Features

By Kathryn Hilger Kingen

If I were to consider all the foods we have to choose from and make one of them my very best food friend, it would have to be Salmon. By far it is the most interesting, fun, versatile, hard-working and good-for-us…MORE

By: Christy Wolyniak

Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery just celebrated its second birthday on May 18, and last week the team extended a belated party inviting to the Ballard community by way of irresistible, organic decadence.

The…MORE

Ballardite and owner of KAVU, Barry Barr, has always followed his passion and lives with the philosophy “Have a KAVU day.”

KAVU, an acronym for “Klear above visibility unlimited,” embodies the ideals Barr grew up with, where you seize the…MORE

The 40th Seattle International Film Festival runs from May 15 through June 8, 2014 at venues in Seattle and around the Northwest.

Here's a list of scheduled showings:

Friday, May 30th

Belle & Sebastien AMC Pacific Place…MORE

The first of three emergency preparedness demonstrations was presented at the Seattle Fire Department’s Joint Training Facility, 9401 Myers Way S. in West Seattle on May 29.

Seattle Fire officials demonstrated how quickly a kitchen fire…MORE

Many Ballardites celebrated May’s Bike to Work Month by riding their bikes more frequently. Some are more mindful of pedestrians while driving. No matter how citizens celebrate, the issue of safety, education and mindfulness is important while on…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

Spring is here, and my garden is overflowing with edibles! Yes, it has lettuce and rhubarb and asparagus, but the best-kept seasonal menu secret is the flowers. After a long winter of dreary greens and veggies…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant

Vivian MacKay loves her house on a cul-de-sac above the Burlington Northern train tracks. She moved there from Wallingford because she wanted to have a view of the Puget Sound. She’s now lived there for 24 years and…MORE

A pregnancy is a fleeting event in a lifetime. For many women it's a time like no other with a rush of memories and mixed emotions that results in pure love. But for local business person Laura Marie Peters, that time in a woman's life seemed…MORE

Information provided by KEPX

In 2013, Ballard claimed victory in KEXP’s Hood-to-Hood Challenge, the annual fundraiser where Seattle neighborhoods compete to show the most support for listener-powered radio. On Friday, May 30th, KEXP…MORE