Daily Find
Eastsiders scored with the opening of La Ree Boutique, a new shop in Old Bellevue. And, Seattleites have a reason to brave the bridge. Owner Rachel Nov's sophisticated clothing boutique is geared toward fashionistas with discerning tastes.
By Kathy Schultz | March 28, 2007
Daily Find
Need a cocktail ring to go with those shoes? Bruce Magnotti will have an array of stunning cocktail rings. These flashy baubles are hand-cut and polished estate stones set into vintage and new settings featuring garnets, peridot, amethyst, smoky quartz, citrine and other sparklers. Rings range from $300 to $2,000.
By Kathy Schultz | November 6, 2006
Every autumn, just about now, when the deep purple syrah grapes of Eastern Washington burst with telltale blackberry, leather and Asian spice notes, and when bright-green sauvignon blancs make growers' cheeks pucker at hints of gooseberry, grass and lime, Woodinville's winemakers put out the call: It's crush time.
The term means what it suggests.
By Tyrone Beason | October 5, 2006
Short Trips
BELLEVUE -- Seattleites who suffer from limnogephyrophobia (that's the fear of lakes and the bridges that cross them) could be missing something.
Bellevue, for example.
Bellevue is that place on the east side of Lake Washington that just about everyone on the west side of Lake Washington likes to poke fun at. You know who you are -- Blahvue, Blandville.
But, hold on a minute. You might be surprised.
By Gordy Holt | June 1, 2006
Seattle Style File
A trip to the spa for a rejuvenating facial might temporarily perk up weary skin that's seen too many cocktails and late nights out, but perhaps it's time for a lifestyle makeover that promotes more lasting health benefits.
By Kathy Schultz | January 11, 2006
The outing:
For the holiday-frazzled, here's a Saturday outing that comes with its own mellowing agent: beer.
By Brian J. Cantwell | December 30, 2004
The walk:
This isn't the Eastside I grew up in, I thought, as I shuffled around downtown Kirkland, not far from where my mother raised a beef cow in the back yard in the early 1950s, or where I took my wife-to-be on a first date at the well-neoned (now long-gone) Flame steakhouse.
Somehow, in the meantime, it seems that Carmel has oozed up from California.
Posh boutiques, galleries and toney restaurants reflect in the gleaming doors of bumper-to-bumper Lexi the plural of Lexus on Lake Street, where every smiling jogger carries a Blackberry.
By Brian J. Cantwell | September 9, 2004
The walk: Here's a jaunt that combines a path through woods, a historical train depot, a new library and a landmark salmon hatchery, all within the pleasant core of one of the Eastside's busier towns.
By Terry Tazioli | May 6, 2004
The walk: Here's a rare walk: You can take in an entire community not just a piece of it in a single afternoon. Even people who live on the Eastside may not be familiar with tiny Beaux Arts Village, the smallest jurisdiction in King County at a mere 10th of a square mile and a population of just over 300.
By Lucy Mohl | May 6, 2004
