West Seattle - Features

by Carol Smith

Once long ago a city’s King Declared “A tunnel’s just the thing To get an unsuspecting town To tear a useful roadway down”

The wise men said “Let’s retrofit For with this option we will get More value for the public’s…MORE

By Emile Monte

Local actress Peggy Gannon has directed her first play for Arts West Theatre: Wendy Wasserstein’s final work before succumbing to cancer in 2005, Third. In the vein of Wasserstein’s other works, we find a strong, central…MORE

By Scott Anthony


 My dad is what you’d call an optimist. He can usually find something good about nearly any situation. He talks of growing up during the depression with fondness, even though he and his family sometimes didn’t have enough…MORE

by Jerry Robinson

My mom was a treasure and very tolerant of my dad's fight with the bottle during the depression. He'd come home many nights in his usual stupor, we kids would help undress him and put him to bed while mother lectured him…MORE

By Holly Brown

Oscar night is the perfect time to gather with friends for food, fun, and celeb sightings. Whether you throw a fancy soiree, or keep it casual in jeans and jewels, elegant food fare will make it an award winning evening.…MORE

One of the premier athletic and workout facilities in Seattle area, once called Allstar Fitness and later West Seattle Athletic Club has been through numerous challenges in the last five years. It's been sold out of bankruptcy, had numerous…MORE

By Emile Monte

Volunteer board member Jessie Rey Howard stands behind an orange-dressed table to the right as you walk into Skylark Café and Club. On top of the table is a similarly orange box with “Co-op” printed in blue and underscored…MORE

West Seattle's Lisa Coronado whose acting career includes the locally produced show The Divine Marigolds and who recently completed the film "Ghostlight" joins two other Seattle actresses and two young male actors in a new film called "Different…MORE

Dis/orient/ed Comedy is a touring show that highlights local talent and professional comics from Los Angeles that is coming to, no, not West Seattle but Bellevue on March 16. For locals heading over to the eastside it had better be pretty special…MORE

by Tim Clifford

From a list of the different positions and titles that the new southwest precinct captain, Steve Wilske, has had during his time with the Seattle Police Department one position brings a visible change to his face.

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