Apart from caroling, Christmas cookies and mistletoe, the holiday season seems to spark a greater awareness for some about those less fortunate than themselves.
For Thanksgiving, Dan McCarthy didn't cook a traditional turkey. Instead, he made turkey leg osso buco, and you can bet the co-owner of McCarthy & Schiering used a good deal of white burgundy to flavor it.
They've known each other for about 10 years, having traveled in the same circles, playing the same instruments and as they found out recently share the same musical energy.
Chocolate, like a fine wine, must be tasted, savored, to enjoy the painstaking process through which each unique flavor can be appreciated.
Spin the Bottle -- Annex Theatre's late night variety show is at 11 p.m., Friday Nov. 5 at the Annex Theatre at the corner of 11th and E. Pike Street in Capitol Hill. $10 general, $5 for students. Visit www.annextheatre.org for more.Seattle Shakespeare Company launches its 20th anniversary season with Hamlet, Oct. 27 through Dec. 5 at the Center House Theatre at Seattle Center. Visit www.seattleshakespeare.org for more information
Seattle Opera's "Lucia di Lammermoor" is an astounding production, one of the best the company has ever done. If you miss it, you'll kick yourself-more than once.
A top-five finish two weeks ago in which the CoeBotics team at Coe Elementary School took the Teamwork category in the First Lego League regional competition, meant an unprecedented visit to the state championships Saturday in Bellevue where the third, fourth and fifth-graders would do battle with many a middle schooler.
Last year the Lightning missed the playoffs by a hair. But this year it was all about redemption and defense as the Queen Anne Lightning of the Seattle Flag Football League blew away all opposition going 10-0.
It took him nine hours, 48 minutes and 48 seconds.
After an initial trip to Accra, Ghana where St. Anne teachers organized the library and set up reading programs at an under-funded orphanage, they left knowing there was much more to be done. But they didn't know, just a few months later, there would be a newly formed nonprofit dedicated to helping those very same children.
In the Dec. 2 issue of the News was a story of merchants atop Queen Anne Hill lamenting what was to be a scaled back version of the annual Holiday Magic festival.
Behind a plain façade near Fishermen's Terminal, Mike Soldano plies the craft which has helped define the sound of Rock 'n' Roll for more than 20 years. Soldano amplifiers produce the high-gain effects favored by such guitar luminaries as Eric Clapton, Lou Reed, Eddie Van Halen and Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits.
Hundreds of parents and kids turned out for the annual trick-or-treating event at Magnolia Village
A library isn't the kind of place you'd expect to find a crowd gathered to see the banging of cans and stomping of feet.