Ballard - Features

Did you see the cameras outside Hot Cakes yesterday on Ballard Ave? We received word from local filmmaker Brody Willis that they were shooting a commercial for a Washington Federal Bank commercial.

We don't know what it's about, exactly,…MORE

By Shane Harms

North Seattle medical cannabis patients have a new safe access point: Herbs House, Ballard’s new cannabis collective on NW 65th St, opened last September.

Owner Sharon Jacobson, is new to the industry, but was…MORE

Deadline for receiving items for Calendar is Noon Friday for the following week’s Tribune. Events are published based on timeliness and space availability. Email calendar submissions to: calendar@robinsonnews.com.Items can be accepted from…MORE

The Ballard Chamber of Commerce is ramping up efforts to light downtown Ballard for the holiday season this year.

While they are asking neighborhood merchants and businesses to contribute $200 each, they say that Ballard residents are free…MORE

We here in Ballard don't need the Seattle Times to tell us what makes us so great. But it's still flattering.

In an article titled, "Go play and stay in Ballard," features editor Lynn Jacobsen waxes poetic about Ballard, a place that has…MORE

By Shane Harms

When The Viking Tavern on 24th Ave NW closed down earlier this year, many people mourned not just the death of old-styled watering holes, but the death of Ballard as a whole.

But all is not lost. The memory of The…MORE

FRIDAY, NOV. 1

The Writer Next Door: 4th Annual Ballard Writer’s Collective Big Event

What: Author readings, “Ask the Writer” Panel. $15 three-book sampler (while supplies last). Thirty participating writer, twelve readers and panel…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

Folks Donna Williams had never met kept popping their heads into the barbershop all day long on Halloween to ask, “Will you be doing it this year?”

What they were asking was, since the death of Gene the Barber…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

Recently, I went into my garden with the light of my flashlight and picked gold. Well, I really picked golden Asian pears, but they are as good as gold. With a great taste of fall, these crunchy apple-like, but pear…MORE

This Thursday, Oct. 31, from 4 to 6 p.m., Ballard businesses will be opening themselves up to trick-or-treaters, be they Dracula or be they Iron Man. You can spot participating merchants by the orange notice posted outside (see above). It's for "…MORE