About Lena Park
Born in Buffalo, raised in Federal Way, and educated at Boston College, Lena has been exploring cities from coast to coast her whole life. Though she desperately misses the snarky irreverence of Bostonians, she loves living in this green and rainy city again as a bona fide Seattleite. In the years that she’s been gone from the Pacific Northwest, Lena has been busy writing for sports blogs, literary journals, college newspapers, and social justice-based magazines. When she’s not hunting for a hole-in-the-wall neighborhood joint, furiously scribbling in her notebook, or busy clacking away at her computer, Lena finds Zen in playing baseball with the Seattle Diamonds, sipping on a PBR at Lottie’s, and watching reruns of Friday Night Lights while drooling over sinfully delicious Tim Riggins.
Celebrate Seattle’s trendiest threads inside the city’s most iconic landmark.
Whether painted orange (or more specifically “Galaxy Gold”) to pay homage to its original paint job in honor of its 50th birthday or rocking the Sonics logo to show support for the team making it to the playoffs, the Space Needle is well-versed in making a splash. (more…)
Get hydrated and energized — the natural way — this soccer season.
There are three things that Seattleites have come to love in recent years: things that are locally produced, things that are all-natural, and things that are related to soccer. Mix them together, bottle them up, and you get Golazo, the newest sports drink to hit the Pacific Northwest. (more…)
Sustainable food made from “traceable” ingredients sourced from local purveyors.
“What’s new next?” teased the signs hanging from the windows of the former Earth & Ocean, a restaurant well-known to those in the Pacific Northwest as a staple in the W Seattle Hotel. After a three-month renovation (more…)
It’s bloodthirsty competition for the title and major bragging rights.
Don’t be mistaken – there is no ironic, hidden message in this headline. “Gaels” is not an Australian phonetic misspelling and to the delight of the fourth grader inside you, the Seattle Gaels actually host an annual Rock, Paper, Scissors (RPS) tournament. (more…)
Things will get a lil’ hot and steamy at the Triple Door this weekend.
If you consider the outpouring of cliché Valentine’s Day roses, heart-shaped chocolate boxes, jewelry ads, lingerie commercials, or just all shades of red as exhausting, you have yet to see The Atomic Bombshells combine it all in their cheeky flair.
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Come celebrate an old Superbowl matchup in a new South Seattle venue.
It’s déjà vu all over again: Superbowl XLVI features an all too-familiar Patriots-Giants matchup at the middle-of-almost-nowhere Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. While Seattleites may not have a hometown team to root for or a West Coast venue to gloat over, South Seattleites have a new local spot to mix things up – to band together and root against the East Coast team of their choosing this Superbowl. (more…)
Raise your glass and toast classic Belgian tastes with a Washington twist.
“Beerfest” applauded the stellar brews and drinking prowess of Germans. But on Saturday, February 4, the brewers invite Seattleites to leave their quarters and guzzling mindset at home and replace “das boot” with glasses of some of Washington State’s finest Belgian beers at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center. (more…)
