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Scoop: Heal Thyself
Hemp soft-serve takes center stage at Capitol Hill's new nutrition bar
Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories Hemp soft-serve takes center stage at Capitol Hill’s new nutrition bar If you spent any time on Capitol Hill last summer, you likely took your licks at one of three new frosty-treat purveyors—Molly Moon’s, Bluebird or Old School Frozen Custard. But did you miss the hemp soft-serve? Healeo (1520 15th…
Scoop: Lingerie Model
A new book by local undergarment experts does more than lift and separate
Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories A new book by local undergarment experts does more than lift and separate Jennifer Manuel Carroll, owner of Fremont’s popular Bellefleur Lingerie Boutique (bellefleurlingerie.com), and local writer Kathy Schultz have teamed up to offer lingerie lessons for both the novice and the naughty in Underneath It All: A Girl’s Guide…
Key Ingredient: Cardamom
Local gourmet Lorna Yee spices up autumnal quick breads with green cardamom
Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories Local gourmet Lorna Yee spices up autumnal quick breads with green cardamom What it is: Cardamom is a spice that comes from a perennial bush related to the ginger family. Cardamom grows wild in India, but it is now also cultivated in Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Indochina and Tanzania. The seed…
Road Trip: Allison Inn & Spa
Visit a new luxurious 35-acre Oregon resort
Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories Where: Newberg, Oregon. Why: To relax at the luxurious Allison Inn & Spa, a 35-acre resort opened in September, featuring solar-heated water, a green roof and nary a plastic water bottle, plus flower and herb gardens, vineyards, and spa facility stocked with organic products and treatments made with ingredients grown on…
Tress Treatment
New Phinney Ridge salon Hazel embraces the organic movement--and a way to recycle hair
Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories Beauty is the latest industry to jump on the green bandwagon in Seattle as more organic salons pop up on the scene. The newest contender: Tara Berg’s cozy Phinney Ridge salon, Hazel (5817 Phinney Ave. N; 206.453.3515). Berg, 33, revamped a formerly bare space near the zoo to create the…
Knute Berger on Bungalows & Backyard Cottages
With our urban density ever increasing, does Seattle still have room for the humble bungalow?
Category: seattlepi.com teaser headlines With our urban density ever increasing, does Seattle still have room for the humble bungalow? Every fall for the last dozen years, Historic Seattle has hosted a “Bungalow Fair” celebrating what is perhaps Seattle’s defining architectural hallmark of the early 20th century. There are exhibits, tours and a chance to…
Editor’s Note: Gold Medal Getaways
Seattle magazine editor rediscovers Vancouver in anticipation of the 2010 Olympics, finding n
Category: Articles Seattle magazine editor rediscovers Vancouver in anticipation of the 2010 Olympics, finding new Olympic venues, emerging neighborhoods such as South Main Street, and the best waffles in Yaletown Earlier this year I took a trip to Vancouver, B.C., with my family. In the B.K. era (before kids) my husband and I used…
The Must List: Premiere of Moore to Life
Seattle magazine
Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories Seattle magazine’s entertaining expert Kelley Moore launches her own television series—Moore to Life—on KONG-TV this month. The 30-minute, weekly show is packed with Moore’s innovative tips for dining, design and home décor. Later this month (10/18), don’t miss Moore’s appearance on HGTV’s (hgtv.com) Halloween special, where she decks out a…
The Must List: Mushroom Festival at Lake Quinault
All Fungi fanatics welcome for talks, mushroom collecting and cooking demonstrations
Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories Whether you prefer your shiitakes sautéed or in a soup, the Seventh Annual Mushroom Festival welcomes all fungi fanatics. Festivities include talks by University of Washington mycologist Dr. Steven Trudell, and mushroom collecting and cooking demonstrations. Cap the weekend off with “Fungi Bingo” and the “Mushroom Munchkins,” a parade of…
The Must List: Seattle Book Fest
This new event will showcase more than 60 exhibitors and 50 authors
Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories If you’re still bemoaning the demise of Northwest Bookfest (the last one was in 2003!), you’ll be thrilled to hear about the new Seattle Book Fest. The event—a grassroots effort by the Columbia City community—will showcase more than 60 exhibitors and 50 authors, including local writers Garth Stein, Mary Guterson,…
The Must List: Steamcon
Steam-themed demonstrations, an art bazaar, cabaret acts, live music and a Victorian tea party/fashi
Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories Steampunks—aficionados of Victorian science fiction (think H.G. Wells and Jules Verne) who embrace all manner of “retro-futurism”—will revel in Seattle’s first annual steampunk symposium, celebrating the nexus of fantasy and steam-engine era technology. With steam-themed demonstrations, an art bazaar, cabaret acts, live music and a Victorian tea party/fashion show featuring…
The Must List: Seattle Symphony Plays Psycho
See the classic Hitchcock movie on screen at Benaroya. Oh yeah, and hear the soundtrack performed by
Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories And you thought the shower scene in Psycho was scary before—see how you feel about it when those screeching violins are live. With the Hitchcock classic projected on screen, the Seattle Symphony will play the score (removed from the film; dialogue remains) and raise the suspense to spine-tingling heights. Oct….
Drawings From the Sistine Chapel & Other Treasures
This series of preliminary drawings for the Sistine Chapel kind of shoots down the mystique that div
Category: Seattlepi.com featured stories This series of preliminary drawings for the Sistine Chapel kind of shoots down the mystique that divine inspiration, not ordinary elbow grease, guided the Italian Renaissance master’s genius10/15–1/31/2010 Michelangelo would have been horrified to see this series of preliminary drawings for the Sistine Chapel displayed publicly, as it kind of…
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