From 3-6 tonight, some of the businesses in Columbia City will participate in trick-or-treating and other Halloween-type events. Participating businesses handing out candy will be noted with orange and black balloons.Other opportunities for revelers will be face painting and mask making at the Columbia City Farmers Market at Rainier Avenue South and South Edmunds Street. An arts and crafts party will take place at Retroactive Kids, 4859 Rainier Ave. S.Geraldine's costume contest will have free dinners for winners in three categories. Stop by 4872 Rainier Ave. S.Information: www.columbiacityseattle.com.
This year, I'm going as a self righteous killjoy. Where am I going? Not trick-or-treating, that's for sure. And while many might consider my approach to this fictitious holiday to be grumpy or over-the-top analytical or even un-American, I can tell you that I'm no party-pooper. I am in fact - on Halloween night - hosting a spooky little light-on-the-candy soiree for 10 of our closest friends and their preschoolers. I'm even making cupcakes and carnival games for the kids and appetizers and creepy cocktails for the grown ups.
RAINIER VALLEY - In many ways, Columbia City and Hillman City exist as two unique and autonomous communities - bridged only by the lone road that connects them. Rainier Avenue South functions as the most convenient link between the two areas, yet community members are still hesitant to traverse the roadway on foot. Recently, an effort known as "The Columbia City / Hillman City Gateway Project" has made it its agenda to change that opinion.
Horton Smith showed a flare for strategic military thinking when he was still a student at Franklin High School. Smith was assigned to do a report about international events, and he not only concluded that America would go to war with Japan, Smith thought Japan was likely to attack Pearl Harbor, he said.His teacher thought he was being insensitive and cut his final grade from an A to a C, he remembered. But 10 days later, Pearl Harbor was attacked, which surprised his teacher quite a bit, Smith smiled.
Horton Smith showed a flare for strategic military thinking when he was still a student at Franklin High School. Smith was assigned to do a report about international events, and he not only concluded that America would go to war with Japan, Smith thought Japan was likely to attack Pearl Harbor, he said. His teacher thought he was being insensitive and cut his final grade from an A to a C, he remembered. But 10 days later, Pearl Harbor was attacked, which surprised his teacher quite a bit, Smith smiled.
Decision clears way for sale of old gymnasium, on condition parking for Hay staff is preservedSeattle Public Schools has done an abrupt about-face in its efforts to get a design departure to eliminate 14 parking places next to the former Queen Anne High School gym on Galer Street. Although hardly anyone uses them today, reserving 14 of 24 parking spaces for John Hay Elementary School staff was part of the deal 20 years ago when the school was built. It was a tradeoff that allowed the school district to not include as many required on-site parking places.
The city's Department of Transportation has posted notices that 13 trees on Broadway are scheduled for removal this month. The trees are located on the west side of the 500 block of Broadway East, the former QFC property and the site of a proposed large mixed-use development.
Incoming owner discusses plans and realitiesThat the Odd Fellows Hall is changing hands is by now well known. Home to the Century Ballroom, Freehold Studio, Velocity Dance, numerous other arts organizations as well as several businesses, the upcoming sale of the nearly 100-year-old building has received attention in this paper as well as both dailies and alternative weeklies.New owner Ted Schroth and his group made inquiries and discovered the current owners were interested in selling. Thus the $64,000 question: What Happens Next?
Gabriel Chai reads a headstone at the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery on Sunday, Nov 11. He and two friends visited Bruce Lee's grave at Lakeview Cemetery before stopping by the G.A.R. park.
The third installment of Southeast Effective Development's annual fall Arts Gumbo series shook the seats in Columbia City's Rainier Valley Cultural Center with powerful Japanese Taiko drumming on Nov. 10. Above, the Seattle-based One World Taiko group performs to a near capacity crowd. After the group's hour long set, audience members were treated to a bento sushi box dinner in the center's basement and a Taiko drumming workshop led by One World Taiko.
The Museum of Flight celebrated the men and women that have served our country in the skies around the world with two days of presentations and a special Veterans Day ceremony on Sunday, Nov. 11. Nov. 12, the The Museum hosted a panel of pilots who discussed their histories and experiences flying combat missions in the wars and conflicts of the middle of the 20th century. The panel included Maj. Leslie C. Smith, who first entered the Army aviation cadet program in 1941 and was an original member of the 56th Fighter Group.
SEWARD PARK ‑ A phone call from his stepdaughter at 7 a.m. on the morning of Friday, Nov. 2, alerted Seward Park resident Don Berrysmith to the police cruisers parked in front of his Seward Park home on South Orcas Street, one block before the city park's entrance.Stepping outside with his wife to learn the reason behind the early morning police presence, the couple saw large, black, spray-painted letters marring their van. Just below the window on the driver's side, which faced the street, someone had scrawled a command to eat excrement. While this particular edict felt disturbing to the Berrysmiths, the worst was sprayed across their van's rear doors.
Kino International is among the most conscientious, discerning and indispensable of American distributors, fostering video and sometimes theatrical release in America of some of the high-water marks of cinema art, past and present. They've been at it for 30 years, and SIFF Cinema in McCaw Hall will be showing some of their titles by way of tribute for the next several weeks. Friday-Sunday, Nov. 16-18, you can catch a razor-sharp restoration of Fritz Lang's visionary 1927 classic "Metropolis" (pictured). Andrei Tarkovsky's "Andrei Roublev" plays Monday, Nov. 19. There's a '90s double feature from Hong Kong's Wong Karwai, "Fallen Angels" and "Happy Together," Tuesday, Nov. 20, and a '60s pairing, Claude Chabrol's French New Wave gem "Les Bonnes Femmes" plus Jeanne Moreau in Joseph Losey's tortuous femme-fatale tale "Eve," Wednesday, Nov. 21. Following these, Charles Chaplin's 1931 "City Lights" enjoys a five-nights run Nov. 22-26, and then ... to be continued.
November is Pet Cancer Awareness Month, in keeping with a project launched by Veterinary Pet Insurance in 2005 to educate pet owners on the prevalence and management of pet cancer. "Nearly a quarter of all pets will develop cancer, and the diagnosis and ensuing treatment costs may take pet owners by surprise," said Dr. Carol McConnell, vice president and chief veterinary medical officer for VPI.
Locally owned Sideline Solutions, offering a complete line of outdoor and athletic team and fan wear, stadium blankets and portable event and outdoor seating, has teamed up with Northwest Harvest to hold their first annual pre-holiday warehouse outerwear and stadium blanket sale.