Seattle Sound Bites: Will Cindy ‘Make It Work’?
Last week in Seattle - Will Cindy ‘make it work’? Local designer will “sew” us soon on ‘Project Runway.’ Plus crabs and Lady Gaga leave us in a fog. Seriously, what was up with the fog, Steve Pool?...
View ArticleThe Radar: Cactus Pricks a Location in Bellevue
Cactus, which you probably know from its Alki, Madison Park, Kirkland or South Lake Union locations, is coming to Bellevue in June 2013. Just in time for summer sun when chips, guac and margs become a...
View ArticleSweat Seattle: The Other Kind of Barre-Hopping
“Are these barre classes like ballet, or something?” “I don’t know about this, I’ve never done ballet before …” I hadn’t either but I was thinking it might be closer to a true sweat session than a...
View ArticleSeattle Sound Bites: ‘Top Chef,’ Please Pack Your Knives and Go
Last week in Seattle – ‘Top Chef,’ please pack your knives and go. We’re more than a few ferries and the Pike Place Market. We’ve got a no. 1 song from Macklemore, secret dining societies and Zara...
View ArticleThe Radar: Ballard Pizza Company Does Super Bowl Sunday
The weekend of everything football and bro-food (think: pizza and unlimited chicken wings) is upon us! What are you doing for Super Bowl XLVII? Ballard Pizza Company/Photo via Ballard Pizza Company If...
View ArticleThe Radar: Bellevue Bar Crawl for a Cause
(Fair warning: I’m about to drop almost every ‘80s phrase I know.) Like, OK, so, are you totally up for doing something radical? Like, drinking for a cause? No duh. Like I even had to ask! Get your...
View ArticleTo Do: If I Were in Paris (Eastside)
I would say oh la la la la la la la. Fans of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals will get that reference. A few blocks west of Quinn’s and Poquitos on Capitol Hill sits an unassuming French cooking school...
View ArticleThe Radar: Capitol Hill is Alive With Von Trapp’s
Sprechen Sie Deutsh? If you don’t, you’d better get out your Rosetta Stone because you’ll want to know such phrases as: A Bier, bittschen (“One beer, please”) No a Mass (“Another liter, please”) And...
View ArticleThe Radar: “The Fashion of Fitness” With Molly Mesnick
If you’ve been wondering what Molly Mesnick, the runner-up-turned-ultimate-winner of Seattle dad Jason’s “The Bachelor” season, has been up to, look no further than Pure Barre. The local celebrity and...
View ArticleThe Radar: Ethan Stowell Does It Again
I’m starting to think Ethan Stowell and Tom Douglas are in some sort of secret battle in Seattle to see who can out-restaurant titan the other. Between the two there are 17 restaurants in our dear city...
View ArticleThe Radar: Hot Diggity, Pancakes-on-a-Stick!
My Sweet Little Cakes opens on Capitol Hill. Or “hotcakes” if you will. I just didn’t want to confuse you with the nickname your strange neighbor in apartment 4D keeps calling your girlfriend. “Hey,...
View ArticleThe Radar: A Happy Caffeinated Camper
Oddly enough I live not-too-far from an Airstream dealership. I often drive by their lot, daydreaming of what it might be like to take it back retro-style and travel across the good ol’ US-of-A in one...
View ArticleThe Radar: Farm-To-Table Dining Experiences From Savor Seattle
Take a vibrant city with a temperate climate, an energetic farmers’ market scene and “wine countries” in both nearby Woodinville and Walla Walla over the pass. Add a heaping helping of adventurous,...
View ArticleSweat Seattle: Does WOD = “Workout of Death”?
Talk about a killer workout! Ba dum dum. WOD, in fact, is actually a CrossFit abbreve for “Workout of the Day” – a phrase I became all too familiar with when I entered the box one Monday night to find...
View ArticleThe Radar: Not Your Mother’s Garage Sale
It’s not just any garage sale and certainly not your mother’s garage sale. But it is the mother of all garage sales. BYOB(ags) to the Urban Girls Garage Sale! Lay off Poshmark for a day to come and...
View ArticleThe Radar: Follow the Pot of Gold to the 29th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Dash
Normally I’d say something pun-y here, probably something to do with the color green, luck of the Irish or Leprechauns, but instead I’m just going to cut to the race. Err, chase. The 29th annual F5 St....
View ArticleThe Radar: “Malts & Milkshakes,” and Sundaes — Oh My!
Have you been to Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery in Ballard yet? Yes, I know the name is a mouthful — but rightfully so are the delectable dishes owner Autumn Martin serves up at her shop including...
View ArticleTo Do: Over the Strawberry Moon (Juice)
There’s no denying it. I’m a juice-head. Me and my Jack LaLanne Power juicer are like THIS. I juice up wherever and whenever I can. I’m even constantly trading juice deals with friends like it’s my...
View ArticleThe Radar: Test the Oyster Myth at Ballard Annex
Construction is finally complete in the historic Ballard News Building on the city’s latest seafood space — Ballard Annex Oyster House. Designed by none other than Zak Melang himself, one-half of the...
View ArticleThe Radar: The Bar Method’s 60-Day Challenge For Charity
Out of the corner of my eye I see two svelte-shaped people walking towards the sidewalk to The Bar Method front door, hand-in-hand and looking in love as ever. For a second I think to myself, “Is that...
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