The number of bicyclist entering downtown during the morning commute jumped 31 percent since 2000, according to a recent count released today by the Seattle Department of Transportation.
The sign over the sidewalk may portray a sheep, but Quinn's newly opened restaurant at 10th Avenue and East Pike Street is, as the menu quickly reveals, anything but a follower. Such items as rabbit pate and duck rillette are not your standard Seattle restaurant fare.A sibling to Restaurant Zoe in Belltown, Quinn's took over the space of the La Puerta Mexican restaurant and gave it a complete makeover.
Clustered around the north end of the Broadway business district are a host of historic buildings called collectively the Harvard-Belmont Landmark District. Many of these buildings are still in active use, including the Harvard Exit Theater, the Loveless Studio Building and the Deluxe Bar and Grill. Nestled into the basement under the Deluxe, across the street from the former Elite Tavern, is the Seattle Museum of the Mysteries. We had an opportunity on a Friday evening recently to participate in one of the Museum's "lock-in" events and learned from co-director Charlette LeFevre just how one might go about looking for a ghost Charlette began by suggesting that the first thing to do when seeking a possible ghost was to get to know the building itself and some of its history. And this corner has quite a history!
Hanging around the water cooler, coffee lounge or cafeteria can be a lonely affair when you work at home. Jacob Sayles, who has had all the isolation he wants staring into his home computer, decided to do something about it. His Office Nomads service opened officially last week as a response to such isolation. The new business is a bid to provide a support community to home or freelance workers.Office Nomads, one block west of Seattle Central Community College, near Boylston Avenue and East Pine Street, offers home workers a chance to go to the office and interact with fellow workers. Office Nomads offers work space, printer and copier access, Internet access and meeting rooms for $475 per month. But most of all, Sayles says, it offers a community.
1200 Madison St. (3004404) on a Land Use Application to construct a 16-story building with 241 residential units over retail and customer service uses, two live-work units and three townhouse units located at grade. Project includes two levels of below-grade parking for 107 vehicles. The following appealable decisions have been made based on submitted plans: Determination of Non-Significance with conditions. Environmental review completed, and project conditioned as applicable; Design Review conditionally granted. The hearing examiner must receive appeals of this decision no later than Monday, Nov. 12.
UPDATED WEBSITE: The Neighborhood Cooking Foundation, which sponsors the cooking-for-the-homeless events at St. Clouds restaurant, 1129 34th Ave., and Madrona Presbyterian Church, 832 32nd Ave., has updated its website with two new pages.SIGNATURE CHEF: Joseba Jimenez de Jimenez, owner of The Harvest Vine, 2701 E. Madison St., led a group of 22 Seattle-area chefs in the creation of tapas for the March of Dimes
Some years, the anticipation of making the Thanksgiving meal plays out better than the actual execution. So many elements of the meal come down to last-minute preparation. It does not matter how organized you are; you feel "slammed' at the last minute. If you have made the meal, you know the drill: How are you supposed to get the turkey out of the oven, make the gravy, remove the stuffing and slice the turkey all at the same time, while breaking your arm mashing the potatoes? It seems all my good-intentioned planning goes out the window during the last half-hour before the meal goes on the table.
Madison Park cancer survivor, daughter do charity bike ride together Madison Park resident Brad Perkins spent last Thanksgiving recovering from brain surgery. He didn't know until a week later that he was suffering from a very aggressive, dangerous form of brain cancer. Clinically speaking, the doctors removed a glioblastoma multiforme Grade IV malignant tumor.
On Friday, Nov. 2, about 75 people marched in - and many more observed - the annual Day of the Dead procession from Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church to Phinney Neighborhood Center, where a band of skeletons played and the crowd joined in the dancing.
A Seattle Parks and Recreation employee positions a carved cedar column during the groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 11 for Washington Park Arboretum's new Pacific Connections Garden. The crowd had followed the cedar column as it made its way from Rhododendron Glen to the site of the new interpretive shelter that is planned for the garden.
Margaret writes:A friend recently played a piece of music for me and I went wild. I asked to hear it over and over. Afterwards, he calmly told me, "When I played that for you three years ago, you dismissed it." Sound familiar?I could write a book about it, Margaret. Just be grateful your friend had enough faith to try it on you again. That friend knows the importance of context when it comes to sharing music.
Mayor Greg Nickels has come up with an idea he says will make life easier for Seattle residents trying to connect with city services about problems that aren't emergencies. It's a call center people could reach by dialing 311, and Nickels wants the Seattle City Council to sign off on the idea and spend $8.9 million next year to set up and staff the new system, said mayoral spokesman Marty McOmber. "311 is not just a phone number; it's changing the way the city does business," he said. Currently, people have to search through more than a thousand different phone numbers for city services, but the 311 system would provide a single contact point, McOmber said.
Fifty teams of 6- to 9-year-old Magnolia Soccer Club members squared off in the Interbay Soccer Stadium for the 2007 Mod World Cup on Sunday, Nov. 4. Mod stands for modified, explained soccer-club president Doug Broadbent as a group of kids played three-on-three in a 12-minute game without goalies. The U8 and U9 games are 20 minutes long and include goalies. No scores are kept during the U6 to U9 games in the World Cup, he said. "We don't keep score until they're 10."
Clay Bennett's announcement that he wants to get out of the lease at KeyArena and move the SuperSonics to Oklahoma City as soon as possible came as no surprise.But while the news buoyed Midwest sports interests, it sent shock-waves through the NBA team's fan base in Seattle and bummed out more than a few owners and staff members at bars and restaurants in Lower Queen Anne. The loss of the men's basketball team will mean "a severe hit financially" at Floyd's Place sports bar just a couple blocks away from the arena, said general manager Nathan Sobl last Friday night.
City Council Position 1 candidate Joe Szwaja (left) talks with Seattle School Board candidate Maria Ramirez and Tim Burgess, a candidate for City Council Position 7 at a Meet the Candidate event at Wallingford's Not a Number Cards & Gifts on Nov. 1. The store owners also endorsed school-board candidate Sally Soriano (incumbent) and Port of Seattle candidate Alec Fisken (incumbent), who were invited to the event as well. As of press time, Burgess was leading incumbent David Della in the polls, while Szwaja, Ramirez and incumbent Soriano were trailing their opponents; Fisken's race was too close to call.