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HAPPENING NOW: White Center Pride’s 2026 Street Festival

As we type this, it’s pouring in White Center, but the White Center Pride Street Festival has been going “all out” in keeping with this year’s theme. We were there for photos just before the rain. This (rain) too will pass, eventually, and the festival – on 16th between Roxbury and 100th – is scheduled […]

HAPPENING NOW: Greasy Peeps car show at WSHS

Those are some of the cars (and trucks, and motorcycles) on display right now in the WSHS lot (3000 California SW) during the Greasy Peeps student club’s annual car show. Community members are here showing off their vehicles too, like Don and his Spirit of America edition 1974 Chevrolet Nova hatchback: Ernie is here with […]

WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Car prowler

Reported via email: Last night (3am), there was a car prowler in the North Admiral neighborhood (near Hiawatha Playfield). I did make a police report (no report number yet), but wanted to share with you all as well. I did catch most of it on my ring camera, but could only get one image that […]

HAPPENING NOW: Grand opening day 1 at Thunder Road Guitars

“Enter the House of Thunder!” That was the invitation minutes before 10 am, after the ceremonial ribboncutting (shown above), for the customers lined up down the block to enter the new Admiral home of Thunder Road Guitars (2611 California SW; WSB sponsor). Until 6 tonight, and again 10 am-6 pm tomorrow, the store is offering […]

WEST SEATTLE SATURDAY: 37 notes!

(Friday sunset photo by Beth Jackson – sunset tonight is at 9:03 pm) Welcome to June’s first weekend! Here are our highlighted happenings for today/tonight, mostly from the WSB West Seattle Event Calendar: TRAFFIC ALERT: As previewed here, a big reason to stay on-peninsula besides all the events below – northbound I-5 is closed from […]

CONGRATULATIONS! Parks Foundation award for two local organizations

(Photo by Don Brubeck) Congratulations to two local organizations just honored with one big award. Here’s the announcement sent to us to share with you: The Seattle Parks Foundation honored the West Duwamish Greenbelt Trails group (wdgtrails.org) and the Ridge to River (R2R) coalition with a Love Parks award on Wednesday, June 3. Accepting the […]

WEEKEND TRAFFIC ALERT: Northbound I-5 closing north of West Seattle Bridge

I-5 has seen a lot of closures in recent months, but the one starting tonight is the biggest in a while – and will be the last until after the FIFA World Cup Seattle matches. WSDOT is closing northbound I-5 from I-90 to the U-District all weekend so it can temporarily dismantle the Ship Canal […]

The Architect of the Superunknown: Kim Thayil chronicles the dissonant legacy of Soundgarden in new memoir

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WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Assault on the street

Reader report from an incident around 2:30 pm: Just got assaulted in front of CVS by two teenagers. Cops were called by multiple witnesses. They were repeatedly yelling the n word at 3 of us, and then the woman hit one of us in the back of the head as we tried to walk away. […]

FOLLOWUP: Mayor Wilson changes her plan – stadium-area surveillance cameras WILL be on for Seattle World Cup

As previously reported, some City Councilmembers including District 1’s Rob Saka recently urged Mayor Katie Wilson to change her plan for leaving stadium-area surveillance cameras turned off unless there was a “credible threat.” Just out of the inbox, the mayor says she’ll order them turned on: Today, Mayor Katie B. Wilson released the following statement […]