Features

Locöl Barley and Vine (7902 35th s.w.) played host to three noteworthy jazz players on Friday Dec. 9 in a late night show.

Grammy Award winning musician Clark Sommers {bass} who has played on multiple recordings with Kurt Elling, Kobie…MORE

Every community has its share of Christmas lights from the single string of white lights in the window of an apartment to the most elaborate animated or just mega wattage displays.

Photographer David Rosen spent the last few nights on the…MORE

Over half of all apples eaten in America come from Washington. This is the time of year to take advantage of our state’s great local produce!

An apple a day really helps keep the doctor away. Apples are good sources of natural fibers that…MORE

Freezing temperatures didn't keep a group a bike-enthusiastic women from coming out on Monday evening for the monthly Menstrual Monday ride. The theme for the evening was Holiday Lights and together the group rode from neighborhood to…MORE

A new Christmas book, "Santa's First Magical Ride" was just released by West Seattle residents Paul and Libby Carr, their 12 chapters of rhyming couplets augmented by world-class illustrator Herb Leonhard of Prosser, WA. Paul was the author,…MORE

On Dec. 1, the City Year team at Roxhill Elementary School celebrated the end of a school-wide Hunger Awareness Month Campaign with the school's first Empty Bowls Banquet.

All students and families were invited to share a humble meal of…MORE

Susan Terjeson got her Scottish Terrier August from a breeder in Sammamish just 18 months ago and he came by that name because as Terjeson explained, " When I was a kid we lived on a farm in Iowa and down the road was a farmer named August Huey…MORE

Along the corridors of my college dormitory there were confidences exchanged and friendships formed that we thought would last forever. Some did; some didn’t. We hadn’t accepted that sometimes we are friends only by circumstance and geography. No…MORE

I’m not sure how it happened, but my sister and I stopped talking to one another several years ago. I remember a nasty argument during one of the kid’s birthday celebration, but I also have vague recollections of talking to her after that. There…MORE

The Great Depression hit Portland, Oregon in 1929,and like many other cities it had its struggles. Jobs were scarce and sometimes common sense was more scarce.

I was about nine and standing in line with my mom at the Pay n' Take-It grocery…MORE