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Saturday is Cinco de Mayo and here are some ideas on where in Ballard to celebrate this day:

Bad Albert’s Tap & Grill – 5100 Ballard Ave NW From 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Bad Albert’s will host live music and much dancing. Ed Taylor Band and…MORE

Seattle Department of Transportation reports that over the next two weekends, the intersection of Greenwood Avenue N and N 85th Street will be closed to repay the road.

This work will close the intersection to traffic in all directions…MORE

By Ana Sofia Knauf, UW News Lab

Northwest Folklife will hold its fifth annual preview party tonight at the Tractor Tavern. Country and folk acts Big Sur, Denver, and the Annie Ford Band will kick off the evening starting at 8 p.m. to give…MORE

Lace up your walking shoes and brush up on your Norwegian. Seattle Parks and Recreation’s Sound Steps Program and the Seattle-Bergen Sister City Association are co-sponsoring the 9th Annual Seven Hills Walk on Saturday, May 19.

This free…MORE

After an absence of many years, Federico García Lorca's master piece, The House of Bernarda Alba, returns to the Seattle stage in an adaption by Emily Mann. The first in Arouet's 2012 season, the play will be performed at the Ballard Underground…MORE

UPDATE: On Wednesday night, The Seattle School Board Wednesday officially offered Anaheim City Schools Superintendent José Banda the position of Superintendent of Seattle Public Schools.

With a 6-0 vote in favor of Banda, the Board…MORE

Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-36th District), Representative Mary Lou Dickerson (D-36th District) and 14 other Washington state legislators announced their endorsement of Initiative 502 today.

I-502 would legalize, tax, and regulate…MORE

The Bridge Care Center, on 1516 NW 51st St., was successfully able to clothe people through the wet and cold winter months, but as the chilly nights linger, they're running out of jeans and blankets.

"The numbers that The Bridge are…MORE

New Woodland Park Zoo residents will make their public debut this weekend during the "Pigs, Warts and All" program. The new animal residents are a wild pig species called African warthogs and Visayan warty pigs.

Visayan warty pigs are…MORE

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is recognizing an exceptional Ballard High School student for making significant contributions to intergroup relations at its annual Student Human Relations Program reception on May 10, 2012.

Over 20…MORE