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The Best Restaurants on Mercer Island

Sure, Mercer Island's central location means it's easy to zip over to Bellevue or Seattle. But some homegrown spots offer...

The Best Restaurants in Kirkland

Tech companies like Google  have driven a surge of new restaurants—on the lakefront, in Kirkland’s walkable downtown, and in its...

The Best Restaurants in Redmond

Established names like Ethan Stowell’s Tavolàta, Rubinstein’s Bagels, Molly Moon's, and Dough Zone have arrived in town at a pace...

Portland Parks and Rec removes pickleball courts after private group spent $20K on renovations

The city says this decision came after neighbors near Sellwood Park complained about the pickleball noise. It also says it won't reimburse the club....

Banning Chinese immigrants came with 'fanatical documentation,' says curator of exhibit on Exclusion Act

In the summer of 1923, Tai Hing Gom was committed to Essondale Hospital, a psychiatric institution in Coquitlam, B.C., that later became Riverview Hospital.Tai was...

B.C. writer experiments with outdoor slumber for poetry inspiration

Donna Kane, a resident in Rolla in northeastern B.C., has penned numerous poems that draw inspiration from the starry sky above her farmhouse.More recently, Kane —...

The Nick Bartlett Podcast – The Story Of Portland’s Own David Kahn

In this episode of The Nick Bartlett Podcast, Nick transcribes a Sports Illustrated article written by Chris Ballard into podcast format. Nick...

The Best Restaurants in Bellevue

Applying the truisms of Seattle restaurants to the booming dining scene in Bellevue does nobody any good. Different rules apply on...

My performance reminds people of my dad. It's why I want to retire the character I invented

This First Person column is written by Rudy Kelly, an author and host of the new CBC podcast The Urbariginal. For more information about...

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