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The moment you sit down in a theater, you can feel the energy. Whether it comes from backstage with performers rushing around just before the curtain goes up, or from the audience giddy with anticipation for the show, the air hums with electricity. That’s how I felt reading Christina…
Alisha Rai’s Forbidden Hearts series is the contemporary romance we need in 2017
In WRONG TO NEED YOU (Forbidden Hearts #2), Sadia Ahmed is a widowed, single mother who runs into Jackson Kane, a man she hasn't seen or heard from in a decade. They were childhood friends, and he happens to be her…
The Tom Douglas Cookbook Social comes to the Palace Ballroom on December 4. This year's line up is a who's who of Seattle and Portland chefs, you have to admit it's been a pretty great year for cookbooks. The $20 entrance fee puts a glass of wine in your hand and gets you tastes from several…
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Can we talk about Helena Hunting’s newest, Hooking Up? Sometimes you just need a book that’ll let you get away from it all. Hooking Up was the escape I needed from more serious reads. It's hot, hilarious fun, that leaves you happy with where things end up.…
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Maggie Stiefvater is a masterful storyteller. Her latest, All the Crooked Saints, is a wonderful, strangely beautiful story with rich imagery, and a compelling message about the role we play in our own miracles. I think of Maggie's previous works as having an urgency about them, but this…
I love a good mac and cheese, frozen, from the box, on the stove top version, baked in the oven, any which way, I'll take it. But sometimes, it's too much of a good thing. So people have been resorting to sneaking in vegetables to try and lighten up their mac and cheese. Orange cauliflower…
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Smitten Kitchen Every Day by Deb Perelman is a gorgeous book that runs the gamut from breakfast to salads and vegetarian and meat mains, then finishes off with sweets. It delivers some novel twists: fattoush salad turns into an autumn-inspired fall-toush with Brussels sprouts and delicata squash; a breakfasty…
Bonfire, Krysten Ritter's debut novel, is out November 7.
Bonfire is a smart, surprisingly complex novel about the tangled relationships we have with our pasts. The writing is gorgeous, and Krysten Ritter’s characters are razor-edged and ruthless. A must-read for fans of Megan Abbott. If you were drawn to Bonfire because you've seen Ritter…
There's a lot of eyerolling and sighing when someone mentions kale. But the fact is, we eat a lot of it in the fall and winter. Already, we had a kale salad last night with a tahini yogurt dressing. I made crostini last week with red Russian kale and delicata squash. If you stop worrying about…
This balsamic delicata squash and kale mixture is what to eat now. Are you ready for kale? It's been a gorgeous long summer of tomatoes and cucumbers and peppers and whatever else, but now I feel it. The chill is in the air, the flannel shirts are out of their long sleep, it's time. It…
