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70 percent of the surface of our planet is covered by water---including Budweiser, Gatorade and drool.

Land and poor math students cover the other 45 percent.

After our unusually sunny summer, the return of Seattle rain is…MORE

The weekend when a solar storm created the possibility of Northern Lights a Ballard friend invited me to her house on Whidbey Island for the weekend.

The ensuing weekend was a social whirl with a large cast of artists and former…MORE

by Pat Cashman

Baseball fans have been getting plenty of exercise this summer---jumping up and down from the Mariners’ bandwagon. The team swings between looking playoffs-bound---to just plain bound---as if the players’ need more fiber in…MORE

By Erin Bosetti

The second annual Macefield Music Festival will hit Ballard this weekend, stuffing almost every music venue in Old Ballard to the brim with local Seattle bands over two days.

The Macefield Music Festival is named in…MORE

by Kathryn Kingen

There are certain vegetables I depend on to save me in a pinch. Because my favorite way to cook is to combine whatever I have in my refrigerator and pantry, I am vulnerable to what remains fresh. But when my cauliflower…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

Variety makes life so interesting. I like it in my garden - and in my food. Take my Asian pear tree, for example. It’s just one tree, but four kinds of Asian pears are grafted onto it – the early ripening Shinsui,…MORE

(Editor's note: Rob Ketcherside, local writer and software manager will be writing articles for the Westside Weekly this fall. We introduce him to you here)

By Tim Robinson When Rob Ketcherside started digging into Seattle's history of…MORE

After working at what may be the most singular craft you can imagine West Seattle's Laura Marie Peters is finally hitting the big time. Peter's business BelliVita, casts molds from the bellies of pregnant women then casts them as beautiful glass…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

From the beginning of time various creatures roamed the earth. Some grew to enormous proportions during the period of the dinosaurs. Then, because of circumstances beyond their control, they were wiped out.…MORE

The Seattle Department of Transportation announced the winners for the Park(ing) Day Seattle challenge today. The pop-up park installation by the Ballard Writers’ Collective won a 'Corners of the City' PARK(ing) Day Seattle award.

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