Seattle gets swept up by sumo VIEW
Audiences watched as sumo wrestlers battled it out last month at Sumo + Sushi at the WaMu Theater. Sumo is the national sport of Japan...
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Window washers get a bird’s-eye view of Seattle | Northwest Wanderings VIEW
Michael Cox and his son go to great heights on the job, even wearing superhero costumes when they’re on the job at Seattle Children’s hospital.
For Renton herbalist, a tongue tells no lies about ailments VIEW
An occasional series of scenes from a journey through our region.
A 77-year-old Cadillac that doesn’t run? No problem. This garage works on anything built from 1886 to 1970. VIEW
Northwest Wanderings | An occasional series of scenes from a journey through our region.
The U.S. just won a curling gold medal. So let’s visit the Seattle club where champions are made. WATCH
Northwest Wanderings | Seattle's Granite Curling Club is the epicenter of curling in the Northwest. And now that the U.S. has captured its first-ever Olympic...
Reader’s Lens | A bird and its berries
Seattle Times reader Mike McAuliffe’s image of a cedar waxwing in warm winter light.
Would-be students make their case for art on portfolio-review day at Cornish VIEW
During National Portfolio Day at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts, 260 students showed up with work in hand. Only one came wearing a significant...
New Year’s resolutions: Up in smoke VIEW
My dear, departed father, Robert Clay Berner, smoked more than 1,250,000 cigarettes in his lifetime. That’s two-plus packs a day from age 14 to 83....
Ho, ho, ho at the Space Needle VIEW
Northwest Wanderings | Russ Long does his holiday-season work at the Space Needle in a one-of-a-kind suit made just for him — the only Space...
Strange, hissing bug more pet than pest | Northwest Wanderings VIEW
Northwest Wanderings | Of the hundreds of millions of items for sale online, one of the least expensive and most unusual is the Madagascar hissing...
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