It's 6 p.m., and the parking lot of University Village has been transformed.Chairs and tables face a raised stage, surrounded by booths of food and kids' activities.Faces are painted, balloon animals are made and kites are put together as moms wipe mustard off smiling children's mouths.Helium-filled balloons bob around; a few escape into the blue sky as someone comes on the microphone."Welcome to the University Village Summer Concert Series! My name is Dan Murphy, from KIXI-AM 880 radio station, and these are The Beatniks!"
The roar of the Blue Angels overhead can only mean one thing: the dahlias are blooming full force in Volunteer Park.
Some are frightened. Some have made plans, and some haven't.But, scared or not, and with or without plans, the 19 days of I-5 construction starting Aug. 10 can't be stopped. Unless, of course, it rains.Assuming, however, that it won't rain, the I-5 lane closures not only will test drivers' flexibility but also the flexibility of businesses along the alternate routes. With an estimated 50 percent of drivers taking alternate routes, the closure will most significantly cause backups through Georgetown, Capitol Hill, Beacon Hill and Rainier Valley.
How to plan and manage urban growth might be the most pressing issue facing development-crazy Seattle, and it was certainly the big question confronting a panel of city council candidates at last week's growth and development forum at the Yesler Community Center.The Aug. 2 forum featured a series of hard-hitting and unusually sophisticated questions posed by a moderator, followed in turn by minute-to-90-second-long answers by the panel, which featured both incumbents and challengers for various city council positions.The Candidates Forum on Growth and Development - co-sponsored by a handful of community-based organizations including Hate Free Zone, Real Change, Community Coalition for Environmental Justice (CCEJ) and the Tenants Union - revealed few significant rifts among the candidates, and at times presented an almost unified front in the candidates' proclaimed desire to protect the city and its citizens from the more negative aspects of booming urban growth.
Geov Parrish, I always like your columns and I agree with you about the nightlife situation which you addressed in your column in the Aug. 1 Capitol Hill Times. But I have a quibble over language. It may seem minor to you, but it is important, in my view.You casually, carelessly misused the term jihad ("Nickel's jihad") to mean something akin to "a bad/evil/misguided cause," or "a war upon" or a "vendetta," etc. This parallels the meaning given to the word by the mainstream media whenever they discuss or exaggerate or malign what Muslims are up to.
I've heard all my life about how fast time flies.And having been raised Catholic, I was forced to listen to long, mournful, weekly fire-and-brimstone sermons from Father James Lunn, a melancholy, old-style, Irish priest who seemed to feel you mustn't enjoy life unless you wanted to burn in hell for "eternity."Somehow, though, even while in Uncle Sam's company during our Vietnam adventure, I had some kind of natural buoyancy, or inherent stupidity (God loves those of us who have a hard time learning life lessons); I never took all the death and destruction around me and mine seriously. I knew I would escape, if not unscathed, at least semi-whole.
Longtime Capitol Hill resident and prominent art dealer Gordon William Woodside died July 16 at Virginia Mason Medical Center after a stroke. He was 80.Born Jan. 22, 1927, Mr. Woodside was the son of Canadian émigrés James Nelson Woodside and Carol Gavinjack Woodside. His home was in north Capitol Hill for many years. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1945.
"The Flying Dutchman" is not my favorite Wagnerian opera. With my theatrical background, I tend to get really irritated, and somewhat bored, when the characters tell me what they've told me - several times already, thank you very much.That said, Seattle Opera's production of "The Flying Dutchman" has much to recommend it, not the least of which is the magnificent music.
Last week Classic KING radio, in conjunction with Borders books, presented an advance screening of the movie "Becoming Jane." KING FM, a unique Northwest treasure presenting great classical music to our area, stays connected with its audience through Club 98, which offers members unique opportunities such as movie premières and advance screenings. Club 98 members receive advanced notice of all these offerings through the KING FM newsletter, blasting into inboxes biweekly. You can sign up at king.org, and get in the know!
What must it be like to be a bit of cyber-data swimming through streams of information? Such a question points toward the mind of William Gibson's "Johnny Mnemonic," the computer-world of the Disney movie "Tron" and, of course, Philip K. Dick's eternally relevant "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", reimagined by Ridley Scott as "Blade Runner."We don't have the time and space to dive into those dark waters, but such hi-tech metaphysics do come to mind while watching Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), a spook in dogged search of his soul through three movies - "The Bourne Identity," "The Bourne Supremacy" and now "The Bourne Ultimatum" - each film upping the pulse-pounding velocity of this human search engine's passage.
Theodore Roethke, brilliant poet and teacher, died in 1963. Yet in "First Class" now playing at ACT Theatre, he lives in all his passion, roaring energy and madness in a brilliant portrayal by John Aylward, directed by Kurt Beattie. The poet was larger than life, in body and soul. At 6 feet 2 inches and 200 pounds he was described by contemporaries as a mountainous man, sensitive in nature, yet outwardly flamboyant. He affected friendships with gangsters, blasted his colleagues with scathing assessments of their work and phoned luminaries with unrequested reading recommendations. He taught at some of the country's best universities, including the University of Washington, and was an astoundingly good teacher. His poetry won just about every major award granted to modern poets.
PERMIT DECISIONS: •3805 S. Angel Place (3006745) on a Land Use Application to allow a double-faced 12-by-24-foot off-premise billboard with an overall height of 40 feet. The sign will face north and south. The following appealable decision has been made based on submitted plans: Determination of Non-Significance with conditions (no Environmental Impact Statement required). Environmental review completed, and project conditioned as applicable. The hearing examiner must receive appeals of this decision no later than Aug. 16.
What must it be like to be a bit of cyber-data swimming through streams of information? Such a question points toward the mind of William Gibson's "Johnny Mnemonic," the computer-world of the Disney movie "Tron" and, of course, Philip K. Dick's eternally relevant "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", reimagined by Ridley Scott as "Blade Runner."We don't have the time and space to dive into those dark waters, but such hi-tech metaphysics do come to mind while watching Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), a spook in dogged search of his soul through three movies - "The Bourne Identity," "The Bourne Supremacy" and now "The Bourne Ultimatum" - each film upping the pulse-pounding velocity of this human search engine's passage.
The following information was provided by the city's Department of Planning and Development. Unless otherwise specified, written comments on projects should be mailed to 700 Fifth Ave., Suite 2000, P.O. Box 34019, Seattle, WA 98124-4019. Appeals are made, unless otherwise noted, to the Office of the Hearing Examiner, Seattle Municipal Tower, 40th Floor (SMT-40-00), 700 Fifth Ave., Suite 4000, Seattle, WA 98104. Appeals must be accompanied by a $50 filing fee in a check payable to the City of Seattle. The project number is in parentheses. For more information, call 684-8467.
The following information was provided by the city's Department of Planning and Development. The project number is in parentheses. For more information, call 684-8467.INTERPRETATIONS■ 712 N. 81st St. (4007114) regarding a 6,120-square-foot parcel consisting of two platted lots in an SF 5000 zone, where a minimum lot area requirement of 5,000 square feet generally applies.