West Seattle - Features

Thursday, August 15th the Admiral Theater will host the Crooked Trails Organization for a one screening of the documentary TAPPED. The event begins at 6:30 pm.The screening is free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $5.00 which…MORE

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By Carol Smith

Like a glutton who’s first at the table to take The biggest and best of whatever you make Developers have planted their forks like a stake In the Westside as if it were their piece of cake

With pockets…MORE

Hercules, now five years old belongs to Gary Jensen and his wife Denise and came from a breeder in Elk Grove, California. He's a pure bred German Shepherd.

"He came up and he's a little guy," said Gary, "he had a little blue ribbon around…MORE

By Maggie Nicholson

As a child, Linnea Long was the tallest of her friends. She didn’t like to stand up straight. She thought of herself as the great big girl. She was a Girl Scout Brownie and carried a boxy camera on a string around her…MORE

The Conservatory Students at West Seattle's ArtsWest Theater are presenting the comedy classic Once Upon a Mattress Aug. 7 through 11.

If you thought you knew the story of "The Princess and the Pea," you may be in for a walloping surprise…MORE

From the Duwamish to the Sound, for four hours on May 30, 2012, West Seattle was locked in a state of fear as a gunman responsible for the shooting deaths of five innocent people – four at Café Racer in North Seattle and one at a First Hill…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

Yes, I know. You have learned all about Mt. Rainier and don’t need another reminder of its glory. But hear me out. No single view is a duplicate. The Puget Sound area is blessed (if I may use that religious…MORE

By Carol Smith

B is for the bedlam that will break out down below If the tunnel springs a leak and we’ve no boat in which to row

E is for the exit that is missing from this route To let empty shoppers into town and all the full…MORE

West Seattle icon Morey Skaret was feted Friday, Aug. 2 at his 100th birthday by scores of friends.

They stopped by Morey's favorite haunt, Roxbury Lanes, where he dines daily. Skaret is a former Seattle cop. He has lots of stories and is…MORE

By Brad Chrisman

In the annals of Seattle history, he’ll be remembered as the city’s 51st mayor, the Honorable Gregory J. Nickels. Or, as they say in the dialect of his native Chicago, “Hizzoner Da Mare.”

File photo by Patrick…MORE