We all have our sanctuaries, our personal spaces where we can indulge and escape. The conservatory at Volunteer Park. The Big Picture movie theater in Belltown. And for folks fixated on Japanese comics called manga, there's Kinokuniya, a bookstore in Uwajimaya Village.
By Florangela Davila | March 23, 2006
Convergence Zone
So intimate are the new flamenco parties hosted by the musical ensemble Café Cantante, that one of the group's musician's says they're "better than church."
By Katherine Sather | March 23, 2006
Hike of the Week
"Uh-oh, we're on the wrong trail," I said to Lola Kemp, "I think we're going to Lily Lake." Don't get me wrong, I love Lily Lake, but our goal was Oyster Dome, a high point overlooking Samish Bay in the southern Chuckanuts near Bellingham.
Some consider Oyster Dome to be Bellingham's version of Mount Si, because getting to the viewpoint is strenuous.
By Karen Sykes | March 23, 2006
Short Trips
PORTLAND, Ore. -- OK, when I was in elementary school I don't remember ever having a television in my classroom. I vaguely remember chalkboards, nagging teachers and very high ceilings in the aging Tacoma building -- but no TV.
Just for authenticity sake, the McMenamin brothers decided not to put televisions in their historic Kennedy School classroom lodgings in Portland. The intrusion, they figured, would ruin the experience they were after.
By Jeff Larsen | March 23, 2006
