While Seattle’s original Nihonmachi is, of course, in the International District, the popularity of Japanese food may be creating new “Nihonmachi” in the area. A new kushi restaurant has already come to Wallingford, with soba to follow, and a couple of Japanese imports will soon arrive in Bellevue. Continue reading New “Nihonmachi” Bring Japanese Food (and Morimoto!) to Seattle and Bellevue
“Seattle has dozens of microclimates and I’d say we challenge San Francisco as far as number, only ours aren’t quite as stark. However, San Francisco cheats a bit in that their population spreads out further.” Continue reading And Now, KOMO’s Scott Sistek on Northwest Weather, Coastal Radar & Microclimates
The Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau realizes there’s only so much togetherness a body can stand this time of year. So they have gathered, all at one simple URL, a good bit of Seattle’s seasonal offerings: Visit Holidays in Seattle to plot your escape from home! Continue reading Looking for a Guide to the Holidays in Seattle?
As leaves make way for evergreen trees, let’s take a final look at the season that will be upon us … Continue reading Glimpses: “Fall upon us”
Trees, it turns out, are daredevils rather than the fusty old Ents of Tolkien. They’re so invested in growing as big and as fast as possible, that they have little margin of hydraulic error. It doesn’t matter whether they’re scrubby piñon pines in New Mexico or mossed-over giants in the Olympic National Forest. Continue reading Tree Embolisms & the Death of Forests by Climate Change’s Thousand Cuts
Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels (at Theater Schmeater through December 15) is a lightly amusing and decidedly uneven show, which loses a lot because of its weakness in set and costume details, a weakness which could be overlooked were it otherwise more engaging. Continue reading Fallen Angels at Theater Schmeater Offers Intimacy, for Better and Worse
Even with thousands of new apartments on the way, concludes Everett Rummage, “with the city’s economy recovering, and unemployment continuing to fall, there’s no reason to expect the rent to remain anything but Too Damn High.”
That’s the opposite sloganeering spin of Seattle Bubble, where the headline is “The Rent Won’t Be Too Damn High For Long.” Continue reading Are Seattle’s Rent Prices Heading Up or Down?
