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Editors’ Picks: Our Favorite Happy Hours in Seattle
Feeling thirsty? Check out these staff picks for happy hours around the city
Oh, happy hour! That magical time of day when drinks and appetizers are half-off and worries seem to melt away. Read on to discover our favorite places to unwind after a long day at work. Bitterroot BBQ Located in: Ballard Who picked it: Jessica Yadegaran, food and dining writer, Seattle magazine Why: “Braised beef and…
An Urban Oasis in Phinney Ridge
Seattle landscaper Scot Eckley creates a unique outdoor living space for a Phinney Ridge couple
After Jay and Katharine Petersen, an electrical engineer and a marketing consultant, respectively, finished building their contemporary-modern home on Phinney Ridge in 2013, they wanted to tackle the surrounding mismatched patches of yard—including a sloping, lumpy lawn. The couple brought in Seattle-based landscape designer Scot Eckley to help transform the hodgepodge into a reason to…
Affordable Seattle: What’s all This Change Doing to our City?
Will we all be Lake Unionized into oblivion?
In our bi-monthly Seattlemag.com column, Knute Berger–who writes regularly for Seattle Magazine and Crosscut.com and is a frequent pundit on KUOW–takes an in-depth look at some of the highly topical and sometimes polarizing issues in our city. Back in early 2013, I wrote, “The next mayor will have to possess skills that will help Seattle…
37 Summery Things to Do in Seattle You Didn’t Know Existed
The best in-city adventures for a picture-perfect warm-weather season
Let’s be honest, having a good summer in Seattle doesn’t take a lot of ingenuity. It’s sunny and warm: Get outside! Marveling at the blue skies and the novelty of not wearing a jacket offers sufficient stimulation for most of us locals. But for those who seek to push the fun a bit further, we…
The Best Sushi Restaurants in Seattle
The raw truth about Seattle’s best sushi bars
BALLARDBilly Beach Sushi & Bar Happy hour reigns supreme at the “Beach,” off Market Street. Here a discounted menu runs until 8 p.m. in the bar and 7 p.m. in the restaurant every day, and Sundays boast an all-day happy hour, with rolls in the $5–$6 range and nigiri samplers from $7 to $14. These…
Where to Shop for a Home Renovation Project
Interior designer Emily Lauderback reveals a few of her go-to shops
Seattle native Emily Lauderback, founder of interior design and remodeling firm Color in Space, started her company with a mission to bring design know-how, tools and proper color palettes to her clients. Lauderback says color is the thread that connects everything in a space. “And because colors are light reflected back to us, they have…
Spokane NAACP Leader Controversy, Wildfire Warnings for Northwest
The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today
Leader of Spokane NAACP Chapter questioned about her race News broke last night that Rachel Dolezal, the NAACP Spokane chapter president, is being called into question for allegedly pretending to be black for nearly nine years. Dolezal also serves as an Africana Studies professor at Eastern Washington University. Jezebel reports that her mother came forward…
6 Books from Local Authors for your Summer Reading List
Seattle-area authors heat up the literary scene this summer with these can't-put-em-down titles
Sunblock, sunglasses and a great book—such cool things for a blistering hot summer day. Writer’s Digest has said that it’s hard to imagine a better city for writers than Seattle. And these six local authors prove it by infusing a little romance, terror and doom, food for thought, some drama and death and a little…
The Must List: Georgetown Carnival, Pepe Le Pew Takes Over EMP
What to do in Seattle this weekend
Must Ramble Georgetown Carnival Hits the Streets Saturday (6/13, times vary) Head south to the one-of-a-kind Georgetown neighborhood for the annual street festival, featuring live music, food trucks, interactive art, carnival acts and the always thrilling if slightly deranged power tool races. Must Kill the WabbitBugs, Daffy and Pepe Le Pew at EMP(6/13 to 1/17/16,…
6 Seattle Bartenders Tell You What to Drink This Summer
Eighteen suggestions for chilling out, cooling down and sipping on choice bevs
It’s time you’ll start to see summer drinks on the menu at some of your favorite establishments. And no one knows which summer sippers are going to cool you down best this year than our swell local bartenders. So, we asked 6 bartenders to name their all-time top summer drink, a warm-weather cocktail on their…
Pot Bruschetta? Take a cannabis cooking class
Former Trophy Cupcakes pastry chef teaches THC tapas making, with a recipe
Don’t get him wrong. Chef Ricky Flickenger of Bourgeoisie Brunches loves brownies. They’re on the menu of his new cannabis cooking classes, which take place Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and have sold out since their inception last week at his personal chef headquarters in Capitol Hill. But, now that marijuana is legal in Washington, the…
This Architectural Beauty Is Not Your Ordinary Vacation Home
Cascade Mountain home mixes green design with scenic backdrop
When Bill Broadhead and Julie McCoy found a piece of land just an hour and a half east of the city on Lake Cle Elum, they weren’t in the market for a mountain retreat. Broadhead was looking for a spot to build a snowmobile storage shed. But the site, in the Cascade Mountains near Roslyn,…