Say it isn’t so! The restaurant with the most health and safety violations in Seattle is… Zesto’s, probably our favorite Ballard burger joint. The Seattle PI looked over the records […]
Christmas billboard turning heads
This billboard on 15th Ave. and 63rd is getting a lot of second looks. Any ideas on who may have put it up?
Ballard High girls remain undefeated
It was the clash of the unbeatens in girls basketball last night, but Ballard High obliterated Roosevelt, 50-26. Jeanette Hansen, a 6-foot-5 foreign exchange student from Denmark (Ballard’s secret weapon), […]
Wheelchair road rage in Ballard
Some of Ballard’s most interesting news comes from the Ballard paper’s “cops” page. For example, this week we have a woman driving a 2002 Audi who admits she “may” have […]
What’s next with the old Denny’s?
The old Denny’s restaurant on 15th and Market has been boarded up for months as a battle heats up over whether it’s a Seattle landmark. On January 2nd, the Landmark […]
Biodiesel expanding beyond Ballard
Ballard and Kenmore were the first two neighborhoods in the Seattle area to offer biodiesel pumping stations. And now the same company, Propel Biofuels, plans to open a “flagship” station […]
Happy Lucia Day everyone
To all you Scandanavians out there, Happy Lucia Day — a day to remember St. Lucia (also known as St. Lucy), the Queen of Lights. For generations Swedes have honored […]
The most raved about place in Ballard
According to Yelp, it’s Cafe Besalu, of course. “I honestly think that Besalu serves the best pastries in the world,” gushes one reviewer. “You feel like you’ve been swept away […]
Christmas Ship at Golden Gardens
This Friday, the annual Christmas Ship pulls up to Golden Gardens to spread its holiday cheer from 9:05 to 9:25 p.m. Of course, getting to the park is still a […]
Those ugly potholes on 14th Avenue
I hit one of those potholes on 14th the other day and thought the transmission dropped out of my Saab. Well, not quite that bad, but it woke me up. […]
QFC to be demolished for eight-story building
The now-closed QFC store on 24th Ave. will be demolished later this month, reports the Ballard News-Tribune. An eight-story apartment building called “Ballard on the Park” will be built in its place, along […]
Even the homeless here are techies
Ballard sure is changing. We’re going from the lutefisk-eating, blond-braid-wearing Scandahoovians (as my grandma says) to “a bunch of wealthy people who work in the information industry,” jokes John Keister […]
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