A few more photos we snapped around Seafood Fest this weekend… A big crowd packs Market Street. Master griller Warren Aakervik at the salmon BBQ (“It’s hot,” he says.) With the Ballard Sea Scouts assisting on the grill. The excellent Raggedy Anns tear up the music stage. And a young aspiring football player tries on …
A Scandinavian institution in Ballard, Olsen’s Scandinavian Foods closed Saturday evening after selling just about everything left on its shelves. Last month, Reidun and Anita Endresen announced they were closing after 49 years in business. “We have been attempting to sell within the family. However, for various reasons this is not possible,” they explained. The …
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, who’s best known for protesting outside President George Bush’s ranch after her son died in Iraq in 2004, spoke at Trinity United Methodist Church in Ballard Saturday night. About 60 people came to listen to her speak and ask her questions. Sheehan is on tour promoting her third book.
One of the most popular events at Seafood Fest is the lutefisk eating contest, and this year was no exception, drawing a big crowd that packed Bergen Place. For you first-timers, lutefisk is a Scandinavian specialty — a gelatinous white fish that’s soaked in lye and, well, reeks to high heaven. Last year, they served …
Right after the lutefisk eating contest at Seafood Fest today, a new batch of contestants took the stage to eat something a tad bit more tasty: Dante’s Inferno Dogs from Ballard’s own Dante Rivera. The rules: whoever eats the most in 10 minutes wins. When “Billy the Fridge” took a spot at the end of …
Ballard’s biggest annual event kicked off today in beautiful, warm weather. As is customary for the Seafood Fest, the king of Scandinavian humor, Stan Boreson, was the first to take the stage at Bergen Place. Boreson is celebrating his 60th year in the entertainment business, and he kept the crowd laughing with his jokes and …
It’s a big weekend in Ballard. We’ll be at the Seafood Fest with 60,000 others (see below), and temperatures are expected to push 90 degrees on Sunday. This weekend is the 35th Annual Seafood Fest in Central Ballard. Be sure to come say hi to us on Saturday. We’ll be hanging out at the Sip …
Just in time for the Seafood Fest, Swedish Medical Center has launched a new ad campaign with colorful signs along Market Street. Sassy Swede sent us this photo and says, “It really looks great — and the text is pretty clever too!” There are a couple different signs. The others say, “Ballard: We have our …
Ten years after the city’s neighborhood plans were published, residents have been asked to help create a “status check” on how well the 20-year plans are progressing — and whether they need an update. Thursday evening a group of Ballard and Crown Hill residents gathered around a table at the Phinney Center to provide the …
Shoppers are hitting downtown Ballard for Seattle’s largest sidewalk sale. Many shops along Market St. and Ballard Ave have tables set up with merchandise marked at deep discounts. Coordinator Mary Hurley tells us that Thursday is usually the slowest day of the four-day sale, which culminates with this weekend’s Seafood Fest.
The Fremont Brewing Company just opened last week, and they’re already delivering to a dozen bars in town, including one in Ballard. Fremont Brewing is the brainchild of a former attorney who is working hard to created a sustainable brewery. Right now The Dray is the only bar serving up the brewery’s new beer in …
Thousands of people packed Greenwood Wednesday evening for the annual SeaFair parade with marching bands, floats and the SeaFair clowns. PhinneyWood was there and shot tons of photos of the fun event.