My friend Alex and I used to live near Pies and Pints. At the time he and I were next-door neighbors and this wonderful little pub was an easy walk from home. The thing is though, neither one of us knew about Pies and Pints until after we both moved out of our apartment building and into new digs in different parts of town. It was...
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It only took a few minutes within my first visit to Sip and Ship to realize that I had stumbled upon a special spot. It was a sunny, Sunday afternoon in the middle of December and Sip and Ship (also known as Ballard Mail and Dispatch) was crowded with people shopping for gifts, picking wrapping paper and greeting cards, and mailing...
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I am a true urbanite who never quite understood the allure of the great outdoors. I prefer heels to hiking boots, hustle and bustle to backcountry serenity. I take comfort in fine dining, in foreign films, in sipping martinis during the cocktail hour. And to tell you the truth, the thought of sleeping under the stars kind of freaks...
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It would be blasphemous of me to continue writing for this website dedicated to extolling all the girly pleasures that city life has to offer and not mention Les Amis. Les Amis is a classic. A standard. And while it may not be as iconic as say the Space Needle or the Fishmongers at Pike Place Market, for Seattle’s...
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An important element has been missing from my exercise routine. It’s joy, and I’m not sure where I lost it. Somewhere between power yoga and super sculpt spinning, between triathlon training and race day nerves, between injury and recovery, between reading books about diet and magazine articles about attaining the...
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I was wearing my pajamas the first time I experienced a bit of Twilight Martini Lounge’s hip-hop flavor. It was 1 AM and I was heading to bed when a girlfriend called from said bar and yelled, “Listen!” as I soon as I answered. She then held her phone up to a speaker for several seconds so that I could hear the...
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It would be easy for any woman to quickly develop a schoolgirl crush on Wally, proprietor of the University District’s latest and greatest new coffeehouse. In my first twenty-minute meeting with him, I learned that the man is dedicated (it took him a year and a half to get the cafe up and running as his fulltime construction...
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In 1989 Ray Oldenburg wrote a book entitled The Great Good Place in which he wrote that there are three essential places that all people must have in order to feel centered in life. The first is a home, the second is a school or workplace, and the third is a community space where a person can gather with others to meet, to laugh, to...
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