Marking their territoryIn the 2500 block of First W., multiple residents have discovered that someone has keyed their cars. The link to the cases? It seems that the gouges appear only after the cars have parked in front of one particular house.
Had Henry Gates Jr., the esteemed Harvard professor of African-American history, produced his identification instead of thinking the act was beneath him, perhaps the paper tiger of a situation that was the talk of the nation last week would never have arisen.
Freight, and the ability to move it efficiently, is vital to the Port of Seattle, if one is to believe the Port's news releases, not to mention common sense.
Down...and outEarly Sunday, July 26, an officer was on his way to another call when he happened upon a crowd in the 3400 block of Gilman Ave. W. After clearing people from the scene he found a victim lying unconscious in the street next to a "significant" amount of blood. Medics transported the man to Harborview for treatment.Witnesses stated that the victim had been talking with a white male in his 20s with wavy blond or strawberry hair who suddenly took a swing at him. The suspect left the area before the officer arrived.
The Queen Anne Magnolia Neighborhood Service Center at 160 Roy St. will be shuttered in January. That means the Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce and the Uptown Alliance, which have been using the service center as their headquarters must relocate. Since it was the mayor who proposed the cuts that is forcing the move, then the mayor's office should help them by finding available city-owned space.
The Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society celebrates its 55th season with one of the British musical comedy team's least known operas, Utopia, Limited. The show opens Friday, July 10, and runs for 11 performances through Saturday, July 25, at the Bagley Wright Theatre, Seattle Center.
Sharing gritty stories of Level 5 prison visits, the most violent gangs in the world and the heartwrenching introductions between American parents and their adopted Chinese children, journalist Lisa Ling captivated her audience Sunday night at Benaroya Hall.
Last I heard, poet, short story writer and novelist, Denis Johnson, was still living in northern Idaho, somewhere near Sandpoint.
Life was much different and a lot more simple in the days when brothers Jim and Gary Jacobson were students at Lawton School. "You could walk all the way to school when you were 5 years old," remembers Gary (Class of 1947).
Alvina Krininger Brixner was a lifelong Seattleite, being born in Seattle on Jan. 26, 1912, and dying just five days short of her 97th birthday.
EVENTSNorth End Flower Club, with horticulture and flower-design speakers, on March 6, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (first Friday, September through June). $20/membership; $10/lunch meeting. Prospective members welcome. St. John United Lutheran Church, 5515 Phinney Ave. N. Velva, 324-0803.
Of the three big towns on the Olympic Peninsula, Port Townsend is probably everyone's No. 1 destination. A seaport city of fewer than 10,000 people, Port Townsend boasts some of the best-persevered Victorian architecture on the West Coast.
Any graduate of Filmmaking 101 knows that the best horror movies are transgressively therapeutic. These excursions to the human psyche's dark side expose radioactive images and issues off limits in mainstream filmmaking. SIFF 2009 showcases two such subversive shockers: "Deadgirl," a stomach-turning parable about the extreme objectification of women by adolescent males; and "Hansel and Gretel," a very grim fairy tale about child abuse.