You may have heard the tales of elephants blessed with the skills to pick up (via their trunk) a paintbrush and start coloring a canvas. But penguins too?
In an appearance on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, writer Jon Ronson (Men Who Stare At Goats) recounted spending a night with Seattle's most famous superhero.
A decade after George Lucas said "Star Wars" was finished on the big screen, a new trilogy is destined for theaters as The Walt Disney Co. announced Tuesday that it was buying Lucasfilm Ltd. for $4.05 billion.
New York City was shut down Monday night. While the power went out in much of the city in the evening, the afternoon tapings of two late night shows went on as planned. For Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman it was business as usual. Almost.
Folks traveling across 520 were distracted by large plumes of smoke Monday afternoon. One home along Lake Washington was destroyed, a second was badly damaged and four other houses suffered varying degrees of damage.
Oscar telecast producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced Monday that Seth MacFarlane will host the 85th annual Academy Awards ceremony in February.
WSDOT warned drivers Tuesday afternoon of a towel-clad pedestrian walking along the westbound lanes of SR 520 near 98th Ave. We’re not really sure what he was up to and where he came from, most likely a shower, but it doesn’t look safe. Traffic reporter Kimi Kline says troopers set up along Bellevue Way probably […]
The mysterious humming sound keeping some West Seattle residents awake could be coming from a fish, according to some University of Washington experts.
Posted by Alyssa Howard Schultz should put me back on the payroll for this one. The thing is, with a coffee shop on every corner in the region that’s home to Starbucks, this deal seems too good to pass up. It also combines two of my favorite things: coffee and walks outside in our rare […]
An attempt at a “Bigfoot” hoax apparently cost the joker his life in Montana. The Montana Highway Patrol said 44-year old Randy Tenley dressed up in a Bigfoot suit when he was hit by a car. The driver said she couldn’t get out of the way in time; he was then hit by another car […]
A mystery message has appeared on the Space Needle. 97.3 KIRO FM traffic reporter Kimi Kline took a photo of it from her plane while flying over Seattle Monday afternoon. We were left wondering what #TopThis meant. It turns out you get a shot at designing the Needle’s new paint job. Your genius idea will […]
A French company has unveiled a new in-car espresso maker (Image courtesy Handpresso Auto) With Starbucks seemingly on every corner, it’s not too tough to find a convenient drive-thru. But what if you’re on a rural roadtrip or the line’s just too long to stop? A French company has just the answer. Handpresso Auto is […]
The wildfire rages on in central Washington, but on Wednesday a different fire came to the Puget Sound. A business complex in Lynnwood was destroyed by a two-alarm fire in the afternoon. No one was injured, reports KIRO 7. Traffic reporter Kimi Kline took photos of the blaze from the air.
From Chris Sullivan in central Washington … Ryan Hobber went to fire command and they said they didn’t need his stuff. The firefighters have more than they can handle of everthing so he’s heading to the shelters to find displaced evacuees. Find out where you can send needed goods for wildfire victims here.
Three-month-old snow leopards cubs born with eye and eyelid defects, a condition known as coloboma, went through another surgery Tuesday at Woodland Park Zoo.
JoJo was 20 years old and experiencing age-related kidney failure. Woodland Park's Zoo's last Sumatran tiger was experiencing significant physical decline, so that made the difficult, but humane decision, to euthanize her Friday.
You may never have considered this question: What does a yo-yo look like in space? But now NASA is providing an answer. NASA astronaut Don Pettit performs space yo-yo tricks like “Orbit the Earth” and “Around the World” in a recently released video. This guy looks pretty good at this space yo-yoing, kind of makes […]
