Poetry At Sooke Harbour House

Sooke Harbor House is more than just a picturesque, garden-laden seaside inn with world-class food and wine menus that change on a daily basis. It’s more than just a sought-after venue for destination weddings and corporate retreats.  Sooke Harbour House – located on the southern coast of Vancouver Island – is [...]

Enjoy The Flavor of Seattle THIS Week

We take a brief break from the Lotus Land of Victoria, B.C. to bring you the following upcoming event announcement:
The Flavor of Seattle – a marketing alliance cooperative for small, local restaurants who lack their own savvy marketing departments – was founded in 2008 by foodie entrepreneur Julien Recoussine. Julien worked in [...]

Lady Victoria, Eh?

I’ve noticed a (relatively) new billboard in town these days in Seattle. You can see it as you drive south on Highway 99. It’s sponsored by Clipper Vacations (and also currently on its website).
It features a sky blue … well, sky … and a Victoria Clipper vessel.
In large, highlighter yellow letters is [...]

Natural Selection Keeps It Real

Ever stop to think what exactly natural selection is?

Natural Selection is, quite simply, our ecosystem’s evolutionary coping mechanism. When things are working well, natural selection makes it even better; likewise, when things aren’t working right, natural selection fixes it.
Last Friday, The Second Story Repertory at the Redmond Town Center featured [...]

Teatro Time Again

It’s Teatro time again, dear hedonists – when last I wrote about this elegant extravaganza, it was to cover Teatro ZinZanni’s Beaumont & Caswell show that ran from October 15, 2009 to January 17, 2010 and to give them props for upping the ante when it came to the food.

The Ringmaster – [...]

Fonté: A Foodie’s Fête

It’s time to truly wake-up the coffee palate with a traditionally lesser-known coffee company that’s now entering the main stream.
Fonté – an Italian word meaning source and the name chosen by Paul Odom to name his company, complete with an elegantly Romanesque two-tiered fountain as his logo.
But Fonté – unlike some coffee [...]

Take a Phil Pill

Last Sunday, May 23rd, 2010, was the final concert of the season for the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra (a.k.a. the “Seattle Phil” or simply “the Phil”). The concert, entitled The Brotherhood of Peoples – which featured the dynamic, blood-moving (and often heart-pounding) works of Elgar, Gordeli, Bartok, and Beethoven – was, quite frankly, amazing. This orchestra [...]

39th Annual Folklife Festival

Don’t you dare assume that, because of the name, it’s nothing but “folksy.”
And, whatever you do, DO NOT call it a “hippie fest.” Sure, they’ve got petitioners seeking to legalize marijuana, but let’s face it – that issue has a LOT more support than merely from the hippie populace. Besides, there’s more to this event [...]

Waterways’ Meals in Motion

In anticipation of the pending summer season, dear hedonists, it appears that, effective May 13, 2010, Waterways Cruises – founded in 1994 as a one-yacht, family-run charter business – has made some changes. BIG changes:
Waterways went Eastside. Formerly out of Lake Union, Waterways Cruises are now departing out of Renton on Lake Washington.

Sushi for brunch [...]

Taste Pigs & Wine at Fresh Bistro

So tonight, in celebration of Fresh Bistro’s 1-year anniversary (and in addition to – not to mention in-between – their Monday Night Turf and Wednesday night Surf), they are starting a weekly Tuesday night global culture-trotting, family-style dinner series (the night when happy hour at Fresh Bistro is all night in the bar and on [...]

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