After helping to anchor Magnolia Village for more than a decade, Tully’s Coffee is leaving its corner location at McGraw Street and 33rd Avenue West on July 24. Tully’s officials did not return phone calls to verify the news. However, employees at the Tully’s shop said that the reports are accurate.
After 16 years of selling whimsical rubber stamps and paper products to hobbyists and others, Sandy Ono has decided it is time to shutter her shop and spend her time selling stamps online. The owner of Monkey Love Rubber Stamps, a fixture on Lower Queen Anne since 1995, said she opted not to renew her lease for the shop at 613 Queen Anne Ave. N. because of the slow economy and changes in the customer base.
Queen Anne’s Swedish Cultural Center will host a special show featuring antique automobiles manufactured in Sweden. The second annual Swedish Car Show will take place June 4 and feature 25 Volvo and Saab brand cars built prior to 1974. The show is part of a daylong event celebrating National Sweden Day and will run from noon to 4 p.m.
If ever you have the urge to subject yourself to something akin to waterboarding, but don’t have a water board handy, then go see “Tree of Life.” This Terrence Malick-driven life crusher may very well be the most self-indulgent story (if you can even qualify it as having a story in it) ever put to celluloid. Perhaps the person who edited the trailer should have directed the movie, because that trailer is compelling. Who could resist Brad Pitt as Mr. O’Brien, his beautiful wife, Mrs. O’Brien (Jessica Chastain), and their strapping young sons in a dusty 1950s-era Waco, Texas, set against flash-forwards of one of the sons all grown up (Sean Penn) with the ultra-modern city of Dallas at his feet? With a great cast, beautiful photography by Emmanuel Lubezki and a dazzling trailer, moviegoers were going to get quite the epic piece of cinema. Instead they got colorful trash.
About one-third of the way through their trip of a lifetime, the four high school graduates from Queen Anne, known as “The Ballpark Boys,” have left Toronto, Canada, after watching the Blue Jays play on Tuesday night, and are heading to the Big Apple.
From left, artist John Leglar and Magnolia Historical Society President Monica Wooton greet passersby on Saturday, June 18, in the Magnolia Village and explain the society's new panel carved and permanently installed by Leglar.
Queen Anne’s Frantz H. Coe Elementary School said goodbye this year to two of its most popular teachers. Second grade teacher Ruth Camper and fourth- and fifth-grade teacher Elsie Miller.
In Jake Kasdan’s new film “Bad Teacher,” Cameron Diaz is one nasty teacher. She does drugs, drinks, shows up for class late, writes “stupid” on her students’ papers, hurls dodge balls at them for getting wrong answers, and flat-out insults them in class.
An energetic group of McClure Middle School students inhale an after-school snack in the lunchroom during a rehearsal for the musical, “Hot Rod.” Managing this controlled chaos is Cheryl Phillips, director, teacher and den mother to this crowd of 50 actors who have been gathering for weeks to prepare for their performance of this musical, which is an entertaining mash-up of good-time themes from the 1950s, complete with the catchy rock and roll songs, fast cars and even a few beatniks. Think of a melding of “Happy Days” and “Grease.”
The Magnolia Manor Park final public meeting seeking the community’s feedback on the park's plan will be 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, June 8th at the Magnolia Presbyterian Church, at 28th and Dravus. The park's plan is taking shape. It calls for the area's first P-patches, and dog off leash area; plus, open spaces, an orchard, a view plaza, amphitheater and park pathways that connect the park to other parks in the area, such as Lawton Park and Lawton playground. The plan also calls for and open up the park to its full potential size are all in the Final Preferred Site Plan.
With tuition on the rise, it is becoming more and more difficult for students to receive a college education. According to the nonprofit Community Center for Education Results (CCER), about 67 percent of jobs in Washington state will require a postsecondary degree by 2018. That number may seem daunting when considering the fact that Washington ranks 46th in the nation for preparing students to move on to college by age 19, as stated on the CCER website.
The Queen Anne Historical Society celebrated its 40th Anniversary on May 26th with a meeting at the Seattle Church of Christ that honored some of the organizations first leaders and also discussed the group’s impact on the Queen Anne community. Architectural historian Mimi Sheridan was the evening’s guest speaker, giving a presentation on the history of the society that included Queen Anne’s development and a discussion of the successes and failures by the society over the years to have buildings declared historical sites.
This year’s Premier Chefs Dinner for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center was a smashing success, setting a record by raising about $518,000 in donations to fund cancer research. The gala event was held at the Sodo Park by Herban Feast and was co-hosted by the Magnolia Guild. Never heard of them? You are probably not alone.
On a recent Monday afternoon, Francis and Louis Graber dished out slices of their 65th wedding anniversary cake to their friends, Bert and Jarene Lundh, owners of the Porcelain Gallery. They also offered slices to all the other customers in the Tully’s in the Magnolia Village.