When fashion combines with efficiency - with a dash of peer pressure from minimalism - you get capsule wardrobes. Here's the scoop on where the idea came from, and how you can work it into your lifestyle. ...

You know the feeling you get when you stumble across a musician you’ve never heard before, and upon listening to their records you realize… you’ve heard their music before? Not only that, but you really like the music and had ...

Alliteration, extreme! I had to make an impressive title for an impressive brownie. After weeks spent scouring the internet for a specifically black bottom black bean brownie, I decided that I should put my blogging where my mouth is and ...

ThredUp challenged me to see how many outfits I could make out of thredUP's vast and wide inventory for under $100, total. ...

Wood is an underused material in fashion, if you ask me. Before a few years ago, wood didn't have much more than a cameo as a purse handle or, bless, toggles on a terrible winter coat. Recently, though, a shift ...

As far as summer usually goes, it can be a mixed bag in the Pacific Northwest. Sometimes, our summer is only a week long, and is more of a hot springtime than a hot summer. Other times, it’s a raging, ...

The way that I eat is not really that different from the way I dress, if that makes sense. No, of course it doesn’t. I mean the way that I shop for food is not that different from the way ...

Laura Gibson, hailing from Portland, OR, retains the signature quirkiness of Pacific Northwestern folk artists like Mirah and Kimya Dawson, but her fourth studio album, La Grande, envelopes classic folk music in a cloak of dreamy mystery that pulls you ...

Lana Del Rey's last album was sweet. Sickly sweet. It was syrupy and viscous and while it was rich with luscious depth, it didn't have much in the way of variety, or emotional variance. Her latest release, Ultraviolence, is still ...

I fell in love with graffiti/street artist Sam Flores' use of animal and nature imagery in his designs, and the clean but exaggerated qualities of his zen-like figures. ...

Since 2014 seems to be the Year of Contemporary Pop Music Appreciation for me, I’m just going to roll with it. That means that I definitely allowed myself to rock out and sing along to “I Think I Like You,” the ...

Occasionally, I give in and try a trend I never really warmed up to. I am a firm believer in second chances (but not necessarily thirds), and know from experience that nearly 100% of clothes look entirely different than they ...

There’s no reason not to dig into the past for new (to you), inspiring music with modern day creativity. A few years ago, I stumbled upon Big Noise from Winnetka through the cover by Asylum Street Spankers. It’s one of ...

If you have a New Year’s resolution to do more cooking at home (which will save you bundles of cash, by the way! Do it! [Mom!]) and you are a music fanatic like me, then this subscription box is about ...

When the colder months roll around, my taste in music seems to go from high energy to supremely chill. (See last year’s Winter Holidaze playlist for evidence of that.) There’s something about the dropping temperatures and the desire to just ...

I’m proud to put another Pacific Northwestern musician up for Tunesday this week. Well, half of this group, Kimya Dawson, hails from her adopted home of Seattle/Olympia, WA but her cohort in this weird, hipster-hop adventure is San Francisco/New York’s ...

Beautifully designed sunglasses with a big heart. For every pair sold, Wild Soul contributes to an organization of your choice. ...