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5 Creative Ways to Spend Time Abroad

5 Creative Ways to Spend Time Abroad

These five international opportunities may help you expand your world in 2016

  When the New Year began, you probably made a resolution. Some of us aspired to live healthier lives or to read more books. Others chose to spend more time with family or quit a bad habit. While all of these resolutions are admirable, why not set your sights even higher this year? Consider expanding…

What to Expect for the 2016 Seattle Sounders Season

What to Expect for the 2016 Seattle Sounders Season

What you need to know ahead of this month’s Sounders season kickoff

The Seattle Sounders have the home field advantage when they take on Sporting Kansas City on March 6 in their first match of the 2016 Major League Soccer (MLS) season. They’ll be cheered on by their fervent fans (the team is top of the league for attendance, with averages of more than 44,000 tickets per…

At-home Test Kits for Colon Cancer

At-home Test Kits for Colon Cancer

A study shows the kits have boosted screening rates by 16 percent

A team led by Seattle-based Group Health physician Beverly B. Green, M.D., and Gloria D. Coronado, Ph.D., of Kaiser Permanente Center for Health in Portland, Oregon, is helping boost colon cancer screening rates for low-income patients—by mail. With more than 100,000 new cases and 50,000 deaths annually, colon cancer is the county’s second-leading cause of…

Capitol Hill Light Rail Station Opens This Weekend

Capitol Hill Light Rail Station Opens This Weekend

Capitol Hill’s new light rail station serves double duty as an art gallery

While Seattle waits to see if infamous State Route 99 tunnel borer Bertha ever reaches the Alaskan Way Viaduct, we’ll celebrate her little sister’s work this month when the University Link light rail service opens six months ahead of schedule and $150 million under budget. The rail line—an extension of the existing service from Seattle-Tacoma…

Porcelain Works on Display at Bellevue Arts Museum

Porcelain Works on Display at Bellevue Arts Museum

Sculptor Chris Antemann brings sexy back

While art in the 20th century expanded its scope through abstraction, minimalism and conceptualism, something was clearly lost in the process. It would only be a matter of time before the sensuality and underlying eroticism of traditional Western figurative art—which held sway from ancient Greece until the Victorian era—would come back with a vengeance. Oregon-based…

Does Seattle Need to Define its Preferred Pizza Style?

Does Seattle Need to Define its Preferred Pizza Style?

A recent wave of pizza openings might bring us closer to defining a local style

When celebrated neighborhood haunt Delancey (Ballard, 1415 NW 70th St.; 206.838.1960) first started firing blistery pizzas, owner Brandon Pettit witnessed a funny moment: A local leaned over to her friend and said a bit too loudly, “This pizza is OK, but it’s not New York style.” A woman sitting at the bar overheard the comment—and…

Queen Anne Beerhall has Standouts, Confusing Cash-Only Grill

Queen Anne Beerhall has Standouts, Confusing Cash-Only Grill

Just say prost to the European experience of Queen Anne Beerhall

The early word? Frustrating. Weeks after Queen Anne Beerhall opened in the former Cotton Caboodle facility on the southwest slope of Queen Anne Hill, amateur and professional critics slammed the Old World biergarten’s hit-or-miss food and confusing, cash-only bratwurst grill. So, I waited nearly three months after the hall’s September opening to take my family…

New Book From Eli Sanders Joins the Pantheon of True-Crime Stories

New Book From Eli Sanders Joins the Pantheon of True-Crime Stories

Reflections on a story of violence and whether our city could have done more to prevent it

Seattle has been home to some of the country’s ablest writers of true crime; the late Ann Rule, whose book about Ted Bundy, The Stranger Beside Me, is a classic of the genre. Jack Olsen produced deeply reported books, such as the complex story of Spokane’s South Hill rapist, documented in his book Son. Author…

Take a Trip to Seattle's Nearby Hot Springs

Take a Trip to Seattle’s Nearby Hot Springs

Soak your stress away in Goldmyer Hot Springs

Where: Goldmyer Hot Springs, enclosed in the thick foliage of Cascade forest, 45 minutes southeast of Seattle. Why: To soak in good-for-you sulfur springs, sheltered by a secluded cave. Snow-covered bike trails and waterfalls are close by, and the lack of campers in early spring means it’s easier for visitors to get in. Spring Awakening:…

Our favorite Valentine's Day dinners and drinks

Our favorite Valentine’s Day dinners and drinks

A pop up in Tacoma and a Ballard mixology class make the cut

Sweetest Lovey Dovey Menu: RN74, Seattle Boy are we suckers for puns. Especially when they’re meaningful and delicious. Executive Chef David Varley of downtown’s RN74 has planned a menu devoted to couples. Think a starter of ahi tuna tartare for two followed by shareable Alaskan Red King crab pot pie, a black truffle polenta “love…

Recipe for Housemade Lime Cordial

Andy’s Lime Cordial Ingredients 2 quarts white sugar 3 quarts water Zest from 8 limes 1 cup lime juice   1. Place the sugar and water in a saucepan and start to bring almost to a simmer while you zest limes. 2. Add the zest to the pan before simmering starts, and once simmering, simmer…

6 Ways to Love Your Home this Valentine's Day

6 Ways to Love Your Home this Valentine’s Day

Put a little bit of heart into your home with these six easy improvements

This article originally appeared on Porch.com. Your home is like a great partner: it supports you, shelters you, and makes sure you’re always comfortable. And just like any relationship, your home needs love to stay healthy. Attention and care is what makes a house a home. So open up a box of chocolates, pour a…

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