North and South Wallingford Rally Around Planning Issues

The May 18 South Wallingford Community planning forum covered everything a neighborhood has to deal with: open space, transportation, development, zoning, and shoreline and environmental issues. How will the neighborhood face the future of growing Seattle

Senior Ballplayers Anything But Soft

On diamonds across America, both kids and adults enjoy the softball throughout the summer. Unlike many sports, softball is known as a lifetime game. And a Seattle team is showing that it can be played--and played well--at any age.

Big Brother In Your Grocery Cart?

QFC's introduction of loyalty cards, that shoppers can use to get extra savings, is examined. For an additional perspective, read Grocery Store Loyalty Cards: The Bigger Picture.

There From Here

Viaduct: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?

The Alaska Way Viaduct must go. Will it go slowly and expensively, with planning, or quickly and perhaps more cheaply with the next major earthquake? And what will replace it? Tara Peattie addresses the question.

Columbia City Farmers Market Opening

The fifth season of the Columbia City Farmers Market got off to a smashing start on the afternoon of May 29.

ARTS

Committed to Hilarity

When is schizophrenia an art? Why, when it's David Scully in the one-man play Fully Committed. With over 30 different characters--all coming from one man's mouth--this play is dizzying and hilarious.

Books for Kids

Fathers' Day Tales

In the last installment of her book reviews until November, Nicole Jones reviews three books ideal for Father's Day.

Good Food

Recipe Nook

Fremont Delicacies

Our Recipe Nook column this week focuses on Fremont's Still Life Coffeehouse.

Fashion Smashin' for Charity

With fashion categories such as "Synchronized Yuppies" and "Dr. Seuss Meets Versace," this irreverent fundraiser for the Millionair Club can be enjoyed by even the haute-couture challenged.

Notes From the Garden

June In the Garden

Attracting Beneficial Insects

Kimberly Christensen tells us the secrets of how to protect your gardens from pests, while keeping beneficial insects happy.

Good Food

Good Food

The Pride of Capitol Hill

Pride Week approacheth, and Zachary D. Lyons gives a shout out to some of the Pike & Pine District's fine eateries in advance of the festivities.

Good Food

A Living Economy Through Food

The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) will host a panel discussion about the role of food in establishing local living economies on Wednesday, June 19.

Teacher Ted

Elementary Students Reach Out for Peace

Three elementary schools, and singers from the Pacific Children's Choir, will premier an original song at a June 15 peace concert at Seattle Center.

Hash

A woman parks her car at Golden Gardens park on Memorial Day at 1:30 p.m., and goes for a walk on the beach. As she returns to her car, she hears a loud popping noise...

News of the Weird

This news is so weird, it makes Ozzy Osbourne look normal.

Jim Hightower

Jim Hightower

Bush's Convoluted Concept of Freedom

Hightower thinks President Bush's foreign policy lacks logic.

Law & Technology

Law and Technology

Grocery Store Loyalty Cards: The Bigger Picture

In this article, I want to focus on loyalty cards as part of a broader context: the profiling increasingly being introduced in grocery stores and other retailers.