West Seattle - Features

October 3 will mark the one-year anniversary West Seattle-raised Amanda Knox was acquitted with her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, of the brutal murder of her British college roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy. Ms.…MORE

Danica Smith is the proud owner of Roxy, an American Cocker Spaniel, who is a former show dog. Roxy is eight years old and participated in shows "around Washington State," said Smith and won "Best in Junior Showmanship" at one event. Roxy came…MORE

Thumbing through an old volume of the White Center News this week I spotted a picture of the officers of the Kiwanis club taken at a meeting at the once famous Epicure restaurant. Now empty, the Epicure was the focal point where the "elite met to…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

Remember last year when I waxed poetic about a visit to the Cedar River? I was excited when I was invited to experience that wonderful place again, this time sharing it with not only my special friend Emil, but…MORE

King County Metro is making significant changes to our public transportation system on Sept. 29, including five new routes, two new RapidRide bus lines (including one servicing West Seattle), two renumbered routes, 18 discontinued routes (goodbye…MORE

West Seattle's ArtsWest Theater begins its 2012-13 season with 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' a rock musical about our controversial seventh president opening September 19.

The theater describes the show as a, "comedic, audacious mix of…MORE

Like the haunted Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film, "The Shining", the historic Everett Theater plays a starring role in a movie in production, "Ghostlight". But, unlike the mythical Inn, the 1901 theater, formerly the Everett Opera…MORE

Leah Mendel, got her dog Chesai, (that she and her husband call "Cheese"), adopted her from a family in West Seattle that was looking for a better home for her. "She was kind of a neighborhood dog that seemed to fit in better in our household…MORE

By Jerry Robinson, Publisher

I was sitting on my enclosed patio last week, the warm sun teasing my aging body when it occurred to me that I’ve been very lucky. Lucky to be alive at 92 with no pain.

I use a walker to negotiate my way…MORE

Hotwire On-line Coffeehouse at 4410 California Ave. s.w. operates in a space many might find too small for a closet and yet, through drive, determination, intelligence and innovation, Lora Swift has made it an unqualified success. This week the…MORE