10 Top Winery Visits

The best Washington wine destinations: Cave B, Chateau Ste Michelle, Portteus, Northstar, Col Solare, Abeja, Novelty Hill-Januik, Nefarious Cellars, Badger Mountain Vineyard, and L’Ecole No 41.

By Lia Steakley Dicker, James Ross Gardner, and Jessica Voelker

Turnover

3BA might be the next big thing in professional basketball: full-court, three-on-three hoops played at breakneck speed. But even the game’s back-and-forth action can’t compete with the legal battles and off-the-court drama its Seattle creator, Kevin LuBahn, has endured.

By Matthew Halverson

A Tasting Menu of Fall Arts

The Flaming Lips, Pablo Picasso masterpieces, Lucia di Lammermoor, Daniel Handler, and more in our preview of the best fall arts events.

By Laura DannenWith contribution from Douglas Bair and Tiffany Wan

Letters to the Editor

She’s the App for That

Nineteen-year-old UW business major Lily Berlina is one of 12 women featured in the new iPhone app Real Weather Girls.

By Douglas Bair

Trail of Beers

Thanks to a Sound Transit construction project that broke ground last December, much of the E-11 lot just south of Husky Stadium is off-limits to tailgaters.

By Matthew Halverson

Hold Your Tongue

Ethan Stowell, owner of Tavolàta, Anchovies & Olives, and How to Cook a Wolf, from his cookbook Ethan Stowell’s New Italian Kitchen, out September 21.

In the Key of Glee

Oak Harbor High School’s singing coach, Darren McCoy, a real-life version of Will Schuester, is teaching a Glee-inspired class just in time for the second-season premier of the hit FOX show on September 21.

By Alexandra Notman

Budding Bromance

On the set of Stephen Gyllenhaal’s new political comedy Grassroots with stars Jason Biggs and Joel David Moore.

By Laura Dannen

Spray Paint by Numbers

A by-the-numbers look at graffiti in Seattle.

Racked with Pain

Metro’s bus-bike commuter numbers are slumping. Is it because of the bike racks, manufactured by Woodinville’s Sportworks, as Dave Janis of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington suggests?

By Eric Scigliano

Bombers Away

Boeing will soon demolish Plant 2, where it built the B-17 Flying Fortress bombers and the first of the B-29 Super Fortresses, and partially restore its polluted site to wildland.

By Eric Scigliano

The Perfect Party

This month’s party guests: Guillermo del Toro, Walter Tamosaitis, Maria Hines, Jane Goodall, Malcolm Duthie, Jaskaran Singh, Drew Carey, and Estelle Leopold.

Clothes Make the Man

Mario Bisio of downtown menswear store Mario’s opts for gray flannel pants and a pop of color.

By Laura Cassidy

Deja Vu All Over Again

At Cairo on Capitol Hill, the last 40 years of fashion are as good as new.

By Laura Cassidy

Grillaxin’

While away warm September evenings with this Frykat charcoal grill by Bodum, available on Amazon.com.

By Laura Cassidy

Free Rage Neighbors

When the Seattle Department of Planning and Development recommended changes to urban agriculture laws in June, including a ban on roosters, it unwittingly pitted animal-loving locavores against peace-seeking residents.

By Matthew Halverson

Hot 'Hoods: Wallingford

Seattle doesn’t require chicken owners to register their little cluckers, so it’s anyone’s guess which nabe has the largest poultry population. But as the home of Seattle Tilth, Wallingford is plenty fowl-friendly.

By Matthew Halverson

Escalation Clause

A Queen Anne jaywalking stop involving Seattle Police Officer Daniel Amador and 17-year-old Joe Wilson turns violent. Have Seattle police forgotten how to put on the breaks? Does the SPD need a refresher course in de-escalation?

By Eric Scigliano

Young MC

Is podcaster Luke Burbank, of canceled KIRO-AM talk radio show Too Beautiful to Live, the future of radio?

By Matthew Halverson

Everyone Loves a Complement

Advice from Emily Lauderback of colorinspace.com and Kathy Banak, owner of Authentic Home, for incorporating bold swaths of color into any room.

By Jessica Voelker

Swing and a Prayer

At Gary Kirkland’s Emerald City Trapeze Arts in SoDo, the flying trapeze can be an aerial assault of awesome if you don’t let it go to your head.

By Matthew Halverson

You Can't Give It Away

The best zucchini bread recipe in town, courtesy Essential Baking Company.

By Jess Thomson

Great Scott

Scott Carsberg is keeping it eel in a casual makeover of Lampreia: Belltown restaurant Bisato.

By Kathryn Robinson

Tapas Time

No month feels better suited to the heavily oiled lightness of Spanish tapas than September. Get them at these three tapas restaurants.

By Kathryn Robinson

Hot Spot: Elliott Bay Café

While the original Elliott Bay Café in Pioneer Square still plugs away in the basement of its vacated building at First and Main, chef Tamara Murphy brings her innovations to the lofty new Elliott Bay Book Company on Capitol Hill.

By Kathryn Robinson

Lost in the Shadows

Patricia Rovzar Gallery displays Z.Z. Wei’s stirring perspectives on rural Americana.

A Losing Proposition

The Seattle United soccer mom who dares to want her child to lose.

By Kathryn Robinson