Seattle Magazine

2 days ago | seattlemag.com | Rob Smith

I love the Seattle Storm, and all things WNBA. My passion for women’s basketball even predates Caitlin Clark. My wife and I recently bought a partial season-ticket package, and my basketball-obsessed son closely analyzes games to help him improve.

4 days ago | seattlemag.com | Ben McBee

Have you heard about the Seattle pizza chain taking its crust across the country? Following a deal with Kroger, Tutta Bella’s SODO facility has turned up the heat, producing more than 10,000 Neapolitan-style pies, pastas, and fresh salads a day to ship to 1,200 stores in 40 states. Go ahead, take another slice of Seattle food news. We won’t judge.

5 days ago | seattlemag.com | Rob Smith

Forty-one percent of visitors to the greater Seattle area last year came to visit friends or relatives. Almost one-third came from other cities in Washington. Fifteen percent came from California. Visit Seattle’s annual tourism report, released yesterday, contains information on “visitor profiles” for the first time. Many of the numbers — which pertain to domestic visitors, or 89% of visitors — are fascinating.

6 days ago | seattlemag.com | Natalie Compagno |Greg Freitas

Last fall we attended a wine party in Quarante, a charming hamlet in the Languedoc region of southern France. The village was tiny. The house was anything but, with three stories, six bedrooms, a pool, and an old barn. A centuries-old olive tree observed the revelry from the interior courtyard, the wine flowed like water from the area’s ancient Roman aqueducts, and we feasted on charcuterie, pâté, and fromage. The crowd was international, with attendees from Zurich, Los Angeles, Romania, Dublin.

6 days ago | seattlemag.com | Rob Smith

Home sales across Washington state are off to a slow start during a typically active spring season. The Northwest Multiple Listing Service says homes for sale in 26 of the 39 counties in Washington state it monitors rose 47.4% year over year, but buyers remain wary because of high interest rates. Interest rates were 6.76% at the end of April. The median price for residential homes and condos was $650,000, a slight decrease from a year ago.