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Give Back with Miir Bikes
Buy a Miir bike, and this Queen Anne company donates one to someone in need.
Since 2010, Queen Anne–based water bottle company, Miir, has built nine wells that supply clean water to some of the 1 billion people worldwide who do not have access to it. Last September, spurred by a desire to benefit underserved people in other ways, Miir CEO Bryan Papé added a line of bicycles to the…
The Lost Pelican Now Open in Belltown
The iconic Belltown corner where Scott Carsberg’s Lampreia lived for two decades (and which later became Bisato) reopened last week as The Lost Pelican. Michael Forte, the owner of Capitol Hill’s The Lookout, has strong Southern roots; he spent years running fine dining restaurants for the Brennan family in New Orleans (owners of such legendary…
Death and Taxes: Chanel Reynolds’ End-of-Life Planning Website
Chanel Reynolds helps take the terror out of end-of-life planning.
It sounds like a classic object lesson: a successful freelance project manager who planned for others’ every contingency, but didn’t cover her own bases. That’s exactly the situation Chanel Reynolds found herself in when her husband died in a bike accident and she faced the biggest project she’d ever manage: getting her financial life in…
Gabe Johnson’s Ramshackle Chic Style
Gabe Johnson, curator of Horses Cut Shop, explains his Americana garb.
Influences: Having grown up in a booming Aberdeen of the 1970s, when “every day was sunny” and all his girlfriends “tasted like bubble gum and vodka,” Gabe Johnson holds an almost religious reverence for “oil cans, muscle cars and slingshots,” and other blue-collar Americana from the 1940s-’70s, an era when things were made with pride….
Earth Day 5k: Ali Rally
Without going into too much detail, let me tell you that last week sucked for me personally. I was seriously under the weather and experiencing a very low ebb. I didn’t get to train at all and at some points was pretty convinced that I wouldn’t be able to even walk the Earth Day 5k…
SideCar App Simplifies Ride-Sharing
Hitchhiking goes high tech with the new SideCar app.
Did you know there are countless people—right now, in your very own neighborhood—waiting to take you for a ride? What might sound sinister is actually quite the opposite, thanks to the new smartphone app SideCar (side.cr). Based in San Francisco and launched in Seattle last winter, SideCar uses GPS technology to help subscribers coordinate car…
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…
Flight of Fantasy: EMP’s Pop Culture Exhibit
Local artists are creating a new world of myth and magic at EMP.
How do you convey the wide-open, magical world of fantasy stories such as The Lord of the Rings, The Princess Bride and Harry Potter in an indoor, cave-like museum space? Such was the puzzle EMP faced when planning its new long-term exhibit, Fantasy: Worlds of Myth and Magic, which showcases pop culture artifacts (costumes, models,…
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…
Earth Day 5k, Crazy Food at Radiator Whiskey and Other Weekend Musts
MUST WALKEarth Day 5KSaturday (4/20) — Seattle magazine’s first ever 5k run/walk follows a gorgeous route that wends through the Olympic Sculpture Park and skirts Elliott Bay along the Myrtle Edwards Park bike trail. A portion of each registration goes to the Green Seattle Partnership, a nonprofit working to restore our urban forests and parks….
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…
3 Organic Cocktails for Earth Day
April 22 is Earth Day, and while I strongly suggest you do some earth-friendly activities and think about ways to better help out the planet in the following year on that day, I also think it’s a nice idea to raise a cocktail or two in honor of the day – and the earth. When…
Radiator Whiskey Debuts…with Pig Head on the Menu
Gutsy. Very gutsy. The much-anticipated Radiator Whiskey opens today (April 17) in Pike Place Market and pig head is on the menu. Yup, your dinner has a face. With this bold opening salvo, Radiator Whiskey becomes like no other place in Seattle. Heck, probably no place on the West Coast puts a pig head smack…
New Stores Roundup
Exciting news in the region’s retail scene with the announcement of several new shops opening in the next few weeks. Hometown mega-brand Tommy Bahama is celebrating their 20th anniversary by opening a shop at Bellevue Square on April 26 (they’ve already got one at University Village), for all your resort and island lifestyle fashion needs….
West Seattle Junction’s Tax Free Day
I’m a West Seattle girl and I love my West Seattle shopping. But I realize that many people think West Seattle is too far away or hard to find to warrant a visit. Which is totally not the case, it’s actually quite easy to get to via both I-5 and 99, and the Junction (the…
New Store News: Timbuk2
The number of bike messengers on the streets of Seattle has dwindled since the heady days of the late 1990s, when kozmo.com ruled the roadways, but our city’s denizens love for the messenger bag has not waned one bit since then. They’re just so useful on so many levels. On May 4, San Francisco messanger…
Fundraiser for Boston Bombing Victims Celebrates Sports and Solidarity in Belltown
A local man is hosting a fundraiser tonight (April 18; 4-11 p.m.) at Spitfire to benefit victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. David LeClair describes himself as “a Boston native living in Seattle. He grew up with Krystle Campbell, who was killed in the explosion” Details below are from the Facebook event page: “Please help…
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