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I love movies. I love watching them and talking about them. Re-watching them and insisting that others watch them. I love them in black-and-white and color, in English and any other language as long as there are subtitles. I love them silent, and…MORE

Woodland Park Zoo's animals kicked it like the Sounders today as the Seattle Sounders make a run for the playoffs.

Among the soccer-playing animals was Rico, a 4-year-old male Sicilian miniature donkey, the zoo's latest addition to the…MORE

Seattle area tableware designer, Rosanna, and Bartell Drugs have teamed up to create a joint project that celebrates West Seattle with a custom design with a West Seattle theme.

It is one of more than a dozen neighborhood mugs, plates,…MORE

The New York Times has just published a story featuring the local grocery startup StockBox Grocers whose shipping container based neighborhood food store was covered by the West Seattle Herald in mid-September.

Kids and their parents, and especially toddlers took advantage of a bevy of treats that Westwood Village offered in a limited time frame, 5 to 7 pm on Halloween.

Hundreds of trick or treaters crowded the sidewalks and walkways of the…MORE

Canadian geese today on the west side of Harbor Av. on Alki took a gander at the other side and decided to go for it, slowing rush hour traffic.

By Mayor Mike McGinn

Many cities are struggling in the aftermath of the recession to keep the jobs they still have and attract new ones. We're still recovering from the job losses suffered during the recession from 2007 to 2009. Seattle…MORE

A few weeks ago I did a column on my boyhood dream of becoming a big leaguer. I told about a special bat I acquired from a nice lady on my paper route; how it belonged to her son who had not returned from the war. How the bat was split by a…MORE

I can’t say I was a very good Girl Scout, despite spending my elementary and part of my junior high years in troops and camps. But one thing stuck: the proverbial two word motto that all Girls Scouts know: Be prepared.

I think about this…MORE

Like many of you, we were outdoors on 10-29 and saw yet another remarkable sunset as the cloud cover varied from, well, if you are a meteorologist or just know a lot about clouds, you tell us. All we know is that it was beautiful and we got…MORE