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Gas Works at 50: Seattle Times artist draws on years of memories at beloved park
Fourteen years after his first visit to Gas Works Park, Seattle Times artist Gabriel Campanario reflects on a transformed skyline.
A trail, a rabbit … and a farewell from Seattle Sketcher
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...
Even on a hot summer day, these golfers are up for some clubbing
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...
Check out eye-popping exotics every week at Redmond Town Center car show
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...
Seattle’s Uptown got a new name, but a historic landmark shines on
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...
The return of ‘Alki Fridays’ coed volleyball brings energy back to the beach
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....
A lack of July 4 fireworks doesn’t dim Gas Works Park’s appeal
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...
It’s Happy sails for this empty-nester couple who took to the sea
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...
Waiting for the trains: Northgate light rail station dominates the view
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.
Kent vaccine clinic is part of an effort to reach diverse communities
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...
Seattle Maritime Academy’s floating machine shop is an old vessel with new purpose
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 ...
A slew of skyscrapers in the Denny area is reshaping Seattle’s skyline
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...
An aqueduct by any other name remains just as picturesque at Arboretum
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...
Nicer weather means waterfront action is really ramping up on Lake Union
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...
Georgetown’s Hat n’ Boots had gotten a little worn, but now they’re polished souvenirs of the past
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 ...
From low bridges to wide-open vistas, Renton’s Cedar River Trail follows the water
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...
Affordable-housing advocates launch a demolition watch to preserve South Park homes
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...
Seattle Sketcher has a suggestion for fixing the free-for-all lines at Dick’s
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...
An expansive shoreline is open to you via a humble-looking bridge at Seattle’s Carkeek Park
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...
This cozy, weatherproof tent is outfitted for luxurious romance — and a picnic
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...
A Victorian-era home on Capitol Hill offers glimpse of Seattle’s Black history
The Victorian-era Cayton-Revels building has a remarkable history that its current owner wants to preserve. In the early 1900s, it was home to a prominent Black family that purchased it before th...
Months after protests rocked Capitol Hill, lingering concrete barriers disturb the peace
Although protesters are long gone, the intersection of East Pine Street and 12th Avenue still feels far from welcoming, with a concrete wall and chain-link fence surrounding a building. A similar...
Seattle’s Denny Triangle is in quieter shape with Amazon’s shift to working from home
Although Amazon's campus in the Denny Triangle is mostly deserted these days as employees work remotely, there are nice scenes of humans interacting such as at a glassybaby workshop where you can...
Fritz Hedges Waterway Park offers a bright new perspective of a unique Seattle waterscape
The recently opened Fritz Hedges Waterway Park in Portage Bay, where the imposing shape of the Interstate 5 Ship Canal Bridge dominates the scene, has sunshiny chairs and curvy stone viewpoints.
This Seattle bus driver’s life changed amid the pandemic, and during her 33 years behind the wheel
Seattle Sketcher Gabriel Campanario catches up with Barbara Wright-Young, a Metro bus driver for 33 years, who is grateful for her passengers, and for the masks they must wear to board.
There’s not much left at all of the once-packed Northgate Mall
The double whammy of a pandemic and massive redevelopment has left Northgate Mall a ghost town. While a few stores are still open, the massive parking lots are practically empty.
There’s light rail at the end of the tunnel in downtown Bellevue
Seattle Sketcher Gabriel Campanario checks in on the progress of the light-rail tunnel in downtown Bellevue, part of the 14-mile East Link light rail extension.
At a COVID-19 testing site in Renton, driver after driver learns how to properly swab
On the day Seattle Sketcher Gabriel Campanario checked out a COVID-19 testing site in Renton, the lines are a little shorter than they were in early December, but patience (and persistence) is st...
There’s more to the emptiness at this airport-shuttle lot than the absence of passengers’ cars
The general manager of ShuttlePark2 near Sea-Tac Airport recounts the struggles the business has faced since the pandemic: Fewer travelers means fewer cars in his lot, and fewer employees.
For the owner of Deez Dogz, it’s all about connection (and cream cheese)
Betty Aklilu sets up her hot-dog cart, Deez Dogz, every Tuesday through Saturday, with an occasional surprise day thrown in. It's all about connection — and, in the case of the Seattle Dog, cre...
Expedia creates its own coastal destination with a park along Elliott Bay Trail
While it's not a "beach" in the dip-your-toes-in-the-water sense, The Beach at Expedia Group replaces a dangerous turn along the Elliott Bay Trail, and offers places to sit, relax and/or exercise...
The owner of The Lion Heart bookstore serves as an uplifting narrator
Even amid a pandemic and a downturn in business, David Ghoddousi, owner of The Lion Heart bookstore at Pike Place Market, has an uplifting greeting for everyone who comes in.
A lopsided boat in Ballard is left high and dry — and moored in mystery
Tilted on its side, roadside, at a Ballard intersection, the trawler Al Hana Leviathan II raises all sorts of questions — but, so far, not a successful attempt to return it to the sea.
The aging Salmon Bay Bridge stands as a tribute to endurance — and, now, as a path to the future
Seattle Sketcher Gabriel Campanario contemplates the Salmon Bay Bridge and what it stands for: a graceful throwback to the times of slow travel, and, especially with an upgrade in its future: lon...
Grounded Boeing 737 MAX planes await clearance for takeoff — but they’re not at the airport
These brightly colored jets aren't waiting at the airport for overseas adventures; instead, they are grounded Boeing 737 MAX planes, parked idly on the former site of Boeing's Plant 2.