March 2019
Best Places to See Washington’s Blooming Spring Flowers
The Pacific Northwest shows its true colors during the spring’s flower festivals
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Goodbye gloom, hello bloom. Our annual influx of springtime daylight is coming (spring forward on March 10!), and with it a vibrant interruption in our dreary winter weather. Whether it’s daffodils or tulips that do it for you, Seattle is a fantastic home base for…
A Seattle Optometrist Is Prescribing Style with Vintage Eyewear
A new Capitol Hill boutique offers a curated collection of vintage eyewear that has Seattleites seeing clearly
DIFFERENT SHADES: Find vintage designer frames, such as these made by, from top to bottom, Berthet Bondet, Christian Dior, Laura Biagiotti and Pilar Crespi at Eye Eye
Seattle’s Skinner Chimes Are Not What You Think
Those noon chimes? Here’s where they come from
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. The Landmark: The Skinner Chimes The Location: The Skinner Building, downtown, 1326 Fifth Ave. The Backstory: Each day at noon, Seattleites in the downtown area may hear chimes, yet the sound can’t be traced to any nearby church or cathedral. Listeners might be disappointed to…
A Seattle Couple Turns Their Top Floor into a Cozy Nursery and Master Suite
With space at a premium, a Wallingford couple utilizes every inch of their cozy third story
NAP TIME: Formerly a dark, cramped office, this room at the top of the stairs now functions as a bright, playful nursery for the homeowners’ young son
9 Leather Accessories for Spring in Seattle
These locally designed artisan leather accoutrements will put a spring in your step this season
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. Black and light brindle shoulder bag made with premium cowhide ($350) by Ballard-based House of Wolves, available online and at MadeHere Sea. Pioneer Square, 115 S Jackson St.; 206.623.0694 No. 3 “Double-Take” round crossbody bag in gray Italian nappa calf leather ($495) by Seattle-based Feral. …
Enjoy Fog Room’s Velvety Egg-White Cocktail With a Killer View
Take in the bar’s expansive views of Elliott Bay and downtown while savoring The Whisper in the Wind
SEEING CLEARLY: A cloud of egg whites top Jesse Cyr’s The Whisper in the Wind cocktail, on the menu at Fog Room, a bar atop The Charter Hotel
45 Years Later, What Does Ted Bundy Tell Us About Seattle?
Almost a half century after Ted Bundy focused the nation on our region, Knute Berger wonders what this serial killer says about us today
MISSING PERSONS: The July 11, 1974 front page of Evergreen State College’s Cooper Point Journal highlights a story that riveted the region and country
From the Viaduct to Link Light Rail, Seattle Continues to Change
This month's Editor's Note from Rachel Hart
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. As our city begins to undergo one of the most epic physical changes that’s likely to occur during most of our lifetimes—the teardown of the Viaduct and the development of a new waterfront downtown—it’s only fitting that our annual best neighborhoods issue focuses on a…