6 Perfect Road Trips

6 Perfect Road Trips Six <a href="../../../travel-and-outdoors/articles/road-trips-2012-april-2012/">spring road trips</a>, to Oregon and Alaska and back again. Plus: How <a href="../../../issues/archives/articles/butterworth-mortuarys-exquisite-corpses-april-2012/">E. R. Butterworth</a> revolutionized the funeral business with a full-service mortuary; why fifty years later the <a href="../../../arts-and-entertainment/articles/seattles-iconic-space-needle-april-2012/">Space Needle</a> still works; and a Ballard artist’s home is the ideal setting for <a href="../../../style-and-shopping/articles/the-art-of-spring-fashion-april-2012/">spring fashion</a> ’s graphic patterns, photographic prints, and daring color combinations.

In this issue:

Arts & Culture

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Met Picks: Top Things to Do and See in April

03/23/2012 Edited by Laura Dannen

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Book-It Repertory Theatre Stages The Art of Racing in the Rain

03/23/2012 By Laura Dannen

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Esperanza Spalding Plays the Paramount

03/23/2012 Edited by Laura Dannen

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Dispatches from Seattlemet.com

Parks and Speculation

03/23/2012 By Christopher Werner

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The Perfect Party

Here’s who we’d invite if we could entertain this month’s most interesting visitors, locals, and newsmakers.

03/23/2012 By Allison Williams

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Northwest Bookshelf: Trading Manny

Rage against the steroid machine

03/23/2012 By Brian Colella

Eat & Drink

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Dish Deconstructed: U:Don’s On-Tama Udon

Chef Takanori Kurachi

03/23/2012 By Allecia Vermillion

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Artisan Cheese and Local Beer, Together at Last

A new festival for Washington cheesemakers has a background in beer.

03/23/2012 By Allecia Vermillion

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The Legacy of Le Gourmand

The end of the beginning of Northwest cuisine.

03/23/2012 By Kathryn Robinson

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Tweet First, Cook Later

For Seattle restaurateurs, creating an online presence now often comes before buying a stove.

03/23/2012 By Allecia Vermillion

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Campagne Reopens as Marché

03/23/2012 By Kathryn Robinson

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LloydMartin Brings Sophisticated Noshes to Queen Anne

A peripatetic Seattle chef brings aromatic meats and other fine noshes to a neighborhood that needed it.

03/23/2012 By Kathryn Robinson

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: April 2012

Entrepreneurial Spirits Haunt Seattle’s Buildings

03/23/2012 By Katherine Koberg

Health & Wellness

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Gaming, for Your Health

03/23/2012 By Amanda Zurita

Home & Real Estate

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The Math: Downtown Housing by the Numbers

03/23/2012 Edited by James Ross Gardner

Inbox

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Tasty Breakfasts and Beverages, Waterfront Wish List, Great Hair

03/23/2012

News & City Life

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Exquisite Corpses

E. R. Butterworth’s full-service mortuary revolutionized the funeral business. When tuberculosis and diphtheria ravaged the city, that business was good. When one of America’s first female serial killers struck, business got complicated.

03/23/2012 By James Ross Gardner

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Public v. Private Education

Seattle parents want their kids to have everything. Except privilege.

03/23/2012 By Kathryn Robinson

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Puberty Lady Julie Metzger Talks About Sex

03/23/2012 By Matthew Halverson

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Picnik Crashers

Why did Google kill Seattle’s prized picture-editing site?

03/23/2012 By Matthew Halverson

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Verbatim: State Representative Maureen Walsh Defends Marriage, for All

03/23/2012

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Trade Secrets: Don’t Fear the Tax Man

03/23/2012 By Allie Oosta

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Would It Work Here? Policing the Police

03/23/2012 By Jessie Wesley

Style & Shopping

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Geometry-Inspired Accessories for the Home and Office

03/23/2012 By Jennie Gruss

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Spring Fashion 2012

The art of spring fashion.

03/23/2012 By Laura Cassidy

Travel & Outdoors

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Road Trips 2012

The Northwest has the best stretches of blacktop in the world: We can cross mountain passes and trace deserted shoreline, even motor up to the world’s best farm-to-table feast. All it takes is a full tank.

07/27/2012 By Kathryn Robinson, Laura Dannen, and Allison Williams