Sexy food at home starts with sexy kitchen tools, and this week I’m pleased to be able to give away to two lucky readers an 8” frying pan that fits that bill in spades. Read on for details of how you can win one of these sleek new pans.
Like beer? like big mugs? Like big mugs full of beer? Well there’s only one thing left to do – dock at the sloop tavern.

Looking for a bar where you can’t tell whether that salty smell is coming from the Puget Sound or the elder gentlemen smiling at you? You are! Friend, I would like to introduce to the grittiest tavern in town – The Sloop.
Pull out the high school French lit, Chez Shea’s Tartare is in need of some Bordeaux.
There’s something significant about the marriage of meat and egg. It poses the disputed inaugural presence of the chicken or the egg to quarrel over while also putting an aesthetically pleasing dish of food on display.
This family-owned Japanese restaurants dishes up authentic home-style goodness.
Birchbox is turning traditional beauty marketing on its’ head—one carefully crafted, hot pink box at a time.
Walking into a beauty store or aisle is like walking into a candy shop — there are so many flavors, bright colors, and immediate questions (chocolate or sour?) that it is often overwhelming to find the perfect piece to satisfy your palette. That is, without sampling them all, of course.
A vibrant textile exhibition dazzles at the Seattle Asian Art Museum.
Whether or not you’re aware, you probably already know a thing or two about ikats. Thanks to a 2005 Oscar de la Renta show that brought these exotic textiles back into the fashion spotlight, clever takes on the ikat technique now reign the racks at popular stores like J. Crew, Anthropologie, West Elm and Pottery Barn.
Legendary Seattle Restaurateur Tom Douglas turns his attention to brews and bar fare.
SPAM sliders — need I say more?
What’s better than a meld of Korean and Hawaiian cuisine on the cheap? When it’s on wheels all over Seattle. Marination has a station on top of the QFC in Capitol Hill and a food truck in a different neighborhood every day of the week but Sunday.
Gamer geeks unite for an orchestrated Zelda celebration.

Since Nintendo launched the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1983, the world of video games changed forever. A large part of gaming magic is the music that transport you through the virtual experience as you battle the villains from one level to the next.
Explore LGBT influence on American portraiture at the Tacoma Art Museum.
On the heels of same-sex marriage legalization in the Evergreen State, the Northwest once again paves the way for equality by hosting HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture this spring.