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Dead Christmas lights? Recycle them

Do you have a pile of burned-out Christmas lights? Are you replacing your traditional light strands with energy-efficient LED (light-emitting diode) lights? This holiday season, don't throw out your old light strands. Recycle them! Holiday light recycling programs take your old strands and recycle the copper wire inside them.

Blitzen Trapper captivates at the Showbox

Classic rock melodies and instrumentation combined with a distinctly 2010 demeanor had everyone up and moving at the Showbox at the Market Friday night.

Magnolia and Queen Anne are candy mines

Lots of choices for trick-or-treaters

This Halloween the festivities will start early.

Be sure of a checklist before surgery

Hospital and surgery are two words that can strike fear into most people's hearts. Memories of loved ones ill and hospitalized with instant recall of that hospital smell, stark, meandering corridors and officious looking staff walking with deliberation.

Falcons topple Saint Martin's 74-71

Senior wing Jeff Downs scored 19 points, getting 17 of those during the second half, and junior wing Jake Anderson added a career-high 17 - all during the first half - helping Seattle Pacific fend off Saint Martin's for a 74-71 Great Northwest Athletic Conference men's basketball victory on Saturday afternoon.

She's got kick

Katie Chao Places Second in West Coast Open Karate

Queen Anne second grader Katie Chao won a silver medal at the recent West Coast Open International Martial Arts Championships held Oct. 2 at Tahoma High School in Tacoma.

Guess their favorite book?

Each year the Katsoolis family creates one-of-a-kind costumes (all handmade) for Halloween.

Blood drive on hill a success

Troop has collected 84 pints this year

Though the Halloween weekend blood drive risked attracting vampires, none were seen and 29 pints of blood were successfully donates Saturday at the Queen Anne United Methodist Church at 1606 Fifth Ave. W.

Diversions 11/10

Ghost Light Theatricals' "Ch-Ch-Changes" season opens with William Shakespeare's masterpiece about love, dreams and identity. R.A. Bergquist directs A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nov. 11-13, 18-20 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 21 at 2 p.m. are $15, $12 for students and seniors, and are available at the door or at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/131961. The shows are performed at The Ballard Underground - 2220 N.W. Market St. 

Write on! Novel contest spurs local workshops



Every year from the beginning to the end of November, aspiring writers around the world race to complete 50,000 words for National Novel Writing Month.

Gilman Gardens set to grow

Armed with loppers and compost forks in gloved hands, a group of Queen Anne residents broke ground Sunday afternoon at a work party on the first expansion of the Gilman Gardens.

New life breathed into medical marijuana bill?

A proposed draft bill on the legalities of using, growing and distributing cannabis for medical purposes has been circulated recently from Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles in hopes of clearing up some discrepancies in the state of Washington's current medical marijuana policy.

Everything has a beat in Stomp

Eclectic show offers something for everyone

The performers of Stomp did just that as well as bumped, thumped, tapped, clapped, drummed, hummed, rapped, tapped, soft-shoed and swept their way through six performances last week at the Paramount on the Seattle stop of their U.S. tour.

"Country Strong" not strong enough

Actors do their best with flawed script

Shockingly, the singing in "Country Strong" is great. You wouldn't expect Gwyneth Paltrow to be a good singer but she could easily sell albums.

A lonely player in famous opera

Seattle actor David Hogan gets only no-singing role

Even though Seattle actor David Hogan is not an opera singer, he will play a named character in Seattle Opera's upcoming production of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville." Hogan has been cast in the non-singing role of Dr. Bartolo's elderly servant, Ambrogio, in Rossini's bawdy, energetic comedy about the lovesick Count Almaviva's pursuit of the beautiful Rosina with the help of the clever barber Figaro.