Downtown News

First - before two reader reports - here's something that likely would have topped West Seattle Crime Watch 52 years ago: Anne Higuera from longtime WSB sponsor Ventana Construction was working on a project in Ballard when that West Seattle story from a 1961 edition of the Seattle P-I, stuffed in the walls, caught her eye.

The B-Town Blog is pleased to welcome a new business to downtown Burien and a new Advertiser to our site - Suite Arrangements is a well-known consignor of fine furnishings in West Seattle.

Kyle Duce opened LocA l in West Seattle back in January 2011. The restaurant and bar was an immediate hit with the folks living in the High Point neighborhood.

Multicultural Day Fundraiser Breath of Life SDA Church 9807 26th Ave. S.W. 206-762-0333 or 206-462-5866 Sun., May 26, 2-4 p.m. Come join us as we celebrate and learn about each others uniqueness.

Kerry Sear is executive chef and director of food and beverage at ART in Four Seasons Hotel Seattle, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year.

The Ballard High School film crew are at it again, winning awards at the 15th annual Northwest High School Film Festival in Seattle.

Tony Award-winning producer Junkyard Dog Productions has just announced that leading man Zachary Levi, star of TV's "Chuck," Disney's feature film Tangled and the upcoming Thor: The Dark World, will make his Broadway debut starring opposite Broadway and television ingnue Krysta Rodriguez in First Date , Broadway's new romantic musical comedy.

A leading music school in Washington State, The Academy of Music Northwest provides different levels of rigorous college-prep music classes and extensive performance opportunities for talented young musicians between the ages of 4 -18. Day and night our luxury service connects all of Bellevue, Seattle, and Tacoma.

How much is too much? It's a question a lot of folks might be considering over cocktails this weekend, after the federal government proposed lower the legal blood alcohol level for drinking, from .08 to .05. For people like Lauren Hale and Alicia Bowers of Seattle, it's an easy decision.

Former state Labor Council President Lawrence Kenney was remembered last week for his advocacy for farmworkers at a time when such a stance took courage.

SPD Blotter reports the arrests are in connection with a shooting earlier today in South Seattle.

At 6:15 a.m., May 17, a Boeing 737-400 Alaska Cargo Combi arrived at Sea-Tac Airport with much fanfare to unload 24,000 pounds of recently-caught Copper River king and sockeye salmon via processors, Ocean Beauty, Trident, and Copper River seafoods.

The filing deadline for King County's Aug. 6 election closed Friday, and the biggest surprise was who didn't enter a race.

The author of "NOS4A2" will appear at 4 p.m. Saturday, University Book Store, 4326 University Way N.E., Seattle; free .

Different marijuana products in the display window of Northwest Patient Resource Center in West Seattle, a vivid sign of how mainstream the drug has become in Washington.

There's something freewheeling and fancy-free about the music of Pokey LaFarge-the sort of feel-good Americana you can't help but warm to.

In this April 20, 2013 file photo, employees of The Healing Leaf collective in Lake Stevens show some of their product during 'Studio 4/20,' a legal marijuana celebration put on by DOPE Magazine at 7 Point Studios in Seattle.

A Seattle man who was stabbed in Cal Anderson Park on Mother's Day says he wants to set the record straight as online comments make it sound like he instigated the attack.

For many meat-eaters in West Seattle and White Center, it's a given that Zippy's Giant Burgers in White Center serves up a transcendent bite of freshly ground chuck and fresh cut veggies that is simply hard to beat.

Gogol Bordello will play August 8 at 8:00PM & and Fri. August 9 at 9:00PM at The Neptune .