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Bellevue Lands W Hotel, Drivers Needed for Seniors
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Hotel news: Bellevue has nabbed a W Hotel as part of its $1.2 million expansion of The Bellevue Collection. Slated to open in spring 2017, Starwood Hotels’ W Bellevue will feature 245 guestrooms (25 of those will be suites and one will be W’s Presidential-style Extreme Wow Suite), three restaurants and bars and more than…
7 Ways to Pretty Up Your Home for Spring
Treasures and trinkets from local shops to breathe new life into your abode
Can you feel it? This hopeful season always carries with it a sense of renewal and expansiveness. Throw open your curtains, sweep away the dust bunnies and spruce up your decor with cheerful home accents that celebrate the revival going on outdoors. 1. Seattle’s Gnosis Picture Archive offers a multitude of reproduction natural history and scientific…
Easter Egg Hunts in Seattle: The Hunt is On!
Where to hunt, hop and gather around Seattle this Easter
The Easter holiday, complete with the appearance of a giant bunny, is fast approaching, and public venues throughout Seattle are pulling out all the stops with spring egg hunts for sharp-eyed youngsters. For a weekend full of Easter-related fun, we’ve rounded up an array of egg hunts and other exciting events around town that shall…
Cupcake Royale Owner and Pastry Chef Launch 3 New Ventures
Donut pop-up, chef ice cream collaboration and classy marijuana cookies are all new this spring
Cupcake Royale founder/owner Jody Hall and her head pastry chef/chief operations officer Nicki Kerbs have been busy. Adding ice cream to the now 12-year-old cupcake chain in 2012 and expanding Cupcake Royale to six branches in 2013 was all well and good, but Hall and Kerbs, it seems, were just getting started. This spring, the…
The Best Local Spots for Cuisine from Nepal, Indonesia, Laos and More
Expand your horizons beyond Thai, Mexican and Chinese
BALLARD[Cuban] Geo’s Cuban and Creole In the shadow of massive waterfront restaurants Ray’s and Anthony’s sits Geo’s, another eponymous eatery, but without the Olympic Mountain view. The Cuban joint, where you order at the counter, doesn’t need to rely on fancy sights; the sandwiches speak for themselves: pressed Cubanos stuffed with roasted pork, sliced ham,…
Legal Weed is for Sale, but it’s Barely Affecting Tourism
Recreational marijuana is booming, so why is cannabis tourism lagging behind?
Explaining that he has had a heart attack and needs medicine for the pain, Dimitrias Manoulidis raises a fat, smoking joint and takes a deep drag. Frankly, he was not what I had in mind when I envisioned what our state’s newest tourists would look like. A stout, 60-something, ruggedly handsome, mustached man in a…
Is Seattle on a Levy Binge?
Why Knute Berger is feeling the early stages of levy fatigue
In our bi-monthly Seattlemag.com column, Knute Berger–who writes regularly for Seattle Magazine and Crosscut.com and is a frequent pundit on KUOW–takes an in-depth look at some of the highly topical and sometimes polarizing issues in our city. Seattle is booming economically, but as we know, it’s a haves and have-nots economy. A major dilemma is…
BadWill Market, Rover Raises $25M, Juno Relocating & More News
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Rover Rolls On. Rover.com, the Seattle-based pet-sitting company, just raised $25 million in funding from Palo Alto-based Crossover Ventures, The Puget Sound Business Journal said Thursday. This brings the startup company’s funding to more than $50 million total. In the past year, Rover doubled its employees to 80, increased revenue by 500 percent, and now…
The Must List: March Madness, Mamma Mia! Returns
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must ViewMystical Works from Artist Maïmouna Guerresi on Display(3/20 to 5/1, times vary) Mariane Ibrahim Gallery (formerly M.I.A Gallery) celebrates its new name and new space in Pioneer Square with a show of photographs by Italian Muslim artist Maïmouna Guerresi, who stages bold scenes featuring cosmic garment sculptures that blend African and Western iconography and…
Three Standouts at the new Belltown Bar Pennyroyal
Why this new hot spot is not your average hotel bar
Located in the new Palladian Hotel right at the corner of Second and Virginia, Pennyroyal is a recent-ish addition to Belltown’s hopping bar scene. We recently had a chance to stop in on an early Saturday evening, and here are three things that stood out about the bar. The Cocktail Menu: All the house cocktails…
Chinese Laundry #4 Will Pop Up Next Month
Chef Chris Yang talks his latest menu, an intimate serving style and the virtues of the pop-up
Smoked mussel bubble tea. Sweet and sour tripe. Uni foo young. Black rice mochi cake. These are a few of the many dishes chef Chris Yang (a marketer and business developer for a tech start-up by day) is considering for his fourth installment of his Chinese Laundry pop-up coming in late April. Wildly popular in…
5 Free Seattle Experiences to Discover Now
Under-the-radar spots to visit in Seattle
Sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Whether you’re a first-time visitor or a seasoned local, you’ll find plenty of things to do in Seattle. In addition to famous sights like the Space Needle and Pike Place Market, Seattle offers some lesser-known but equally fun — and best of all, free — experiences to…
Style Editor Ali Brownrigg Shares Her Top Trends for Spring at Wear Wednesday
See what Ali and the city's other fashion writers are loving this season
Usually I’m letting you know that Wear Wednesday at W Seattle is featuring some fabulous designer, but this time I’m letting you know that I’m participating in it. On Wednesday, March 18, the style editors of the region’s glossy mags and lifestyle websites will be showcasing our favorite trends for spring. We’ll each have a…
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