Category: Arts + Events Articles   On the surface, BAM’s Offering Reconciliation is an exhibit of beautiful ceramic bowls sculpted by 135 prominent Palestinian and Israeli artists. But the deeper message here is that each bowl symbolizes the idea of reconciliation between the Israelis and the Palestinians through art. Palestinian artist Osama Zatar, for example,…

Category: Arts + Events Articles   Cris Bruch is Seattle’s mostversatile sculptor. Whether creating whimsical woodworks or awe-inspiringstainless steel installations (his giant tanklike steel sculpture at theUniversity of Washington looks like it could have been built for the set of MadMax), Bruch effortlessly–and masterfully–adapts to new mediums and styles.To help you fully appreciate Bruch’s versatility,…

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Category: Arts + Events Articles   During the past few years the Seattle Aquariumhas been showing its age, which is why we’re pumped for the opening of itsWindow on Washington Waters exhibit, a 120,000-gallon aquarium filled with seadwellers such as salmon, rockfish and sea anemones. Divers will be on hand toanswer questions about the new…

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Category: Tasting Notes   When apple prices plummeted about 10 years ago, Mike and Karen Wade wondered how they could diversify enough to keep their third-generation, Wenatchee-based fruit-growing and -packing company afloat and continue to be competitive. Suddenly faced with cheap imported apples being dumped onto the U.S. market-which was already sagging from the 1980s…

Category: Arts + Events Articles   Yale-educated painter and inaugural recipient of SAM’s Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Fellowship raises questions of culture by carefully re-creating historical oil paintings, then deconstructing and reconstructing them in provocative ways As the inaugural recipient of Seattle Art Museum’s Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence Fellowship (awarded biannually to early-career…

Category: Eat + Drink Articles   Here’s what you must do this weekend: the Running of the Bulls in Belltown; dead rock stars tour on Capital Hill; and the International District’s Summer FestivalFRIDAY, JULY 10Seattle Summer Blues FestivalFeel free to be moody at the first annual Summer Blues Festival at the Triple Door. Performers will…

Category: NW Home Articles   Eric and Judith Knowles knew that they were going to remodel their two-bedroom, 1948 Sand Point home some day. Besides being natural light- and space-deprived, its old-fashioned, compartmentalized design didn’t suit the young family’s out-going, interactive nature.  A brief change of scenery jump-started their remodeling time line.  “We came home…

Category: NW Home Articles   When Anna Howden bought a vacant view lot on San Juan Island nearly five years ago, her life was quite different than it is today: she was a single, Arkansas transplant working for a design firm based on Bainbridge Island. Then she was asked to run the firm’s satellite office…

Category: NW Home Articles   A central principle of green design is taking something that has outlived its usefulness and giving it new life. This was the goal of Jason Morrow when his company, Footprint Developments, purchased a lot at the north end of the Aurora Bridge in 2006, with the intention of building seven…

Category: NW Home Articles   Seguing from bike trail to natural food market aisle without breaking a sweat. That’s the kind of organic urban ease that is the lure of living in Fremont.  Adding to Fremont’s green appeal is a new, award-winning, 4-Star Built Green-certified project, the in-fremont town houses (3615 Phinney Ave. N, Seattle)….