This past Saturday morning was not a typical one for me. By 9:30 a.m., I found myself in Rainier Valley, gloved up and making new friends over crates of cabbage, tins of coffee beans and supersize bags of dog food. The motivation for the early weekend wake-up call? To work alongside local musicians, nonprofit do-gooders and regular Rainier Valley Food Bank volunteers in support of the upcoming Gigs4Good concert.
Commercial and residential developers continue to stake their claim on Seattle. Cranes are everywhere. It’s a rush to impose personal will on a bustling metropolis, to carve out a piece of skyline for pocketbooks and posterity.
Looking to celebrate the longest day of the year? Look no further. The 24th Annual Fremont Solstice Parade kicks off the Fremont Fair on Saturday, June 16th. The parade starts at noon in downtown Fremont.
Starry nights, skipping stones, and adventure by land and water, childhood summer camp is filled with sweet innocent nothings. If you are looking for a vacation that mirrors your beloved camp dreams, there are two Washington resorts Seattleites can go and bask in the comfort of
Have you found yourself searching the city far and wide these last two years, for the perfect Cuban sandwich — one that is just as meaty and cheesey as the ones dished out by the Paladar Cubano food truck that once graced the corner of 89th and Aurora?
Some days carry a unifying theme that we don’t register until after the fact. Last Wednesday was one of those for me–a delightfully arts-rich day that began downtown at the Seattle Art Museum and continued at Queen Anne’s SIFF Cinema at the Uptown. The common thread binding these culture pit stops? The celebration and exploration of indigenous communities.
Last year I wrote about what was probably the most mind-expanding dinner I’ve ever eaten. It took place at the Modernist Cuisine Laboratory, where the James Beard award-winning culinary tome, Modernist Cuisine, was created. Many of you know by now that Modernist Cuisine swept the globe with
I was making friends while flying solo at a bar top a few weeks back with a half dozen dames in town from Anchorage, Alaska. After explaining what I do (the answer was “a lot of things with booze in the Northwest?”), the ladies inquired as to why their fare state is not clumped into the general “Pacific Northwest” group.
Bodycenter Studios has shared the benefits of Pilates with hundreds of people in the Seattle community over the past decade, helping to achieve balanced bodies
In this edition of Food Porn, we feature Elliott’s Oyster House, an iconic establishment on the Seattle waterfront since 1975. Elliott’s has earned a national repuation for seafood specialties such as sustainable Dungeness crab, wild salmon, Alaskan halibut, and Pacific Northwest shellfish – including their star attraction, oysters.
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