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5 Rainy Day Diversions to Try
From Octopus Week to a stroll through a greenhouse, inspired ideas for stormy days in Seattle
When the rain is coming down in buckets it’s easy to want to spend the day posted up on the couch for a movie marathon with an extra-large pizza. The promise of comfort and warmth seems too good to pass up. Still, there are only so many hours you can spend in front of the…
Luly Yang to Design New Alaska Airlines Uniforms & More News
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Storied and respected Seattle fashion designer, Luly Yang, is flying high. Announced just yesterday on February 11, the fashion mogul has struck a partnership with Alaska Airlines to design the company’s new uniforms. The airline, which is headquartered in Seattle, is currently undertaking a major brand update. According to a press release put out by the…
The Must List: Realish Housewives Parody, Valentine’s Day Dinners
What to do this weekend in Seattle
Must LaughThe Realish Housewives Parody at The Moore(2/11 to 2/14, times vary) Watch out, Emerald City: The Realish Housewives of Seattle are moving in. In this original parody at The Moore Theatre, a cast of quirky women, including glamour queens and business tycoons, gather to gossip about local personalities and current events. Must LoveOur Favorite…
3 Carpooling Apps to Help Ease Your Commute
Apps like Uber, King Co. and Pogo can get you into that carpool lane
American commuters spend around 42 hours in traffic per year, but these new, free apps aim to help Seattleites beat the road congestion and get into that carpool lane: A carpool is a hop, skip and jump away with UberHop. Commuters (as many as five per car) request a route through the Uber app and…
Valentine’s Day Drink Picks from Seattle Bartenders
Six sublime shakers tell us their favorites for the most romantic day of the year
The heart-iest day of the year is just a few days away. Herewith, we’ve rounded up some top Seattle shakers and asked them a few questions about the best romantic drinks, to help ensure everyone has a successful Valentine’s Day: 1. What do you think the most romantic cocktail of all time is, and why?…
SoDo’s Gastropod Reopens as Mollusk in South Lake Union
Mollusk highlights Near East and Southeast Asian flavors on the seafood-centric menu
When chef Travis Kukull and Epic Ales brewmaster Cody Morris shuttered Gastropod last fall, food nerds around the city sank into mourning. The modest, 600-square-foot SoDo restaurant, which tied with Capitol Hill’s Mamnoon for our 2013 Best New Restaurant, was home to some pretty eclectic, inexpensive food and fantastically off-the-wall beers.The duo closed Gastropod to…
Five Ply Design’s First-Ever Lighting Collection
Chinatown/International District-based designer Peter Benarcik’s new lighting collection is construc
Designer Peter Benarcik says he never considered himself a wood guy, but admits that growing up around a lumberyard (his father owned a home improvement store) influenced his interest in natural materials. “I love taking something traditionally perceived as flat and creating an entirely new shape,” Benarcik says. Such unique shapes are evident in Benarcik’s…
Seattle Among Top 10 Most Densely Populated Cities & More News
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
For the first time, Census data shows that Seattle ranks among the top 10 most densely populated big cities in the U.S. According to The Seattle Times, with 7,962 people per square mile in 2014, Seattle bypassed Baltimore to become the 10th of 50 most populous cities in the country. Seattle’s population density has also increased by…
Why We Really Are Sleepless in Seattle
Why our seasonal daylight swing could put your health at risk
It’s an annual ritual as familiar as the St. Patrick’s Day Parade: Spring brings sun-starved Seattleites out of hibernation, blinking in the daylight. As Seattle’s short winter days—with a mere eight hours of daily sunlight in December—give way to 16 hours of daylight by June, we often shift our own schedules in response, bedding down…
A Lovely Living Room Makeover
A Bothell home redesign offers serious inspiration for spring cleaning
“We are stuff people,” says Becky Fann of the collection of artwork and objects she and her husband, Mike, have in their Bothell home. But you wouldn’t know it stepping into their carefully curated living room, part of a massive redesign created by Ballard-based interior designer Keri Petersen for the family last year. “Becky knows…
Ethan Stowell and other big-name chefs design Li’l Woody’s burgers
Tamara Murphy of Terra Plata and Edouardo Jordan of Salare craft meaty contributions
When I first moved to Ballard, it took the moving company 10 days to deliver our furniture and kitchen stuff. So we borrowed an IKEA frying pan from a friend and lived on eggs and ramen and Li’l Woody’s hamburgers. As such, Li’l Woody’s burgers hold a special place in my heart – and, likely,…
Kimpton Hotels Announces Plans for Boutique Hotel in Bellevue
The luxury lodging will have 120 rooms and is projected to open in 2019
Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2017 on a huge, mixed-use development in downtown Bellevue’s central business district. The project, from Bellevue-based real estate investment and development company Fana Group of Companies, will include two high-rise towers with offices, retail and residential space and a hotel. We’ve just learned that San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotels…
Heart-Healthy Recipe: Almond-Crusted Salmon with Brussels Sprouts
Whip up this simple salmon recipe with roasted veggies for a healthy dinner
February is Heart Health Month and according to the American Heart Association, not only is salmon a delicious dinner idea, but it’s also loaded with essential heart-healthy nutrients. Aren’t we lucky to live in a place where fresh salmon is so plentiful? Sometimes, dishing out for fresh seafood can seem like a little bit of…
5 Creative Ways to Spend Time Abroad
These five international opportunities may help you expand your world in 2016
When the New Year began, you probably made a resolution. Some of us aspired to live healthier lives or to read more books. Others chose to spend more time with family or quit a bad habit. While all of these resolutions are admirable, why not set your sights even higher this year? Consider expanding…
What to Expect for the 2016 Seattle Sounders Season
What you need to know ahead of this month’s Sounders season kickoff
The Seattle Sounders have the home field advantage when they take on Sporting Kansas City on March 6 in their first match of the 2016 Major League Soccer (MLS) season. They’ll be cheered on by their fervent fans (the team is top of the league for attendance, with averages of more than 44,000 tickets per…
At-home Test Kits for Colon Cancer
A study shows the kits have boosted screening rates by 16 percent
A team led by Seattle-based Group Health physician Beverly B. Green, M.D., and Gloria D. Coronado, Ph.D., of Kaiser Permanente Center for Health in Portland, Oregon, is helping boost colon cancer screening rates for low-income patients—by mail. With more than 100,000 new cases and 50,000 deaths annually, colon cancer is the county’s second-leading cause of…
Capitol Hill Light Rail Station Opens This Weekend
Capitol Hill’s new light rail station serves double duty as an art gallery
While Seattle waits to see if infamous State Route 99 tunnel borer Bertha ever reaches the Alaskan Way Viaduct, we’ll celebrate her little sister’s work this month when the University Link light rail service opens six months ahead of schedule and $150 million under budget. The rail line—an extension of the existing service from Seattle-Tacoma…
Porcelain Works on Display at Bellevue Arts Museum
Sculptor Chris Antemann brings sexy back
While art in the 20th century expanded its scope through abstraction, minimalism and conceptualism, something was clearly lost in the process. It would only be a matter of time before the sensuality and underlying eroticism of traditional Western figurative art—which held sway from ancient Greece until the Victorian era—would come back with a vengeance. Oregon-based…
Go See this Heart-Shaped Ice Sculpture in Westlake Park
The new icy installation in downtown's Westlake Park will be up through Valentine's Day
Updated on 2/11 at 9:35 a.m.: A tipster on Twitter informed us that the ice sculpture had taken a bit of a tumble overnight and we confirmed with the DSA that the mix of too-high temperatures and precipitation caused the display to fall. The heart shape is no more, though the ice blocks are still…
Does Seattle Need to Define its Preferred Pizza Style?
A recent wave of pizza openings might bring us closer to defining a local style
When celebrated neighborhood haunt Delancey (Ballard, 1415 NW 70th St.; 206.838.1960) first started firing blistery pizzas, owner Brandon Pettit witnessed a funny moment: A local leaned over to her friend and said a bit too loudly, “This pizza is OK, but it’s not New York style.” A woman sitting at the bar overheard the comment—and…
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