West Seattle - Features

Johnny Pesky (who died last week) was not only a great baseball player at Lincoln High in Portland but he was also a whiz on the ice rink near Vaughn street park where the Portland Beavers played in the 30's.

I know because I skated with…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

How well I remember my birthday just before school started each year.

More likely than not my present was school shoes. In those days there weren’t any shoes in my size—long and narrow. So there I was…MORE

After months of planning from an all-volunteer corps, the 6th Annual Delridge Day Festival on Aug. 18 brought Delridge Park to life.

Ears were filled with the live music of the Ellis Brothers, Moongirl, SideSaddle Cowboy and Low Land High…MORE

by Kimberly Robinson

After three days of heat with highs mostly in the 80's and some places in the 90' most of us have trouble cooling our homes.

West Seattle's water access points are always crowded but never seem to have too many…MORE

The West Seattle Outdoor Movie for Aug. 18 is the classic animated feature Yellow Submarine starring the Beatles and their music.Based on the group's children's song of the same name the story has the Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in…MORE

Iconic Seattle musician Duff McKagan has been rocking it in 2012 with all guns blazing, and his career is looking rosy. Bad puns aside, he soon adds one more notch in his belt, "The Taking", a film ala "Hard Days Night" filled with music from his…MORE

The annual free Friday night concert series put on by Providence Mt. St. Vincent (or just The Mount) will get a blast from the past tonight courtesy of the 85th Street Big Band. Their website describes them as "a lively 20-piece big band playing…MORE

It’s quite possible the next Alan Moore (Watchmen and so much more), Gary Larson (Far Side) or Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) was inspired to do great things on Aug. 16 as 14 young West Seattleites gathered to learn the basics of cartooning…MORE

It doesn't get extremely warm in Seattle very often so air conditioning is not in every home as it is in cities like Phoenix, Arizona. In fact Weather.com shows that from June through September the average monthly temperature here is between 71…MORE

UPDATE: Thursday, 8:30 p.m.

Despite the extreme summer weather, or perhaps because of it, a small but enthusiastic crowd attended tonight's Braxmatics concert just north of the Alki Bathhouse from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The edgy ensemble…MORE