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Rhoda Fry, who lives near the West Seattle Junction got her dog Stimpy, who got his name from the cartoon "Ren and Stimpy" but in the cartoon Stimpy was a cat and Ren was the dog. "My Stimpy is too skinny to be Ren and the cat was skinny wo we…MORE

By Christy Wolyniak

Last weekend, local Ballard artists came together, handiwork in tow, and demonstrated that sometimes art is just transforming ordinary, everyday materials into a masterpiece.

Take stained glass, for example.…MORE

Judy Thielen has been doing window art as a side hobby for about fourteen years. Her holiday artwork has adorned local businesses such as Marv’s Broiler and the Barrel Tavern. For this Christmas season she decorated the front windows of the…MORE

The West Seattle Symphony Orchestra will present its Fall 2012 Concert, Russian Holiday, on Tuesday, December 4 at 7:00pm. Chief Sealth International High School Auditorium, 2600 SW Thistle St., Seattle.

Beginning with Mikhail Glinka's "…MORE

By Holly Brown

Tired of big feasts, but still have lots of holiday entertaining to do? Pasta is a great alternative to the heavy menus we enjoy at holiday dinners. Pasta is popular the world over. Although, Italians consume nearly three…MORE

By Georgie Bright Kunkel

No matter how many experiments there have been in maintaining a society in which everyone is equal, they have been short lived. My own grandfather took part in the first family cooperative colony in Port Angeles…MORE

When we were kids, the annual ritual of choosing a Christmas tree involved driving to some place like Wilkinson or North Bend and just wandering off the road into the woods to find a good tree. This bonding time was a treasured outing, ending…MORE

I have had my experience with minus tides so I don't plan to join the throngs on the Puget Sound beaches next week at Seahurst Park. There will be hundreds of people walking the wet sand with lanterns and flashlights.I have talked to several…MORE

Despite cold, and rains heavy enough to shut down the West Seattle's Farmers Market a little early the West Seattle Junction got their Hometown Holidays effort underway with community greeters at the corner of California Ave. and Alaska Street,…MORE

Right now, the Nordic Heritage museum is full of bad art.

All over the walls, from floor to ceiling, are a total of 1,000 birch board pictures. And they are all manner of cheesy, kitschy and, in some cases, just plain terrible.

Or…MORE