Three times a week, for four-hour shifts, Queen Anne resident Sandra Driscoll heads to what she jokingly calls her “part-time job”: undergoing dialysis at her local treatment center.
All kinds of books get written about the Pacific Northwest with the aim to further our understanding of this place. Even for diehard Northwesterners, our corner of the world might seem a green enigma. As February drags on, we may even find ourselves wondering why we live here...
Bill Noble signed up for a two-year commitment. Two decades later, at 44, the former Peace Corps volunteer is still giving back to the nation he once served.
Queen Anne resident Steven R. Hill, a business and public-service executive, has been named to the board of trustees for Seattle Community Colleges. He replaces longtime board member Tom Malone.
The little space at 812 Fifth Ave. N, Suite C-2, in the pocket business district on lower Queen Anne’s east side, contains an expanding universe of creativity. This is where Queen Anne resident Bill Ritchie, 71, former professor of art at the University of Washington, hangs his work, dreams big and works small. In fact, small is beautiful here.
The Seattle SeaChordsmen, a men’s a cappella chorus founded 1949, has hired professional choral director and veteran barbershopper Ted Chamberlain as its new music director.
Growing up in Yokohama, Japan, in the 1960s, Magnolia resident Leslie Helm struggled with melding his Western and Japanese roots. His new book, “Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan,” explores this feeling of otherness. Spanning from 1869, when his Prussian great-grandfather boarded a ship to Japan, up until the present, Helm weaves the historical with his own experiences.
The only birdhouse I’d ever owned was a cuckoo clock, which my parents made me keep in my room. That was one smart cuckoo. It was forever punctuating our conversations, destroying heated arguments and dutifully waking the household every midnight. To my remorse, it died a suspicious and early death.
When Queen Anne’s Metropolitan Market closed last spring, it left a void in the area. Residents lost a destination where they could find a plethora of local products, which included its floral selection. Queen Anne residents Laurie Gardner and Colin Stewart took it upon themselves to fill that void by opening Pistil Floral Design.
If anything, “The Croods” — a new animated feature about a dysfunctional caveman family that opens Friday, March 22 — is visually at the top of its game. An immense amount of detail has been put into the character designs, as well as the environments that range from rocky canyons, to lush, bright, multicolored jungles containing an array of funky-looking prehistoric plants and animals.
Magic. It is the word that best describes the cohesive artistic vision that is “War Horse.”
The Next Level Personal Training studio moved to the next level at the end of January when the business relocated to a new facility with a new owner. The former facility, at 2560 32nd Ave. W. in the Magnolia Village business district, is now a five-minute drive to a new home along West Government Way.
Brynn Hurlstone and Suzanne de la Torre are women at different stages of life, with different passions, who hail from different parts of the country. One thing unites them, however: They are willing to put their livelihoods on the line for their art.
April 22 is Earth Day, the day that many Seattleites will evaluate their community involvement in environmental sustainability and wondering how to can get involved in local efforts.