West Seattle - Features

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

West Seattle resident chef, writer, food photographer and instructor Erin Coopey has a big day coming up on Aug. 7 when she launches her first cookbook: The Kitchen Pantry Cookbook.

Coopey, who teaches the art of cooking at South Seattle…MORE

South Seattle Community College Heavy Diesel and Automotive Instructor Doug Clapper and select students from the college have been working very slowly on something very fast.

The U-37 Miss Beacon Plumbing, set to race in the Seafair…MORE

Amy Nelson and her husband Quinn got their dog Winston at Seattle French Bulldogs (which is a clue to his breed) about five years ago. He has a brindle coat.

They feed him Canidae Lamb and Rice they get at Next to Nature in the West…MORE

There are block parties and then there's the one planned for 48th SW and Dawson Street on Aug. 6, National Night Out.

This is an event you might have to buy tickets for if it wasn't free.

First of all they will have a live band by…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

Racing forms were never seen in my home of origin. In fact, gambling was almost a sin. But only we girls took that seriously. Well, all but my oldest sister who became a woman of the world after spending two years…MORE