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Tasting Notes: Fruits of Their Labor
How a Mattawa apple-farming family made wine work.
Category: Tasting Notes When apple prices plummeted about 10 years ago, Mike and Karen Wade wondered how they could diversify enough to keep their third-generation, Wenatchee-based fruit-growing and -packing company afloat and continue to be competitive. Suddenly faced with cheap imported apples being dumped onto the U.S. market-which was already sagging from the 1980s…
Datebook: Titus Kapher: History in the Making
Yale-educated painter and inaugural recipient of SAM's Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Fellowshi
Category: Arts + Events Articles Yale-educated painter and inaugural recipient of SAM’s Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Fellowship raises questions of culture by carefully re-creating historical oil paintings, then deconstructing and reconstructing them in provocative ways As the inaugural recipient of Seattle Art Museum’s Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Fellowship (awarded biannually to early-career…
The Weekend Must List: July 10 – 12, 2009
Here's what you must do this weekend: the Festival of San Fermin (in Belltown); cars, bars and dead
Category: Eat + Drink Articles Here’s what you must do this weekend: the Running of the Bulls in Belltown; dead rock stars tour on Capital Hill; and the International District’s Summer FestivalFRIDAY, JULY 10Seattle Summer Blues FestivalFeel free to be moody at the first annual Summer Blues Festival at the Triple Door. Performers will…
Green Design 2009: The Perfect Fit
A remodeled Sand Point dwelling is a green hit and a great lifestyle fit
Category: NW Home Articles Eric and Judith Knowles knew that they were going to remodel their two-bedroom, 1948 Sand Point home some day. Besides being natural light- and space-deprived, its old-fashioned, compartmentalized design didn’t suit the young family’s out-going, interactive nature. A brief change of scenery jump-started their remodeling time line. “We came home…
Green Design 2009: Island Adventure
A San Juan Island couple builds its dream green home on a budget
Category: NW Home Articles When Anna Howden bought a vacant view lot on San Juan Island nearly five years ago, her life was quite different than it is today: she was a single, Arkansas transplant working for a design firm based on Bainbridge Island. Then she was asked to run the firm’s satellite office…
Green Design 2009: A Cooler Shade of Green
Pumping Seattle's architecture with a green pulse
Category: NW Home Articles A central principle of green design is taking something that has outlived its usefulness and giving it new life. This was the goal of Jason Morrow when his company, Footprint Developments, purchased a lot at the north end of the Aurora Bridge in 2006, with the intention of building seven…
Area: Fremont’s New Green Townhouse Development
Fremont's new housing development spells magnificent G-R-E-E-N
Category: NW Home Articles Seguing from bike trail to natural food market aisle without breaking a sweat. That’s the kind of organic urban ease that is the lure of living in Fremont. Adding to Fremont’s green appeal is a new, award-winning, 4-Star Built Green-certified project, the in-fremont town houses (3615 Phinney Ave. N, Seattle)….
Area: Create a Summer-Cabin Style
Rustic or refined, all summer cabins should be comfortable in design
Category: NW Home Articles Growing up in New England, we spent many a summer weekend at my grandparents’ cabin on Squam Lake, a beautiful spot in New Hampshire made famous by the 1981 classic On Golden Pond. A simple 1940’s clapboard cottage, the interior was warm and inviting, with original knotty-pine paneling, an immense…
Area: Where to Find a Gorgeous Green Table
Give your home a touch of natural beauty with green piece of wooden furniture
Category: NW Home Articles They play host to our meals, our stacks of books and magazines, sometimes to our feet, and to conversations raucous and intimate. The hunt for the perfect table can be maddening, however, especially if your tastes run to the green. We found five fabulous tables made from locally salvaged wood. …
The Weekend Must List: July 3 – 5, 2009
From an ultimate frisbee tournament to a logging rodeo and Duran Duran, here are our top to-do's for
Category: Eat + Drink Articles From an ultimate frisbee tournament to a logging rodeo and Duran Duran, here are our top to-do’s for this Friday, Saturday and Sunday FRIDAY, JULY 3Redmond’s Annual Ultimate Frisbee TournamentIn 1990 a handful of local ultimate frisbee teams gathered for a tournament in Redmond’s Sixty Acres Park. Dubbed Potlatch,…
The Weekend Must List: June 26 – 28, 2009
Our top to-do's for this Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Category: Articles FRIDAY, JUNE 26 Treeless Mountain at Northwest Film Forum This multi-award-winning film by Korean-American filmmaker So Yong Kim is a semi-autobiographical story about young sisters growing up in Seoul. Small yet stunning, the story follows the girls as they are repeatedly abandoned by hapless adults and learn to fend for themselves, together,…
Grey Matters: Dead-End Job
In Seattle politics, you won't find the next rising star in the mayor's office
Category: Articles In Seattle politics, you won’t find the next rising star in the mayor’s office In some cities, usually big cities, politics is a spectator sport. City Hall is often a prime beat, and columnists and bloggers pick over every insider tidbit, boondoggle, affair and public poll. In Boston, New York, Chicago and…