Snoop Dogg and Shakira have shacked up here. (Not together, I’m assuming.) Italy’s PM Silvio Berlusconi has parked his Pradas in these closets, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet has hung his saffron robes. QE2 and her royal crew took over an entire floor. Everyone from world leaders to pop stars has stayed […]
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Local Flavor: Locavore Cuisine at the Edge
The Northern Edge Algonquin is inspiring – from the ooh’s of the tranquil, seemingly hand-painted landscape to the ahh’s of the peace you exhale into at one of Wendy Martin’s yoga sessions. As I recently waxed poetic about, it’s an extraordinary little corner of the world. And then there’s the food. The food! The Edge’s […]
Juniper Lane: Bohemian Home on San Juan Island
Throughout the span of years that my sweetie and I called San Juan Island home, we lived in a menagerie of…um….structures: everything from one-room cabins with no running water to house-sitting gigs in multi-million dollar nests on the west side and even, at one point, a customized 70’s panel van called Galactica. As fun as […]