Top Sweets!

Top Sweets! <p><em>Seattle Met</em> researchers compiled data on chocolates, iconic desserts, cupcakes, a pastry chef smackdown, and one erotic bakery—with delicious results. Plus: a life-cycle home in Greenlake that changes to fit its owners’ changing needs; and a tribal princess leads the Duwamish in its latest battle to prove to the U.S. government that it exists.</p>

In this issue:

Arts & Culture

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Five Questions for Jack Hamann

02/23/2009 By Christopher Werner

Pacific Northwest Ballet’s winter wonderland ball

Dancing Through a Winter Wonderland

02/12/2009

Lifelong AIDS Alliance’s Gay bingo

Disco Inferno

02/12/2009

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Go Ahead, Make His Day

Kirkland actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan brings out the big guns for Watchmen

02/12/2009 By Matthew Halverson

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Tom Robbins Gets the Blues

…at the imminent demise of the morning P-I.

02/11/2009 By Eric Scigliano

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The Longest March

During admissions month, a middle schooler’s parents know no shame. None whatsoever.

02/11/2009 By Kathryn Robinson

Eat & Drink

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Open Loooooonger

03/16/2009

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Sweets Shopping Guide

All the places to purchase your favorite sweet treats—and perhaps discover a new favorite.

02/20/2009

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Sugar Sub Study

02/16/2009

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Brownie Bakeoff

02/16/2009

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Chocolate Lab

02/16/2009

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Pastry Pop Quiz

02/16/2009

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Last Course Legwork

Plate by plate, it’s the biggest players in Seattle’s dessert scene.

02/16/2009

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Cupcake Trials

02/16/2009

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Sweet Science

Local desserts, broken down and expounded upon.

02/16/2009 With Cherise Watts, Katie Zipper, and Kristin Okinaka By Kathryn Robinson, Jess Thomson, Camden Swita, Jessica Voelker, and Jill Watanabe

Shot

The Botany of Bitters

Seattle bartenders revive an old remedy for run of the mill cocktails

02/12/2009 By Brad Thomas Parsons

Cellar Talk

Penny-Wise Pinots

Our wine critic says spend $20, be richly rewarded

02/12/2009 By Condé Cox

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Swanky Days are Here Again

Or, at El Gaucho’s new Eastside steakhouse maybe they never left.

01/14/2009 By Kathryn Robinson

Editor's Note

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A Note from the Editor

Hello, Neighbor

02/11/2009 By Katherine Koberg

Health & Wellness

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Wheels of Fortune

Quad rugby’s rising local star is headed for the big time. And it’s going to be murder.

02/11/2009 By Matthew Halverson

Home & Real Estate

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Your Future Holds…

Desperate Marketing

02/11/2009

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One to Grow On

Architect Emory Baldwin’s Greenlake home puts his simple—yet revolutionary—design philosophy to the test.

02/11/2009 By Christopher Werner

Tech

Home Tweet Home

You may not be Twittering yet, but your broker is.

02/11/2009 By Matthew Halverson

Inbox

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Mail from the Metro

02/11/2009

News & City Life

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Nick vs. Nickels

Is Seattle ready for Mayor Licata? The council’s resident dissident will be a contender—if he runs.

02/11/2009 By L.D. Kirshenbaum

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The Tribe That Would Not Die

After a century and a half of diaspora, Chief Seattle’s people have one last chance to reclaim their rights—and prove they exist.

02/11/2009 By Lia Steakley Dicker

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Stairmaster

02/11/2009

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Boo Hoo WaMu

So your job and stock vaporized? Party with the friends of the family.

02/11/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Style & Shopping

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Super Natural

Bring the outside in with home decor and accessories that reflect the great outdoors.

02/12/2009 By Laura Cassidy

Travel & Outdoors

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All Washed Up

Flotsamologists never know what they’ll uncover on Washington’s stormy shores—and that’s the point.

02/12/2009 By Eric Scigliano