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Stop by for a glass of wine and and pair it with artisanal flatbread pizza made with local ingredients and freshly baked in a wood burning oven. Flatbreads are available Wednesday through Sunday. Regular prices for wine-by-the-glass and flatbread pizza range from $6-$12. Every Wednesday evening from 5-7pm, enjoy half priced flatbreads and wines. When the weather is agreeable, try the trellised patio provides for a relaxing outdoor setting.
Columbia Winery, Tasting Room, 14030 NE 145th Street, P.O. Box 1248, Woodinville, WA 98072 (Google map). Hourse Sunday through Tuesday: 11:00am to 6:00pm, Wednesday through Saturday: 11:00am-7:00pm; closed Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day and at 3:00PM Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve . There may be eearly Tasting Room Closures on any given day; check the Website Calendar before you head to Woodinville.
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Century 21, the Musem of History & Industry (MOHAI) presents a series of three complementary exhibits that explore Seattle’s 1962 World’s Fair and its impact on the Seattle of today. The exhibits are produced by MOHAI in partnership with Historylink, with support from the Seattle Center Foundation. The exhibits are located on the grounds of Seattle Center, west of the International Fountain, in the International Fountain Pavilion (formerly the Northwest Craft Center). Seattle Center map. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Daily from Saturday April 21, 2012 through Sunday October 21, 2012. The exhibits are free.
- Centuries of Progress: American World’s Fairs, 1853 -1982 is a national travelling exhibit from the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware, an organization that collects, preserves and interprets the history of American enterprise.
- The Future Remembered showcases a wide range of artifacts, photographs and media documents from the 1962 World’s Fair selected from MOHAI’s collection. The exhibit produced by MOHAI, is curated by Paula Becker and Alan Stein of HistoryLink with support from the Seattle Center Foundation.
- Looking Forward: The New Heroes is an art exploration of young visionaries applying innovative solutions to create a better society. Photographs by Davis Freeman.
This magnificent sale, the largest in the Puget Sound region, features a glorious variety of plants from dozens of the region’s specialty nurseries. Species and hybrid rhododendrons, unusual annuals, favorite and rare perennials, trees, shrubs, beautiful conifers, groundcovers, vegetable starts, grasses, vines and even more. “If you love gardening, the Arboretum Foundation spring plant sale feels like horticultural heaven,” says garden writer Ann Lovejoy.
Sale location:
Warren G. Magnuson Park (Building 30), 7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115. (Google map).
Seattle Restaurant Week is Greater Seattle’s largest dining celebration! The two week dining frenzy features over 100 area restaurants in Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland, Snoqualmie, Woodinville and beyond offering three-course dinners for $28*, and some also offer three-course lunches for $15*. Make sure you’re part of the community-wide celebration in great restaurants with talented chefs who serve use fresh, delicious cuisine. *Price per person and does not include drinks, tax, or tips. Celebrate the spring run of Seattle Restaurant Week, April 8-12 and 15-19. Value menu not available on Friday, Saturday and Sunday brunch.
Facebook: facebook.com/SeattleRestaurantWeek
Twitter: twitter.com/SeattleRW
Long one of the Northwest’s best-kept gardening secrets, the Arboretum Foundation Early Bloomers plant sale has become an area favorite. Featuring plants that bloom early in Northwest gardens and many others, the sale offers a great start on spring planting with hundreds of favorite and unusual plants. Perennials, shrubs, small trees, herbs and much more, with many surprises!
Location for the sale is on the Washington Park Arborteum grounds at the Plant Donations and the Pat Calvert Greenhouses, just south of the Graham Visitors Center. For directions and maps click here.
The Local Choice Food Box is the only CSA* in Washington that let’s each customer choose the food that goes into their box each week! The Local Choice Food Box lets you choose EVERY ITEM, EVERY WEEK. No food you don’t recognize or vegetables you dislike. Just fresh, local, organic food you know your family will eat. You choose it, so you know you’ll use it!
Register early and save! Purchase your food box before April 1 and receive a 5% discount.
Visit the Local Choice Food box website for details. The Summer CSA runs 18 weeks from June to October, beginning at $24 per week for a small vegetable box. There are options for larger boxes, fruit, and flowers.
*Community Supported Agriculture
Come out to the March Edible Plant Sale. This festive gardener gathering features a huge selection of edible plant starts perfect for spring planting. The sale runs on Saturday, March 17, 9 a.m.-3 p.m in Hangar 30 at Warren G. Magnuson Park. Admission is FREE – come browse and get ideas for your spring garden!
Here’s just a sampling of what you will find:
- Easy-to-grow plants for beginners such as lettuce, greens and peas.
- Favorites such as collards, kale, Swiss chard, rhubarb and strawberries.
- Exotic, rare and heirloom plants that will excite more experienced gardeners including asparagus, horseradish, artichokes, onions, broccoli and blueberries.
- Irresistible highlights for foodies include edible flowers, bulbing fennel, red scallions, Romanesco broccoli and dozens of culinary herbs.
- …plus fruiting shrubs and fruit bearing trees.
Seniors 60 years old or older can get 10% off every Tuesday from 8am – 11am at Uwajimaya grocery stores (All Locations).
- You must present valid ID to receive discount. *Some Restrictions Apply, See Store for Details.
Wine Enthusiast (WE) magazine’s Top 100 Best Buys of 2011 is their antidote to rising wine prices. All of these wines carry a suggested retail prices of $15 or less, which makes it a list of brands, worldwide regions, and varieties you can count on to keep you–and your wallet–happy in 2012.
Over the past 12 months, WE tasting panelists reviewed more than 16,000 wines, granting the coveted Best Buy designation to only 1,224 (7.6%). This list is whittled down to the Top 100, based on the score, price, availability, … and … buzz. There is something for every style, variety and origin. The list for 2011 is one of the finest and most eclectic collections of Best Buys and WE’s continuing effort to find the wine world’s best values.
Here are the nine wines from Washington that made the list
10. Washington Hills 2010 Sauvignon Blanc (Washington)
15. Hogue 2009 Gewürztraminer (Columbia Valley)
27. Stonecap 2009 Merlot (Columbia Valley)
34. J. Bookwalter 2010 Anecdote Riesling (Columbia Valley)
39. David Hill 2009 Estate Pinot Gris (Willamette Valley)
44. Terrapin Cellars 2010 Pinot Gris (Willamette Valley)
50. Domaine Ste. Michelle NV Blanc de Blancs (Columbia Valley)
85. Barnard Griffin 2009 Fumé Blanc (Columbia Valley)
96. Arbor Crest 2009 Bacchus Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc (Columbia Valley)
Take a break from the colored lights of modern Christmas festivities and travel back in time to the candlelit world of the Middle Ages, where wintertime meant hoping for enough food to last till spring and Christmas meant some of the best music ever. Returning from their standing-room-only Early Music Discovery performance last year, the kids of Seattle Historical Arts don period costume and join their voices and instruments with grownup performers beloved by Seattle families. It’s Christmas like you’ve never heard it before!
EMG Discovery: A Medieval Christmas is an hourlong concert featuring series curator and Seattle Historical Arts for Kids director Shulamit Kleinerman, vielle; Rebekah Gilmore, soprano; and Jacob Breedlove, hurdy-gurdy. Presented by Early Music Guild. Friday, December 23, 2011, 1:00 – 2:00pm. Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street (Google map). Tickets are $10 (seniors/students $5).
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