We headed into the weekend with the radio and TV weatherpeople saying "60 percent chance of snow" Saturday. Yeah, right. Except ... yeah ... right. Things were barely getting picturesque when Eric Stern shot the photo to the right in Magnolia Village. Meanwhile, another Magnolia resident, Christopher Simpson, was struggling to look into the snow blowing horizontally over Queen Anne's Kerry Park that afternoon; News lensman Bradley Enghaus memorialized the moment (click ADDITIONAL PICTURE). The white stuff didn't linger anywhere there was wheel or foot traffic, and by late evening was on its way to being one more meteorological reminiscence. Then, Sunday and even more so Monday, the rains came - turning streets into streams, closing buildings at Seattle Center and bringing down part of a hillside onto Dexter Avenue.br>
Capping hundreds and hundreds of volunteer hours over an eight-month period, the final draft of the Upper Queen Anne Design Guidelines was tweaked a bit and approved at a third and final public meeting on Monday, Nov. 19. Developed by a 12-member subcommittee of the community council's planning committee, the guidelines are meant to be used by the neighborhood's Design Review Board (DRB), which offers suggestions to developers about what their projects should look like - primarily in the so-called Urban Village at the top of Queen Anne Hill.
We headed into the weekend with the radio and TV weatherpeople saying "60 percent chance of snow" Saturday. Yeah, right. Except ... yeah ... right. Things were barely getting picturesque when Eric Stern shot the photo to the right in Magnolia Village. Meanwhile, another Magnolia resident, Christopher Simpson, was struggling to look into the snow blowing horizontally over Queen Anne's Kerry Park that afternoon; News lensman Bradley Enghaus memorialized the moment (click ADDITIONAL PICTURE). The white stuff didn't linger anywhere there was wheel or foot traffic, and by late evening was on its way to being one more meteorological reminiscence. Then, Sunday and even more so Monday, the rains came - turning streets into streams, closing buildings at Seattle Center and bringing down part of a hillside onto Dexter Avenue.
Piers writes:My wife sings in a choir, and tells me that hearing singing is nowhere near as good as doing it. She considers it exercise. She can sing the word "Alleluia" for hours, and some of her music only uses that word!Hallelujah! It's a singer's paradise. Alleluia! So much in one word. Consider:1. Hallelujah! "Praise Ye the LORD" in Hebrew (Hallelu- praise you all, -Yah, Yahweh, the lord.) 2. Hallelujah! The most famous chorus from Handel's Messiah.
Suspect arrested for Nov. 19 shooting incidentThe Sugar nightclub is closed and for sale now, the man who allegedly shot and wounded three people in the place early in the morning Nov. 19 has been arrested, and many in the club scene on East Pike Street are breathing a sigh of relief. But not all. "They were good neighbors; we didn't have any problems," said Roddy Lindquist, the general manager of Quinn's across the street from Sugar.
Suspect arrested for Nov. 19 shooting incidentThe Sugar nightclub is closed and for sale now, the man who allegedly shot and wounded three people in the place early in the morning Nov. 19 has been arrested, and many in the club scene on East Pike Street are breathing a sigh of relief. But not all. "They were good neighbors; we didn't have any problems," said Roddy Lindquist, the general manager of Quinn's across the street from Sugar.
Zain and Tsgumi Stowell use the snow in Volunteer Park on Saturday, Dec. 2, as a backdrop for their Christmas card photo. The snow, and the snowman, were there when they arrived and gone following two solid days of rain.
The heavy, wet snowflakes didn't dampen the spirits of nearly 100 people who turned out to see the annual lighting of the Columbia City holiday tree. Left, members of St. Noel sing Christmas carols just before the big tree was lit up on Saturday, Dec. 1.
Operation Homefront Washington has announced that it has been overwhelmed by requests by military families for emergency assistance. The nonprofit organization is requesting immediate donations from the local community to help address the need.
PERMIT APPLICATIONS: *2260 W. Commodore Way (3008257) for a Shoreline Substantial Development Application to allow a four-story office, marine warehouse and restaurant building in an environmentally critical area. Parking for 126 vehicles will be provided below and at grade. Review will include demolition of existing building. The following approvals are required: SEPA environmental determination; Shoreline Substantial Development to allow development of an upland lot in the Urban Maritime environment. Building permit may be needed but was not included in this application. Written comments accepted through Wednesday, Jan. 2.
Between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, Americans throw away 25 percent more trash than any other time of the year. To prevent waste aftr the holidays, Seattle Public Utilities offers the following tips:
At a seasonal get-together Tuesday evening, Dec. 11, the Greater Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce introduced its Leadership 2008 team to the general membership. /p>The newly elected board joined 70 guests who enjoyed the fine food served at the Revolution Bar & Grill adjacent to Entertainment Music Project.
If, as has been suggested, life is a box of chocolates, the following stories describe what I found in mine.I do, however, warn any gleaner of these pages that my family usually admonishes the children to "not let Uncle Gordy tell his stories until after we've eaten," or in some circles, "until after we've prayed."
When Tony Cornwell first came to the United States as a foreign student in 1951, he loved it. In stark contrast to the way he saw English society, "It seemed everyone had a right to be who they wanted to be," he says, "and there was no class system." But since then, America has changed. "It has been taken over by people who have found weaknesses in the democratic system," he says. "We will be lucky if Bush is not the end of the American Empire."
'Blood & Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard'by Mark FinnMonkeyBrain Books, 2006, $15.95You may not know Robert E. Howard's name, but anyone with a fantastical mind, or a relative to anyone such, knows the name of his creation "Conan the Barbarian," idolized, lensed and parodied down half a century. Howard - born and bred in small-town Texas, outwardly disdainful of the opportunistic oilmen he secretly envied, limner of limitless chasms of prehistoric worlds, and dead by his own hand, age 30 - didn't intend Conan to eat up his entire tombstone. But as with H.P. Lovecraft, king of the uncanny, with whom Howard corresponded effusively, other people had other ideas about his legacy.