You have visitors from out of town. You are their tour guide for the time they're here. What do you do? Do you extol the beauty of Seattle and the Northwest, or do you slam the area, downplaying the experience by talking about all the clouds and rain we endure for nearly 10 months of the year?That is the problem we faced recently when some newfound friends, next-door neighbors of my eldest son, Joey, came north from San Diego for a first-time visit to the Emerald City.
There is a photograph of me dancing at Bumbershoot. It was taken back when getting in cost next to nothing and the acts were mostly local, when it seemed all of Seattle, or at least the part of town I identified with, went to the festival to dance to the open-air music. But I don't need the photo to remind me how happy I was to be dancing beside all the others. I remember.
Riding on the No. 358 twice a day always reminds me of the opening of an old television show I liked way back in the dimness when I was young. I think the show was called "Naked City," a cop drama, but what I remember was the opening: a black-and-white shot of the Manhattan skyline with a voiceover, a male voice droning dramatically, "There are 8 million stories in the Naked City; this is one of them."That's how I feel riding the No. 358: There are 500,000 stories in this naked city, and all of them will eventually happen, or be talked about, on the 358.
JUSTIN HENDERSONI go, but I don't buy a lot of stuff because it seems a little expensive to me. But I do like to support local produce. n fact, that's where we're going right now - that and the new bakery. We like to see more produce offered.
The P-Patch Trust is the premier advocate for community gardening in Seattle. The trust's many contributions include joining with the City of Seattle to complete the purchase of the Hillman City P-Patch. In doing so, however, the P-Patch Trust depleted its land acquisition funds. This means that, until the coffers are replenished, the trust will be unable to act if another garden is threatened by the sale of its land, or if a suitable new piece of land becomes available. To help rebuild its financial capacity, the P-Patch Trust is hosting a special dinner entitled "Chef in the Garden," on Sunday, Sept. 23, at South Seattle Community College.
If you've driven down to the heart of Georgetown along Airport Way South in the past month and a half, you've most likely noticed the large, white-green "G" attached to the outside of the Rainier Cold Center Bottling Plant. The art grew out of the June 23 Old School Georgetown Carnival/Artopia when Georgetown artist Cathe Gill organized a community printmaking activity in front of her Bottling Plant studio's parking lot."There were thousands of people; it was great fun, exhausting, and the art done that day of the Festival was what became the Tibetan Prayer Flags and the eight-foot "G" for the August Traffic Snarl installations on my building," Gill noted.
Rainier Beach mothers galvanize neighborhood's youthghborhood's youthRAINIER BEACH - In the past five years, two young men died of gunshot wounds in Mary Krueger's neighborhood, a traditional Seattle-blue-collar collection of bungalows, Craftsmen and ranch-style homes. While she doesn't know whether or not the dead were involved with one of the South End's many gangs, she suspects. That the men lived in neighborhood rental homes and were not connected in constructive ways with her fellow neighbors, she knows.
Tonight I kiss you one last time.You had been on my mind lately, I'd been reminiscing about the way we made each other laugh. You were bright, beautiful, exuberant, expressive, an actress I saw in a couple of George Savage's plays. I asked you to do a reading, I was working on scripts, writing for the weeklies - who didn't?You were my angel in "Good Citizens." Then we were the Guerilla Radio Theater, getting a sound piece up called "The Curse." I loved our dates, I loved you, and then we were away with ourselves and others. I wished you well, and when we bumped so ever briefly in the Safeway on 12th up on Capitol Hill, I just wanted to hug you.
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007, rather than 2001: when I selected this return flight to Seattle from New York, I realized what day it would be but decided I preferred one more day in NY with a return trip of five hours to a Monday flight that would have taken 10 hours. I did not think much about flying on this date, which is probably enshrined in the mind of anyone over 14, anyone with access to a television. I was in Canada on that fateful day in 2001, as shocked and sad as much of the world.Since that day my mind is often burdened with those events as my thoughts run a gamut of feelings. Sept. 11 and some of the people in New York City that day, the living and dead, often cross my mind and make me sad. I regret the costs - in lives, innocence, resources.
The magazine salesman who allegedly choked an Eastlake women until she was unconscious and then stole her phone and laptop computer on Aug. 31 is in jail. He was arrested in Oregon Sept. 12 with a crew of magazine-subscription salesmen working for Michigan-based Urban Development Solutions.But it's not the first time the 25-year-old salesman has been in trouble with the law. He had recently gotten out of jail in Florida after serving a two-year stint for an armed robbery he pulled off while selling magazine subscriptions, according to published reports.
As many people know and look forward to, each Sunday the parking lot behind the Bank of America at 10th Avenue East and East Thomas Street blossoms with portable pavilions for the more than two dozen fresh produce vendors that make up the Broadway Sunday Farmers Market.Now finishing up its third year, the market has become a well regarded part of the Capitol Hill community.nfortunately, as has been the case generally with parking lots and under-used spaces along Broadway, the property is slated for development. This means the market will need a new home, perhaps as early as next year.
The prospect of turning a former Capitol Hill church into a performing arts space has taken a significant turn for the better. The future use of the former First Church of Christ Scientist, located at the corner of 16th Avenue East and East Denny Way, has been uncertain for more than a year. Bought by a developer who planned on turning it into 12 high-end condominiums, the building has also been the subject of a 13 month effort by Dan Fievez to convert the structure into what would become the First Center for the Performing Arts. The center is envisioned as a performing arts space, an educational venue and as a home to musical organizations in need of a place to play.<br
Long-time Capitol Hill resident Gerald Kearns fondly recalled his father's quip whenever he would introduce his young son: "This is little Gerry. When prohibition went out, Gerry came in."Since Kearns shares his birthdate with the passing of the 21st Amendment, an event many of us owe much of our rest and recreation to, it's perhaps only appropriate that we would meet at a local bar on the Hill. What began as infrequent small-talk soon turned substantial as Kearns began to tell various life stories set in such faraway locations as the streets of New York City or the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge. Yet, no matter what part of the world Kearns found himself in, he always found his way home to Capitol Hill.
It seems like everything we really love about Seattle is slipping away - the social and economic diversity, the older buildings that give our neighborhoods their distinctive character, the trees and the green spaces.Those big buildings sprouting up everywhere embody the forces at work. Whether it's gargantuan single-family homes squeezed between one-story bungalows, or three-story townhomes with garages downstairs and paved-over yards, these new buildings with their stratospheric prices have displaced working-class families, immigrants and renters in the Section 8 program along with others living below the median income.
A wax head bearing the presumed likeness of hijaker D.B. Cooper was unveiled at the Seattle Museum of the Mysteries on Saturday, Sept. 15. Co-directors Philip Lipson and Charlette LeFevre said they hope the wax figure will help solve the mystery regarding Cooper, who jumped from a Northwest Airlines 727 over south eastern Washington in 1971.