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Bertha Breakthrough, James Beard Nominations & More News
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Bertha Sees The Sun. Big Bertha, the world’s largest tunneling machine that’s been stuck under State Route 99 since 2013, has reached new depths. Yesterday, Bertha broke through the 120-foot-deep pit walls, allowing workers to finally be able to reach and repair this massive machine. This repair is more like a rebuild, The Puget Sound…
14 Close-to-Seattle Off-Leash Dog Areas
All the spots your pup can cavort without fear of reprimand
Denny ParkSouth Lake Union, 100 Dexter Avenue NA tiny (.1-acre) graveled area inside the city’s oldest park, surrounded by beautiful towering trees, rhododendrons and azaleas. A nice touch: a fire hydrant situated inside the dog area, for dogs with a sense of humor. Better than being on a leash, but its small size would not…
Chef Dave Miller Talks Kitchen Lessons, Breakfast for Dinner & More
The chef of Seattle's beloved brunch spot Portage Bay Cafe is back in the FareStart kitchen
Sponsored by FareStart Years ago, chef Dave Miller had lunch at a San Francisco restaurant where the mission was to help people in need and give them a second chance at life by teaching them skills in the restaurant industry. “Every person I spoke to had this glow about them, like they had just found…
Must List: Lunar New Year Celebrations, Seattle Opera’s ‘Semele’
What to do this weekend in Seattle
[EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT!]Must Party5 Reasons You Should Attend Pop! Bubbles & SeafoodSaturday (2/21, 6 p.m) Seattle magazine’s food-and-drink-filled fete, Pop! Bubbles & Seafood, kicks off on Saturday, February 21. The tasting party, which is the precursor to the 7th annual Seattle Wine and Food Experience on Sunday, will be loaded with…
Throwback Thursday: A History of Protests in Seattle
Seattleites taking it to the streets is no new phenomenon
Being a city widely known for its laid-back, laissez-faire attitude, our penchant for protesting might come as a surprise to some. But in fact, riots and protests have long been a part of our city’s history. Be it our location as a massive shipping port off the Pacific, diplomatic hub of the West Coast, or…
Spotlight on Old Ballard Liquor Co.’s Riktig Aquavit
Our Local Spirit Spotlight takes a closer look at this hearty, flavorful concoction
Nestled in a small space just off the water and the bridge in southern Ballard (a little south of the Trader Joe’s if you want to stop by), the Old Ballard Liquor Company is making a name for itself with a nice range of small batch products, highlighted by its aquavits. There are some snazzy…
Valet Parking App, a Pot Convention Starts Today & More
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
There are only a few hours left to donate to the Exploding Kittens card game Kickstarter created by Elan Lee, Shane Small and Seattle cartoonist and founder of The Oatmeal comics Matthew Inman. The 56-card game is dubbed as a “highly strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette,” in which players try to avoid drawing an…
31 Reasons Pets Love Seattle
There's never been a better time to be a pet in Seattle. And here's why
Walk around the city and you might see a cat atop a busker’s piano, a parrot fake-flying on a bicycle’s handlebars or a hefty pig on a leash making the sidewalk look awfully small. We cherish our pets in a big way here, and much is made of the fact that dogs and cats outnumber…
Must Listen: Houseboats and Floating Homes Podcast
Porch.com's Open House podcast explores cool homes and neighborhoods around the U.S.
Eastlake-based home improvement network Porch.com is constantly coming up with more reasons for us to obsess over cool homes and the people who live in them. Yesterday, the company’s editor in chief Anne Reagan published a new podcast series called Open House, in which they’ll “explore various homes and neighborhoods and give you an insider’s…
Zillow to Cut Jobs, Shooting Protest Planned for Tonight
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Did you feel the Earth move under your feet early this morning? A 4.3-magnitude earthquake shook central Washington at 1:04 a.m., “about 20 miles north of Ellensburg and 10 miles northeast of Cle Elum,” the Associated Press reports. There were no reports of damage or injuries. Now that real estate websites Zillow and Trulia have…
5 Years Later: What’s Changed Since Mashiko Sushi Went Sustainable
Business is booming now, but initially chef Sato suffered a huge sales drop and other challenges
It’s been half a decade since Chef Hajime Sato–to much media ado–converted his West Seattle sushi bar Mashiko into what he believes is (still) the only fully sustainable sushi restaurant in the city. The challenges he faced during that time were plenty: The sustainability switch, which swiftly ushered the chef and his eatery into the…
Recipe of the Week: The Oscar Buzz Cocktail
Prepare for the upcoming star-studded night with this bubbly libation
It’s Oscars week and while I haven’t seen a fraction of the nominated films, I’ll still be sitting down on Sunday night to take in the gleam of the red carpet with a cocktail in hand. (Lounging in your cozies shouldn’t stop you from drinking and being fabulous like Angelina.) Also, it’s only appropriate to…
Eight Documentaries You Shouldn’t Miss
From set-in-Seattle 'The Long Night' to 'Citizenfour,' these films address a number of issues
This article originally appeared on Avvo. In honor of movie awards season — and the fact that the Oscars are right around the corner — we’ve compiled a list of the year’s most important documentaries as well as recent standouts you shouldn’t miss. From sexual assault on colleges campuses to Florida’s “stand your ground” law,…
Second Transit Tunnel, Seattle Man in Running for Mars Trip
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Why wasn’t I made aware of this “search for astronauts” that Dutch nonprofit Mars One began in 2013? One Seattle man was privy to it and so far he’s made the cut, topping the group’s list of 100 people (narrowed down from 200,000) who might one day leave Earth and head to Mars. King 5…
Great Food, Drink and Character at Ballard’s Brunswick & Hunt
The quest for storied drinks and worthy eats ends at Ballard’s Brunswick & Hunt
About 20 feet off Ballard’s busy 15th Avenue, and a few blocks west along the stretch of 70th Street that houses Delancey pizzeria, The Fat Hen and other hits, sits Brunswick & Hunt (1480 NW 70th St.; 206.946.1574; brunswickandhunt.com). A giant mirror framed by delicately carved wood is the first thing you’ll notice, and while…
Rescued From Ruin: An Issaquah Home Gets New Life
An Issaquah mid-century gem is given new life with a complete face-lift for the new age
Like so many real estate love affairs, Sally Julien and Peter Loforte’s began by accident. “The funny thing was that we weren’t even looking for a house,” says Julien. Built in 1963 and inspired by a modernist dream house in California, the five-bedroom, three-bathroom home sits in a secluded spot on the shore of Lake…
Vibrant New Murals in Seattle
Several new paintings have popped up in spots both widely visible and delightfully hidden
Whether you consider them free art exhibits, neighborhood signifiers, welcome distractions while stuck in traffic or lone bursts of color on gloomy winter days, murals provide a vital backdrop to city life. When a new mural is painted, it’s often a revelation—why did we leave that boring wall blank for so long? Murals age with…
Texas-style Barbecue Comes to Seattle
Jack’s BBQ raises the bar for Texas barbecue in Seattle
For a guy who went to Texas A&M’s barbecue camp just a few years ago, Jack Timmons sure does get his brisket right. Before opening Jack’s in September, Timmons, a former marketing exec at Microsoft, spent 18 months hosting Seattle Brisket Experience dinners, slow-smoking dozens of briskets over post oak, mesquite and hickory in an…
What’s Next for the Harvard Exit
Seattle’s Harvard Exit succumbs to the city’s new priorities
The Harvard Exit, which screened its final film in mid-January, didn’t start out as an art house movie theater. The Woman’s Century Club (WCC), a group of progressive Seattle women founded in 1891, had the building constructed as a clubhouse for its burgeoning membership (which included Seattle Mayor Bertha Landes). A WCC history book explains…
Survival of the Richest: How Can Seattle be More Affordable?
In the face of so much prosperity, Knute Berger laments Seattle’s expanding poverty
An old colleague and friend recently sent out an appeal for help. Due to health and financial problems, he and his partner were struggling to make ends meet, and just before Christmas, they became homeless. He set up a PayPal account to receive donations. At the same time, my extended family was working to make…
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