The Little League report is compiled from submissions by volunteer field reporters. The News cannot verify the accuracy of the individual reports. Reports will be published on a space-available basis.Best Plumbing starts 2007 season with a win5 Spot downs Best with late-game fireworksBest puts it all together against Ken's, wins 9-3Metropolitan Market leverages runs5 Spot shuts down Metro bats 8-0
Magnolia Little League, which serves almost 700 boys and girls ages 8-16, has been a staple of the community for decades. From April through early June, youngsters and their parents gather at the many ballfields on and below the Bluff to enjoy a fun competition. Several years ago the Opening Day Parade and feature game were introduced to engage the broad Magnolia community in the fun. Now MLL has introduced another way for all the members of Magnolia to be involved: Tuesday Night Baseball at Raye Field.
I am not a huge reader of genre fiction. There are, however, two writers - Bill James, of Wales, and Ken Bruen, of Ireland - who to my mind write crime fiction that transcends the limitations of the category and its imperatives. I've written here about both of them, and now I've discovered a third writer who deserves an even wider readership than he has built with his past three novels.
'LA BOHÈME'Seattle OperaMarion Oliver McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St.Through Sunday, May 20Tickets: $51-$141, 389-7676, www.seattleopera.orgPuccini's "La Bohème" is the quintessential story of tragic young love - the giddiness of falling head over heels, the passionate intensity of fighting and reconciling, and the searing pain of a lover's death. Plus it has gorgeously poignant music. "La Bohème" is such a popular opera that the company has scheduled 12 performances instead of its usual eight, performed by two casts.
In a time when new museum buildings are more often designed to showcase the daring of the architect rather than the art that's to be seen within, the enlarged Seattle Art Museum is a welcome return to the concept that form follows function. This is a museum that works. Much like the recently reopened Museum of Modern Art in New York, it has spacious galleries, multiple angles for viewing the art from close up and far away and creative access to natural light. Its escalators offer expansive overviews. There are intimate spaces for smaller collections and plenty of seating space for the visitors who experience museum fatigue.
Fuel Free Fridays, a new project of the Lawton Green Team, went into effect last week and is scheduled to continue for the rest of the school year.Organizers like to call the phenomenon "walking school buses." The idea is that, from 8:30 to 8:40 Friday mornings, Lawton School staff and parent safety guides will lead student walkers along five routes in Magnolia.
Queen Anne resident Michael Davis, a sophomore at Roosevelt High School, was part of the Roosevelt Jazz Band that just won the Essentially Ellington Jazz Competition in New York City. The competition, held at Lincoln Center under the direction of Wynton Marsalis, involved 15 high-school jazz bands invited from across the U.S.
McClure Middle School's annual school arts celebration is just around the corner - May 17 - and the community is invited. Each year students, staff and McClure families put together a showcase of student art: literary, performance and visual. In addition, the event will include fundraising for the school's arts and literature programs. First element of this year's Lure is a Bucks for Books campaign to raise $10,000 for the McClure library. Also featured will be a book fair and a good ol'-fashioned cakewalk.
Amid excitement and eager anticipation for eighth-grade graduations and the transition to high school throughout Seattle, frustration is etched on many Magnolia and Queen Anne parents' and students' faces. Due to the fact no high school, aside from the Center school, exists in or near these two neighborhoods, students from these neighborhoods are at a disadvantage.
Howard Bulson, the longtime, iconic piano player at the former Sorry Charlies in Lower Queen Anne, died last weekend of pancreatic cancer at a neighborhood nursing home. He was 72.Bulson had lately been playing a Monday night gig at the Dexter & Hayes pub, but he also played for a time at the Mirabeau Room, which opened in the former Sorry Charlies space, following that up with engagements at Julia's on Broadway.
Longtime Magnolia resident Marion Elizabeth Langstaff passed away April 19 in Seattle.She was 81. Born Jan. 26, 1926, in Littleton, Mass., to George and Grace Ford, she was the youngest of three children. She went on to become valedictorian of her high school class of 1943. During World War II she went to work for Raytheon Radiation Laboratory in Waltham, Mass., where she was involved in the testing process of radar. Subsequently she attended the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture, soon to merge with the Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture.
Do you have a problem house on your block? Are you concerned about crime in your neighborhood? On Saturday, May 19, from 10 a.m. to noon, Beacon Hill neighbors will gather at El Centro de la Raza, 2524 16th Ave. S., for a block watch summit. Karen McCall, acting director of the licensing and regulation division of the Washington state Liquor Control Board will address the gathering about the alcoholic impact area (AIA).
For two days each year the University District becomes Seattle's epicenter for music, food and entertainment. Now in its 38th year, the U-District Street Fair will feature three music stages, a children's area, a beer garden, a dog show and even a new break-dancing competition. But with more than 50,000 visitors and 335 food and craft vendors all descending on a nine-block section of University Way Northeast, there also comes plenty of garbage.
Kristin and Eric (sorry, no last name) try a kiss for photographers on Cal Anderson Park on Friday, May 11. The photo session took place just prior to their wedding at a nearby residence.
Matthew Casey found the 'Roman ruins' at right still standing (just) after the demolition of the old apartment block near Kerry Park. INSIDE: A more pleasant prospect greeted C. Albert at Parsons Garden.