Ballard - Features

By Peggy Sturdivant I wasn’t going to write a column this week. Then on Thursday, January 21, Ballard News-Tribune reporter Shane Harms asked if I could cover a one-hour meeting that started in two hours. He had to work his other job as bartender…MORE

By Amanda Knox

Oasis. The word conjures sunlight, water, trees, the sensation of sinking into soft, white sand. Relief. Delight. I think of weightlessness, of the release of strain that comes not from the relief of burdens, but from their…MORE

A new oddity shop is attracting collectors, strange seekers, weird wanderers and the plain curious of Ballard.

Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop opened its doors at 5445 Ballard Ave. N.W. last month. A preserved antelope can be seen from the…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant The first Ballard District Council meeting of the year took place on January 13, 2016. If you’re unfamiliar with the existence of the Ballard District Council (BDC), its members and relationship to the City of Seattle…MORE

By Katy Wilkens

In these dark winter days, we need something to help us think of sunnier climates! Head south by cooking up some warm and filling Cajun food. Cajun is a style of cooking from the American South, and comes from the name for…MORE

By Pat Cashman

Now that I am among those people who did not win the Power Ball lottery, I can finally reveal that if I had won---I would have used the money to send all the kids of our area to Disneyland. Or---if they preferred---Toyota-…MORE

By Amanda Knox I don’t know how old I was exactly, but I was as old as you are when you stand eye-level with the kitchen counter. All the neighborhood kids were gathered in my backyard and we were playing pretend. In this game, I was a cat that…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

At least in my circles we don’t say goals anymore, or resolutions. We set ‘intentions’ for the New Year. Some of us the moment before we plunge into Puget Sound, many while sitting on a yoga mat, others on origami paper…MORE

By Amanda Knox

Soaking for several hours with eight other naked women in a hot tub, in an open room in the spa with three other similarly packed tubs, I pondered two things: tattoos (because there were a smattering of those to appreciate…MORE

By Pat Cashman

“We mustn’t scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears.” ---Tennessee Williams in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.” ---David Gemmell “…MORE