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Barbecue in Style This Summer
The Incredible Egg It’s the Apple of the charcoal grill world with an entire culture unto itself—generating both popular cookbooks and festivals (Seattle’s is held in June). Fans of the Big Green Egg, known as “Eggheads,” love its ceramic domed design, based on Japanese kamado grills, that allows for maintaining very precise low and high…
The Life Aquatic
Join the fraternity of optimists with your very own Seattle swimming pool
While Seattle is not what you’d call a swimming pool kind of town (case in point: in mid-April, only nine active Seattle-area house listings on Redfin.com included pools versus 64 in Los Angeles), warmer weather has us dreaming of shimmering, turquoise pools just steps from the backdoor. View RidgeList Price: $950,000Square footage: 3,090; 4 bedrooms,…
There Will be Beer: A Cruise That’s Worth Booking
Cruises of all kinds scare me: Caribbean cruises, Mediterranean cruises, European cruises, Tom and Suri Cruise. I did a quick search on Carnival Cruise Lines’ website and found you can take a “Cruise to Nowhere” for a mere $329. To nowhere. Sorry, but that sounds just plain terrifying. So when I heard about this eight-day,…
Coddle Your Tomatoes
Seattle garden expert Amy Pennington teaches how to build a tomato cloche
Good news: It’s not too late to plant your tomatoes! Bad news: you need to do it NOW and you need to put a little elbow grease into it. It will come as no surprise that early summers in Seattle feel more like fall. For you, this means wearing warm layers you can put on…
Road Trip! Wenatchee’s Pybus Public Market Grand Opening
WHERE: Wenatchee, Washington. WHY: For the grand opening of Pybus Public Market (Open daily starting 5/11. 7 N Worthen St.). WHAT: The former E.T. Pybus steel fabrication plant, located on a 25,000-square-foot waterfront lot next to the Columbia River, has been transformed into a lively locus of Northwest commerce and culture. Meander through the huge,…
Cascade Escapes: Small-town Getaways
Climb up to these nearby mountain towns for a getaway with a Western flair.
Bow Edison { Population: 133 }Be hungry. That’s the first rule of any visit to darling Bow Edison, a pair of tiny twin towns about a half-hour north of La Conner and a quick detour off farmland-scenic Chuckanut Drive. Bow is actually marked just by the turnoff to Edison; you’ll see the Rhododendron Cafe and the…
ZappBug, an Eco-Friendly Bedbug Exterminator
A Wazzu grad cooks up a natural way to kill bedbugs.
In just one year, Seattle has crawled up 14 notches to become the nation’s 13th most bedbug-ridden city. Perhaps misnamed, bedbugs live not only between the sheets, but also in clothes, furniture, books and luggage (often their preferred method for expanding the insect empire), lying in wait until seizing the chance to chomp. They can…
Quantum Leap: The Bullitt Center Opens
The Bullitt Center opens to the public on Earth Day, April 22.
Just when you think the 43-year-old Earth Day is sputtering on the fumes of its hippie origins, something entirely new springs forth. Case in point: the new Bullitt Center, headquarters for the environmentally focused Bullitt Foundation, which opens to the public on Capitol Hill this month. Built to the most stringent green-building standards in the…
Road Trip to Whidbey Island’s Welcome the Whales Day Festival
Join the annual celebration to welcome the whales back to the Bering Sea.
WHERE: Langley, Whidbey Island. WHY: The annual Welcome the Whales Day festival (4/21. Free. Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 301 Anthes Ave.; 360.678.3451; orcanetwork.org), which celebrates the return of eastern North Pacific gray whales to Saratoga Passage during their 10,000-mile migration from Mexico to the Bering Sea. BRING YOUR OCTOPUS CAP: Join the critter parade (starts…
Photographer Charlie Schuck Supports Local Designers
Photographer Charlie Schuck Turns Two Shops into Local Design Meccas.
A full-time photographer by day, Charlie Schuck uses his so-called downtime for his favorite hobby: supporting local designers by curating his store Object (Belltown, 2316 Second Ave., by appointment only; hereisobject.com), and the new Frye Art Museum Store (First Hill, 704 Terry Ave.; 206.622.9250; fryemuseum.org/store). “The original idea behind Object was to create beautiful experimental experiences that blurred the line between…
The Top Decor Shops in Seattle
From new arrivals to reliable staples, hot spots for home goods
Clockwise from top: crisply mod e-tailer Ladies & Gentlemen Studio, Bellevue’s chic Veritables and Tacoma’s groovy Basic Goods Co. To tour our TOP SHOPS photo gallery, click here. RECENT ARRIVALSLast year, husband-and-wife duo Donovan and Deborah Wilson opened Basic Goods Co. (Tacoma, 1734 Pacific Ave.; 253.242.3310; basicgoodsco.com) and filled it with an appealing minimal mix, from Chabatree teak salad…
Cupofsugar.com? Helpful Neighborhood Websites
A pair of neighborly websites help build community at the micro level.
Forget leaning over the hedge, that’s so Home Improvement. Seattleites who want to borrow a rake, report a loose dog or just meet the family next door are turning to the Web as a substitute for—or a spur to—old-fashioned front-stoop chitchat. San Francisco–based Nextdoor.com, launched in 2011, connects neighbors through a sort of geographically restricted version of…
Madrona: Best Seattle Neighborhoods 2013
An in-city neighborhood that feels like a leafy village.
Technically, I don’t live in Madrona. I live in neighboring Denny Blaine, the tiny sliver of a ’hood whose biggest claim to fame is being where Kurt Cobain killed himself. But I strongly identify as a Madroner, because Madrona is where I walk to get coffee every morning; Madrona is where my husband and I…
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