Today is “Dining out for Life,” an annual fundraiser for the Lifelong AIDS Alliance in which participating restaurants, cafes and food retailers will give up to 30 percent of the day’s food and beverage sales to the organization. According to their web... »
In honor of April being National Poetry Month, Secret Garden Books and the Washington Poets Association are putting on the first annual Ballard Poetry Fest starting today, Thursday April 26 through Saturday, April 28. Poetry lovers will find local poet... »
Around the world, people will be celebrating independent music stores tomorrow; Saturday, April 21 is Record Store Day. Started in 2007, Record Store Day is celebrated on the third Saturday of April, and invites music lovers to flock to their closest r... »
Next Friday, April 27 is the 20th Daddy-Daughter Dinner at the Ballard Community Center from 6 to 8 p.m. The event is a long-standing tradition for the Ballard Community Center, but because of 2011 budget restrictions, Seattle Parks and Recreation wasn... »
Tomorrow kicks off the first night of the annual Ballard Jazz Festival, starting Wednesday, April 18 and going through Saturday, April 21. The John Moulder Quartet, from a previous year’s festival The festival is happening all over Ballard, with tomorr... »
On Thursday of last week, BBC News published a short video about a coffee shop in Norwich that is refusing to serve people who attempt to order while talking on their cell phones. The video was linked »
A local photographer, Andrew Franks, sent us this time-lapse he did of the Ballard Locks. Thanks, Andrew, for sharing! »
Starting on Thursday, April 26, Ballard will hold a brand-new Poetry Fest featuring local poets as well as Washington State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken. A collaboration between Ballard's Secret Garden Books and the Washington Poets Association, th... »
