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Build a vacation around bookstores
Tourists also like to stop in at the bar next door, Vesuvio, to have a drink where Kerouac once bellied up. Elliott Bay Book Co. 101 S. Main St., Seattle; www.elliottbaybook.com or toll-free 1-800-962-5311. Elliott Bay Book Co. is located in Seattle's historic Pioneer Square district, once the city's Skid Row but now known for nightclubs, galleries, sports arenas and architecture, including the 1867 red-brick building that houses Elliott Bay Book Co. Cedar shelves offer 150,000 new and used titles in rooms with exposed brick walls, and one or two readings are held every night. "It can be anyone from a first-time poet to Dave Sedaris returning for his 10th time," said Elliott Bay spokeswoman Tracy Taylor. "We had him here when nobody knew who he was and there were 15 people in the audience.
May 2006
In time, as I got to know the history-rich quirks that defined these two residences, they each became a home I lived in, loved and, eventually, left. The two-lane highway I now call home serves as the picture-postcard image of Olde Cape Cod, and local historic commissions make sure it stays that way. As a result, I still have to contend with history in my 1965 Cape – changing the color of my front door, for example, could require an appearance in front of the historic commission, to argue my case for, perhaps, "autumn harvest" red over the current forest green. But within my new home's walls, I work with a clean slate. And this little house that needs work just about everywhere I turn is giving me a chance to revel in its potential. Windows leak like sieves? Get new airtight double-panes! Think the fireplace mantle is just too wimpy? Chuck it! And what about that cheap, varnished-pine clamshell molding surrounding every door and window? I'm now buying Benjamin Moore Decorator's White by the contractor-size bucket to cover it all up.
Wines becoming liquid asset
Not long ago, Stephen Bachmann, a private-equity investor turned online wine store owner, posted a chart on his widely read blog about wine collecting. The dots on the graphic charted an investment starting at around $1,000 in 2003. They continued on a sustained northerly path -- up 100 percent, up 200 percent -- peaking above $4,000 in 2007.
If the average investor's E-Trade account looked like that chart, he would be popping bottles of Champagne. But the chart's subject did not concern the latest hot tech stock. It certainly was not charting the performance of a 401(k) retirement fund. The liquid asset in question was literally liquid: a single bottle of 1990 Petrus, a Bordeaux blend.
"If you didn't know what that was, most people would look at that chart and say that looks like a pretty good investment," said Bachmann, the founder of Vinfolio, based in San Francisco.
In Trinity, a slice of hamburger heaven
Craving a heaping helping of something fresh, hot, a bit greasy? These guys thought so. By MICHAEL KRUSE, Times Staff Writer Published January 27, 2008 TRINITY -- In the rear corner of the Trinity Village Center is a Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries, and on the wall inside is a bulletin board, and on the bulletin board are a bunch of note cards. What's written on those note cards is where this story starts. "Is it wrong," one customer wonders, "that I love Five Guys more than my girlfriend?" Another: "Five Guys reminds me of a magical castle in the sky filled with fries." And another: "You get it. And I don't even know what 'it' is." The Five Guys here on State Road 54 has been open since late October and is the first of a handful set to open in Pasco and Hernando counties in the coming months and years.
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