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Top 5 Best Beaches in Seattle for Brown Baggin' it

Laura OnstotYou brought the frosty mugs, right?!​This is probably jinxing it, but still: HOLY CRAP, SUMMER! Don't look now, but every Teva wearing, zip-off cargo short sporting, granola Seattleite is busting out their pasty skin and heading to wherever it is you're headed. Yay for traffic, we ... More >>

Phad Lao, Not Phad Thai, at Viengthong

​Dish: Phad Lao Place: Viengthong, Mount Baker Price: $8.00 On the plate: From the menu: "stir-fried rice noodles with bean sprouts, phad Lao sauce, topped with green onions and parsley." You get your choice of chicken, pork, or beef with this dish, which also comes with thin strips of fried ... More >>

There Are 329 Useless Federal Properties in Washington State--Wanna Buy One?

​There are apparently some 14,000 federally-owned properties in the United States that are currently doing nothing but collecting dust and tax dollars. Of those 14,000 properties, 329 are in Washington State. You can buy one or all (preferably all) of them right now.

Canlis Opens Pop-Up Restaurant in Queen Anne, Three Distilleries Set Sights on Capitol Hill, & More

Canlis soon brings its culinary expertise to a pop-up restaurant​The biggest news this week: Canlis launches its pop-up restaurant Hearth & Home at the Macrina Bakery at 615 W. McGraw St. on Feb. 27 and 28. Space is limited and walk-ins aren't accepted, so make your reservations quick at 283-3 ... More >>

Durian (aka Stink Fruit) Cookies Make Superbowl Supersnacks

​The Stop: Mount Baker. The Vibe: Many hours before the Packers trounced the Steelers in Super Bowl XLV--before the insurmountable half-time show claimed yet another victim in the form of the Black Eyed Peas; before Christina Augilera's wavering National Anthem--I stood in line at the mecca o ... More >>

Warm Cold Nights With Hot Salmon at Thai Recipe

Photos by Matthew Piel​The Stop: Mount Baker The Vibe: Thanks to sitting over the confluence of two major thoroughfares through South Seattle, the Mount Baker station is a busy light rail stop. When the weather isn't pretty, people move fast to get out of the elements. As you run from the sta ... More >>

Homegrown No. 3 Heads to Queen Anne, Skillet Offers Preview of Upcoming Capitol Hill Diner

Skillet's poutine: handcut fries with gravy, cheddar, and herbs.​Good news for Queen Anne residents; come November, sustainable sandwich shop Homegrown is coming to 2201 Queen Avenue North, according to Seattle PI. The business currently has locations in Capitol Hill and Fremont. In other new ... More >>

Cafe Car: Come For the Food, Stay for the Party at Cafe Ibex

​A weekly column in which we ride the light rail to random stops, hop off, and wander around until something strikes our culinary fancy, treating the train like our own personal café car. The Stop: Mount Baker The Vibe: The station is located above the street level. When you get down to the ... More >>

Garth Stein

​A weekly column in which we ride the light rail to random stops, hop off, and wander around until something strikes our culinary fancy, treating the train like our own personal café car. The Stop: Mount Baker The Vibe: The station is located above the street level. When you get down to the ... More >>

Seattle's Top 5 Crumble Top Coffee Cakes

Entenmann's Crumb Coffee Cake​The ideal coffee cake is a study in culinary minimalism: buttery, eggy, vanilla-touched moist cake, topped with an equal height of butter and brown sugar cinnamon streusel. I'm an East Coast girl, and what I was looking for was inspired by Entenmann's coffee ca ... More >>

Garth Stein

Entenmann's Crumb Coffee Cake​The ideal coffee cake is a study in culinary minimalism: buttery, eggy, vanilla-touched moist cake, topped with an equal height of butter and brown sugar cinnamon streusel. I'm an East Coast girl, and what I was looking for was inspired by Entenmann's coffee ca ... More >>

But We Are Already a Neighborhood School, Say Parents Concerned About the New Assignment Plan

​As people pour over the just-released maps for Seattle Public Schools' new assignment plan, they are voicing numerous concerns about the way some of the proposed boundaries split one particular neighborhood or the other. Take Mount Baker. At first glance, SW thought the leafy, lakeside enclav ... More >>

Garth Stein

​As people pour over the just-released maps for Seattle Public Schools' new assignment plan, they are voicing numerous concerns about the way some of the proposed boundaries split one particular neighborhood or the other. Take Mount Baker. At first glance, SW thought the leafy, lakeside enclav ... More >>

Off the Rails: The Demographic Puzzle of Light Rail

Look at this picture of riders on the number 42 bus today, which travels along Martin Luther King Way, right alongside light rail. Then look at the picture after the jump of light rail riders yesterday. Notice something different? The bus riders are virtually all minorities. Light rail's are not. In ... More >>

Congratulations, Ballard

Men's Journal named you one of the nation's best neighborhoods. Sayeth the Journal: Despite a decade of buzz, Ballard still feels unspoiled. The same dive bars host the same music; the tasty ex-brothel pizza joint still has tables open. And it¹s still got plenty of adventure: 16,000 square feet of ... More >>

Garth Stein

Men's Journal named you one of the nation's best neighborhoods. Sayeth the Journal: Despite a decade of buzz, Ballard still feels unspoiled. The same dive bars host the same music; the tasty ex-brothel pizza joint still has tables open. And it¹s still got plenty of adventure: 16,000 square feet of ... More >>

Literary Lions Gala

Men's Journal named you one of the nation's best neighborhoods. Sayeth the Journal: Despite a decade of buzz, Ballard still feels unspoiled. The same dive bars host the same music; the tasty ex-brothel pizza joint still has tables open. And it¹s still got plenty of adventure: 16,000 square feet of ... More >>

Have You Ever Ridden the Sound Transit Lunch Bus?

As a subscriber to Sound Transit's e-mail information services ("provided to you at no charge by Sound Transit"!), I get the occasional notice about the agency's Lunch Bus. It sounds essentially like an adult field trip, and is described in alternately dryly informative and breathless, travel brochu ... More >>

Pizza Rash, Part II: Pie-litically Correct

Rhetoric and taste vie for the upper hand at three new establishments.

Garth Stein

Rhetoric and taste vie for the upper hand at three new establishments.

Garth Stein

Rhetoric and taste vie for the upper hand at three new establishments.

Garth Stein

Rhetoric and taste vie for the upper hand at three new establishments.

Gazebo

Dining in the great indoors

A Light at the End of the Wild Sky Tunnel?

Dining in the great indoors

Simple Measures

A beat they can dance to

Warring Southeast Seattle Factions Nearly Come to Blows Over Their Future

A beat they can dance to

Ask an Uptight Seattleite

Why can't you people drive?

Mioposto

Mount Baker: Meet potato pizza. Potato pizza: Meet Mount Baker.

Kakuta Ole Maimai Hamisi

Best Maasai Warrior/Zoo Guide

Red Line

Best Maasai Warrior/Zoo Guide

Silicon Rainier Valley

A text-messaging system is proposed to encourage neighborhood connections.

Bright Man's Burden

What will it take for Seattle's black political community to get behind a candidate like Darryl Smith?

Food News for February 8-February 14

Chef tours and seductive wine seminars.

Setting the Scene

Does how a restaurant looks matter as much as how it cooks?

They Choose or We Lose

Parents are panicking about proposals to change how students are assigned to public schools in Seattle. Could this transform the city?

Still Praying for Snow

All but two ski areas are open now, but the base is thin and the economic damage is done.

Happy Hour Guide

All but two ski areas are open now, but the base is thin and the economic damage is done.

JOHN SCHUH

All but two ski areas are open now, but the base is thin and the economic damage is done.

People & Politics: Discovery

BEST NEIGHBORHOOD NEWSPAPER

Turf: Urban Living Linda Derschang's Picks

Best Club Maven

Adventure 101

Seattle gets about 40 good days of summermake the most of them.

Can the Rich Be Good?

Bill Gates Sr. believes inherited fortunes are ultimately undemocratic, and to help smooth Americas growing class divisions, the father of one of the worlds richest men is urging the current generation of millionaire Medicis toward social responsibility.

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

With apologies to Theodore Geisel.

The Rose Club Cafe

A sweet new spot looks at business through rose-colored glasses, with swell results.

Sips

House Blend

Outward bound

Perfect pitch

Out of bounds, dude!

Are backcountry snowboarders in over their heads?

SEVEN WAYS to DIE OUTDOORS

Before you trek off in search of spiritual enlightenment, be warned: It's a jungle out there.

Ten Best Pacific Northwest Ski Areas

Areas that have Web sites are linked, and will open in a new window when clicked.