Sick of Fremont’s graffiti? For the second year in a row, Seattleites are reclaiming the beauty of our neighborhoods with the help of the anti-graffiti program ”Summer Paint Out.” With Summer Paint Out, the City of Seattle supplies volunteers with free paint (white-brown-gray), rollers, brushes, scrapers, and gloves, so they can paint over graffiti that

The Seattle Department of Transportation and Seattle City Light have joined forces to upgrade the light poles and lights on the north and south end of the Ballard Bridge to meet current lighting standards. Work begins tomorrow, Thursday, July 19, on the southeast end of the bridge, and should be done at the end of

By Doree Nearby Woodland Park Zoo raised $1.47 million from nearly 1,000 attendees at its 36th annual Jungle Party last Friday. And an anonymous donor gave the zoo another $250,000 for its new Asian Tropical Forest exhibit, which will revamp the current 60-year-old exhibit into a more natural home for endangered Malayan tigers, sloth bears

A note from Cafe Racer’s owner: “No one needs to be reminded of what happened at Café Racer on May 30, 2012. Each day the grief of losing our loved ones lessens, but not our love for them or the love they brought into our lives. Drew, Joe, Kim, Don and Gloria were people who

Seattle Department of Transportation wants you to walk, bike and ride transit more this summer through their Walk Bike Ride Challenge. A friendly contest between neighborhoods (Ballard won last year), SDOT says the plan is to encourage Seattleites to compete to see which neighborhood can change the most car trips to walking, biking and riding: