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“I love the smell of new power tools in the morning. They smell like…. victory!”

When I twittered that the other day, it made me stop and think, "why?" Not why I twittered that, why I love the smell of new power tools.

Inspiration…MORE

A team of Seattle Works volunteers joined Community Harvest of Southwest Seattle last Saturday to prepare two areas on the White Center Food Bank’s property for gardening.

The food bank is located at 10829 8th Ave. S.W. One site is a…MORE

Ellie is a 3 year old black and white house cat that has started coming outside in small doses.

She likes to watch the birds and have stare downs with the neighborhood squirrel that comes within an inch of her nose, always with a quick…MORE

Tonight at 9 p.m. Easy Street Records will be hosting a special event to help celebrate the re-release of Pearl Jam’s debut album "Ten."

The store will be serving free pizza and soda plus cheap beer on sale all night while they play live…MORE

(Editor’s Note: Jerry Robinson wrote this column in January 1979. He remains immortal.)

I think I’ve finally done it. Achieved immortality.

I approached it last month when, after two years of restoration work, I took my little…MORE

Bertha Davis claims she “closed” Webster Elementary School when she and the secretary were the last school staff to leave the building in 1980. She had taught there for 50 years.

Nearly 30 years later she’s presiding over a grand opening…MORE

On the cobble stone streets of old Ballard Avenue is a boutique by the name of Dolce Vita (Italian for “sweet life”). There’s no signage, only a brightly lit shop with stylish mannequins in the display windows.

It is the perfect…MORE

I was going to do a completely different topic for today, but something more impressive has taken its place. Have you ever had a garden, or plant question, that you can’t find an answer to? Try the Elisabeth Miller Plant Answer Line at the…MORE

Russian Americans Sergii and Masha Roata came from Tacoma to have their formal wedding photos taken, with a few spins thrown in, on Alki Saturday.

My son Chris, who is now 20 mumble-something years old, would surely be embarrassed to see his name in print in relation to diapers, so don’t mention this to him please.

But I have to say that today’s baby bottom cover is far and away a…MORE