bushwhacking through them to the register.
Legendary 80’s alt rockers return to Seattle for a kick-ass U-District set.
Celebrate Chinese New Year with a gin and kumquat elixir from the Far East.
A choice, locally-sourced bivalve joins the celebrated bistro’s HH line-up.

As Seattle’s temperamental weather system does everything it can to keep us numb and cold, we must seek our rick flavors in order to keep winter moving right along. Luckily, Bastille Café & Bar aims to please your palette with its newest Happy Hour addition: fresh oysters ($1 each), courtesy of Washington’s own Hama Hama Oyster Company.
