Road Trips

Road Trips No need for excuses. Here are <a href="../../../travel-and-outdoors/articles/spring-road-trips-0410/">five regional reasons</a> to load the trunk, get behind the wheel, and put rubber to asphalt. Plus, new, ultrarelaxed mixing and matching brings fresh air to <a href="../../../style-and-shopping/articles/spring-fashion-0410/">warm-weather style</a>.

In this issue:

Arts & Culture

Passing Through

Saffron Revolutionary

The Venerable U Pyinya Zawta sips tea and looks toward better times in Burma.

03/18/2010 By Eric Scigliano

Article

The Perfect Party

This month’s party guests: Elaine Pagels, Hunter Handsfield, Tom Perez, Mark Arthur, Howard Schultz, Scott Williams, Christina Choi, David Shor.

03/18/2010

Article

Fit as a Fiddle

An Old World artisan, Rafael Carrabba, matches up violins, players, and big-time investors.

03/18/2010 By Eric Scigliano

Article

We Think You’ve Seen Her Before

Suzanne Vega, backstage at the Moore Theatre on February 25, 2010.

03/18/2010

Article

Turning Japanese

Seattle’s anime and manga fest Sakura-Con turns 13 this month. What are you wearing?

03/18/2010 By James Ross Gardner

Article

Going the Distance

This woman gets quite enough exercise playing tug-of-war with her conscience, thank you.

03/12/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Article

Homer Alone

New Century Theater codirector Hans Altwies treads softly into his first solo show—an adaptation of The Iliad at Seattle Repertory Theatre.

03/11/2010 By Laura Dannen

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The Kid Gloves Come Off

Artist Matthew Barney’s five-part magnum opus Cremaster Cycle screens in its entirety at SIFF Cinema this month.

03/11/2010

Eat & Drink

Article

Dinner Run

Belltown’s high-end restaurants fly east to South Lake Union.

03/18/2010 By Jessica Voelker

Article

Let Them Eat Brioche

Buttery-sweet brioche is a staple at any boulangerie worth its salt—this recipe from Columbia City Bakery owner Evan Andres is the French classic at its best.

03/16/2010 By Jess Thomson

Article

A Cherry on Top

Mike McSorley, the bar manager at Naga Cocktail Lounge at Chantanee restaurant, shares a recipe for homemade maraschino cherries so you can give your carefully crafted cocktails the garnish they deserve.

03/15/2010 By Jessica Voelker

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What to Eat Now

One heckuva list of beef sandwiches.

03/12/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

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A Pirate’s Life for Him

Jeff Smiley serves his spring bock beers in Greenwood’s Pillagers Pub, a place fit for Blackbeard.

03/12/2010 By Jessica Voelker

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Mighty Meals

William Belickis’s South Lake Union restaurant MistralKitchen offers a full plate that will please regular diners and food snobs alike.

03/12/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

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Neighborhood Hot Spot

What makes Spice Room, the romantic and sophisticated brick room along the Columbia City strip, memorable?

03/11/2010

Editor's Note

Article

A Note From the Editor

Have we met?

03/15/2010

Health & Wellness

Article

Life Is But a Dream

Rowers at Lake Union Crew ditch the Stairmaster and sauna in favor of fresh air and open water.

03/18/2010 By Karen Quinn

Home & Real Estate

Article

The Bifurcated House

Gage Academy of Art’s founding family puts a modern face on a Ballard bungalow.

03/17/2010 By Jessica Voelker

Article

Renting the High Life

New homes for rent: Builders are leasing what they can’t sell. Plus, Sand Point’s low crime rate makes it a hot neighborhood.

03/15/2010 By Matthew Halverson

Inbox

Article

Letters to the Editor

Crust almighty! Proclamations over picks for Seattle’s best pizza. Plus: A reader clears up confusion over citywide Wi-Fi, and bikers gone bad.

03/16/2010

News & City Life

Article

Distraction Figure

How to handle the Mariners’ new acquisition, Milton Bradley, with care.

03/19/2010 By Matthew Halverson

Article

Seattle to the Rescue

How our region swung into action following the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti—and what more can be done.

03/18/2010

Past Lives

Billy the Mug

Seattle’s toughest saloon keeper, Billy the Mug, had a sentimental side.

03/18/2010 By Eric Scigliano

Article

Lady Liberty

Keli Carender, aka Libery Belle, the Seattle blogger who ignited the Tea Party.

03/15/2010 By Matthew Halverson

Style & Shopping

Article

Fresh Air

Fashion’s new, ultrarelaxed policy on mixing and “matching” means anything is possible and everything is beautiful.

03/16/2010 By Laura Cassidy

Article

Vested Interest

Cornish design student Ben Fuglevand works at home furnishings showroom Velocity Art and Design. He wants a long white oxford shirt for spring.

03/15/2010 By Laura Cassidy

Travel & Outdoors

Article

Go! Road Trips 2010

Seattle’s nice, but a road trip in the springtime is even sweeter. Here, five excuses to load the trunk, get behind the wheel, and put rubber to asphalt.

03/17/2010 By James Ross Gardner, David Laskin, Jessica Voelker, Lia Steakley Dicker, and Christopher Werner

Web Exclusives

Snapshots

Party Pics

Pictures from the 2010 Arbor Eden Preview Gala, Artist Trust’s 2010 Benefit Art Auction, On Wings of Hope, Jackie and Bender’s One Big KISS for Seattle Children’s Hospital Radiothon, Venice is Sinking: A Venetian Masked Carnival Ball, and 18th Annua

03/24/2010

Article

Viva Vega

A Close Up of folk musician Suzanne Vega.

03/18/2010 By Christopher Werner