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When we’re young it seems that time passes ever so slowly, but as adults it seems that we’ve barely turned around and another year has passed. 
As we watch the dwindling hours of the year, here’s the list of my personal favorites from this past year.  Some are making repeat appearances, and some are new.
Take a read and let me know what you think.
Favorite special occasion restaurant:  Canlis.  A Seattle institution, it was off my list for awhile, but now reappears.
Favorite casual restaurant:  Tuttabella for Pizza. 
Favorite fast food restaurant:  Dick’s Drive-In.  Nothing beats their burgers.
Favorite steakhouse:  El Gaucho, …read more

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Drinking and New Year’s Eve just see to go hand in hand, but that doesn’t mean you should get behind the wheel of a car!
There are several options –  get a hotel room and walk to your events (that’s what I’m doing), select a reliable designated driver, book a limo for the evening, or arrange for a taxi or town car to fetch you and take you home.  With one of these choices, there’s no reason to say no to another glass of champagne at midnight.
However, despite the best laid plans, things can go wrong.  And that’s when having …read more

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A final look at the Macy’s star before it leaves us for another year.
Photo credit:  flickr
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Fans of political humor and should recognize cartoonist David Horsey’s name.  After all, he’s twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, first in 1999 with his focus on the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, the second time in 2003 with his focus on the Bush administration.  His cartoons appear in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and are syndicated nationwide.
Horsey is a local boy, moving to Seattle at the age of three.  He attended Ingraham High School, and graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in communications.  He first worked as a news reporter, until being hired by the P-I as the editorial …read more

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I’m a beer snob!  It’s not that I don’t like the taste of most beers — it’s just that I think most beers have no taste. 
My palate was ripe for microbrews when they finally came along.
Now I’ve found an opportunity to both discover and create ultimate microbrew — my own “house brew” if you will.
Gallagher’s provides a do-it-yourself environment where you can replicate your favorite commercial brew, or let your imagination run wild and try to create something new of your very own. 
Gallagher’s is popular not only with the die-hard beer enthusiasts, but is also developing …read more

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If you hung up your bike for the winter, get it out and enjoy some winter biking at the I-5 Colonnade Mountain Bike Park. 
Opened earlier in the fall, the  former stomping grounds for drug use, homeless camps, and a veritable repository of trash, the under the freeway location has been turned into the first-ever urban bike park gives mountain bikers a place to both learn and ride the different terrain typically encountered.  While not completely changing the freeway habitat, during the day, at least, it’s attracts a much more law-abiding element.
Named Colonnade, after the columns holding up the I-5 …read more

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If you’re looking for a respite from the holiday crazies, wander through A Forest for the Trees is in its final week at the Henry Art Gallery.
The exhibit of photographs, from the gallery’s permanent collection, focuses on one single subject matter — trees — and our city’s relationship with them.  It was amazing how one simple and uncomplicated subject could evoke such diversity in presentation and subject matter. 
While it’s a relaxing walk through the exhibit, I never realized that trees could be this controversial.
For additional background information on the Henry Art Gallery, read my previous post. 
Location:  4100 …read more

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Merry Christmas from The Seattle Traveler!  May the holidays bring you peace, joy and love.
Photo credit:  morgueFile
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Do you know where you’ll be one week from today — on New Year’s Eve?
Hopefully you’ve got your plans and reservations all taken care of, but it you’re still left wondering about what to do and where to go, here are some suggestions.  Each day you wait to make plans your options decrease and your sense of panic at not having plans increases.

Dinner out
Dinner at home or at friend’s
Fireworks at the Space Needle
Symphony
Area casinos
Hotel party
Comedy club
Have an adult slumber party
Concert
Church or religious celebration
Local tavern/club
Theater or other performance
Cruise
EMP party
Dancing
Karaoke
First Night in Tacoma
Movie
Get a hotel room and combine some items on …read more

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Details:  The downtown Seattle streets are made festive with white twinkle lights on the trees and lamp posts.  I found myself humming a few Christmas carols and I was walking around looking at all the decorations.  Maybe it will get you in the holiday spirit as well.
Photo credit:  personal collection
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