DON'T FORGET THE GROCERIES: Do you have enough marinara sauce for tonight's pasta? Did you remember to make a lunch? How's your milk looking? If you need any type of grocery item today then we strongly recommend that you head to your nearest Whole Foods. And it's not because we think that you need to be shopping exclusively organic (that gets expensive). It's because today 5 percent of sales from all five Puget Sound Whole Foods (Bellevue, Interbay, Redmond, Roosevelt Square, Westlake) will be donated to Lifelong AIDS Alliance to help them feed hungry people with their Chicken Soup Brigade. Lifelong AIDS Alliance's food program feeds hundreds each week with bags of groceries and individualized meals. The meals are an important part of maintaining the health of people living with HIV/AIDS and other life-challenging illnesses. Feed yourself, help feed others. Win-win. more ›

Seattlest Katelyn is in Antalya, Turkey, for this week's leg of her trip to the Mediterranean. She's armed with a camera, so those of you who have never been to Turkey can follow along at home. more ›

"What’s exciting about sitting at a resort somewhere? Where’s the living in that?” Travis Arket asks, and sets down his pho chopsticks. Matt Crabtree nods. “Not exciting.” Travis and Matt (pictured) are two of the three members of Team Robot House, a non-profit adventure philanthropy corporation based here in the Seattle area that takes on a few extreme challenges each year to raise money for charities such as Mercy Corps. more ›