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
Gentle Snark
Greenwood Mail & Dispatch is much bigger than its Ballard parent. It has more PO boxes, a bigger coffee counter, more table seating, and their "laptop bar" is nonpareil. I'd even swear that it's got a better stereo.
July 11, 2008
Gentle Snark
Somewhere in Georgetown right now, you'll find a bright yellow lunch truck that is the rolling home of Hallava Falafel. Walk around Georgetown until you find it. Then walk purposefully up to its window and order one of the best freaking shwarmas you've had in this town.
July 11, 2008
Gentle Snark
On the first Bastille Day in 1790, scores of Parisians gathered on the Champ de Mars to celebrate the end of the French Revolution. It took four days for the last straggler to sober up and go home. The modern-day equivalent of that holiday is a decidedly more sober and less naked affair, but that's not to say you can't have a lot of fun celebrating Bastille Day here in Seattle. We've got the wine, after all. The rest should come easy.
July 11, 2008
Gentle Snark
Roq la Rue will fete its tenth year much in the way you'd expect: with cupcakes, beer and a "greatest hits" show that'll warp your mind. On Friday, July 11, the gallery begins its second decade with a group show featuring Mia Araujo, Chris Crites, Brian Despain, Lori Earley, Femke Hiemstra, Travis Louie, Scott Musgrove, Lisa Petrucci, Mark Ryden, Shag and many more.
July 10, 2008
