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Hot Button: Seattle
With developers on the ropes, stalled construction projects lurk like zombies all around town. What
Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles With its mix of pristine Victorian homes, quaint cafes, and independent shops and restaurants, the small West Galer Street commercial strip on Queen Anne Hill is as pleasant a neighborhood hub as you’re likely to find. At least, it used to be. For months, Galer8, a partially constructed residential…
Trend: The Local Canning Movement
Preservationists steam up urban kitchens
Category: seattlepi.com teaser headlines Preservationists steam up urban kitchens Last year, local publisher Sasquatch Books hired Seattle writer Lorene Edwards Forkner to update chapters of the 1970s book The Encyclopedia of Country Living, by Carla Emery (who died in 2005), for a more modern, urban readership. Forkner let go of chapters on delivering a…
The Must List: April
Our top to-dos for the month
Category: seattlepi.com teaser headlines Catch a Rising StarNational Film Festival for Talented YouthWhat began in 2007 as the brainchild of local filmmaker Jesse Harris (then 19 years old) has blossomed into the multi-day, mondo-fun National Film Festival for Talented Youth, screening upwards of 130 films—covering a range of topics, from social justice to sports…
Cheap Eats: Ballard
The all-American burger gets a gourmet kick in the bun
Category: seattlepi.com teaser headlines There are those who love The Counter, a burger franchise with 23 locations across the nation, and those who claim that the one-third-pound burgers ($8.25, with an extensive variety of toppings) are an abomination of what’s traditionally seen as an affordable all-American meal. Factor in an order of “Fifty-Fifty”—crumbly-crusted onion…
Restaurant Review: Wallingford
Ambitious cuisine with mixed results
Category: seattlepi.com teaser headlines We love a restaurant with heart, and at Wallingford’s Avila (in the space that formerly housed Bella Cosa), the fresh-faced cooks certainly have it, preparing virtually everything they serve from scratch. But unabashed enthusiasm doesn’t necessarily guarantee a stellar meal. Such is the case with Avila, opened in mid-November by…
Shelter: Smart Homes for the rest of us
Why high-tech homes aren
Category: seattlepi.com teaser headlines Like a private jet or a megayacht, a high-tech home was once a trophy purchase for the extremely wealthy. Bill and Melinda Gates famously spent more than $60 million on their Medina mansion—a cost driven in part by the countless microcomputers controlling not only major household functions, but such whimsical…
Urban Safari: Eastlake
The best spots to eat, drink, shop and play on Eastlake
Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles With a killer view of Lake Union and an influx of new condo-dwellers, Eastlake is more than a short cut to downtown. Several new eateries (along with beloved faves such as 14 Carrot Café and Serafina), one-of-a-kind shops, a lively cycling scene and its own pétanque court make this…
Scoop: Talk Trash with Ask Evelyn
A new Seattle Public Utilities
Category: seattlepi.com teaser headlines To mark Earth Day’s 40th anniversary, we checked in with Seattle’s favorite recycling maven, Evelyn, of Ask Evelyn, Seattle Public Utilities’ advice column. (While SPU’s materials suggest that Evelyn is a perky white envelope wearing a flowered hat, “she” is actually a team of employees skilled in talking trash.) Since…
Beauty Scoop: Bellevue
A new Bellevue salon offers Japanese treatments
Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles An unobtrusive strip mall in Bellevue would seem the last place to enter a Zen state, but soothing stress is the new EN SALON’S forte. Owned by the low-profile wife of a certain Japanese Seattle Mariners star, En (13112 NE 20th St., Suite 500, Bellevue 425.883.1010 en-salon.com) specializes in…
Road Trip: Sequim
Birdwatchers, flock to the Olympic Peninsula. The coastline, estuaries and rivers of the Olympic Pen
WHERE: Sequim. WHY: For the Olympic Peninsula BirdFest, April 9–11 (olympicbirdfest.org). The coastline, estuaries and rivers of the Olympic Peninsula make excellent birding grounds, especially this month as flocks of Townsend’s warblers, short-billed dowitchers and Cassin’s vireos migrate north. FLIGHT PLAN: BirdFest offers bird-inspired art, lectures, guided walks and bird-watching boat trips—including a three-day cruise…
Scoop: M
We dream up a few Mariners night promotions of our own
Category: seattlepi.com teaser headlines After a decent 2009 and promising off-season trades, the Mariners begin their 2010 campaign with genuine we-might-actually-be-good optimism. And even if things don’t quite pan out (ahem), the team has a full slate of promotions designed to lure fans through the turnstiles. Last year brought Singles Night, Knitting Night and…
Scoop: Assemble merges art, craft and commerce
A new Greenwood space offers one-stop shopping for art and craft aficionados
Category: seattlepi.com teaser headlines One of the many enduring lessons of our economic downturn is the need for independent businesses to be nimble—and perhaps no new Seattle shop better embodies that philosophy than Assemble Gallery and Studio, which opened on Greenwood Avenue in November 2009. Billing itself as a gallery space, workshop studio and…
Feature: The Get It Done Guide’s Outdoors Services
Check out our outdoor services for help with your garden or tree maintenance
Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles GARDEN MENTORDo you long for fresh organic vegetables grown in a garden of your very own, but aren’t sure how to make it happen? With a combined 15 years of experience in organic farming and sustainable agriculture, Colin McCrate and Brad Halm of Seattle Urban Farm Co. will help you…
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