Seattle Mag
Make It Work! Seattle’s Arts Enablers: Paige Weinheimer
Category: Arts + Events Articles In her role at 4culture (4culture.org), Paige Weinheimer has been an integral part of many local funding programs for artists. In 2007, she organized the largest and most successful Poetry on Buses campaign since the program’s inception in 1992. In collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural…
Home of the Month
A couple Adds Son, Then Second Floor, To Phinney Ridge Home
Category: NW Home Articles As head of the green-conscious architectural firm Blip Design, Jim Burton has seen his share of what-ifs, what-abouts and what-could-bes when it comes to home remodeling in Seattle. When he heard about the modest, 1,700-square-foot bungalow tucked into Phinney Ridge’s southern slope, however, Burton saw more than just the second-story…
A Capitol Hill Couple Embraces Life in a Glass House
Open House Tour: Our ongoing partnership with the American Institute of Architects Seattle Chapter (
Category: NW Home Articles “I like being high enough up that I live above the treetops,”says Andi Stevenson, gesturing down from her living room window to the row of sparse maple trees lining Pike Street on Capitol Hill. Stevenson, 34, and her girlfriend, Minan Ahn, 31, moved into their 900-square-foot fourth-floor unit in the…
Eco-Ware: Sustainable and Stylish Dinnerware
You've got the biodiesel car. You ditched those paper grocery bags weeks ago. Now check out the next
Category: Green Living Dine in style on Greener Lifestyles’ (5317 Ballard Ave. NW, Seattle; 206.545.4405; greenerlifestyles.com) newest line of 100-percent recycled, lead-free, pewter dinnerware from Mexico-based Hacienda Real. Choose from bowls, snack trays large and small, butter dishes and salt-and-pepper shakers. Check out the Japanese fork and spoon set ($18 each, $36 for set)…
Green Growth
A Green Floral Shop Blooms in Greenwood
Category: NW Home Articles Melissa Feveyear has transplanted her full-service floral business, formerly Phinney Ridge Florist, just a few blocks, but has given it a completely new green twist. Terra Bella Flowers (8417 Greenwood Ave. N, Seattle; 206.783.0205) features classic garden-style bouquets, boasting lots of texture and loose flowing flowers, composed almost entirely of…
The Stylish Home
Kelley Moore's tips on outfitting your home for autumn
Category: NW Home Articles FALL IS MY FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR: brightly colored leaves begin to fall, the air is crisp and we begin to feather our nests. Turning the page of the calendar finds me searching for ways to bring a hint of a new season into each room of my home. After…
Sweet Spot
A 1958 Mercer Island Kitchen goes from design-dont to a definite do
Category: NW Home Articles Sandy and Jeff Condiotty’s 1958 kitchen—with its pale pink cabinets, white shag carpet and an oven serving as a storage space—was an eye-sore and a tight squeeze, where holiday meals, for example, meant much table turning and guest squirming. After touring a friend’s newly remodeled kitchen featuring a Henrybuilt unit,…
Tasting Notes: The Family Way
Winegrowers-turned-winemakers bring family legacy to their vineyards and wines.
Category: Tasting Notes More and more of Washington’s longtime farming families are moving away from traditional crops and into growing wine grapes, and are now seeking the Holy Grail—that chalice filled with their own premium Washington wine. After years of tasting the delicious, award-winning wines other winemakers have made from their grapes, these families—some…
Grapes Gone Wild: Washington and German Rieslings Go Head-to-head
Are Washington rieslings sweeter than the rest? Shannon Borg helps you discover some of the world's
Category: Eat + Drink Articles For three days in Woodinville this month, Riesling fans from around the globe—wine professionals, media and the public—will gather to explore this grape in its many variations, from bone-dry wines with crisp acidity to luscious honeylike dessert wines, at Riesling Rendezvous, a conference at Chateau Ste. Michelle winery that…
How To Cook A Wolf, Er, Bag Of Clams, the Ethan Stowell Way
We followed the famed Seattle Chef on his day off and learned some of his secrets for prepping bival
Category: Eat + Drink Articles If I had a bookie, I’d give him a call and wager big bucks that you’ve been to one of Ethan Stowell’s restaurants (Union, Tavolàta and How to Cook a Wolf ). Each one is a certified hit, and Stowell was recently named one of Food & Wine magazine’s…
35th Street Bistro Has Many Hits; A Few Misses
Our resident food expert visits the French Bistro after a new chef takes the reigns
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Romance fairly spills out the door at this quaint neighborhood bistro; it’s one of the prettiest dining rooms in the city, beset with antique tables, buttery lighting and a wall of windows that allows passersby to peek at dinner-daters perched on pillow-strewn banquettes. So when I heard that Tom…
Francophile Fever: A day with Chef Renee Erickson of Boat Street Cafe
End of summer. Too much zucchini. What’s a chef to do? If you’re Renee Erickson, chef/co
Category: Eat + Drink Articles The Plan: Spend the day experimenting with leftover zucchini The Dish: Zucchini Gratin with Beecher’s Flagship Cheese THE HOME FRONT: Erickson’s house is in Ballard, not France, but you can imagine yourself there with minimal daydreaming (or a couple of glasses of wine). She travels to France once a…