Features

With schools and many businesses closed due to the icy weather people in West Seattle took to the outdoors to enjoy the unexpected day off. Though SDOT and Metro were certainly busy with problems, kids and adults found ways to entertain…MORE

Pictures from a snow day in Ballard and the Woodland Park Zoo.

Click on photo to start slideshow.

For more Woodland Park Zoo photos visit their Facebook page or Web site.Got any pictures you'd like to add? Email them to us and we'…MORE

I recently read a quote in Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas along the lines of “eventually, every woman fools around with a married man.” I am the exception to this rule. It’s not necessarily a moralistic thing (if people are going to cheat, they’re…MORE

click on photo to start slideshow

The temperatures are dropping, trees are standing bare and snow is falling. Winter season is here which means it’s time for winter ales. Winter brings out unique small-production seasonal brews called…MORE

Of the 5,000 full time students at South Seattle Community College, hundreds, maybe more, are Muslim, adhere to Islamic dietary law, and consume only halal food. "Halal" means legal, or permitted, in Arabic. The halal menu has some similarities…MORE

In harsh contrast to the December, 2008 Seattle snow storm that not only blanketed West Seattle but seemed to place a pillow over the head of Alki residents, "snow preparedness" is the mantra this winter at METRO, SDOT, and the Office of…MORE

When I first met writer/humorist David Volk in 2006 he was a man still obsessed with his mailbox at the Ballard Post Office. When he moved west in 1988, his Ballard mailbox was his first address. The mailing address used to be essential for…MORE

By Katy G. Wilkens, MS, RD Northwest Kidney Centers

Ginger – you either love it or hate it. That spicy hot, somewhat sweet, savory taste is hard to describe. Eat enough at once and it can almost make you cry.

It turns out that…MORE

Sabrina Tuilaepa got her dog Chewy from a breeder in Olympia approximately 8 months ago. He's a Lhasa Apso and is a bright, curious, and loving little dog.

His name is of course a reference to the famous Star Wars character, "He used to…MORE

(click on photo to start slideshow)

Gail Luhn’s street is a 50 feet dock, her yard is the Puget Sound and the 80-foot vessel that sits at the end of dock O is her home.

A resident of the Shilshole community, Luhn has lived on her…MORE