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I highly recommend Queen Anne Family Medicine. They have a wonderful, nice, flexible team there. They are very caring and always attentive. The doctor I use there is Georgina Dorkin, who has...
I highly recommend Queen Anne Family Medicine. They have a wonderful, nice, flexible team there. They are very caring and always attentive. The doctor I use there is Georgina Dorkin, who has taken great care of me.
They're right across the street from the Met Market. You can usually always get appointments on short notice, or show up right when they open in the mornings and often they can squeeze you in.
--shermanator
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Seattle is fortunate to have a fabulous symphony. Not all big cities do. If you haven't yet attended a symphony concert at Benaroya Hall downtown, go for it. You can't go wrong.
The Seattle...
Seattle is fortunate to have a fabulous symphony. Not all big cities do. If you haven't yet attended a symphony concert at Benaroya Hall downtown, go for it. You can't go wrong.
The Seattle Symphony I believe has the makings of a great orchestra. Not only is Gerard Schwartz, the music director, fabulous to watch on stage, but the organization does a great job of bringing in top tier guest conductors and soloists from throughout the world. The orchestra plays a wide range of repertoire, and the aucostics of Benaroya Hall are splendid.
I've subscribed to the Symphony for a couple of seasons now, and love the packages they offer. If you are into just a couple of concerts (like dipping your toes in, you can do that--they have packages of 3 concerts) or more, there are lots of options. Best of all, the Seattle Symphony is reasonably priced and for $45/ticket you can get great seats to most all concerts. One of the other things I love about being a season ticket holder is that they have an online exchange program where its easy to swap your existing tickets for other concerts, no questions asked.
In particular, Benaroya Hall has a great organ so concerts with organ are great. Also, the concertmaster there is fabulous and if you can catch her on an evening where she's got a solo, that's wonderful.
I've found that the best tickets for a Seattle Symphony concert are those seats in the Prime Orchestra section, and the best value is in the Preferred Orchestra, but NOT under one of the overhang sections in the Preferrred Orchestra section, because the sound is blocked by the overhang.
There are a lot of young people who attend the Seattle Symphony nowadays as well. If you haven't been yet, go check them out! Perfect for a date night.
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Dahlia Lounge is a great place to take a business associate, client, or partner for lunch. It's classy, the food is excellent, the service attentive, and best of all you can ignore the...
Dahlia Lounge is a great place to take a business associate, client, or partner for lunch. It's classy, the food is excellent, the service attentive, and best of all you can ignore the fancy-dancin' prices that you'd otherwise have to fork over from your own wallet.
I went there last week and had the crab-cakes, which were delicious. They price them as $15/one or $25/two which I thought was overpriced until I remembered, yup, it's a business lunch. They had a great chowder soup which was also yummy. For desert I had the cocunut cream pie which I shouldn't have done at 1pm with an afternoon of work ahead of me, but I highly recommend that as well.
This restaurant gets a lot of press and is widely reviewed, and really you can't go wrong here. If you're a foodie in Seattle, you really must go to Dahlia, it's "on the list". If you want to impress a work associate and take them somewhere nice, this is a perfect place.
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Seattle is one of those big cities fortunate enough to have two major daily newspapers. This provides for healthy competition and in the end the reader gets better coverage.
The PI is a smaller...
Seattle is one of those big cities fortunate enough to have two major daily newspapers. This provides for healthy competition and in the end the reader gets better coverage.
The PI is a smaller paper than the Times. It's owned by a large national newspaper chain, The Hearst Corporation, and after reading the paper everytime I can't help wondering why they can't give the paper just a little more love.
This results in national/world coverage that is almost entirely wire coverage, and it's thin at best. Often times the inner sections are four pages, with only several articles.
If you're looking to augment your daily news coversage of local Seattle & Pugent news, then subscribing to the Seattle PI is worth it. If want to subscribe to only one daily and get both local and national/world news, then I recommend the Times instead (see my Seattle Times review).
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I've always wanted to review a Newspaper. I mean they have so much to say about everything, and apart from the Letters to the Editor that nobody reads, when do we get our say?
In Seattle, we...
I've always wanted to review a Newspaper. I mean they have so much to say about everything, and apart from the Letters to the Editor that nobody reads, when do we get our say?
In Seattle, we have two daily newspapers: The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post Intelligencer (PI). If you're looking for a good blend of local news and national/international news, the Times is a good fit. The PI focuses mainly just on local news with a mild attempt at news beyond Seattle.
I give the Seattle Times 4 stars for a newspaper. It's no 5 stars (New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post), and it's no 2 stars (Portland Oregonian). The Times is a family owned long-time Seattle newspaper that really does a good job of bringing Seattle together around its local issues, and how it fits into the rest of the world.
The Times' strengths are its depth of local community interest and up-to-date action stories, plus they cover national & international news with their own beats, and really work to get the right international stories in the blend. In addition, their weekly Weekend datebook section is great for planning family activities and seeing what's happening with music, art, and the performing arts.
The weakest part of the Seattle Times is its Business Section, which most days of the week seems to be at least 60% Microsoft & Boeing coverage. You do get the feeling sometimes that the Redmond giant has a direct line into the business editors desk. They really need to diversify there. In addition, in the front & local sections, their Seattle political coverage is a little on the weak side--they don't expose the fun insides of Seattle politics too much.
The Times editorial staff seems to always be open to changing the format, layout, and focus of its sections and writer's beats. I actually read the Managing Editor's article every week to get a sense of the many new things they're doing. In addition, the paper does really good in-depth local investigative reporting that often ends up in government stepping up to solve the problem highlighted!
If you're going to subscribe to a daily newspaper in town, I recommend the Times. If you do want, however, the top tier of world and business stories, you'll have to subscribe as well to one of the 5 star papers I mention above. I enjoy reading the Times every day.
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For a nice sunny day activity, there's nothing like a quick drive (20 minutes from Seattle) to downtown Edmonds. At the foot of downtown just to the north of the Ferry landing is Brackett's...
For a nice sunny day activity, there's nothing like a quick drive (20 minutes from Seattle) to downtown Edmonds. At the foot of downtown just to the north of the Ferry landing is Brackett's Landing, which has a delightful beach. For families with kids, this is the best day around.
Drive up and park in the handy parking lot (although parking slots can be sparce on a busy day) and unload your buckets of sand toys and sunscreen and life is good. Better yet what's a blast is when the trains come by just behind you--every 4 year olds dream come true is to watch a real train go by.
Also the kids will love watching the divers and their gear, who use the park as launching point for the underwater diving park just offshore.
After a couple hours on the shore, wander up the street to your choice of great casual eateries in downtown Edmonds (by the way Rick Steeves lives here, we once saw him strolling around town). Earlier today we went to La Palma, a nice family run Mexican restaurant right on the main corner. We also picked up a chunck of stinky creamy french cheese from the Resident Cheesemonger, a great cheese shop also on the main drag.
For families with a couple kids, this is a the easiest, most fun outing around. Edmonds is a very friendly town and they love visitors! This summer they'll have a Jazz Festival over Memorial Day and also they have a great 4th of July parade that we went to a couple of years ago!
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When I first moved to Seattle back in the late '90s I did a bunch of "church shopping" around Seattle. I was looking for a place that embraced all, that let me be who I wanted to be, and enabled me...
When I first moved to Seattle back in the late '90s I did a bunch of "church shopping" around Seattle. I was looking for a place that embraced all, that let me be who I wanted to be, and enabled me to connect spiritually with God on my own terms. St. Marks is the place for this.
St. Mark's is a large episcopal church, located on Capital Hill. It has many services every week, and my family generally goes to the 9am or 11am service on Sundays. There is wonderful music there (11am Cathedral Choir is great), and the preachers are fantastic. They have a great children's program, with day care and lots of activities to keep the kiddos busy.
I will say in this review that I do attend St. Marks regulary now and am fairly involved there (but that's often what happens when you find a church you like). St. Marks has a ton of opportunities to give back to the community if you want to, whether that's Habitat, a woman's nightly shelter, homeless meals, and more. But most importantly from my perspective St. Marks offers a friendly, open-arms style approach to faith that is refreshing and necessary in today's seemingly closed world.
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Oslo's on the top of Queen Anne opened a couple months ago and it has the best collection of stylish hip clothes for men around. The owner is a guy named John and he's there everyday with his dog...
Oslo's on the top of Queen Anne opened a couple months ago and it has the best collection of stylish hip clothes for men around. The owner is a guy named John and he's there everyday with his dog Oslo (store namesake). Great place for gifts for yourself and others. He's also got a barber chair in there for a haircut--Chad there cut my hair a couple weeks ago & I was pleased with it.
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Ok so this is perhaps my favorite restaurant in Seattle. These guys have the most authentic mexican food, and the 'mole is the best dish around! Watch the margaritas too--they make them nice and...
Ok so this is perhaps my favorite restaurant in Seattle. These guys have the most authentic mexican food, and the 'mole is the best dish around! Watch the margaritas too--they make them nice and strong!!!! Get there early for a seat.
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