From blind dates to your niece’s ballet recital, you’re hard pressed to think of a situation that doesn’t improve with booze.

So stumble into Capitol Hill’s brand new Grey Gallery & Lounge, an inspired hybrid art gallery and cocktail lounge.

They say love comes along only when you aren’t looking for it. (Which, BTW, does not excuse snogging the waiter at Pop Pop’s Rotary Club.)

But in the case of breakfast cereal, turns out the maxim holds true.

To wit: ...

One potato, two potato, three potato, four. Lazypants is malnourished ’cause she won’t drag her ass to the store.

Time to enlist Small Potatoes Urban Delivery (SPUD) to drag the store to you.

Not just any store, the Seattle offshoot ...

You’re all for making a sultry entrance. Too bad your winter striptease (whip off knit cap, unwind scarf, deglove with teeth) is more chapped Michelin Man than Gina Lollobrigida.

The alternative: look good leaving it on with the sweetest scarves, ...

There’s more than one recreational way to expand your mind this weekend.

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Future So Bright
What: Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick takes a break from shooting The Shins videos to capture the aching beauty of decaying Western landscapes.
Why: No ...

Charlie: Mr. Wonka, I’d like to discuss a new idea.

Wonka (sighing): What is it now? I already approved the factory’s Facebook page and that blasted blog.

Charlie: I know, sir, change is rough.

Wonka (under his breath): If only ...

Taxes. Immigration. Foreign policy. It’s primary time, and things are getting. quite. serious.

Which is why we nominate the e-mail we received from designers Miira Zukale and Anna Huoviala as our favorite stump speech thus far:

“We think that one ...