Ballard - Features

By Peggy Sturdivant & Alison Eckels 

They happen to be all women. They are all artists. But what really links all the women sitting together in the Crafts Room of the Ballard Senior Center is that they cannot just sit. If they have to…MORE

What do you do when you walk out from your job, your home or a World Cup soccer game and find your car gone? This was the dilemma this Ballard News-Tribune reporter faced less than two weeks ago and has prepared a step by step guide to save…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD Nutrition and fitness manager

I often bring flowers to work to share with my patients and co-workers, but this week I brought a different kind of flower—cauliflower! Prettier than any rose, and you can eat this…MORE

In his public safety address to the Seattle City Council last week, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray detailed a series of ‘Find it, Fix it’ Community Walks, focused on several crime hotspots.

At the walks, community residents, police, and city…MORE

Alison’s Coastal Café and Bakery at 5404 Leary Ave. N.W. celebrated its grand opening last weekend.

The new restaurant has moved into the space on Leary Way where B & O Espresso used to be.

Owner, Alison Soike, said she plans…MORE

Patxi’s Pizza (pronounced PAH-cheese. ‘t’ before ‘x’), one of the most loved pizza restaurants in the Bay Area, announced today that it will open its first Northwest location in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood at 5323 Ballard Ave NW later this…MORE

August is the time to raid the closet for those Nordic swords, horned helmets and faux-fur booties, because the Nordic Heritage Museum’s 31st annual Viking Days on August 16 and 17 is featuring a new event this year, the Run Like a Viking 5K.…MORE

Is it fate? Death? Desire?…or just a sheer movement in the brain that leads people back again and again to the pink peddler of pork perfection, Paseo Caribbean Restaurant (6226 Seaview Ave N.W. and 4225 Fremont Ave N.).

Among a fuselage of…MORE

By Erin Bosetti

This year, local favorite coffee haunt Java Bean turns 25. It started out as a coffee cart in Eastlake in 1989 and two more carts were opened in the city including one in West Seattle. Our well loved Ballard branch was…MORE

Conor Byrne Pub 5140 Ballard Ave. N.W.

ROYAL WOLFE, DEBBIE MILLER, BEASLEY Thursday, September 4, 20149:00pm – 11:59pm

STAR ANNA, ZACH BROOCKE, JASON DODSON (MALDIVES), MARLAINA YOUCH Friday, September 5, 20149:00pm – 11:59pm