May 2008
AREA: Hot Property
High Style: A new downtown condo tower offers an urban and eco lifestyle.
Category: NW Home Articles The newest player in downtown Seattle’s bustling shopping and financial district is the 5th and Madison condominium tower. With a targeted gold star LEED rating, the 24-story eco-friendly building sports a plaza level green roof outside and, inside, energy-efficient Bosch kitchen appliances, wool carpets for easy breathing and water-saving solutions,…
AREA: Green Paint
Taking a break from poison paints.
Category: Green Living Summertime is painting time, both indoors and out. Lead paint may be a thing of the 1970s past, but that doesn’t mean that today’s paint isn’t poisonous. Open up a can of standard paint and VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, come fuming out; inhaled, VOCs can really do a number on…
The Stylish Home: Summer Style
Kelley L. Moore’s pointers for poshing up your patio.
Category: NW Home Articles With the days of consecutive glorious sunshine around the corner, when the winter clouds roll back and that broad canvas of blue sky emerges, I’m reminded that it is time to bring the indoors out. In early summer, of course, Pacific Northwesterners still need to cuddle up when the sun…
Ultimate Coast Guide: Southern Oregon Coast
As promised, the complete guide to ultimate coastal destinations in Southern Oregon.
Go here if: you enjoy dune buggies and antiquing—and don’t mind a bit of a trek. Travel time: about six to seven hours from Seattle Feed Seymour at Darlingtonia Botanical Wayside A roadside preservation five miles north of Florence showcases one of southern Oregon’s rarest curiosities: the native carnivorous (it just likes insects—don’t worry) plant…
Video Special: Nancy Guppy at the Garde Rail Gallery
Category: Arts + Events Articles 5/1-5/31 // With an eye toward inequality and injustice, Bellingham artist Dale Gottlieb’s subject matter includes Martin Luther King Jr., the Tuskegee airmen and Abraham Lincoln. Telling stories first through painted images and spare cursive writing, Gottlieb then sends her creations to Nepal, where they are knotted into rugs…
Video: Seattle International Childrens Festival
Category: Arts + Events Articles 5/12-5/17 // Now in its 22nd year, this fest is simply the best for kids. This year’s theme is “Live from Planet Earth,” and accordingly features performers from all over the globe, including Australia’s 46 Circus Acts in 45 Minutes, and Germany’s Puppentheater Halle. Plus world music galore! Hours…