July/August 1999

 

  • 21 Outdoor Adventures: Close to home, but far enough away to be out there.
  • A Ballpark Like No Other: SAFECO Field is more than a looming dollar sign. It is the melding of design and nostalgia, and it graciously ushers us to our seats to watch the next century of baseball.
  • Books vs. Babes: Internet maven Ravi Desai looks at the online careers of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and Seth Warshavsky, who is making millions off Web porn. He finds that babes might have made the Internet attractive, but books will make it last.
  • Climbing High: A chilling excerpt from Lene Gammelgaard's account of the fateful 1996 Mount Everest climb with Scott Fischer.

Plus:

  • Shelter: Bringing the inside out with garden rooms.
  • Style: Fremont goes glam.
  • Link: Web cams that make regional travel a cinch.
  • Urban Safari: Racking up the miles on Seattle's staircases.
  • Q: Q&A with Seattle's gnarliest rat exterminator.
  • Voice: Lamenting the lost art of the soap box.
  • Daytrips: Annual outdoor movie night in Port Townsend.
  • Environment: City Hall turns green with the new Growing Vine Street project.
  • Family: Will the city's boom foster another Littleton tragedy?
  • Eat: A cool summer salad recipe from Carmelita. Plus: A brand new breed of cuisine is born in Belltown at Cascadia.
  • Drink: Peek into the wine cellars of Howard Schultz and Steve Fleischmann.