Bartell Drugs launches its 'Stock the Pantry' food drive for Northwest Harvest by accepting nonperishable food items and cash donations at all 57 Bartell Drug locations through June 13.
Keys Left in the DoorA man called police to report a non-forced burglary at his apartment, located in the 100 block of West Roy Street, at 10:33 p.m. on May 24.The man said he left his apartment at 3:10 p.m., stopping in the lobby to check his mail on his way out of the building.
Seattle City Light crews will be working in the Queen Anne neighborhood this summer to extend the service life of aging underground cables and increase the reliability of electric service.
Metro Transit is revising its service this summer. Changes include revised South Park bus service, detour in U-District, and new route numbers.
Simplicity is the examined life: making conscious choices about our behaviors in terms of the well-being of people and the planet. If we don't examine our lives, we'll be at the mercy of others' expectations.
I had a vision of seeing a float representing the African-American community in Martin Luther King Jr. County in this year's Torchlight Parade. The time it takes to raise the necessary capital will not allow it to happen this year. But this is only the beginning of this battle.
A fumbling mayor has the City Council scrambling for control to a degree not seen in decades. As much as they may have grumbled about Greg Nickels and our last one-term mayor, Paul Schell, those mayors defined policies and shaped the debate.
on't mis-underestimate Sen. Patty Murray.Our state's political buzz right now is centering on the race to challenge her, with the assumption that Murray and either the newly declared Dino Rossi or a Tea Party-backed Republican (most likely Clint Didier) will survive the August top-two primary to face off in November - and the additional assumption that in this year of heightened Republican expectations and strong anti-incumbent sentiment, Murray will be beatable.
The business model of FolkLife is not unlike National Public Radio, podcasts, blogs and other forms of new media, in which consumers are asked to pay what they can. And last weekend, many did and quite happily so.
In an effort to help reduce operating expenses, the Seattle Public Library will stop generating and mailing paper notices to patrons beginning July 1.Megan Taylor, manager of library circulation services, said more than 24,000 patrons receive paper notices to tell them about materials ready for pick up, fines and other Library account information.
A parent-based organization in Seattle, is planning a peaceful protest during Seattle Public Schools' district board meeting tonight.
In Long Beach, Wash., one of the more unusual destinations is Marsh's Free Museum. In addition to exhibits such as a freeze-dried cat and a one-eyed lamb, is its most famous exhibit, which is pictured on bumper stickers and billboards. What is it?
"Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo" (Jessica Oreck, USA, 2009; 91 mins.) Buried in this all-over-the-map meditation on Japan's fascination with insects are lovely, nearly mystical moments.
Among the trio of directors crowned as Emerging Masters by the 2010 Seattle International Film Festival, Australian Ana Kokkinos' seems a mite premature. On the evidence of the three Kokkinos films I've seen - "Head On," "Blessed" and "The Book of Revelation" (not in SIFF but available at Scarecrow) - this onetime lawyer turned filmmaker is a long way off from joining the masterly company of fellow Aussie directors Jane Campion and Gillian Armstrong.
Directed by Seattle native Joseph Mitacek, "Morning" tells the story of a young married couple and their attempts to deal with an unthinkable tragedy.