The short list of architects being considered to build a new Tacoma Art Museum is pretty impressive—both for the sheer quality of the firms indicating… Continue reading
A North Seattle eatery offers its neighborhood one-stop ethnic dining.
Il Terrazzo cultivates the comfort of body, palate, and soul.
When the League of Fringe Theaters gasped its last two years ago, there weren't many mourners at the funeral. In its preceding three or four… Continue reading
Not worried about a Puget Sound megaquake? Get ready to pay anyway—your insurance company is very worried.
When it comes to hormone replacement, the bad news is good news.
Every wine book for beginners devotes some space to sherry, so we all know that sherry is one of the world's great wines. But how… Continue reading
One unexpectedly fine bottle of wine might be a fluke; two could be just luck; but when I hit three or more in a row,… Continue reading
Even people who never made it 30 pages into Proust's "search for lost time" know that it begins with a crumb of madeleine soaked in… Continue reading
A scientific report traces unprofessional conduct, bad science, and possible lawlessness at the University of Washington.
A toast to 2000—and to Washington's wine makers.
Daniel Blum's dictionary make culinary adventuring easy.
Despite troubled times, an Oregon winemaker comes up trumps.
By the time I arrived at my neighborhood wine shop last Saturday, only six of the just-arrived 12 cases of 2002 Abeja cabernet sauvignon remained… Continue reading
If anybody ever had a free hand coming into a job, that person is Robin Pollard, the new executive director of the Washington Wine Commission.… Continue reading
A tasting menu from Scott Carsberg of Lampreia
By Scott Carsberg and Hillel Cooperman
(tastingmenu.com, free)
Most serious wine buffs own an atlas of the vine: Hugh Johnson's classic World Atlas of Wine, now in its fifth edition, usually, or Oz… Continue reading
MORE THAN OTHER sciences, archaeology progresses at the mercy of chance. A wading teenager comes across a skull; a farmer out plowing turns up fragments… Continue reading
or, Do, do, do what you did, did, did before, baby
A whistle-blower casts a lurid light on the Burke Museums fossil collections.
