Shortly after noon Wednesday Washington’s newly-sworn Democratic Governor Jay Inslee laid forth his vision for his first term that included focusing on job creation and preservation, a balanced operating budget, meeting the needs of the state’s education system, and an affordable health care system responsive to consumer needs.
Since 2002, Circle of Friends has been providing art, drama, music, photography and writing classes to adults who have severe mental illness. The nonprofit has recruited more than 100 interns from area colleges in the last decade to instruct one or more of their 17 classes throughout North and Central Seattle.
Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-Seattle) has been recommended by the Senate Democratic Caucus to retain her chairmanship of the Senate Labor, Commerce & Consumer Protection Committee and her seats on the Senate Ways & Means Committee, Senate Rules Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee.
During the recent USA Track & Field’s (USATF) Jesse Owens Hall of Fame Banquet in Daytona Beach, Fla., longtime Queen Anne resident William Hickman was named the 2012 Robert Giegengack Award winner.
Two generations of Kiehls owned and occupied the house built by H. Ambrose Kiehl at 421 W. Galer St. in 1905. Their lives were captured in the many photographs taken by Ambrose from 1890 to 1917 and preserved by his daughter Laura Adele Keihl over the succeeding decades.
Just before 7 p.m. last Friday, Jan. 18, owner Matt Vaughan took to the stage at Easy Street Records’ Queen Anne location (20 Mercer St.) to commemorate the iconic Seattle store’s last day.
The bitter has turned to sweet: Queen Anne is getting its bookstore back.
Seattle Parks and Recreation is accepting applications for its Seattle Volunteer Naturalist program. Up to 50 applicants will be accepted into this program, which includes 200 hours of instruction on how to be a naturalist and interpret the natural environment of the Pacific Northwest.
Christian Petzold’s new film “Barbara,” opening Friday, Dec. 21, at SIFF Film Center (formerly the Alki Room) at Seattle Center, takes us back to 1980 in rural East Germany. The Berlin Wall will fall in less than a decade, Germany will be reunited and the USSR, along with the communist Eastern Bloc, will cease to exist.
Becca Gherardini works long hours, sometimes until 9 p.m. But it’s a good thing.
Last Sunday, Dec. 16, Farzaneh Forouzan, co-owner of Caffe Appassionato, cried softly to herself as she made coffee for her customers. She and her husband, Ali Lotsi, have owned the Queen Anne business for nearly 15 years. But rent went up recently, and Forouzan and Lotsi say they have no choice but to give up their business at the end of the month.
Queen Anne’s Evelyn Reich pretends to light the first candle on a menorah she made out of recycled materials at The Jewish Day School of Seattle in Bellevue, where she is a student.
Looking back on his childhood, John Sisko, 54, can say, unlike most people, “I always knew what I wanted to do.” September’s unveiling of his bronze sculpture of Pope John XXIII at St. James Cathedral marked a highlight in the career of the longtime Queen Anne resident, whose work resides in public and private collections around the country.
In the opening scene of Christopher McQuarrie’s “Jack Reacher,” an ex-military sniper James Barr (Joseph Sikora) sets up in a multistory parking garage, across a river facing a baseball stadium in Pittsburgh. He then proceeds to shoot and kill five innocent civilians.
Through Feb. 28, the Magnolia United Church of Christ (3555 W. McGraw St.) will feature the folk art of Mercer Island artist Jim Olson in the church’s Narthex Gallery.