City Trails

In this issue:

Arts & Culture

Met Picks

Top Things to See or Do in April

Gamble on the Seattle Rock Lottery, vary tastes at Hop Scotch, and reflect on 20 years since Kurt Cobain’s death.

04/01/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Sporting Life

...Some Rain Must Fall

The Rainmakers, Seattle’s first professional ultimate Frisbee team, face intimidating obstacles in 2014.

04/01/2014 By Jeremy G. Novak

Best of the City

Best City Trails

25 best places to run, walk, skate, hike, and bike, plus Seattle-born gear, and a yearlong calendar of trails to try outside the city limits.

04/01/2014 By Allison Williams

Eat & Drink

Critic's Picks

Four New Restaurants from Marquee Chefs

Renee Erickson, Josh Henderson, Thierry Rautureau, and Ethan Stowell launch buzzy new spots.

04/01/2014

Restaurant Review

Save Room for Dessert

The pear-cherry galette with black pepper ice cream, for starters.

04/01/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Pour

Wine, Elevated: Gruners Grow Here

Turns out you can grow cool-weather grapes like gruner veltliner in Washington.

04/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Dining Out

Of Meat and Men

Jason Wilson of Crush goes all caveman at Miller's Guild. Did we mention they butcher whole animals?

04/01/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Feast and Desist

The Pastry That Must Not Be Named

Seattle bakers brave enough to riff on this labor-intensive treat have come up with their own monikers.

04/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Sweets

Flour to the People

Meet Seattle's best new confectioners.

04/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Editor's Note

Shake Up

Of the estimated 1,200 to 1,400 cases of babies who exhibit signs attributed to shaken baby syndrome every year, a much smaller number—one estimate places the number around 100 to 150—end up in criminal court.

04/01/2014 By Katherine Koberg

Health & Wellness

Healthy Kids

Network Interference

Obamacare is finally in full swing, but Washington state insurance plans don’t cover Seattle Children’s hospital. Won’t someone think of the kids?

04/01/2014 By Allison Williams

Home & Real Estate

Back Fence

Hive Minded

What backyard beekeeping really does for people.

04/01/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Habitat

Table Talk

Our favorite accent tables steal the design spotlight in the living room.

03/20/2014 By Angela Cabotaje

Inbox

Letters to Seattle Met

Dispatches from the Sandwich Wars, Likes and Dislikes after “Mike After Mike,” and the Least Seattle-y Comment about the Most Seattle-y Thing

04/01/2014

News & City Life

Feature

The Trouble with Shaken Baby Syndrome

After three decades and thousands of accusations and fractured lives, medical and legal experts are challenging shaken baby syndrome as a diagnosis. And as one family's saga demonstrates, we can't wait any longer to get it right.

04/02/2014 By James Ross Gardner

Rainmakers

His Stuff Doesn't Stink

Tim O’Neill and Engineered Compost Systems take the “ick” out of organic waste.

04/01/2014 By Matthew Halverson

Explainer

Lowering the Boom

A new federal report documents the failures—in process, material, regulation and others—that killed seven people at the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes in April 2010.

04/01/2014 By Matthew Halverson