February 2008
Roads Scholar: What’s So Rapid About This Ride?
Another bright, shiny new innovation as we struggle towards transportation efficiency: Metro’s gradual rollout of the new “RapidRide” bus system. Already zipping around on the east side and the south end, some Seattle neighborhoods will soon have this service (details below), and those neighborhoods will rejoice. Why? RapidRide does away with a lot of the…
Try Bastille’s Award-Winning Banh Mi Next Week
It was billed as a mini Lamb Jam, but there were some MAJOR flavor going on at last weekend’s American Lamb Throwdown in Ballard between the chefs at Staple & Fancy, Bastille Café and Bar and butcher extraordinaire Russ Flint from Rain Shadow Meats. The friendly competition challenged cooks to come up with clever creations featuring…
Stroll the Charming Gilman Village
Issaquah's sweet shopping village celebrates the big 4-0!
Created from renovated farm and mining buildings in downtown Issaquah, Gilman Village (317 NW Gilman Blvd., just east off I-90’s exit 17) is celebrating its 40th birthday with a roster of new shops and outdoor hangout spots nestled amongst the wooden boardwalks, charming pergolas and classic haunts, such as sweet toy store White Horse Toys…
Bill Predmore’s Pop Art Collection
A local digital media company’s HQ also serves as a home for cutting-edge art.
Bill Predmore’s street art collection started with a Shepard Fairey print, gifted to him by an employee long before the iconic Obama “Hope” poster skyrocketed the artist into ubiquity. Since then, Predmore—founder and president of Pop, a Seattle-based digital agency—has maintained his interest in art intended to grab attention in an urban environment, collecting the…
The People in Your Neighborhood
Our editorial director reflects on the September issue.
My husband grew up in New York City, but wanted to escape what he calls “the hustle.” Though I was born in Washington, I grew up in suburban Racine, Wisconsin, and longed for city life. (Any chance I’d get, I’d head to Chicago, just 45 minutes away; it’s still one of my favorite cities in…
How to Fail at Building a Great Downtown
Downtown Seattle is poised to join the ranks of other iconic cities. Unless we muck it up.
For decades, Pier 57 owner Hal Griffith dreamed of building a Ferris wheel at the end of the historic landing. Now, after 30 years, he’s putting his money where his dreams are—and he says the time couldn’t be better; he fears the waterfront is in real peril, thanks to the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement. “We…
5 Hot Dates for Your Culinary Calendar
As days get shorter and cooler and summer slips away, it helps to have something tasty to look forward to, right? Fortunately, there are a bushel of super groovy foodie events coming up. Let’s start with an outing to Bumbershoot. The massive crowds at the annual music and arts fest kinda freak me out, but…
An Architect’s Own Remodel Features New Flooring
After 20-plus years of revamping homes for clients, architect and former Seattleite Heather Johnston of Place Architects (West Vancouver, B.C.; 778.279.7274; placearchitects.com), decided to remake her own. The gem of a mid-century modern house that she shares with her husband, a software design engineer, in West Vancouver came with a great open floor plan, charming…
Leslie Kelly Discovers the Perfect Wine Pairing for Ribs
A friend wanted to take her out-of-town significant other out for barbecue in Seattle and asked me to make a rib recommendation. Sorry, no can do. Oh, I’ve tried to find some good bones to gnaw on, but have so far come up empty. Yes, I realize that makes me sound like a smoked meat…
The Littlest (And Chicest) Houseboat
Interior Designer Steven Hensel's Tiny, Tony Floating Getaway on South Lake Union
Persistence and timing finally landed Steven Hensel his dream dwelling on a lake. For years, the noted local interior designer and his partner of 23 years, Patrick Jennings, had been scouting Seattle’s shores for the perfect houseboat. “Whenever there was a flyer, or one for sale, we stopped,” says Hensel. “[But] you could spend a…
Architect Anna Mihkels Remakes a Mid-Century Modern House
A Madison park house gets an apt update
Never underestimate the value of a good friend, especially, when he’s your realtor. Just ask Scott Erickson and Rodger Benson. On the hunt to move up from a Leschi townhouse to a full-size residence, they were continually being pitched one listing—a mid-century modern dwelling in Madison Park. “Our real estate agent, who’s a good friend…
The Best TV Station You’re Not Watching
The motto of UWTV’s new line-up could be ‘Produce locally, broadcast globally’
It’s not that people didn’t want to watch The State of the Prostate (Parts 1, 2 & 3) or Clearing up Controversies in Ankle Fracture Management. It’s just that that’s not all they wanted to watch when they tuned in years ago to Channel 27, the University of Washington’s noncommercial, educational TV station. The UW…