Wallingford’s St. Benedict School got creative at their annual Christmas Pageant on December 14. All 172 students (K-8) took part in An Animated Visit to Bethlehem, which used songs, humor and familiar TV cartoon characters to tell the story of Christmas. The show was adapted by music teacher Mary O’Suna, with help from Michael Dunlop.

Sandy Bradley's Potluck

I Demand Higher Oil Prices...

...Because keeping oil prices low benefits the petroleum industry. It widens the gap between renewable energy setup costs and underpriced oil.

Letters to the Editor

Metro and Sound Transit make a deal that draws the ire of at least one reader.

Carkeek Park to Expand Education Annex

The Carkeek Park community has something to cheer about! By this fall, they expect to turn the existing Education Annex into a "model green building" large enough to accommodate a busload of 60 school children.

People's Monorail vs. Politicians' Light Rail

Promoters of light rail sound desperate in their most recent attempts to remind (or convince) a skeptical public that this is what they voted for, while City Hall is reluctant (or cautious) in its approach to the monorail.

It's a Jungle Out There: Carp and Muskies Attack Green Lake's Ills

The Seattle Parks Department is looking at a plan to introduce 1,000 Asian grass carp into Green Lake, which is choking on an abundant growth of algae, milfoil, and other aquatic plants. The lake is already host to 150 tiger muskies,

Small Ideas for Seattle

Let It Snow!

Snow in Seattle? If it happens, let's be ready to have fun instead of cursing the city's plan for handling the weather.

Rank and File Revolt Topples Top Teamster

The world of the Seattle Teamsters has been turned upside-down, as a real-estate appraiser and a school bus driver defeated John Rabine in the Local 763 union election.

Flexcar Comes to Queen Anne

Flexcar, Seattle's innovative car-sharing program, celebrates its first anniversary with a new location atop Queen Anne Hill.

A Bike With a Kick

Seattle commuters get it coming and going. Gas is expensive, the roads are congested, the buses run too slow and as for bicycles...well, maybe we just want to get where we're going without breaking a sweat. But consider the electric bike.

NW Hospital Workers Vote for Union

Workers at Northwest Hospital voted to join District 1199 NW of the Service Employees International Union in an election conducted January 4 and 5.

3 Squares

Breakfast in Green Lake and dinner on Phinney Ridge. (for lunch, check out "Ballard Ave. Goes German" by Cindy Payne.

Designer of New Fremont Buildings Honored by Architect Group

Bumgardner, the Seattle architectural firm that is transforming the Fremont waterfront with three large new buildings, was selected for special recognition in the 49th annual American Institute of Architects (AIA) Seattle Honor Awards.

A New Street in Fremont? Not For Long

See it while you can! A street was renamed in Fremont but will soon be changed back.

Well, Let Me Tell You...

Ballard Ave. Goes German

Lunch on Ballard Avenue at the People's Pub.

City Unveils Arboretum Lite

The Arboretum's new Master Plan does not call for fences or admission fees, but the planned new buildings and parking areas are raising some eyebrows.

Roger's Home Journal

Roger's Home Journal

Celebrate Better Design, Materials, and Craftsmanship!

Huge houses and enormous rooms often feel cold and uncomfortable. Unfortunately, the trend in this country has been toward building ever more bloated structures. One writer calls them "suburban McMansions."

Preemies the Focus of Rep. Dickerson's New Book

Thirty-Sixth District State Representative Mary Lou Dickerson is also an author, and has just published her first full-length book, Small Victories.

Good Food

Cooking with Viggo

Lucky Beans for the New Year

For as long as anyone can remember folks in the American South have served black-eyed peas (actually a bean indigenous to West Africa!) on January 1 for good luck.

Hash

A woman departs a grocery store on Lake City Way NE on a Sunday at 8 p.m. with a cart full of grocery bags. Her purse sits in the child seat of the cart. She walks to her van and parks the cart at the rear of the vehicle...