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By Holly Brown

Eggplant is in peak season during the late summer and early fall. Now is the perfect time to enjoy this voluptuous vegetable! When selecting one of these stylish beauties, be sure to choose eggplant that's heavy for its size…MORE

      Just off Ambaum Boulevard, at 124th St, I  bought a house in 1957. It had a long gravel drive at the end of 14th SW with an open view of Puget Sound over the tops of the trees that make up the Salmon Creek ravine. The yard was the gateway…MORE

Hidden within the old warehouse building on NW Market St and 28th Ave NW is a treasure that is growing more and more rare these days: a multipurpose space with a light studio and darkroom for photographers. It's called Market Studios.

But…MORE

By Maggie Nicholson

As a boy, John Nitkey learned to swim the clear waters of C’oeur D’Alene Lake. The sun was amber honey, sticking to the air. John waded in to his skinny shoulders, his legs merging with blue. He was the only swimmer…MORE

According to the Orca Network whose members provide multiple sighting reports "A mobile picnic of orcas traipsed down Puget Sound Saturday, spread out for miles but mainly mid-channel, in small groups, so difficult to census, probably foraging…MORE

If your ideas about the Czech Republic are limited to beer and a poster of Prague, the Czech Tourism bureau is working hard to change that. They are on a roadshow tour of various points in the U.S. and made a stop in West Seattle at The Swinery…MORE

The West Seattle Chamber of Commerce, for the 2nd year, sponsored a fund raising effort for its operations by cruising around Puget Sound aboard Jack Miller's converted trawler the Baltic Sea. More than 46 members bought tickets for the event…MORE

The Ballard News-Tribune just wrote about the Benito Chicago Eatery surviving as a small Ballard restaurant for 15 months, but now they will have competition in a fairly unfulfilled niche in Seattle: Patxi's Chicago Pizza.

Patxi's is…MORE

The moment Maria Federici is most known for is one she has no recollection of.

It was approaching midnight on Feb. 22, 2004 when the young, attractive 24-year-old Renton woman was driving home from a bartending shift at a Kirkland club on…MORE

PARK(ing) Day, the day that parking spaces get turned into little parks, is coming to Ballard today, Sept. 20, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Currently on the map (which can be found at http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/seattleparkingday.htm),…MORE