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Future File: Haystack Antiques Haggle Fair
!–paging_filter–pItching for some new home décor, but wary of your budget? Head to Bellevue on Saturday, January 18 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and perfect the art of haggling with a href=”http://\/\/staging.seattlemag.com/haystack-antiques“Haystack Antiques/a vendors, who will be ready to do business with all who dare to deal./p
Six More Seattle Sales
!–paging_filter–pI complied a pretty big list of a href=”http://\/\/staging.seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/it-s-sale-time-seattle“sales/a last week, but here are few good ones to add to your list:/ppa href=”http://\/\/staging.seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/juniper“Juniper/a in Madrona’s winter sale is on now and includes a nice discount on beautiful cashmere from Souchi, alpaca from Micaela Greg and gorgeous scarves from Le.sens.br /a href=”http://\/\/staging.seattlemag.com.239elwb01.blackmesh.com/essenza“Essenza/a, in Fremont, is discounting…
Check Out Freelance Photographer Andrew Waits’ Gallery of Boondocking Portraits
!–paging_filter–pIf you’ve ever dreamed of packing up your car and living on the road, Seattle freelance photographer Andrew Waits has done a pretty good job of revealing what it might look and sound like. I had coffee with Waits this week—he’s shooting a story for our March issue (yay!)—and he revealed he was putting the…
Closet Rx Solves the ‘Nothing to Wear’ Problem with Organization
!–paging_filter–pIt’s a statement uttered by many people while staring into the closet: “I have nothing to wear.” It’s also a sentiment that Barbara Malone and Julienne Kuttel, proprietors of closet-organization and personal-style consulting company Closet Rx (Capitol Hill, 501 E Pike St.; 206.660.3456; a href=”http://www.closetrx.com” target=”_blank”closetrx.com/a), believe is usually untrue. “People are often blind to…
Expert Advice: How to Shuck an Oyster the Right Way
!–paging_filter–pAfter purchasing your oysters from a top-notch spot around town–a href=”http://\/\/staging.seattlemag.com/article/try-em-home-where-purchase-freshest-oy…” target=”_blank”see our list of the six here/a–you’ll need to know how to carefully prepare them. Our friends at Salty’s show us the right (read: safe!) way to shuck an oyster./ppspan style=”font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 20px;”iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/83721756” width=”400″ height=”225″ class=”video-filter video-vimeo vf-83721756″ frameborder=”0″/iframe/span/p
Try ‘Em at Home: Where to Purchase the Freshest Oysters in Town
!–paging_filter–pDoes watching Seattle’s master shuckers inspire you to try your hand at fresh oysters at home? If so, zip over to one of the neighborhood seafood markets peppered throughout our city, where friendly, knowledgeable crews offer the season’s best-tasting oysters from the waters of our beloved Hood Canal and Puget Sound, California and British Columbia….
A Look at ‘Question Bridge: Black Males,’ the New Video Installation at Photo Center Northwest
!–paging_filter–p“What do black men have in common?” “Who are you and what is your purpose?” “Do you really feel free?” In emQuestion Bridge: Black Males/em, the new video installation at Photo Center Northwest (PCNW), African-American men pose such questions, and African-American men answer, in straight-on, close-up, unadorned video recordings. Produced by actors Delroy Lindo and…
The Potentially Lasting Damage on the Puget Sound Region’s Biomedical Research Industry
Federal budget cuts are hurting biomedical research and threatening our budding science industry
!–paging_filter–pRemember all the talk ofnbsp; “sequestration” that dominated the headlines last year? Concerns over the dire impact of governmental spending cuts had everyone up in arms, but attention faded as the reductions took effect. The reality seemed more like nips and tucks than radical surgery. brbrBut for the Puget Sound region’s sprawling biomedical community—which drives…
Queen Anne’s Cederberg Tea House Offers Rooibos Espresso
Seattle meets South Africa with rooibos espresso
!–paging_filter–pSeattle’s many teahouses have long been sweet on the red bush tea known as rooibos (pronounced “ROY-bus”), but a new entry in the field is offering a fresh take: rooibos espresso. Open since July, Cederberg Tea House on Queen Anne (1417 Queen Anne Ave. N; 206.285.1352;a href=”http://www.cederbergteahouse.com” target=”_blank” cederbergteahouse.com/a) is named for the only region…
Ada’s Technical Books and Cafe Makes a Smart Splash in Capitol Hill
A revamped technical bookstore brings science and math to the masses
!–paging_filter–pAda’s Technical Books and Café (Capitol Hill, 425 15th Ave. E; 206.322.1058; a href=”http://www.seattletechnicalbooks.com” target=”_blank”seattletechnicalbooks.com/a) invites browsers to touch, inspect and discover—just as a scientist might. Named after Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer, the bookshop has recently relocated to a sleekly renovated old home (designed with Seattle architects Board and Vellum and built by…
The Central District’s Humble Pie is a Welcome Addition
!–paging_filter–pThe Central District of Seattle isn’t quite a pizza desert, but it’s close. So when Brian Solazzi set up two shipping containers and an outdoor pizza oven on his corner property at Rainier Avenue S and Weller Street, you could almost hear the collective neighborhood cheer. It took more than a year for Solazzi (who…
Writer Kim Fu Discusses Her Debut Novel ‘For Today I Am A Boy’
Belltown-based writer Kim Fu makes her debut with a gripping, insightful novel
Kim Fu, 26, grew up in Canada as the only writer in a family of scientists and engineers. Perhaps that experience is what enabled her to so vividly capture the feeling of being an outsider in one’s own family in her powerful, timely debut novel, For Today I Am a Boy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $23)….