Own a piece of Sunset Bowl
With Sunset Bowl closing on April 13th (see story below), its owners will auction off equipment and furnishings from the bowling alley on April 22nd. While Murphy Auctions doesn’t have …
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Sunset Bowl’s last day: April 13th
Despite efforts to keep Sunset Bowl open until the land’s new owners began demolition in a year or so, it looks like the bowling alley’s last day will be April …
One more taste of snow
Just because Mother Nature knows you’re not quite ready for spring just yet, winter has made a return visit. Doree shot this photo from the backyard of a home just …
Accident shut down Ballard Bridge
Updated: The Ballard Bridge is back open now after a head-on accident between a car and a SUV at 11:45 a.m. Fortunately, it appears the drivers suffered only minor injuries. …
Ballard’s semi-secret music space
We admit, we’re not the hippest kids in Ballard. So when we heard that this unmarked space at 608 65th St. is some kind of semi-secret music venue, we were …
Nau store coming to Fremont
According to the sign in the window, Nau will open soon in the old Sonic Boom store in Fremont. If you haven’t heard of Nau (they have one other local …
Review: Ballard Mandarin restaurant
Following our general rule for new restaurants, we waited a couple weeks after the Ballard Mandarin Chinese restaurant on Market St. and 8th Ave. opened before giving it a try. …
Would McPhee’s really have to close?
Since the news broke earlier this week that Ballard institution Archie McPhee’s may close its doors if a new toxic toy bill is signed, there have been a lot of questions about the bill and its impact. Would McPhee’s really have to close? What’s wrong with reducing toxicity in toys? And is the Sigmund Freud bobblehead really a toy? We asked Archie McPhee’s David Wahl some follow up questions, which follow below…
We called it the ‘Ranger Danger’
We’ve been captivated by the follow-up stories on the sinking of the Seattle-based Alaska Ranger, which took the lives of five people. There’s the story that the ship’s officers didn’t …
A little snow on Phinney Ridge
The calendar may say “spring,” but Mother Nature has her own ideas about our weather. On the way home from work this evening, we found a mix of rain and …
Archie McPhee’s: We may have to close
Archie McPhee’s warns that if Governor Christine Gregoire signs a new toy testing bill, the store will have to close its doors. The bill would require that toys contain only …
Not Tom Cruise’s yacht at the Terminal
Updated: The SeattlePI’s Big Blog got us momentarily excited with the rumor that Tom Cruise’s yacht, named Suri, was parked at Fishermen’s Terminal. The blog post vanished half-hour after it …