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The Seattle Playwrights Studio (SPS) presents its seventh Annual Showcase of New Works, May 29, 30 and 31 at ArtsWest.

The program commemorates the eighth anniversary of the founding of SPS, and highlights the works in progress of its 21…MORE

Sven Huseby, an environmentalist and an educator, learned at an early age that the health of the natural world is inextricably linked with the fate of the people living in it.

Huseby grew up in Ballard in the 1950s as part of the area's…MORE

“Who wouldn’t give anything to be able to hear the voices of their grandparents?” Gordon Strand asked. “It’s something we always regret losing.”

We’d been discussing the Nordic Heritage Museum’s plan to expand on the oral history project…MORE

Thousands from Ballard to Bergen converged at Market Street to watch the annual Syttende Mai (May 17) Parade to celebrate Norwegian Constitution Day.

The hot Sunday afternoon sun attracted Norwegians sporting clothes and accessories that…MORE

Janice Balme and Bill Boss looked for over a year for a dog like Annie, their Australian Shepherd. Now 18 months old they purchased her in Renton from Kim Buffum who breeds these dogs.

"She's very agile," said Bill, "She can walk on her…MORE

Chas Redmond is such a fixture in West Seattle he's almost part of the landscape. Except Redmond seldom sits still.

He's a man in constant motion and has tread on the soil of many places and has the shoes to prove it. He's an activist…MORE

The Seattle Department of Transportation commissioned local artists SuttonBeresCuller to create acid etched color tinted concrete art "picture frames" entitled "Salon" to be part of the sidewalk adjacent to the Morgan Junction Park, which will…MORE

Adrian Sharp and his friend Joseph Francisco took advantage of a warm spring Saturday to open the first lemonade stand of the season (as far as we can tell).

Former West Seattle resident Kathy Lutovsky stopped by to get a cup, saying, "I…MORE

Four of the past Miss Wheelchair Washington's gathered at the home of the 2006 winner Tammy Wilber for a "Day of Beauty" on May 16. They all share an unusual fact: all their birthdays are in May, so it was a joint birthday celebration too. The…MORE

Through the overactive imagination of a fifth-grader named Alexander, a knight with a backpack for a shield and an umbrella for a sword, Ballard students learned that bullying, and allowing bullying, is not right.

On May 15, the Road…MORE