The Children’s Museum, Seattle is offering a free admission opportunity to kids who help collect non-perishable food items for the Queen Anne Helpline. On Nov. 21 – 23, children with a donation of at least two non-perishable food items will receive free admission to the Museum.
Picture Perfect Queen Anne invites all interested gardeners to come and plant daffodil bulbs on Saturday, Nov. 19, 
from 9-11am.
You Can See It From Here is the title of Kit Oldham and Jennifer Ott’s presentation to the Queen Anne Historical Society at its regular public meeting set for March 22, 2012. Oldham will focus on the history of Washington ports with special mention of the Maritime Strike of 1934 an important port event you could definitely observe from a lot of spots on Queen Anne. During the strike, longshoremen faced off with police and strikebreakers in a series of daily skirmishes that became known as "The Battle of Smith Cove".
“The Hunger Games,” by Suzanne Collins is a book with one of those premises that makes you stop for a moment and think: “Wow, that’s kinda messed up.” In the not-too-distant future the continent of North America has been split up into twelve districts. Two kids between the ages of 12 and 18 are chosen at random from each district. One boy and one girl, to compete in The Hunger Games, a yearly competition that puts them in a massive arena to fight to the death until one remains.
Thousands of Seattle residents are not having a whole lot of fun these days, as they fight a developer’s plan to tear down their beloved Funhouse dive bar. The Funhouse, located near Seattle Center at 206 5th Ave. N., may be on the chopping block after AK Architects has announced plans to demolish the longtime bar and live music venue to build an apartment complex. Currently, the property is still owned by Columbia West Properties Inc.
In memory of Dana Sigley, the sixth annual Magnolia tennis flight pink celebration was held at the Serendipity Café in early November.
Have you ever wondered who was the military man who gave Fort Lawton its name?
The view from Kristine Hutchinson’s front porch is among the most unique in all of Seattle. Not only does Hutchinson and her family of four enjoy a view that includes the Puget Sound, the Olympic Mountain range and large swaths of open space within the city, but they also get to live in a spacious home that is part of military history. “It’s awesome,” Hutchinson said of her home. “It doesn’t get any better than this.”
Mary Chapman, who has worked as the director of marketing for the Greater Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce since February of 2010, has left her position with the Chamber.
If you live in the Magnolia area, one thing that most assuredly says Christmas is the annual Magnolia Village Open House held on Friday, Nov. 18. Now in its 35th year, the Open House, once again, filled the Magnolia Village with friends and neighbors who were treated to music, fun and plenty of holiday cheer.
Interbay’s time may have finally arrived...
Despite the fact that our city is named for an Indian chief, you might not think of it as a center of Native American culture. But in Seattle, Native culture appears to be thriving.
When it aims to, poetry can treat history in ways history books or photographs cannot: It drops us in our human skin into another time and place like no other medium.
Who are Seattle’s best writers? Ask the question in the local, literary bar scene, and it’s unlikely the name Robert Clark will come up.