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Giant thistles: artichokes for the last of summer’s bounty

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

Toward the end of August, I was looking in my garden to find that giant thistles about six feet tall are growing in my garden. They were artichokes…MORE

Thumbing through an old volume of the White Center News this week I spotted a picture of the officers of the Kiwanis club taken at a meeting at the once famous Epicure restaurant. Now empty, the Epicure was the focal point where the "elite met to…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

Remember last year when I waxed poetic about a visit to the Cedar River? I was excited when I was invited to experience that wonderful place again, this time sharing it with not only my special friend Emil, but…MORE

King County Metro is making significant changes to our public transportation system on Sept. 29, including five new routes, two new RapidRide bus lines (including one servicing West Seattle), two renumbered routes, 18 discontinued routes (goodbye…MORE

West Seattle's ArtsWest Theater begins its 2012-13 season with 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' a rock musical about our controversial seventh president opening September 19.

The theater describes the show as a, "comedic, audacious mix of…MORE

UPDATE: The exhibition has been extended through Sept. 23. It can be viewed Mon-Fri, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by appointment.

There’s something strangely poetic in viewing a contemporary art exhibit featuring artists with completely…MORE

By Joshua McNichols, author of the Urban Farm Handbook

We have our priests, too, we foodies. The Greg Atkinsons, the Tamara Murphys. They inspire our pallets with their sermons on a plate. They give the local food movement a moral backbone…MORE

Like the haunted Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film, "The Shining", the historic Everett Theater plays a starring role in a movie in production, "Ghostlight". But, unlike the mythical Inn, the 1901 theater, formerly the Everett Opera…MORE

Leah Mendel, got her dog Chesai, (that she and her husband call "Cheese"), adopted her from a family in West Seattle that was looking for a better home for her. "She was kind of a neighborhood dog that seemed to fit in better in our household…MORE

By Jerry Robinson, Publisher

I was sitting on my enclosed patio last week, the warm sun teasing my aging body when it occurred to me that I’ve been very lucky. Lucky to be alive at 92 with no pain.

I use a walker to negotiate my way…MORE