Ultimate Garden Lovers Guide

Ultimate Garden Lovers Guide  

In this issue:

Arts & Culture

On The Town

Japan: The Deco Years

05/01/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Scene in Seattle

Story Glory

In 16 cities nationwide, Moth StorySlam gives storytellers a shot on the basement stage to address a theme in a single, true narrative.

05/01/2014 By Allison Williams

Met Picks

Seattle Event Picks: May 2014

SIFF turns 40, Ira Glass delights in the afternoon, and Mobile Food Rodeo expands.

04/30/2014 By Seth Sommerfeld

Eat & Drink

News Feed

Seattle Restaurant News: May 2014

Dining news dispatches from around Seattle.

05/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Excerpt

Inside Molly Wizenberg’s New Memoir 'Delancey'

With restaurant fantasies, things only get dangerous when another person is involved.

05/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Critic's Picks

What's Good in the 'Hood

A few of our favorite neighborhood restaurants.

05/01/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Pour

French Wine Sans Snobbery

A night at Le Caviste, downtown’s new wine bar, is like a drinker’s semester abroad.

05/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Dining Out

Southern Charmers

Two new Fremont restaurants explore cuisines of the South.

05/01/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Booze News

Drinking Games Can Be Craft Too

A Portland artist releases a deck of cards featuring sketches of local breweries.

05/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Restaurant Review

Tallulah's: Classy, Glassy, and All Grown Up

The restaurant with creative cocktails is the latest from Linda’s own Linda Derschang.

04/28/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Editor's Note

Editor's Note

Growing Pains and Pleasures

When traffic jams and density get to be all too much, stop and smell the roses.

05/01/2014 By Katherine Koberg

Health & Wellness

Back Fence

Sex and the Millennial Girl

Hookup culture: liberating freedoms or friends with lopsided benefits?

05/01/2014 By Kathryn Robinson

Home & Real Estate

Garden City

The Botany of Urban Desire

Sarah Bergmann's Pollinator Pathway combines art, ecology, and urban planning. Just don't call it a bee thing.

05/01/2014 By James Ross Gardner

Garden City

Expert Tips for Seattle Gardeners

21 local plant and landscape experts share their green-thumb and design secrets.

05/01/2014 By Angela Cabotaje

Garden City

My Life in the P-Patch

How to get started in a community garden.

04/28/2014 By Erica C. Barnett

Seattle Real Estate 2014

This Must Be the Place

When my marriage ended in spring 2013, I was dragged into one of the most turbulent real estate markets in recent memory. Through the tears and heartache, I learned a lot about buying and selling houses but even more about finding home.

04/19/2014 By Matthew Halverson

Seattle Real Estate 2014

5 Expert Tips for Home Buyers

Patience and planning give buyers the inside track.

04/19/2014 By KC Brants, Real Estate Agent, Redfin

Seattle Real Estate 2014

10 Hottest Neighborhoods in Seattle

Who’s buying where in a revved-up real estate market.

04/19/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Seattle Real Estate 2014

Neighborhoods By the Numbers

Market values past, present, and future, walk, bike, and transit scores, demographics, and more on 202 neighborhoods in and around Seattle

04/19/2014

Garden City

10 Secret Seattle Gardens

Seattle's 10 most stunning gardens...that you probably don't even know about!

04/18/2014 By Ezra Parter

Inbox

Inbox

Letters to Seattle Met

Mayor Bloomberg’s gift to Mayor Murray, and what we talk about when we talk about boredom.

04/24/2014

News & City Life

Explainer

Won't You Be My Driver?

Rideshare companies began popping up in Seattle in 2012, simultaneously exciting customers and enraging competition. And with new regulations taking effect this summer, Seattle has become one of the first cities to address the controversy head on.

05/01/2014 By Genie Leslie

Quote Unquote

Meet the Men Who Discovered HMS Chatham’s Anchor

A commercial diver and an amateur historian may have just discovered an anchor lost during the Vancouver Expedition of the 1790s.

05/01/2014 By Matthew Halverson

Rainmakers

Designed, Sealed, Delivered

Rathna Sharad and Runway2Street are bringing international fashion to domestic doorsteps.

05/01/2014 By Matthew Halverson

News in a minute

One-Sentence Stories

A (really) brief recap of the news you might have missed.

05/01/2014 By Jeremy G. Novak

Perfect Party

Perfect Party

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

05/01/2014

Sporting Life

Autism’s New Challengers

Seahawks GM John Schneider made Seattle a thing of sports legend. Now he and his wife are a defensive line for families burdened with the costs of treating autism.

05/01/2014 By James Ross Gardner

What Lies Beneath

What Stopped the World’s Largest Tunnel-Boring Machine Just 1,000 Feet Into Its Journey?

And how does a city growing as fast as Seattle avoid erasing its past?

05/01/2014 By James Ross Gardner

Urban Upgrade

Free Parking for Seattle Musicians?

Okay, not exactly, but Seattle’s new rules for rockers will make it easier to get gear in and out—and get the show going.

04/28/2014 By Josh Feit

Style & Shopping

Style Counsel

Major Miniature

This Seattle toddler and her hip mama prove it’s never too early to shop vintage and sport pink hair.

05/01/2014 By Laura Cassidy

Travel & Outdoors

Weekend Pass

Climb Every Mountain (or Take the Shortcut Instead)

Canada’s rock-climbing mecca of Squamish gets a sightseeing gondola. Is that good news?

05/01/2014 By Allison Williams