Category: The Seattle Times
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Seattle Center public art
Olympic Illiad, Alexander Liberman, 1984, painted steel. 41 steel cylinders piled on top of each other, with 5 points on the grass for support.
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Free public sail at the Center for Wooden Boats
Public sail is BACK at The Center for Wooden Boats! It’s a free sail, once a month, with volunteer skippers and crew. It was a beautiful day to be out on the water. The next public sail is July 30. Sign ups begin at 10 a.m. at the Wagner Education Center and you need to…
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Happy 40th, Archie McPhee!
Seattle’s greatest gag gift shop turns 40 this year! Here are 10 things you didn’t know you needed at Archie McPhee…
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City of Roses
A stop at the International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park to round out our Portland trip. Snacks for the road. Goodbye, Portland!
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A whale of a time at OMSI’s new orca exhibit
The new orca special exhibit at OMSI includes three life-size orcas and it is STUNNING. (Psst, Pacific Science Center members get in free.) The Burke Museum also just opened an orca exhibit: the Burke’s is half of a small room, and OMSI’s is two floors of cavernous galleries. Go to Portland. We learned that the…
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Terra Nova Adventure Play Environment in Richmond, B.C.
Take a break between meals at Terra Nova Adventure Play Environment. If anything, running around this nature-themed playground will help you work up an appetite. Terra Nova, a 12-minute drive west of Richmond’s central eating district, looks unlike any other playground you’ve been to. Features include a 115-foot long tandem zipline and a 30-foot-tall spiral slide.…
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World’s cutest dim sum
It felt like a crime to eat these! We caught dim sum at Neptune Seafood Restaurant in Burnaby a half hour before closing, and you wouldn’t believe how fast I ordered.