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How to Throw a Golden Globes Party
The annual awards show is this Sunday night. Here's how to celebrate in grand style
Roll out the red carpet and spend an evening in gold, glam and fine elegance by throwing your own Golden Globes party! Dazzle your guests with sweet treats, fun props and sparkling cocktails. With the nominees in, Sunday, January 11 will be the day we find out whether Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) or Reese Witherspoon…
Paseo Reopens, Female NFL Fans Growing in Seattle & More News
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Paseo is back! New owner Ryan Santwire quietly reopened the doors of the original Fremont location yesterday for fear of the kitchen becoming overrun. Nonetheless, the legendary sandwich shop that closed suddenly last November amid allegations of unfair pay and other poor treatment for workers had 50 customers in the first half hour. The menu, suppliers and…
Must List: ‘Tosca’ Opens, Seahawks Take on the Panthers
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must BravoSeattle Opera’s Opening Night of Tosca Saturday (1/10, 7:30 p.m.) A power-crazed chief of police. Fake bullets replaced with real ones. A fatal plunge off a parapet! Puccini’s Tosca is the archetypical opera, with more melodrama than an episode of Scandal and a spicy score that keeps things racing toward the foregone conclusion. Don’t…
Local Interior Designer Has the Knack for Arranging Knickknacks
Don't be afraid to display sentimental pieces in surprising ways, says downtown-based Bradley Barnet
Knickknacks, tchotchkes, accessories—whatever you call them, everyone has some, but few really know how to show them off to the best effect. It’s a skill; indeed, it’s one that interior designer and architect Bradley Barnett, founder of architectural, design and branding firm Guild13 (guild13.com), has in spades. In his downtown Seattle apartment, Barnett has arranged…
Washington’s Award-Winning Coffee Liqueurs Wake Up the New Year
Put a bit of pep in your step with these coffee liqueurs
If you have a little bit of a post-holiday malaise, or just feel a little sleepy after a lot of holiday merry-making, there’s no better way to give yourself a tasty kick in the pants then by sipping or having a drink made with one of our awesome local coffee liqueurs. It’s probably no surprise…
Chop Suey to Close, Foggy Conditions & More News
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
As the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas speeds along for another day, we’re hearing inklings of some very cool innovations–Audi previewing a self-driving car, for one. And yesterday during the event, Microsoft unveiled the Nokia 215, which Fast Company reports is slated to retail in markets such as Africa, Asia and the Middle…
#Throwback Thursday: 40 Years of Curbside Recycling in Seattle
Solid Ground hosted nation’s first home collection out of Fremont
When an East Coast friend of mine recently moved here to work for a prominent, Seattle-based nonprofit, he was tossing what he considered trash at his new office when a coworker shook her head. “That’s a real quick way to make enemies here.” In a city where we are now fined for sending food scraps…
A Local Sister Duo Starts Seattle Living Room Shows
Siblings Carrie and Kristen Watt host concert series in small venues and private homes
In a small, private Belltown event space, members of Seattle band St. Paul de Vence begin tuning a trumpet and strumming a banjo. As the audience settles in on this winter evening, there’s electricity in the air—a sense that something exciting is afoot, and the people here are lucky witnesses. Everyone is on “the list,”…
99 Park Adds A Tasty Touch to Bellevue
Chef Quinton Stewart offers seared albacore tuna with quinoa tabbouleh and more
It’s a good time to be a diner in Bellevue. If the construction cranes hovering over the city weren’t already a dead giveaway, a lot is happening on the Eastside, and that certainly includes restaurants. In August, former real estate developer turned restaurateur Micah Pittman opened the splashy 99 Park, sandwiched between Main Street and…
Kedai Makan’s Nasi Goreng Makes Prime Late-Night Grub
Malaysian diner's fried rice balances rich, fresh and sweet
Twenty-four-hour diners certainly have their merits, but in Seattle, late-night eating is where it’s at, and it doesn’t get more enjoyable than with takeout from Kedai Makan. There is something incredibly satisfying about grabbing a midnight order of Malaysian grub at the Capitol Hill walk-up window on East Olive Way (open until 2 a.m. on…
The Tuesday Ten Dolla Holla: The Berliner
Savory meats and crisp vegetables make The Berliner's sandwiches worth a trip
The Seattle, and more specifically the Pioneer Square, sandwich world is full of ancient riches. There’s Salumi and Tatt’s. There’s Delicatus and Rain Shadow Meats. But on the demure corner of First Avenue S and Main (makes Seattle sound like quite the small town) lies The Berliner, an eatery featuring the interesting concoction known as…
A Cozy Cabin in the Woods Encourages Relaxation
A new cabin at a classic Hood Canal retreat is a refuge for all seasons
Built in 1979, the MacRae house on Hood Canal’s Dabob Bay is considered an architectural gem not only for the feat of engineering required to plant the home on uneven and heavily forested terrain, but also for its light-filled interior that offers views, like those from a tree house, of the surrounding Douglas fir forest….
Your Guide to the Best Soups in Town
Warm up to the best house-made soups on the menu
BALLARDCioppino at Fresh Fish Co. At this small fishmonger in north Ballard, you’ll find a delightful bowl of cioppino ($3.99), a seafood stew made from a mix of fish and shellfish. Big hunks of fish trimmings and fresh catch embellish this tomato-based soup, which includes chunky vegetables. The seafood changes on any given day; one…
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