ROOSEVELTPRODUCTION: On Wednesday, Feb. 27, through March 1, Roosevelt High School, 1410 N.E. 66th St., will stage "And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank," a play based on "Eva's Story," by Frank's stepsister, Eva Schloss.Schloss, a Nazi concentration-camp survivor, will answer questions following each 7:30 p.m. performance. Tickets are $8 for students and seniors and $10 for adults.
Why do Mayor [Greg] Nickels, the majority of the City Council, King County Executive [Ron] Sims and Seattle downtown interests insist an elevated Alaskan Way Viaduct (AWV) solution would be so terrible? The central waterfront segment of AWV is only part of a regional transportation solution that connects North and South Seattle and communities. [City Councilmember Nick] Licata, [state Rep. Frank] Chopp and my state representatives, [Helen] Sommers and [Mary Lou] Dickerson, understand this much better than does the mayor, who seems to deny [Washington State] Department of Transportation's (WSDOT) engineering results. It is proposed that state Route 99 will be elevated over the [South] Atlantic Street corridor but then drop down to ground-level, side-by-side lanes. Hauling cargo up, then down, then up again onto a central waterfront elevated structure will not be an acceptable solution to most. Therefore, I think that WSDOT really means that their South Holgate to South King [streets] solution will work with either tunnel or surface option on central waterfront and that they are removing elevated option by "stealth engineering." Shame on WSDOT!
In a neighborhood with a ferro-concrete Troll, a World War II surplus rocket and five aluminum people with their man-faced dog waiting for a streetcar that never arrives, many people think Fremont quite replete with art. Still, some artists obviously disagree.Art attacks on Fremont occur an average of twice a year. Oversized butterfly wings adorning a telephone pole, Troll prints painted on the sidewalk and an enormous spider suspended over the Outdoor Cinema parking lot have appeared at random times over the years.This goes beyond reactionary monuments created as comment on current affairs, or decorations on the Interurban or Lenin statues. One example took place one weekday last year at the corner of Fremont Avenue North and North 35th Street. Attached to a light pole, a loudspeaker broadcasted a recorded piece of dialogue that looped over and over. The short sample of audio included a high-pitched voice screaming, "Dear God! No, no, no!"These art pieces appear and usually disappear, and that may be best for many of them. However, one of Fremont's most easily identifiable icons, the guidepost, began life as an art attack, possibly installed in 1995. As is the nature of these attacks, the artist's identity remained secret - until now.
The following information was provided by the city's Department of Planning and Development. Appeals are made to the Office of the Hearing Examiner, Seattle Municipal Tower, 40th Floor (SMT-40-00), 700 Fifth Ave., Suite 4000, Seattle, WA 98104. Appeals must be accompanied by a $50 filing fee in a check payable to the City of Seattle.The project number is in parentheses. For more information, call 684-8467.PERMIT DECISIONS5001 N.E. 50TH ST. (3007349) on a Land Use Application to allow a canopy structure to cover an existing play area (Villa Academy). The following appealable decision has been made based on submitted plans: Administrative Conditional Use to allow expansion of an institution in a single family zone conditionally granted. The hearing examiner must receive appeals of this decision no later than Thursday, Feb. 28.
The following are selected reports from the Seattle Police Department's North Precinct. They represent the officers' accounts of the events described.DOG PROWLSomeone entered a car parked at Northeast 50th Street and 21st Avenue Northeast and stole a 6-year-old miniature pinscher, the dog's blanket and pillow and the owner's cellular phone.A window had been left slightly open.The incident occurred between 9 and 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 10; however, the incident wasn't reported until Feb. 12.
Howard Murray (second from right), an AARP tax-assistance volunteer for 31 years, helps Eugeniusz Pietruczuk with filling out his tax forms, while volunteer Joe Pearl (second from left) assists an unnamed man with his tax forms at the Northgate Library, 10458 Fifth Ave. N.E., on Wednesday, Feb. 20. The Northgate Library offers tax assistance on Mondays from 4 to 7:30 p.m. and Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Broadview Library (12755 Greenwood Ave. N., 684-7519) and Northeast Library (6801 35th Ave. N.E., 684-7539) also offer tax help; call for details. photo/Bradley Enghaus
The photo caption accompanying the story "Something in the Air" inaccurately stated that staff and youth members became ill from unknown causes at the North Seattle Boys & Girls Club, 8635 Fremont Ave. N.No children reported headaches or other illnesses, as stated in the text of the story, confirmed Boys & Girls Club of King County spokesperson Rachel Doxtater.The caption on the Herald-Outlook's website has been corrected.
For just a few hours on Feb. 13, a group of experts and neighbors meeting in Fremont were able to think creatively instead of solemnly as they conceptualized ways to prevent suicides on the Aurora Bridge.As efforts and ideas for the Aurora Bridge Suicide Prevention Fence project continue to gain momentum, architects, engineers and concerned residents collaborated for a three-hour design meeting at B.F. Day Elementary School in Fremont. The result was a handful of new ideas for suicide prevention along the historic George Washington Memorial Bridge, which spans Queen Anne hill to the south and Fremont to the north along state Route 99.
The Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs is accepting applications for the 2008 CityArtist Projects program that supports Seattle-based individual artists working in the visual and literary arts, film, media arts and screenwriting.
Rainier District Little League is gearing up for another season of baseball fun for South Seattle boys and girls, ages 5-18. The league consists of seven divisions, ranging from Tee-Ball to Big League, and players are assigned to teams based on age level and skill.
Officers were dispatched to the 9200 block of Rainier Avenue South at 5:11 p.m. to speak with a woman, age 19, who had visited a friend's home the previous evening to use his phone and then was not allowed to leave.
The building is 100 years old, with creaky stairs and an ambiance that speaks of another era. Home to numerous large and small arts organizations - including mainstays Velocity Dance, Freehold Theatre and the Century Ballroom - the Odd Fellows Hall's future use as a multi-faceted arts space is in dramatic flux.
On the day before the caucuses, traffic trying to get off the freeway at Mercer Street was backed up past Capitol Hill and the people streaming toward the Seattle Center recalled a famous scene from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."Guarding Key Arena's press section were thick law enforcement types.
What's wrong with the recent campaign to battle the rise in gay bashings on Capitol Hill from the King County Prosecutor's office, posters and all? How about, almost everything.
The following are based on incident reports from the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct. They represent the officers' accounts of the events described.THEFTJust before 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16, officers responded to a Broadway drug store after the manager spotted a man carrying two plastic bags filled with merchandise out of the store without paying for the items.