This week’s Happy Cookie Friday is brought to you by Honoré Bakery in Ballard. I haven’t ever been to the place so I can’t speak to what all they have to offer, but I can tell you this. They make some gorgeous cookies. An old friend treated me to a box of cookies as a [...]
Bellevue got its own El Gaucho in November of ’08, and last Thursday, April of 2010, I finally got to visit it for the first time. Since I’m a working woman on a budget, it was a visit to the bar for the Power Hour Happy Hour, which takes place from 3-6 Monday through [...]
This week’s Happy Cookie Friday is brought to you by the apricot bars at pasta & co. Wednesday I figured it was time to get out and find a cookie for Friday, so I got in my car and drove to the nearest pasta place I could find. Ok, so really I was in the [...]
Friday night was the first game of a three game series between the Seattle Mariners and the Detroit Tigers. It was also Jackie Robinson day, so in honor of his achievements, Major League Baseball outfitted all of its players with Robinson’s number 42. The Mariners did not play on Thursday, the official day, so all [...]
In a town run rampant with teriyaki and phở, it’s hard to find good Chinese food. Hell, Chinese food in general. And by good Chinese food I mean a decent general tso or spicy orange chicken, so by good Chinese I mean good Szechuan, but I guess I really mean American-Chinese. Teriyaki shacks [...]
Last weekend we photographed the 2010 Northwest Dance Extravaganza in Seattle. The event was presented by the Dance Workshop’s Lynn Offutt and crew. This was the 26th anniversary of the Spring event and featured many talented performers from across the country. The Extravaganza is an all day event and we arrived for the daytime priogram which [...]
Saturday we took a visiting friend out to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival for a spring infusion of color. The festival takes place from April 1-30 each year but is really dependent upon how harsh the winter and early spring are to the flowers. This year, the mild early spring accelerated the viewing season by a week or so, [...]
The Essential Bakery Cafe in Madison Park is a loverly place to visit on a sunny Spring afternoon. Especially if you’re looking for a cookie to satisfy your regular Friday craving. It was a toss up between the sable cookie and the macaroon. Normally the macaroon wouldn’t tempt me because coconut isn’t my [...]
They say every time a bell rings, a cupcake is born. In Seattle. And if we added up all the cupcakes that get born every day and multiply that times the people who are taking pictures of those cupcakes, the total is 3,443,249. Anymore when I have my camera out in a restaurant, people [...]
Walking down California on an incredibly windy Friday afternoon, we decided to find a tasty happy hour in a place we’d never visited. I spotted the black iron decorating a store front and said, “”Hey, how about Matador?” “Eh,” said James. Less than an hour later his “Eh” had changed to “Ok, that’s my new [...]
Last Friday was the start of the Cues and Tattoos weekend workshop event hosted each year by Troupe Hipnotica here in Seattle. This was the 3rd annual event, focusing entirely on the use of improvisational choreography within a Tribal Belly Dance structure. The hosts are a group of eight performers who dance to music from around [...]
We stopped by Kerry Park on Queen Anne for a quick peek at the view and a group of traveling teens were getting busy with their photos. When I saw they were jumping up and snapping, I had to get in on the action.
This week’s Happy Cookie Friday is brought to you by Bakery Nouveau. They sell the chunkiest, thickest peanut butter cookies packed with, uh, peanuts. Big ones. And who can eat cookies without milk? Not me. Happy Cookie Friday, man. They had a last almond croissant in the case, who could resist? Could be a trick [...]
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