Eastlake News

Seattle's central waterfront is getting a huge, decade-long face-lift: a new tunnel for State Route 99, a new ferry dock, a new seawall, pedestrian promenades, maybe even a mist machine to remind summer visitors that they're in Seattle.

Across Seattle, reports alt-weekly The Stranger , posters are appearing linking gay rights and gun rights in ways that are just freaking out the usual control-freaky suspects.

Of the 52 mayors who've run our fair city in the last 144 years, how many do you think were Seattle natives? Precisely one.

The Admiral Way hill north of the West Seattle Bridge is in for more changes, according to an announcement just in from SDOT .

Don't worry if yours isn't one of the lucky 150 mouths to bite into a free slider at Skillet tomorrow.

As usual, SIFF's opening-night gala was way too heavy on preshow speechifying, leaving hundreds of excited Joss Whedon fans bored and dejected for a full hour before their movie god took the stage.

A butcher operating out of Pike Place Market in Seattle has been feeding pigs all of those "useless" stems, root bulbs, and "over sized" marijuana leaves produced as by-product at the local medical dispensary.

Every year, you get just a few chances for a close-up look at one of West Seattle's true gems - the Alki Point Lighthouse .

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.

In a tradition reaching back 35 years, the Alki Masonic Lodge held their Annual School Awards on May 20 to honor the hard work, both in the classroom and the community, of eight juniors each from Chief Sealth and West Seattle High School.

In the early hours of Sunday morning a hit and run driver collided with an SPD officer's vehicle on patrol on 3rd Ave NW in Phinney Ridge.

Capitol Hill is home to Seattle's start-up of the year. Belmont Ave's Simply Measured took home the title last week at the 2013 GeekWire Awards .

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.

A FREE Family Health & Fitness Night hosted by The Hope Heart Institute and Molina Healthcare is happening at West Seattle Elementary School on May 21 from 5:30pm-8:00pm. The school is located at 6760 34th Ave SW.

This Thursday, May 23rd, the Queen Anne Historical Society will be hosting its annual meeting at the Seattle Church of Christ at 7pm.

Following up on the Seattle Public Utilities announcement published here last night regarding work starting today to place reflective red rings on the city's 70 remaining low-flow hydrants, so firefighters can make fast decisions when arriving at fire scenes - we now have the map and list of locations from SPU.

In Director District 5, which includes Capitol Hill, the Central Area, Beacon Hill and downtown, Kay Smith-Blum is stepping down from her board seat after one term.

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.

Punk-rockers Alkaline Trio have begun an extensive spring and summer outing in support of their just-released eighth studio effort, "My Shame Is True." Thetrio continues the in-progress run Tuesday in New York City, and treks across the nation for three weeks.