Ballard - Features

With all of the recent hubbub over the possibility of a high capacity transit line connecting Ballard to Downtown, we thought it might be nice to take a look at the past. If you'll remember, Ballard had a streetcar before.

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First the Matador, then Kickin' Boot Whiskey Kitchen, and now Ballard Annex Oyster House. Nathan Opper and Zak Melang are officially starting their latest venture, a seafood joint, today, Thursday, March 21. It'll open at 3:30 p.m.

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By Joshua McNichols

There is a moment, when a storm has passed you by, when you can stand on the sidewalk and feel the warmth of the sun, even as ten blocks away the yellow-gray storm cloud sits on Phinney Ridge like a hen on its nest.…MORE

As of last Saturday, Garden Sushi is back. Now on the corner at Barnes Ave NW and 17th Ave NW, just south of NW Market St.

After being displaced when the Shell station on the corner of 15th Ave NW and NW 70th St closed down, there was some…MORE

By Ryan Hueter, UW News Lab

While some view marijuana as nothing more than an illicit drug, others have found its medicinal elements very beneficial in reducing stress and pain. And now some of those converts are turning that belief in the…MORE

Update, March 29: BevMo! just opened up today, Friday, March 29. We'll stop by to take some pictures. Grand opening is still open next weekend, see below for more details on that.

Original, March 15

Within the past couple of weeks,…MORE

Beard and Stache Fest

What: Throughout the month there will be a plethora of beard related festivities at our voting locations. You don’t have to have a face full of fur to participate in any of the month long events, we love the…MORE

First there was a room without a real purpose; someone proposed they build a bookcase and have books for borrowing. Then shelves overflowed and they wanted more bookcases, and so it became a bookstore. It’s a bookstore open to the public that too…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

I tell my patients at Northwest Kidney Centers that following a healthy low-salt diet means you can’t just “pick up something,” “open something,” “thaw out something” or “microwave something.” At some point, you…MORE

By Pete Treperinas

Multiple sclerosis has affected Molly Johnston her entire life.

Her dad, Steve, was diagnosed with MS two years before Johnston was born. She grew up witnessing its effects, both on a loved one living with the…MORE