West Seattle - Features

On Saturday, Feb. 23, the Chess Mates Foundation will hold a West Seattle Chess Tournament at Schmitz Park Elementary (5000 S.W. Spokane St.).

Here are the details:

Awards: Team (top 4), individual, and grade trophies

First…MORE

Mason, a Bull Mastiff, is happily at home with Mark Haller and his fiancé Martha Fletcher both of whom are residents of West Seattle for the past three months.

"Mason was a rescue dog," said Haller. "We were looking for a dog for the both…MORE

According to lore, the archaic form of Neapolitan-style pizza started in Naples, Italy in the 16th century. It was a peasant food cooked quickly in insanely-hot wood-fired stoves, with a diversity of ingredients slapped onto flatbread and sold…MORE

  The latest Flu scare in the Northwest prompted me to recall an event from the days of my youth. 

     There was a lot of scarlet fever, mumps, chicken pox, diphtheria, small pox and pneumonia when I was growing up in Portland in the 20's…MORE

For the people who gathered in the Ebb Tide Room at the Chelan Cafe in West Seattle on Sunday Jan. 27 to honor the life of Jerry Ceis, it didn't matter that the room was filled to overflowing.

In fact it was the way they wanted it.

Denny International Middle School Principal Jeff Clark had an idea to paint a stairwell at the school in an inspirational way. But that simple suggestion to Assistant Principal Patricia Rangel got a process started that grew into a remarkable…MORE

Update for March 20Information from Puget Sound Energy

It’s finally here, the first episode of Re-Energized by Design premiers today! People can tune and watch the Bedford Family from West Seattle as they compete head-to-head with five…MORE

Whatever your fly fishing predilection may be, the Fly Fishing Film Tour likely has a film to stoke that passion. The tour comes to Seattle on Feb. 7 at SIFF Cinema Uptown (511 Queen Anne Ave North) and tickets are available from local fly…MORE

One of the more accessible rock stars who call West Seattle home, Chris Ballew in his alter ego of Caspar Babypants is seeking help with the completion of song he, "started a long time ago," called "When I was little."

Ballew is better…MORE

By Holly Brown

For a pasta loading, carb loving, bread craving foodie like me, the idea of going gluten free was about as likely as growing pointed ears and hitching a ride on the Starship Enterprise. However, with friends and family…MORE