Martin Scorsese makes beautiful films that are sometimes quite good (I’m sorry, but I don’t think “Gangs of New York” has made too many top-ten lists). “Shutter Island” teeters between those two qualities—between exquisitely crafted imagery and…MORE
Features
Bakery Nouveau and Full Tilt Ice Cream featured in the New York Times
Sat, 05/15/10
The New York Times picked out two local businesses in a travel story about Seattle Sweet Shops by writer Sara Dickerman Saturday May 15. Bakery Nouveau, the french bakery in the heart of the West Seattle Junction and Full Tilt Ice Cream in White…MORE
SLIDESHOW: Seattle Chefs cooked the first Copper River salmon of the season
Fri, 05/14/10
Early Friday morning three top Seattle seafood chefs had a copper salmon cookoff, cooking the very first copper salmon to be delivered from Alaska.
The plane landed just before 7 a.m., carrying 22,000 pounds of fresh Alaska Copper River…MORE
Backyard brood: Goats a growing trend on urban farms
Fri, 05/14/10
The goat first showed signs that she was going into labor at 10:30 p.m. She expelled a certain kind of discharge, similar to when a woman’s water breaks. She nickered during contractions. And of the estimated 145 to 155 days of a goat’s gestation…MORE
It's Garden Classes time; Classes filling fast
Wed, 05/12/10
Get gardening in West Seattle with one of these engaging classes taught by garden educators from Seattle Tilth in conjunction with Community Harvest of SW Seattle.
Vertical Gardening (St. James Annex) May 16, 10-noon. Learn to build cool…MORE
The City of Seattle has a wealth of data for you
Wed, 05/12/10
The City of Seattle, like any large municipality keeps and updates a wide range of databases. The compiled data gives them a sense of how to apply resources and provides the public with access to facts, figures and awareness of what the city has…MORE
Ballard native runs a tight ship for Carnival
Wed, 05/12/10
Ballard-born Ron Ness has been a hotel director for Carnival Cruise Lines for 15 years. He was recently in town on the 960-foot Carnival Spirit cruise ship, ready to sail to Alaska May 11 for a seven-day cruise to the Tracy Arm Fjord, Skagway,…MORE
Ballard Big Picture: Vote for the boat
Wed, 05/12/10
As the 97-year-old, 133-foot schooner Adventuress waited to pass through the Ballard Locks May 12, its crew bellowed a collection of sea shanties to entertain those watching.
Adventuress' crew were making a last-ditch effort for a $100,000…MORE
Pet of the week: Sawyer is a jumpy hunter
Tue, 05/11/10
Nicholas Stevens has a Shiba Inu named Sawyer who is one year old. Shiba Inus are Japanese hunting dogs that were originally bred to go through dense undergrowth in search of smaller wild game like rabbits. As pets they are reserved toward…MORE
SLIDESHOW: Centerstage will be swinging with "Ain't Misbehavin'"
Tue, 05/11/10
May 21 - June 6, 2010 Evenings: Friday and Saturday 8:00 PM Matinees: Saturday and Sunday 2:00 PM
The comic and musical soul of 1930s Harlem lives on in this rollicking, finger-snapping revue that is still considered one of Broadway's…MORE
