Fourteen years after his first visit to Gas Works Park, Seattle Times artist Gabriel Campanario reflects on a transformed skyline.
I have asked my editors to retire the feature, so this is my last contribution to The Seattle Times as “Seattle Sketcher.” Drawing and writing a newspaper column for 12 years has been a caree...
While watching golfers practice their swings, it's interesting to sketch the body contortions as people propel the ball into the range, a 260-yard-long field of artificial turf edged by the silho...
Plenty of spectacular vehicles draw attention in Redmond at the weekly “Exotics at Redmond Town Center” car show. The parking lot is full of Ferraris, Maseratis, DeLoreans and other jaw-dropp...
Built in 1926 and now home to the Seattle International Film Festival, the Uptown movie theater remains closed on this mid-June afternoon following 15 months of pandemic. Posters from last year�...
Anyone can play in the volleyball league, but you don’t sign up as a team; you pick a level based on your skill. The league organizer takes care of placing you with a group of your own caliber....
Having no Independence Day party at Gas Works sure is a bummer, but the park isn’t going anywhere. With or without fireworks, the sloping grounds around the old power plant are always a fun pla...
Hugh and Lynn Creasy say the transition into the sailboat's smaller space has not be hard for them, especially when you consider some of the features aboard the Happy, including three cabin rooms...
Construction is nearing completion on the light rail station at a transformed Northgate area. The new stations will resemble those at Sea-Tac and in Tukwila.
Health professionals set up at a Kent church work on getting doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a diverse crowd. The five-hour clinic is an effort to bring the vaccine closer to the communit...
The Vulcan is a barge that has been permanently docked at the Seattle Maritime Academy campus near the Ballard Bridge since 2010, when the school acquired it and gave it a new life as a floating ...
With so many residential skyscrapers popping up or planned in the area, Denny Way feels like it's becoming Seattle's Skyscraper Alley. It will be interesting to see how it all looks when the pand...
The Washington Park Arboretum aqueduct near the University of Washington is a picturesque footbridge that is a city landmark and also on the National Register of Historic Places. It is often refe...
The Lake Union boat ramp tucked away between colorful houseboats and a wooden pier is easy to miss unless you wander off the nearby Burke Gilman Trail. But it's a busy site as water-lovers take t...
The Hat n' Boots originally were part of a Texaco gas station built in 1954 on East Marginal Way in South Seattle. The hat served as a canopy for the gas station’s office. The boots housed the ...
On an early spring day in Renton, pink blooms are just starting to burst from tree branches. The bridge framing the scene is one of five that crosses the river north of the library, including one...
After a recent property sale, some South Park neighbors began to worry about the future of eight rental houses. Their worries intensified recently, when some tenants moved out and some of the hom...
Lining up at Dick's in separate rows breaks the time-honored first-come, first-served principle, and we could fix this really easily. Let’s line up in a single-file, zigzagging aisle so all peo...
The overpass itself looks very utilitarian, but the connection to the shoreline that the structure provides is so important, especially in these pandemic times, when we need to be able to breathe...
A furloughed flight attendant found a new source of income, and rekindled her creative side, when she purchased her signature bubble-shaped tent and marketed a one-of-a-kind experience. Winter we...