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If you’re at all like me (of an age and not city-bred) you may understand that the thought of riding a bicycle in traffic strikes fear into my very soul.

Now I have tremendous admiration for the number of fit adults using their legs…MORE

This recent tax season spurred on yet another garden analogy from Yours Truly. I realized, as gardeners, that we already pay taxes in our own way. I wonder if this could fly with the IRS?

Here’s what I have so far: Garden Tax Filing…MORE

On April 12, Edward Landin lost his wife, Judy Ann, 61, to emphysema. But what a life she had. As her family and friends tell it, she was more than just the mother to their three sons. She mothered thousands of White Center kids.

She…MORE

Union Pacific Railroad awarded $5,000 recently to Page Ahead, a program that provides new books and develops reading activities that empower at-risk children.

Brock Nelson of Union Pacific delivered the check in person to Susan Waller,…MORE

Since competing on the nationally-televised fashion competition Project Runway, Blayne Walsh has never stopped developing new fashion. This Saturday night, the Hotwire Coffee barista will premiere his new 2009 fall/winter line at Seattle Fashion…MORE

There will be a "Tour de Fronds" free walking tour of Fauntleroy Park, Sunday, April 26 at 1 p.m.

The meeting place is at Barton Street entrance (Southwest Barton and Southwest Henderson, between 40 and 41st Southwest)

The tour will…MORE

At the West Seattle Golf Course, the practice tee was teaming with irons, including the one belonging to 4-year-old Lily Brush.

The Historic Admiral Theater will be hosting films as a part of the 2009 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF).

Now in its 35th year, the SIFF is the largest and most highly-attended film festival in the United States, showcasing more…MORE

A Spanish festival was held at Whittier Elementary School Thursday night to honor the new Spanish classes offered there.

Spanish class was dropped from the regular curriculum, so parents and the PTA organized an all-volunteer class that…MORE

Seattle is a city of two film cultures. The first is the butter-tub popcorn world of the multiplex where Hannah Montana holds court. The second is the culture of Seattle International Film Fest, the Harvard Exit and intense late-night…MORE