The former Coco la ti da café awaits its next incarnation. After garnering raves from the city's food reviewing front, Sue McCown's dessert lounge closed abruptly at the end of February, a mere three months after opening its doors. The previous tenant, the well regarded Fork restaurant, itself closed suddenly. Windermere agent Laura Miller said there has been considerable interest in the historic space. Rest assured that the famed Russian murals inside remain in good shape awaiting the next tenant.
To Prohibition! Or rather its repeal. Dick Cantwell, head brewer and co-owner of the Elysian Brewery on the corner of East Pike Street and 12th Avenue East, raises a glass of very drinkable beer brewed in an antique bathtub in the middle of the dining room. The bathtub beer is a symbollic gesture honoring the anniversary of the end of Prohibition in 1933.
DIANE JOHNSON "Yes, we do. I was just recently in Brazil. President Bush came there and was trying to sweet-talk them into planting more sugar cane for ethanol. In order to do that, they would need to tear down more of the Amazon [rainforest] - the lungs of the earth. We need to find a way to step away from more autos - SUVs - and be more conscious of our CO2 emissions."
"The Master at Work: The Continuing Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock" will show at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, April 5-June 7 at the Museum of History and Industry. Series tickets - $58 for SAM, MOHAI and SIFF members, $65 others - are available via 654-3121 or seattleartmuseum.org. Tickets to individual films, $10, may be available at the door.A case can be made that Alfred Hitchcock was the most successful director in motion picture history. Certainly he's the most recognized director in motion picture history. His name's a household word, he's the exemplar of an entire genre ("the Master of Suspense") and in an Internet age he did not live to see, he holds the record for most hits on film-information Web sites. His mastery of the medium remains unchallenged even though none of the half-dozen films he made in the final decade-and-a-half of his half-century career met with widespread admiration among either critics or the general public
Information fair on Sunday to encourage people to reduce greenhouse gasesRemember "Think Globally, Act Locally"? The Step It Up Fair to Slow Climate Change will offer ideas for doing just that on Sunday, April 15, at the Greenwood Library, 8016 Greenwood Ave. N., between 1 and 4 p.m. The event is sponsored by Phin-ney-Greenwood Climate Change Action Now! (PGCCAN). Attendees will be encouraged to sign a pledge to reduce their carbon footprint, which is the amount of greenhouse gases each person produces.
Pollster Stuart Elway (standing on stage) led more than 150 participants in an interactive budget forum at Olympic View Elementary School in Wedgwood on March 28. Using wireless, hand-held keypads, the participants voted on their top-two priorities for spending; the results immediately appeared on screen as bar graphs. The group voted public health and human services as its top priority for the county council, with public health clinics and drug- and substance-abuse treatment as top priorities within that category. Later this month, the county council will use the results from these interactive forums to guide its budget.
You're going behind bars for good!" What if you heard those words upon arrival into work one day? It happened to Pacific Publishing Co.'s own Mark Manion. A classifieds representative, Manion was anonymously nominated to be "locked-up" for an hour in a pseudo jail on Thursday, April 5, in Fremont's Ballroom as part of a national fund-raising effort for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). The Great Lock-Up is one of MDA's largest national fund-raising events, which helps adults and children with neuromuscular diseases. Local business and community leaders agree to be "arrested" for having a "big heart".
WallingfordSaves is an independent co-operative currently composed entirely of small owner-operated businesses in Wallingford. It is not part of the Wallingford chamber, as implied by the article and is funded by Not A Number Cards & Gifts and other participating members as a way of encouraging local shopping and fostering a larger sense of community in Wallingford.
ast week, I was actually invited to a house party for Barack Obama - 20 months before the election. Out of curiosity and loyalty to the friends who were hosting it, I went. It was a great discussion. But amidst all the earnest expressions of Seattle liberalism, one topic remained completely, curiously absent.Before Barack or anyone else matters, we've got an election here in Seattle, this year.You would never know it from either the headlines or the local political chatter, much of which already seems obsessed with next year's presidential race. But we have five City Council seats, plus four seats on Metropolitan King County Council, two Port of Seattle commissioners, four Seattle School Board members, lots of suburan positions and a host of ballot measures, including some critical transportation votes, coming up this summer and fall. Yes, summer; the primary has been moved back to August (when fewer people will pay attention), and the filing deadline for candidates is now in early June, less than two months away.
Her pen name is Sunshine, and she acts just like a sponge. Cori "Sunshine" Stiner, a seasoned library visitor, has been soaking up reading, writing and illustrating since age 2. Her first book, "Silly Sentences ABC," teaches kids more than just the letters of the alphabet.In kindergarten, coloring inside the lines was no problem for Stiner. At age 10, she had her own art show.
The City of Seattle is seeking candidates to serve two-year terms with the Seattle Human Rights Commission. This 16-member commission advises the City Council on issues that affect human rights working directly with the director of the Seattle Office for Civil Rights to end discrimination. The city is looking to fill three chairs. This unpaid opportunity is open only to candidates residing in Seattle.
Swedish Foundation held their 22nd annual gala dinner auction, Celebrate Swedish, on March 24, raising a record $3.4 million. More than 970 guests attended the event, hosted by KOMO Anchor Dan Lewis, at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel. Last year, Swedish's net revenue from the event totaled $1.45 million. One million of this year's earnings will benefit charity-care services and other programs that help Swedish respond to community needs
The two finalists candidates selected for the role of superintendent of Seattle Public Schools visited Seattle last week. Dr. Gregory Thornton, who currently is the chief academic officer of the School District of Philadelphia visited on April 6, Dr. Maria Goodloe-Johnson, the present superintendent of the Charleston County School District visited on April 6.
For most businesses, "location, location, location" is key to success. However, for Englishman David Hutchinson, it's topic, topic, topic. He owns Flora & Fauna Books, which opened in Magnolia last November after being located in Pioneer Square for 20 years and five years in Belltown before that.That his business is so old is "a monument to stubbornness and stupidity," Hutchinson joked in a recent interview in the store at 3121 W. Government Way near Discovery Park
n an open-house-style meeting, mayor Greg Nickels, along with Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske and deputy chief Clark Kimerer, unveiled his new Neighborhood Policing Staffing Plan for the city to a South End crowd first at the Van Asseslt Community Center located on south Beacon Hill within a short walk of the South Precinct. An interested but anxious crowd of more than 70 South End citizens gathered on April 3 from 6-7:30 p.m. to listen, and question, the mayor's new plan. "This policy is the most significant change in the way Seattle uses its resources in 30 years," Nickels asserted. "It will not only expand our patrol force, it proposes a faster, stronger, and smarter approach to protecting our neighborhoods." With a call for changing the department's sectors, adding police beats, and changing the geographic area of the police beats, the plan will attempt to accomplish a re-balancing of the city's police resources