Subject: Bellevue

• Pink Truisms

  March 11, 2009

• My New Green Lifestyle: Sasquatch! Inspires, The Colonel Enables

  May 28, 2008

• Shop the Farm

  May 19, 2008

• Deal on Parking Refunds

  May 9, 2008

• Intelius Has Your Number

  January 29, 2008

• "Visualize Yourself as a Whole Pie"

  November 21, 2007

• The Boomburbs Cometh

  October 31, 2006

• KOMO-TV's New Sibling

  June 28, 2006

• Lucky Strike

  January 6, 2008

• A Dick's, in Bellevue?

  September 27, 2007

• Mythbusting in the Kitchen: Food Science 101

  November 30, 2006

• 2.5 Notes About Meat From This Weekend

  June 24, 2008

• Rhum Bar to Raw Bar?

  August 28, 2008

• What If They Held a Gay Rights Protest and Nobody Came?

  Last weekend’s self-described Gay Civil Rights protests, pitting the LGBT community against the Mormons and black church leaders, was certainly South Park-esque. It is always fascinating to watch one narrow-minded special interest group try to gore another narrow-minded special interest group’s ox. Hopefully Trey and Matt will have the time to give the tempest its proper teapot treatment. One of the more charming sideshows, however, was a planned demonstration outside of a local LDS home,

  November 19, 2008

• Snow Day Edition: Two Brief Notices About Restaurant Openings

  Who wants to stay indoors when the ground is covered in a foot-deep cushion of fat, soft flakes? So here are two quick notices of restaurant openings, and then I'm going hiking working from home:1. 'Zaw, the new, ethical take-and-bake pizza chain I wrote about in this week's review, has joined the Ballard pizza melee, opening its third location on 5858 Leary Ave. Way. 2. Monsoon East, Eric and Sophie Banh's second full-service restaurant, opened this week at 10245 Main St. in Bellevue. Accordin

  December 18, 2008

• Date Night: Do it Yourself Edition

  If you've been pinching more pennies than bottoms lately, here's a date idea that will spice things up without destroying your entertainment budget. In celebration of New Urban Eats--the month-long event in which several newish local restaurants offer three-course meals for the bargain price of $30--participating chefs have been invited to show off some of their favorite recipes at local Metropolitan Markets this evening. Head in to either the Queen Anne, Admiral, or Sand Point locations from 4

  January 15, 2009

• Monsoon East: Twittering your boss?

  Accept it, Twitter is bigger than us all, for at least another 12 to 20 months anyway. Last week, a scandal broke with a fake Christopher Walken tweeter, Courtney Love is getting sued for libel in part due to a barrage of slanderous tweets, and opinions roll down the screen at a rate that makes viral marketing a more appropriate phrase than ever. As a restaurant owner, it becomes harder and harder to control the information spun about your business, let alone find it or respond to it. So what d

  March 30, 2009

• A Shot in the Dark: Afternoon Delight

  This Bellevue spot's sole purpose is getting people drunk.

  February 25, 2009

• Alexander McCall Smith

  September 24, 2008

• Bellevue Collection’s Fashion Week

  September 10, 2008

• Bad Santa

  December 17, 2003

• Twisted Cork's Got All the Makings of Greatness

  Try the cheap eats and delightful flights at this Bellevue wine bar.

  May 2, 2007

• Mono in VCF

  Saturday, February 9

  February 6, 2008

• At Spice Route, You’ll Travel Well Among the Sinus-Blasting Flavors of South India

  September 26, 2007

• Upended Roof Speaks to, and About, Its Condo-Filled Neighborhood

  September 19, 2007

• Food News May 17-24

  May 17, 2006

• O Little Town of Bellevue

  The suburban city opens its heart to Tent City 4 by regulating and inspecting the milk. A federal judge seems to find this good will lacking.

  December 14, 2005

• Nov. 23, 2005

  November 23, 2005

• Nov. 16, 2005

  November 16, 2005

• Amoré Chocolates

  July 27, 2005

• Fireworks and Waterworks

  June 29, 2005

• Feb. 16, 2005

  February 16, 2005

• For Every Pocketbook

  September 22, 2004

• Daniel's Broiler

  August 4, 2004

• Happy Hour Guide

  May 5, 2004

• Happy Hour!

  April 28, 2004

• A Trip Down Bellevue's Murder Memory Lane

  Last week, we noted how Bellevue's recent homicide ended the city's 30-month homicide-free streak, which was anywhere from the the 3rd to the 5th longest such streak among American cities of 100,000 or more. Today, the P-I's Casey McNerthney takes a look back at over a decade of Bellevue homicides. In eleven years, there have only been six of them. What a safe place! Maybe everyone should live there, kinda like people say they should make the entire airplane out of the material used in the black

  April 30, 2009

• Should Cars or Light Rail Get Signal Priority in Downtown Bellevue?

  As you may know, there's a bit of a tussle over whether to run East Link light rail trains on or beneath the surface of downtown Bellevue. And the tussle has revealed this whammy: light rail trains would not have signal priority in downtown Bellevue, meaning they could end up waiting, like glorified buses, at seven red lights while single-occupancy vehicles do their thing. Which is probably not what voters envisioned when they cast their ballots for light rail. I talked to East Link project mana

  May 6, 2009

• Your Weekend's Best Eastside Music Choice

  Let's say for some reason you are not at Sasquatch, and not at Folklife, and not at the Melvins, but instead find yourself in the vicinity of downtown Bellevue this Saturday and in the mood for some good music. Well, you're in luck! The Bellevue Jazz Festival is up. And Saturday night brings headliners the Mingus Big Band, a much-beloved New York institution made up of a rotating cast of Mingus-legacy lovers. The show, at Bellevue's Meydenbauer Center, will feature some of the band's most illus

  May 22, 2009

• Architecture We Actually Like

  Driving early across 520 to see an ultimately disappointing gallery opening yielded an hour's free time in Bellevue last week. The area pinched between 405 and Bellevue Way is undergoing tremendous growth, with many condo, apartment, and commercial projects nearing completion. Begun a few years ago, they're arriving on market at arguably the worst possible time. But, regardless of the leasing prospects in our currently sucky economy, there's some eye-catching stuff going up in Bellevue. At the c

  July 14, 2009

• Ice Week: Chichi Ice Cream Carts

  ​The artisanal ice cream explosion isn't limited to stores. The ice cream cart is getting a makeover, too. Here are links to carts (plus truck) appearing around town, mostly at farmers markets: Whidbey Island Ice Cream Farmers markets: Wallingford, Madrona, Ballard Half Pint Farmers markets: Lake City, Phinney, Bellevue, Broadway Poco Carretto Farmers markets: Columbia City, Bellevue, Queen Anne, Madrona, Edmonds, Mercer Island Parfait Ice Cream (ice cream truck, pictured above) Lo

  July 28, 2009

• Pour on the Plaza

  Might Bellevue be a little jealous of all the food and wine events in Seattle? (Who could blame them?) El Gaucho has come up with its own Eastside event at the City Center Plaza this Saturday. Tickets are pricey, $95 per person (hey, it's Bellevue)--but think of Pour on the Plaza as an Eastside version of the Bite of Seattle, which would easily run you that much anyway. At least you'll have free rein to try all the pours from the wineries on hand--like DeLille Cellars, Cadence Winery, and Novelt

  August 7, 2009

• Get Happy in Bellevue

  Bellevue's newest bar, Stir, is working to take the shine off by inviting the masses for all-day happy hour. Check out their ice-encrusted vodka tap while sampling $1 rock-shrimp ceviche, $3 pan-fried oysters, and a $3 crab slider with garlic fries. Specialty cocktails include a Seattle Sidecar: brandy, Triple Sec, muddled lemon, and soda ($6), while house wines are $5 a glass and beers on tap are $3. The deal is available 11 a.m.-1 a.m. through Sun., Aug. 30.

  August 26, 2009

• They Should've Called the Maytag Man, or Ghostbusters

  ​The crimes that don't happen are often more fun than the crimes that do. (Note to young readers: Crime isn't fun. And it doesn't pay. Unless you're really good at it.) To wit: Today, reports the P-I, Bellevue police were called to the home of someone who believed they'd been robbed. Clothes were strewn about the laundry room. The culprit, say the cops: an overloaded washing machine. (Even appliances have a breaking point.) Though perhaps if the resident had called these guys, they'd get a

  August 31, 2009

• DeLille Cellars Wine Dinner at Monsoon East

  If you haven't made the trek to Bellevue yet to try Monsoon East, on Sunday, September 20, Eric and Sophie Banh's modern Vietnamese restaurant will host a DeLille Cellars wine dinner. A six-course meal will be paired with prerelease selections from the small Redmond winery, including the already sold-out Doyenne Rosé 2008 and the Doyenne Aix 2006. Monsoon East 10245 Main St., Bellevue, (425) 635-1112. Price: $108 (includes tax and tip). Tickets at brownpapertickets.com. For more food event

  September 17, 2009

• The Sliding Scale of Dying

  ​It's cheaper to live and, it turns out, die in Tacoma. If there's a burial plan in your near future, the complete works will cost you as comparatively little as $1,997 down in University Place and as much as $8,315 in Bellevue. And that's just with your basic casket, says John Eric Rolfstad, Executive Director of People's Memorial Association of Seattle, the non-profit cremation society. His group's 2009 price survey - "Shop before you drop" - compiled a list of services and costs from 22

  October 5, 2009

• If Dying’s In Your Future, Tacoma’s Got a Deal for You

  October 14, 2009

• Ragin' Asian: Dress (In)Appropriately When Getting Your Game On @ Power Play

  ​The grand opening of Power Play (700 Bellevue Way NE) in Bellevue on Thursday night promised visitors an open bar, free appetizers, and free reign on all the games on site. Awesome. Or it would've been, had the Liquor Control Board not caught wind that the establishment planned on giving away free booze--which is illegal in the state of Washington. But nobody appeared fazed that they'd have to open their wallets up. Hundreds of 20-somethings decked out in suits and cocktail dresses came

  October 26, 2009

• Kobe, Cognac, and Crumbers

  November 4, 2009

• Review Roundup: The Times Braves the Bravern, The Stranger Hunts Down Porn & Pizza (Again)

  ​The Seattle Times' Nancy Leson gives some love to Wild Ginger's new Bellevue location, reminiscing over the 20 years she's been dining at the Seattle restaurant. The LCB might want to take note, though: apparently the barman's offering 11-year-olds hard liquor. In the Dining Deals column, Tan Vinh heeds the call of the sizzling fryers at the reworked Pike St Fish Fry in Capitol Hill. At the Stranger, Laurel Miller browses White Center's sex shops in between meals of pizza, pupusas, and

  November 6, 2009