Gentle Snark
For most of this year, you've been shopping indoors, and while you've scored some great deals, your vitamin D levels have dropped precipitously. Fortunately, there are a couple of swell sidewalk sales this weekend -- in Ballard and in SoDo -- that will enable you to get those vitamins back while you shop. So reinforced, you may then check out (indoors!) the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale with a clear conscience.
July 24, 2008
Gentle Snark
The 34th annual Ballard SeafoodFest takes over a good portion of NW Market St. and Ballard Avenue this weekend. Being able to walk Ballard's downtown area without fear of being clipped by a Mini Cooper full of eager singles on their way to a mixer at the Bal-Mar is gift enough, but when you pair that blessing with crafts vendors, live music and alder-smoked salmon, you've got yourself a hootenanny.
July 22, 2008
Gentle Snark
The Block Party is outwardly similar to other neighborhood festivals -- crafts vendors, street food, "Hey, are you registered to vote?" -- but its real strength lies in its five stages. Two of the stages are indoors (King Cobra and Neumos) and three of them are open-air, and every one of them will blaze with live music into the wee hours.
July 21, 2008
Gentle Snark
Tickets are on sale now for the Rat City Rollergirls' August 16 bout. You'll see Grave Danger skating against the Wenches, the Throttle Rockets taking on Bend, Oregon's Lava City Roller Dolls, and a halftime show of American Tribal-style bellydance by Skin Deep. Unfortunately, there's one skater you won't see.
July 21, 2008
Gentle Snark
There are 43 restaurants, 16 on-ground vendors and a half-dozen street vendors on the grounds of Seattle Center this weekend. I think I ate most of it. I figure I've got about ten, maybe twenty minutes tops before food coma gets the better of me, so I'll give you the quick skinny. Figuratively speaking, of course.
July 18, 2008
Gentle Snark
The cost of your basic fuels is entirely too high right now. Five bucks for a beer? Ten bucks for a martini? That cat won't fight, mon frere. There's always a way for the working class to get its drink on without dipping into the 401k, and these five kick-ass bars are helping to lead the charge.
July 18, 2008
Gentle Snark
Counterbalance Park: An Urban Oasis is named for the counterbalance trolley system that once ran up and down Queen Anne, and possibly for "Die Hard: With a Vengeance" as well. That's the only reason I can think of that the space that was to be called "Queen Anne Park" has been rechristened akin to a Bruce Willis/Al Gore buddy movie.
July 17, 2008
Gentle Snark
This one goes out to you, First Hill. And you, Montlake. Keep representing, Ravenna. In fact, NWsource loves every neighborhood in this town. That's why we maintain dozens of neighborhood forums and host neighborhood photo galleries powered by Fremonsters and Maple Leafies and Wallingfordians. Visit NWsource and tell us what makes your neighborhood great -- and while you're at it, check out great deals in your neck of the woods.
July 17, 2008
Gentle Snark
No matter your needs -- a good meal, a new shirt, a stiff drink, supplies for an interstallar voyage -- Greenwood has the means provide for them. It's a terrifically well-rounded neighborhood, with at least five great businesses to recommend an immediate visit.
July 16, 2008
Gentle Snark
Gather, a "nontraditional" storefront gallery located next door to the Columbia City Bakery, is the element that will push Columbia City's First Friday "Beatwalks" into must-see territory. The space itself isn't that overwhelming -- just a spare (but handsome) wood-floored and white-walled gallery, adorned with vases of fresh-cut flowers -- but the art that owner Jenn Jones is putting on its walls is something else. Something great.
July 15, 2008
