Puget Sound

Afternoon Edition: Scary-Ass Squid-Photo Warning

Ride the Ferry, Get Free Backpack!

Double Salt Licorice

Farmers Markets opening for spring

The Daily Wire: To Market

Weird White Chestnut

Poor WSF Just Can't Catch a Break

Comedy Tonight

The Seattle International Comedy Competition is again underway, and tonight you can see 16 comics vie at Intiman to reach the next round of the judged contest. Venues for the showcase, in which 32 comedians are whittled down to a final elite group, range all around Puget Sound--from Vashon to Bell ... More >>

Soak It Up In 'Almost Classy' Style at Lowell's

www.eatatlowells.comSoaking Spot: The iconic Lowell's in Pike's Market. The restaurant's motto is "Almost Classy" presumably because it's kind of a lunch counter with three floors with stunning views of Puget Sound. Between the vista and the location in the market, I've always avoided it as a touris ... More >>

The Bermuda Triangle of Residential Real Estate

Alki Beach photo by Joe Mabel, used under GNU Free Documentation License.That's what an article in the Puget Sound Business Journal calls the Alki condo market, which is now up to 32 months of supply. According to the article, most Alki-shoppers were looking there for second homes, the demand for wh ... More >>

Where to Get the Goods?

 Image: recipetips.com/glossary-term/t--34293/savoy-cabbage.aspDespite recent flooding across the state, with some farms dramatically impacted, fresh, local crops are still making it to market for your delectation. Cold-resistant greens are plentiful this time of year, including such small-leav ... More >>

Morning Snow: The View from Shoreline

My mom sent this picture of the view of Puget Sound and the Olympics, taken in Shoreline.

Introducing the 2009 Seattle Weekly Food Awards

My mom sent this picture of the view of Puget Sound and the Olympics, taken in Shoreline.

How Puget Sound's Last Pirate Gave Us a Creaking, Sinking Ferry System

The curse of Capt. Peabody.

No Cabaret, Merlot, or Riesling Here

These local pours are of the “odd” variety.

Puget Sound Concert Opera

Verdi’s warhorse without the trappings

Washington Divers Are Pining for a Good Sunken Ship

It's not so easy to sink an old ship in the Sound, much to the chagrin of scuba divers.

Food News

October 4 - 11, 2006 (expanded from print version).

Rooms With a View

October 4 - 11, 2006 (expanded from print version).

Tankers in the Sound?

October 4 - 11, 2006 (expanded from print version).

In Search of the Original 'Seattle'

A naturalist conducts a botanical mystery tour—call it CSI: Seattle—scouring the modern city for clues of the landscape that greeted the first white settlers. Giant trees there were, but what else? From place-names to ancient groves, he traces the answers in our own backyards.

Oceanaire Seafood Room

A naturalist conducts a botanical mystery tour—call it CSI: Seattle—scouring the modern city for clues of the landscape that greeted the first white settlers. Giant trees there were, but what else? From place-names to ancient groves, he traces the answers in our own backyards.

Get Cracking!

Port Angeles hosts a food fest worth putting on a bib for.

Tayberries, Loganberries, and More

Port Angeles hosts a food fest worth putting on a bib for.

Adventure 101

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

The Ask Master

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

FREE SPRINGER!

But while the Northwest pulled together to save one sickly whale, the remaining Puget Sound orcas face an uncertain future.

Small is beautiful

The 520 bridge's problems can't be solved by construction alone.

Mad scientists

The 520 bridge's problems can't be solved by construction alone.

Cash and cocktails

On Seattle's high-tech "schmooze" circuit, the dreams and the desperation are both getting bigger.

Viagra on the Half Shell

Dreamers, schemers, and scientists try to catch and cultivate the Northwest's most potent icon.

Stumped by growth

The quiet war against the land continues.

That giant sucking sound

Why the WTO poses a threat to the Pacific Northwest.

Scraping the bottom

Sam Wright says more endangered species time bombs are ticking in Puget Sound

A chronicle of sprawl foretold

Sam Wright says more endangered species time bombs are ticking in Puget Sound

Snow job?

Is a proposal to ban all fishing nets from Puget Sound supposed to save salmon or sports fisherfolk?

Claws célèbres

Instant Nostalgia Issue

A place to be seen

Instant Nostalgia Issue

Salmon:

Dire prophecy fulfilled

Killer Salmon

Farm-raised Atlantic salmon are spreading disease and genetic weakness throughout Puget Sound and threatening to destroy native salmon in the process.

Feed Me Like I’m Your Grandfather

Cracking the code in Koreatown South, where seasonal dishes, and an owner’s garden, make for captivating meals.

Welcome to the $2 Million Sidewalk in Front of the Vacant Lot

​ In an irony of urban planning slightly out of sync with market forces, the giant pile of gravel (above left) that occupies an entire block of East Pine St. on Capitol Hill now looks out on an exciting new amenity: a $2 million rebuilt sidewalk. The notorious 500 block, whose businesses wer ... More >>

King County Budget Cuts Could Eradicate Local Farm Programs

As the county faces another budget shortfall (to the tune of $56 million), the proposed 2010 King County Budget cuts look like they could be leaving a bloody trail behind where things like human services (food banks, domestic violence shelters, etc) used to be. Everything is up for reduction -- incl ... More >>

Local Thanksgiving Bird With a Side of Irony

​As reported last week, the proposed 2010 King County budget cuts could completely eliminate Puget Sound Fresh, the consumer education program promoting local food and farms. Among PSF's biggest projects is the Eat Local For Thanksgiving campaign, which encourages people to pledge to have at l ... More >>

The Find: Sona Masoori Rice at Apna Bazaar

​Apna Bazaar (2245 148th Ave. N.E., Bellevue) is the best-smelling market in the Puget Sound. Walk down the aisles and the smell of cumin gives way to fennel seed gives way to jasmine-scented soap. It's easy to drive there for cheap pulses and fresh curry leaves and walk out with a quarter-pou ... More >>

Nope, It's Not a Parody: "Tea Party: the Documentary Film" Is Real

"Tea Party: the Documentary Film" appears to only be available online or by DVD. But if the producers were smart, they might bring a screening to Puget Sound. If 4,500 True Patriots are willing to take the day off to protest in Olympia, surely some of them would be willing to buy a movie ticket, r ... More >>

Hometown Songs for Hometown (Sports) Fans

Duff McKagan is the founder of Seattle band Loaded, and the former bassist in Guns N' Roses. His Reverb column runs every Monday and Thursday.​Regular readers of this column know I am a big fan of sports. I'm a huge Mariners fan, I mourn the Sonics, and I bleed the Hawks' teal and green. When ... More >>

Tug of War Seattle

Duff McKagan is the founder of Seattle band Loaded, and the former bassist in Guns N' Roses. His Reverb column runs every Monday and Thursday.​Regular readers of this column know I am a big fan of sports. I'm a huge Mariners fan, I mourn the Sonics, and I bleed the Hawks' teal and green. When ... More >>

Comment of the Day: Marijuana Raids Happen Because Pot's Not Big Pharma

​Today's COTD champion felt the same way as a lot of people did yesterday when news broke of widespread DEA raids on medical-marijuana dispensaries all over the Puget Sound area--this reader just broke it down better than most.

Ganja Gummies: The Anti-Brownies

Some medibles are more a medication delivery system than a food item, as I was reminded when I visited Puget Sound Health Alternatives recently.