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Has made music videos for: Wants to make: A short film about Yesler Terrace . Is the first genius award winner who: Is a practicing Baha'i. F ilmmaking is almost never an exciting process.

The Seattle City Council, sitting as its budget committee, today restored $863,000 to the public-library budget.

One week after statewide Election Night, the November meeting of the Admiral Neighborhood Association provided a bit of drama with the first-ever multiple-candidate vote for president.

In Development , Neighborhoods , WS & Sports , West Seattle news ADMIRAL SAFEWAY ALLEY VACATION: If you're proposing a street or alley "vacation" - in which the public right-of-way is relinquished, for development or another reason - the Seattle Design Commission has to review your plan, including the "public benefits" you're offering to make up ...

We asked this morning for information on the process to fill the County Council seat - representing West Seattle, White Center, Vashon Island and other areas - once Dow Constantine is sworn in as King County Executive on Nov.

"Grotesque Arabesque" by Seattle artist Dan Corson, at Suyama Space, features electric light strips, mirrors, skylights and darkness inspired by a cave Corson explored in the Yucatn.

NORTH DELRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: 6:30 tonight, Delridge Library . Holli Margell sends word of what's in store: Want to cast another vote? Join us .

Through no fault of my own, I have become a candidate for office. I received a message yesterday from a pal that I'm now a write-in candidate for King County Sheriff.

A police car was draped in a white blanket Saturday night on the corner of 29th Avenue and East Yesler Way.

The Seattle Department of Transportation's Neighborhood Traffic Operations is holding neighborhood traffic safety meetings in the community.

The proposition came over ice cream, the young woman told the King County jury. She said her boyfriend of three weeks, admitted West Seattle gang member Mycah Johnson, offered it gently -- would she make money for him selling her body? "He said he'd buy me a sundae if I would answer a question for him," the 19-year-old told jurors.

It might have been a very hot and dry summer, but the rainy season is here and with more storms on the way, the city is gearing up for potential landslides.

Even after Seattle mayoral candidate Mike McGinn said he'd go along with the City Council's decision to build a downtown highway tunnel, his latest campaign commercial predicts cataclysmic cost overruns.

Our tree-laden parks are great, but neighborhoods need trees too, which is why 4 short-on-trees West Seattle neighborhoods are among 6 citywide that are eligible for free trees from EarthCorps and the city.

Libraries are increasingly becoming the portal for people to find jobs, resources for literacy, internet access for people who don't own a computer, as well as a place to get books and conduct research--as practically every other program run by the city and the state is scaled back.

The Sightline Institute, a local nonprofit researcher, has issued a report that finds digging a deep-bore tunnel under downtown would likely run far over budget, costing the average Seattle family of four $700 or more.

Q: This past summer, the two designated parking spaces for the disabled near Seattle's Jefferson Park Golf Course on Beacon Hill were removed, says Shoreline resident Winfred McCain .

The collector-distributor lanes of southbound I-5 are closed this afternoon, causing traffic backups downtown and aggravating the postgame Seahawks traffic.

City of Seattle A cross-section of the proposed deep-bored tunnel replacement for the Alaskan Way Viaduct.

There's much brewing in the ETS! kitchen as we slide into autumn. Let's start with the most celebratory first! Save the date--Friday, November... ye kitchen krew The UN Summit on Climate Change came and went last week, with very little change in nations' attitudes toward capping carbon emissions.