August 2021
Get Happy: The Jonathan Adler Online-Only Warehouse Sale is Coming
Score happy-chic finds for up to 70 percent off
Get ready for one whale of a sublime sale: Jonathan Adler, the purveyor of colorful and quirky goods including pottery, furniture, lighting, home accessories and just about anything else you’d need to spruce up your digs in high style, is hosting its online-only warehouse sale from Thursday, July 17 to Tuesday, July 22. Key in…
Food Crawling with Monica Dimas of Mkt.
Monica Dimas is the spunky, ambitious, smart-as-a-whip and extremely talented sous chef at Ethan Stowell’s Mkt. While her petite stature matches the 600-square-feet of the tiny restaurant, her appetite does not. At all. During a recent dinner outing with the human stomach, the topic of her eating habits came up, which enthralled me to no…
The Must List: Neighborhood Fests, Pixar Films in Concert and Live Theater at Volunteer Park
Things to do in Seattle
Must FestNeighborhood Celebrations Galore(Dates and times vary) — No matter which ‘hood you’re in this weekend, there is on-the-street, food-in-hand fun to be had. Seafood lovers, make your way to Ballard for the annual Seafood Fest, honoring the nabe’s maritime heritage. Up on the hill, the streets will be filled with festival goers for Queen…
Drinks to Celebrate Bastille Day: Viva La France!
The Fourth of July holiday just passed, thus we have to wait until Labor Day for another holiday party weekend. But that’s too long from now! So, lets support our friends in France this weekend and throw some serious Bastille Day celebrations. Bastille Day is July 14 every year, and commemorates the beginning of the…
Family Meal of the Week: Spur
There are meals in almost every restaurant serving off-menu items that you would never be lucky enough to eat unless you worked in the restaurant. They’re called family meals and they’re served before or after service to feed those who work tirelessly to bring good food to your table — staff members who rarely get a…
How to Create a Northwest Native Landscape in Your Yard
Landscape designer Paul Broadhurst's tips on using plants native to the Pacific Northwest
In our July 2014 issue, we visited a stunning Kirkland backyard that had been transformed into a natural wonderland using plant species native to the Pacific Northwest. The project’s landscape designer Paul Broadhurst explains how you, too, can incorporate the special foliage into your outdoor space: A spring trip to the flowery grasslands of Yellow…
An Outdoor Oasis on Lake Washington
A Seward Park courtyard conjures up the Mediterranean
If it were on a postcard, you might mistake this new Seward Park house for an old Italian estate overlooking warm Mediterranean waters. And that’s just what Seattle architect Tim Hossner and his clients had in mind when creating this house on the southern reaches of Lake Washington. The idea, Hossner says, was to create…
Creating a Backyard Sanctuary in the Suburbs
A conventional Kirkland backyard becomes a natural wonderland
Landscape designer Paul Broadhurst approaches the outdoors with the poetic eye of an artist and the exacting zeal of a botanist. One of the British native’s most ambitious undertakings to date has been transforming a conventional lawn-dominated suburban property along the shores of Lake Washington in Kirkland into a naturalistic, native-plant-dominated haven. He was given…
How Seattle’s Civic Culture Has a Global Impact
Seattleites know that there is something special in the city of Seattle. Local author and social entrepreneur Eric Liu calls it Seattle’s “civic secret sauce” – a culture of giving, progress and connectedness, whether by neighborhood or in the woods and waters in our parks or around the city. But did you know that our…
Joanna Morgan’s Scavenger Collection Debuts
Join jewelry designer and Seamless in Seattle 2013 accessories co-winner Joanna Morgan at her Pioneer Square studio (306 South Washington, Studio 105) on Saturday, July 12 from 3 to 7 p.m. for a showing of her newest collection, Scavenger. Inspired by a box of trinkets Morgan found in her grandmother’s house after her death, as…
So You Have the Munchies…
Legal pot sales begin today. Here are 6 Seattle snacks to grab if you happen to get a little hungry
The November 2012 vote to legalize marijuana in Washington state and create systems for growing, selling and taxing it, has finally come to fruition: Sales for legal pot officially started this morning. Lines formed outside at various pot shops, with some eager customers setting up camp as early as 3 p.m. yesterday, KOMO News reports….