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By Peggy Sturdivant

On January 4, 2015, the Seattle Green Spaces Coalition held a meeting at the High Point Branch library, possibly the first community meeting of the year. Two weeks later, that long ago day when the Seahawks pulled off…MORE

by Pat Cashman

The ”Year of the Goat” began on the Chinese calendar a few weeks ago. Yet, I still habitually find myself writing ‘Year of the Horse’ on my checks. Back during the Year of the Rat, The Wall Street Journal---a newspaper…MORE

By Kyra-lin Hom

There are internet memes and then there are downright phenomenons. And for whatever reason, over the last two weeks a single photo of a dress, a color optical illusion has taken over the internet. You are very likely…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

What a world! A world of human beings alongside the other creatures in the animal kingdom. The so-called lower animals have become owned or managed by humans for the most part. City life has restricted the space…MORE

by Greg McCorkle

On a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Fremont hundreds of people gathered at the Fremont Foundry to celebrate Bacon and Bourbon, showcasing the burgeoning craft distilling movement of the Puget Sound region and the culinary…MORE

By Amanda Knox

Annie Lareau was right; David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish is not an easy play to put on.

There’s the fact that the script suggests multiple and various settings that the small, ArtsWest stage must somehow accommodate.…MORE

The next presenter in the Southwest Seattle Historical Society monthly “Words, Writers & West Seattle” series is Barbara Haines Howett, Ladies of the Borobudur (Outskirts Press, 2007, genre: adult fiction).

On Friday, March. 6, 2015,…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

What a world! A world of human beings alongside the other creatures in the animal kingdom. The so-called lower animals have become owned or managed by humans for the most part. City life has restricted the space…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

Last weekend I attended six wakes and one requiem. The requiem, composed to put to rest the soul of an 18th century enslaved African, and performed by a 40 piece orchestra and 100 voice chorus, was the more uplifting.…MORE

The recent clear skies have left the Olympic Mountains and the wide expanse of Puget Sound totally exposed to the brilliant light of the sun at dusk. Here are a few photographs of the scene. Tonight's sunset is sure to produce more.

Care…MORE