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Category: NW Home Articles   Whenever I head to Europe, I pack a tape measure. I’m always on the hunt for great antiques, and, these days, I’m often searching for one-of-a-kind pieces that work well in small spaces. Many who are downsizing from larger suburban homes to urban condos feel challenged when it comes to…

Category: Articles   There are more cyclists than ever on Seattle’s streets. But as a violent incident last year illustrated, it’s not always easy for wheeled vehicles to share the road. Can drivers, cyclists and the city all get along? It’s almost 5 p.m. on a gloomy winter evening, and the intersection of Mercer Street…

Category: Arts + Events Articles   While some hipper-than-thou Seattleites scorn our city’s grunge legacy, others (ahem) choose to wear it as a flannel badge of pride. Those of us in the latter category couldn’t be more stoked that this month our beloved Pearl Jam is releasing a remastered, remixed, redesigned version of their seminal,…

Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles   Earrings ’n’ ThingsTwo years ago, when Shannon Koszyk (then co-owner of the now closed Fremont boutique Enexile) quit smoking, she wanted something to do with her hands. And so she began crafting regal jewelry from flea-market finds of rosaries, vintage European medals, semi-precious stones and luminous pearls. After her…

Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles   Add a touch of city pride—and vintage charm—to your coffee table with this collection of marble coasters inspired by Emerald City icons. Etched onto tumbled Italian Botticino marble tile, the images in the antique-looking four-piece set include our first City Hall, Pike Place Market, the Space Needle and a…

Category: Arts + Events Articles   3/9 • David Montgomery is dirty. A geomorphologist at the University of Washington’s Department of Earth and Space Sciences and recent recipient of the coveted MacArthur genius award, Montgomery not only studies dirt, he rocks his own garage band named Big Dirt. At Town Hall, he’ll talk about his…

Category: Shopping + Fashion Articles   Just 15 minutes north of Seattle, Edmonds’ tiny downtown area continues to fill with one-of-a-kind shops, galleries and more At the center of downtown Edmonds—a short walk from the waterfront and ferry dock—rests a swath of shops and homes that a century ago catered to a thriving logging industry….

Category: Beauty Articles   Yoga8 Limbs Yoga Centers, Capitol Hill, 500 E Pike St., 206.325.8221; Wedgwood, 7345 35th Ave. NE, 206.523.9722; West Seattle, 4546 1/2 California Ave. SW, 206.933.9642; 8limbsyoga.com Bikram Yoga College of India, Fremont, 1054 N 34th St.; 206.547.0188; bikramyogaseattle.com Colette Crawford, Seattle Holistic Center, North Seattle, 7700 Aurora Ave. N; Wallingford, 4649…

Category: Beauty Articles   Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy, Wallingford, Madison Park, West Seattle What you’ll find: This compounding pharmacy (one that customizes medication) can change pills to liquids, and make medicine more palatable for kids. Pharmaca fills all kinds of prescriptions—natural or not. Store shelves are packed with vitamins, supplements, power foods, natural bath and beauty…

Category: Beauty Articles   Seattle’s abundance of alternative treatment providers might have something to do with our close ties to Asia or the fact that Bastyr University, one of the world’s leading natural health organizations, is located right in our backyard. While this confluence has led to a lot of options for nontraditional treatments—elimination diets,…

Category: Beauty Articles   What’s that saying—an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? Benjamin Franklin’s oft quoted maxim has been wholeheartedly embraced by local experts who offer a wide range of strategies to keep you at the peak of health. Nip obesity in the budWith Americans bearing the weight of their love…

Category: Arts + Events Articles   You don’t have to live in Hollywood to get your celebrity watchin’ fix. Get the thrill of seeing your favorite stars (on television) at local Oscar night parties. For the glamorous at heart, here’s our roundup of noteworthy Oscar celebrations: And, be sure to check our Arts+Culture blog this weekend to…

Category: Eat + Drink Articles   There are few things Carolyn Ferguson loves more than rolling croissants—a pastime the French-trained chef calls her “biggest stress relief.” She gets plenty of opportunity as the co-owner of Belle Epicurean (Downtown, 1206 Fourth Ave.; 206.262.9404), a French patisserie she runs with her husband, Howard (and named in part…

Category: Eat + Drink Articles   March madness brings with it a hankering for the warm, gooey goodness of a perfectly made Reuben 74th Street Ale HouseThe piping-hot 74th Street Red Reuben is made with Boar’s Head lean corned beef braised in Blackthorn Hard Cider, sliced and piled onto rye bread along with Swiss cheese,…

Category: Eat + Drink Articles   Beer, brats, and a place to sit, now at Uli’s Since opening Uli’s Famous Sausage in Pike Place Market in 2000, German-born sausage-maker Uli Lengenberg has provided market-goers and local restaurants (including Steelhead Diner, Etta’s and the Maltby Café) with fresh and varied sausages: spicy merguez, herbed lamb and,…

Along with economic turmoil, last fall brought an embarrassment of affordable pizzerias. September saw the debut of ’Zaw (multiple locations including Capitol Hill, 1424 E Pine St., 206.325.5528), where quirkily named take ’n’ bake pizzas, such as the Vietzawm ($17/15-inch pie), come heaped with local ingredients. But the real story is that these cook-at-home pizzas…

Category: Eat + Drink Articles   Can Kerry Sear’s latest venture in the new Four Seasons rise above hotel restaurant status? It’s a Tuesday night in early winter, and the bar at Art Restaurant in the new Four Seasons hotel, open since November, is flying. Servers weave and swerve, balancing trays of cocktails, doing their…

Category: Eat + Drink Articles   Sitting in front of the legendary sushi chef Shiro Kashiba as he swiftly rolls his wrist, shaping and warming each piece of perfect fish, all the while goodheartedly teasing those lucky enough to snag one of the 12 sushi-bar seats at his 15-year-old Belltown establishment, there’s no mystery as…

Category: Beauty Articles   When walking out of a downtown yoga class—mind clear, soul full, body limber—it can be a bit jarring to come face to face with the city’s cacophony of traffic, noise and pollution. So when Seattle-based yogis and wellness seekers want more than an hourlong respite, they head for one of the…

Category: Beauty Articles   From Thai to Mayan, acupressure to Swedish, there is such a variety of touch therapies that pros prefer the phrase “bodywork” to the old-fashioned “massage.” But while many consumers are familiar with Swedish massage—the lightest touch and first technique taught in massage school—most are a bit less clear on “fascial stretch…