Just in time for the city's huge film fest, Sara Lanzillotta's "Dolls of the Silver Screen" is up at the Joe Bar Café. For the past 10 years, Lanzillotta has been using sewing as an art form creating dolls, odd creatures and sculptural anomalies entirely out of fabric. Her pieces are often dark, but include a deft touch of humor. Her work challenges our views on what was once considered a traditional craft as a new medium for fine art. Using fabric, fine stitching and a vivid imagination, she is part of a growing number of artists using what was once considered the domestic skills of a housewife to create works for gallery display.
DESIGN REVIEWS 1400 S. DEARBORN ST. (3001242) of a contract rezone from IC 65' to NC3 85'. Proposal also includes a request to vacate portions of S. Lane St., Dearborn Pl. S. and Corwin Pl. S. Land Use Application to allow a six-story building containing retail, administrative office, warehouse and 565 residential units. Parking for 2,307 vehicles to be provided below grade within the structures. Project includes demolition of all structures on site and grading. Project also includes four residential structures above the commercial base. Seattle Goodwill Industries to be relocated on site in a new facility. Existing structures to be demolished. Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to be prepared. At the Design Review Board meeting the applicant will present information about the proposed design and how it responds to the Design Guideline priorities established at the Early Design Guidance Board meetings.The meeting will take place June 5 at 6:30 p.m. at Goodwill Industries, 1400 S. Dearborn St., in the first-floor conference room. For more information, call DPD land-use planner Scott Kemp, at 233-3866.
From left to right, Troy Meyers, Larry Haugen, Bob Grove, and Joe Schwab helped build a wheelchair accessible ramp for South End resident Isidra Crelencia during the 14th annual Rampathon. Retired 86-year-old Crelencia lives in the 5000 block of Rainier Ave. S. Her new ramp will greatly aid her mobility. The Master Builders Care Foundation and the Remodelers Council of the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish County built 25 free wheelchair ramps for homeowners during the May 19 Rampathon.
The Chief Sealth Trail awaits.The long anticipated major link in Seattle's Regional Trail System is now complete. Passing through the Rainier Valley, it hugs the eastern slope of Beacon Hill, following the Seattle City Light transmission right of way, coursing uphill to meet Beacon Avenue a few blocks shy of Columbia Way. The trail highlights citizen, government, and business cooperation.
The New School Foundation has awarded Seattle Public School a $1.3 million grant that will benefit the New School at South Shore for its 2007-08 school year. The New School, currently located at the Columbia Building, plans to opens its doors at the South Shore site and expand to serve pre-K through eighth grade students by 2010.
And down the stretch they come! This past week, Rainier Valley's beloved boys and girls of summer (in this case, spring) pushed on with their season, plying their passion on various fields of dreams throughout the South End.  This week's recap features the following games:
The Lettuce Link program of Solid Ground has just published a guide to growing healthy food for food bank patrons. The 32-page book is free and packed full of information that will benefit all home gardeners, whether they rely on a food bank or not. For your copy, call 694-6761.
Specializing in one-act plays, Fremont's Stone Soup Theatre is currently running a one-act play festival, "Outside the Box." It began last weekend on May 17 and will continue through Sunday, May 27. Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. "[Stone Soup Theatre] is Seattle's only one-act theater company," said Maureen Miko, the theater's founder and creative director.
Greenwood artist Melanie Reed will display 'Home' (at left) and other collages in her Disturbances in the Field exhibit. The exhibits runs June 1 through July 28 at the U Frame It Gallery, 1822 Broadway. A reception will take place June 1 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the gallery.
Learning about sexuality should start early, instructor saysFive years old - that's the age parents should start talking to their children about sex, love and relationships, according Amy Lang, founder of the North End-based Birds+Bees+ Kids.
❚ BOOK DRIVE: Through Friday, May 25, Steve Garlid's fifth-graders at Bryant Elementary School, 3311 N.E. 60th St., are collecting books for Page Ahead's Children's Literacy Program, which provides books to families who cannot afford them.
5 Spot balanced attack, no errors beat Best Plumbing5 Spot tops Met Market 3-2Mallers drown Plumbers The Little League report is compiled from submissions by volunteer field reporters. The News cannot verify the accuracy of the individual reports. Reports will be published on a space-available basis.
Magnolia resident Ryan Thurman was honored by Troop 80 in a May 8 ceremony at Magnolia United Church of Christ for attaining Eagle Scout rank. A Seattle Prep freshman, Thurman earned Eagle status by planning, organizing and facilitating restoration of a heavily used trail at Discovery Park on March 25.
Olga Charlotte Beckett, a resident of Queen Anne for more than half a century, passed away in her home and surrounded by family on Saturday, May 19. She was 89.She was born Olga Charlotte Wick in New Westminster, B.C., on March 26, 1918, the daughter of Mette Fagerlie, Olava Wick (stepmother) and John Wick.
The best thing about growing old is the memories," says Claire Raven. "I don't just remember events," she adds, "but how things looked.These days Claire has lots of memories. Next year she will move from her Queen Anne home of more than 30 years to a retirement facility still under construction. She is sorting through a lifetime of possessions, including shelves full of souvenirs from around the world: coffeepots from Bahrain with spouts like beaks, a four-tiered copper lunch bucket from Turkey, a pitchfork from Spain. "Everything has a memory attached to it," she says.