The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is proposing to improve customer service for users of Residential Parking Zones (RPZs), but some customers in areas such as Lower Queen Anne, Capitol Hill and the Pike-Pine corridor may not appreciate the effort.
Classical music can catch your ear at the oddest moments. A spine-shivering fiddle zings through an open window. A wild soprano revs up a car commercial. A melody your cousin used to practice on your grandmother's piano bothers your mind. What was that? When a classical "song" is haunting you, it's not even usually a song. The increasing popularity of opera notwithstanding, the music called "classical" more often than not is made by instruments other than the human voice. It's also often nameless - or seems to be.
■ A bicyclist whizzes by the vacant main gatehouse at the Northeast 74th Street entrance to Magnuson Park, which is now adorned with artist Perri Lynch's 'At Ease,' a vinyl window film that has graphics of grasses. The artwork was installed on July 2 and will remain up until next June. photo/Bradley Enghaus
Nowhere is the classroom transformation more apparent at the gloriously renovated Garfield High School than in Bonnie Hungate-Hawk's fine arts room. Before the school temporarily moved to Wallingford in 2004 to accommodate the extensive renovation and modernization of the Central District's historic, 1920s-era neo-Jacobian building, Hungate-Hawk taught her students in the confining space of a converted girls locker room that had no natural light.
Local Puerto Ricans drove Wanda Benvenutti down a dry road in El Paso, Texas, where the Rio Grande drew a line between freedom and desolation.From where she stood on American soil she could see across the river where Mexican families holed up in shanties. She saw mothers taking their children down to the river to bathe them. Pet goats drank from the river.
So now we know. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been chosen by John McCain to be his running mate in the upcoming presidential election. With her selection last week, the McCain campaign managed to steal some thunder from the Democratic National Convention and at the same time prompt an overwhelming majority of the electorate to ask, "Sarah who?"
Hoot Gibson, Tom Mix, Whip Wilson and some new guy named John Wayne were heroes to the fourth-grade boys at McGilvra Elementary School in the late '40s. The girls had their Nancy Ann Storybook Dolls, which were named after nursery rhymes and jingles. Barbie dolls wouldn't be in the picture until 1959.
There's a pretty fair chance that at some point I'm going to kill myself.And when I do, it's none of the government's business.
Officers received a report of an explosion at McGilvra Elementary School. Upon their arrival, the officers found an exploded pipe bomb in the middle of the cul-de-sac at the end of the 3700 block of E. Blaine St. The officers also found numerous pieces of a shattered, red flower post scattered in all directions for about a block. One-half block east of the explosion site officers also found a broken piece of the pipe bomb end cap.
Blueberries are my favorite berries. Though, if I'm making jam, there's nothing like blackberries. For easy, delicious mousse, give me strawberries. As for sheer beauty and the most versatile purée, I'll take raspberries.
The Restore Our Waters and the Cascade Bicycling Club are teaming up for Restore Our Waters Cascade Spawning Cycle on Sept. 14.
The panelists at September 4th's City Club event "Neighborhood Blogs: What's All the Buzz About?" claim that things are heating up in Seattle, the world epicenter for a new era of "citizen journalism."
I pass by the flowers every day and I know that in a few days they will be gone, the spot and blood will be cleaned up and the grief over the death of another young black man will soon be replaced by the grief of another one.
The visitor, age 19, answered generically before hearing the hooded man tell him to look down and not say anything. The visitor glanced down and saw the hooded man holding a handgun pointed at him.
For the past two years dramatic changes have come to Beacon Hill Elementary School. The largest took place in the form of a comprehensive renovation, which began in the summer of 2002 and finished in January 2006, according to principal Susie Murphy. While the creation of more usable space, and a more secure building, for the students and their teachers represents a significant, much needed improvement at the school, the most profound change came in the form of a new educational direction for the school.