The race for mayor is in full swing, with a straw-poll event at Phinney Neighborhood Center last Wednesday, May 15, during which five candidates mingled with Seattle residents, gave stump speeches and answered questions.
It all began in 1884 with the arrival in Seattle of the visionary engineer, Reginald Heber Thomson. Thomson had noticed that Lake Union and Lake Washington were getting horribly polluted because residents were dropping raw sewage directly into their waters. As City Engineer, he began studies for a plan to move the sewage of out city lakes.
On Thursday, May 31, about 100 people, including vendors and the media, showed up before midnight at Metropolitan Market on upper Queen Anne.
Considered one of the best scholastic chess players in the country, Magnolia resident Marcell Szabo, 11, will compete against some of the highest-rated chess champions his age in the second-annual Online National Chess Championship.
The western fence at Our Lady of Fatima School (3301 W. Dravus St.) is the site of a loving memorial for one of its former students, Molly Conley, who was killed in a drive-by shooting June 1 in Lake Stevens.
Set in a towering room filled with Dale Chihuly’s eclectic collections, the Collections Café in the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibition at Seattle Center draws inspiration for the menu from Chihuly’s vibrant glasswork and from local seasonal markets.
In 1992, choreographer Bill T. Jones directed Kurt Weil’s “Lost in the Stars” for the Boston Lyric Opera at the Emerson Majestic Theatre. The three performances were sold out, and the show lost more than $2 million.
No less a critic than George Bernard Shaw complained that Shakespeare wrote “As You Like It” as a cheap crowd pleaser. It’s true that among the convoluted, cross-dressing, contrived plots in Shakespeare’s comedies, “As You Like It”, playing at the Center House Theatre, goes over the top on all counts.
Choosing a place to eat, shop or even do laundry no longer involves looking in the Yellow Pages or cruising around searching for a likely place. The world of social media has encouraged consumers to rely on reviews and on-line relationships when choosing where to go.
Some Magnolia residents say they have not had pizza in over a year. Some consider that just plain wrong.
It’s that time of year, and it seems like everybody’s got fresh drink menus and new snacks.
Nearly 2,000 people attended the funeral of Magnolia resident Mary Clare “Molly” Conley on Saturday, June 8, at Bishop Blanchet High School gymnasium.
Nominated for city landmark status in May, the Alexander Hall building on the Seattle Pacific University campus comes up for designation next week on Wednesday, June 19.