Interested in grabbing your Nikon or Canon and getting your own angle of the Leaning Tower of Pisa? Photography Travel Tours is seeking adventurous shutter-bugs to join their idyllic Tuscany tour this spring.
Award-winning travel…MORE
Features
Sassy new site to stir up West Seattle singles
Sat, 01/22/11
A new, edgy website run by two young West Seattleites offers frank, sober advice for single guys and gals into the bar scene, coffee shop scene, and even the supermarket scene, trying to meet, and, after that, trying to get along.
"Ask A…MORE
Earlybirds Toastmasters Club catches the worm
Fri, 01/21/11
In contrast to the negative rhetoric that seems to have overtaken political and talk-show discourse lately, The West Seattle Earlybirds Toastmasters Club promotes civility in speech. For instance, one member who spoke in front of the others…MORE
Web Editor’s Picks: Kafka, Music and Playground Design
Fri, 01/21/11
Looking for something to do this weekend here are a few ideas:
Ghost Light Theatricals' Metamorphosis
Whether you’re a Kafka fan or you had to read Metamorphosis as part of your High School curriculum, Ghost Light Theatricals’…MORE
101 Things to do in Ballard: Take a Classy Cooking Class
Fri, 01/21/11
With our marvelous year-round farmer’s market and destination restaurants opening almost every week here (or so it seems), it makes perfect sense that Ballard is now home to some great cooking classes. How about starting the still relatively new…MORE
Sustainable West Seattle Tool Library: Tool of the week
Thu, 01/20/11
by Patrick Dunn
Some tools just stand the test of time, regardless of technological advances. The brace, in all its simplicity, is one of those modern tool dinosaurs. First developed sometime in the 15th century, the manual brace hasn’t…MORE
At Large in Ballard: Pie for a cause
Thu, 01/20/11
Until last week I was unaware that January 23, 2011 is National Pie Day. Even sadder, I didn’t realize the event is celebrated with extra fervor in Ballard and has been for last four years at Salmon Bay Eagles. Local realtor, volunteer…MORE
Sunset over Vashon Island, moonrise over West Seattle
Wed, 01/19/11
A photograph of the Vashon Ferry at sunset, 5:25 p.m., taken from the end of Fauntleroy Pier, and a shot of the moon over Lincoln Park taken from the Vashon Island Ferry Terminal.
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SLIDESHOW: A crazy night at Holy Rosary but nobody lost their marbles
Wed, 01/19/11
By Richard Sherman
Jan. 19 saw a whole lot of shooting going on. Don't worry it wasn't dangerous. It was Cub Scouts shooting marbles. This event was held at Holy Rosary, where there were some 100 cub scouts from West Seattle pack #793…MORE
ICE TOWN: a satirical look at Iceland from a Seattle perspective
Wed, 01/19/11
Kelly Hughes, a Seattleite of Icelandic descent, has launched a blog to share Nordic culture on a global level.
Promoted as “the world's most important source for the people, places and things that make Iceland so painfully relevant”, ice-…MORE
