1. 26 SEATTLEMAG.COM JANUARY 2017
ESSENTIALS
3BBOX:BEAUTYBEYONDBORDERS;HARRIS:DCL;MURRAY:UNITEDSTATESSENATE;
EMP:CACOPHONY;SOULCYCLE:NICKIDUGANPOGUE
Seattle’s
new 20-mph
speed limit in residential
areas means crash casualties
may fall from the current average
of 170 per year.
BOO, HISS STANDING O
Patty Murray
voted no. 3 Dem in
U.S. Senate. But
can she save
Obamacare
from the
GOP?
EMP is now
Museum of Pop
Culture. Should
EMP Pop Con
be renamed
“MoPop Pop
Confer-
ence”?
Exercise phenom
SoulCycle hits
Bellevue.
Eastside souls
rejoice, as do
their upper
and lower
bodies.
WHERE: Concrete and east Skagit County. WHY: Eagles are flocking to their
spectacular winter getaway—why not join them? The Skagit Eagle Festival (1/1–1/31;
concrete-wa.com) happens every January weekend, and your car makes a perfect
blind for snapping pictures without scaring off these magnificent birds. Celebrate
along the Skagit River with arts and crafts, wine tasting, photography tours and river
rafting for eagle spotters. NIGHT OWLS: Check out the Concrete Theatre, built in
1923 (45920 Main St.; 360.941.0403; concrete-theatre.com), updated for films, live
music and events during the festival. EARLY BIRDS: Stop by 5b’s Bakery (45597
Main St.; 360.853.8700; 5bsbakery.com) for quality gluten-free baked goods and
more for breakfast or lunch. For dinner, there’s Annie’s Pizza Station (44568 State
Route 20; 360.853.7227; anniespizzastation.net), whose handcrafted cuisine would
be a hit even in a town bigger than Concrete, population 753. RULE THE ROOST:
Spend the night in one of Ovenell’s Heritage Inn log cabins, located on a historic
ranch across the river (46276 Concrete Sauk Valley Road; 360.853.8494; ovenells-inn.
com). Pick up a steak or two—the cows are raised right there on the ranch—and
throw them on the provided barbecue. Had enough of eagles? Elk, deer and coyotes
are known to roam the ranch on a daily basis. EVA SEELYE
ROAD TRIP!
View the eagles during
the Skagit Eagle Festival;
snap a pic and enter it by
January 15 in the Skagit
River Bald Eagle Center’s
20th anniversary photo
contest. Go win it!
Thugs
rob and beat up
troubled Deadliest Catch
star Jake Harris in Everett.
BEAUTY
Goodies
from
a 3B
beauty
box
SPECIAL
DELIVERY
KE CHEN, COFOUNDER OF 3B
(Beauty Beyond Borders), says
skin care in Asia is approached
the same way the French think
about food. “It’s an art form,” she
says. Chen, whose Seattle-based
subscription beauty box com-
pany launched last year, says this
“art form” can include a 10-step
cleansing ritual and feature
innovative, exotic ingredients like
bee venom and snail mucus to
soothe and repair skin.
Chen has found that obtaining
these elite Asian skin care
products stateside takes time
and research, which is why she’s
offering them via a home
subscription service ($15/month),
which delivers a collection of
Korean, Taiwanese and Japanese
skin care samples, such as the
Neogence Hyaluronic Acid
Hydrating Lotion from Taiwan
and Leaders’ 7 Wonders Amazo-
nian Acai Anti-Pollution Mask
from South Korea. When
subscribers find a product they
can’t live without, they can shop
for the full-size product on 3B’s
website (the3bbox.com).
Local and national focus
groups of bloggers, YouTubers
and beauty influencers help Chen
keep up on Asian skin care trends
and determine what ends up in
the boxes. You could say that 3B
has skin in this game. REBECCA
RATTERMAN
A SEATTLE-BASED SKIN
CARE COMPANY BRINGS
BEAUTY BREAKTHROUGHS
TO YOUR DOOR
APPLAUSE-O-METER