Little Kids, Big City
Local game company Cranium (2025 1st Ave. #600, in Belltown) is seeking playtesters. We've done this before with our daughter and had a blast. Participants receive a free Cranium game and a behind-the-scenes glimpse at how games are designed.
Here's the deal:
By Lora Shinn | June 4, 2008
Pet Dish
My dog will not wear the Velcro-strap, rubber-soled booties that look so adorable on sled dogs. Whenever I put them on her, she goes into a berserker frenzy. So, when I saw Pawz Protective Dog Boots, I thought, maybe.
By Lisa Wogan | June 4, 2008
Pet Dish
Meet Dora. When she came into the Seattle Animal Shelter with a lame leg, an x-ray revealed the top of her femur was broken.
By Lisa Wogan | June 4, 2008
Chef Matthew Dillon was named one of Food and Wine magazine's top
chefs of 2007, an honor that helped put Sitka & Spruce, his gem of
a restaurant on Eastlake Avenue, on the national map. Now he's
feverishly working to launch his latest venture, The Corson Building,
one he envisions not so much as a restaurant but as a
community-centered space with food as its driving force.
By Marc Ramirez | June 4, 2008
Little Kids, Big City
I finally succumbed to the seven-year itch, the one that makes you restless. I'm talking about living on the wild side: visiting a different zoo. You know, checking out another tiger's lair, seeing a different elephant's barn. I love the Woodland Park Zoo and all, but sometimes you just want to sample a new zoo. So we went to Tacoma.
By Lora Shinn | June 4, 2008
Gentle Snark
Erin Frost's self-portraits occupy a realm between the worlds created by Bunny Yeager, Cindy Sherman and Diane Arbus -- they are at once erotic, desolated, witty, glamorous and phantasmagoric.
By Geoff Carter | June 4, 2008
Gentle Snark
"The Perfect Match (Si C'était Lui)," a French romantic comedy that screens at SIFF on Wednesday, June 11 and Thursday, June 12, is not a perfect film by any means -- it's rife with many of the cliches that render most romantic comedies unwatchable.To her credit, though, writer/director Anne-Marie Etienne tries to bend those cliches into new and more interesting shapes.
By Geoff Carter | June 4, 2008
Convergence Zone
Sunday, Aug. 3, the Seattle Mariners will honor longtime announcer Dave Niehaus, one week after his inclusion in the broadcasters' wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y.
By Jon Palmer | June 4, 2008
Daily Find
Have you been longing for sultry eyes, bright red lips or something else outside your usual makeup routine, but you just can't get up the nerve to put the brush to the powder? Then it's time to get emboldened and educated with a free makeup lesson at Vain, where you might pick up a few skills that mom never taught you.
By Natalie Broulette | June 4, 2008
