In 1975, British geographer Jay Appleton proposed a hypothesis about human nature and habitat, most commonly known as the "refuge-prospect theory." The idea is that taste is "an acquired preference...
Every city has them. Those familiar, steadfast places that remind me of buoys—riding the tide through ups and downs, surfing the trends, eyeing the temping but dangerous rocky reefs and keeping...
Like taking apart one of those little Russian babushka dolls, Westcott Bay is a small inlet of water, which is located on San Juan Island, which is located in a larger cluster of islands called The...
T-minus 17 days until Black Friday. You still have plenty of time to waste and lollygag about as the leaves fall and frost begins to form, but there’s no harm in pondering some great gift ideas and...
There’s iced coffee and there’s cold brew—they are a world of difference, and intent, apart. Cold brew explains the process in the name itself: it is made by steeping coarse ground coffee in cold...
Café Medina in Vancouver has become an early torch bearer of a new coffee trend that at first invites skepticism: mixing coffee and tonic. Medina’s new Coffee Tonic is an artisan coffee soda, made...