Five local students will perform in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s (PNB) upcoming show “Swan Lake.” Featured performers include Nina Adams, as Waltz Girl; Elizabeth Houk, as Waltz Girl; Ruby Lister, as Persian Attendant; Natalie Parker, as Waltz Girl; and Mae Vanderslice, as Persian Attendant.
The Catharine Blaine K-8 boys’ basketball team won the city championship for the 2012-13 year. This marks the first time any boys’ sports team at Blaine has won a championship.
The Queen Anne Food Bank at Sacred Heart celebrated its first anniversary on Wednesday, Feb. 27, with a pancake breakfast for volunteers, clients and benefactors, to thank all involved for their contributions and support during the food bank’s first year.
Holy Names Academy presented its 2013 Distinguished Alumna Award to Magnolia’s Jo-Ann Pizzello Kelly, founder of the Seattle-based firm Marketecture Inc., at its annual Alumnae Luncheon.
On Jan. 1, 2013, our wonderful Queen Anne branch of the Seattle Public Library entered its 100th year of service, making it a good time now to refresh our memory of its history.
The Queen Anne Community Council (QACC), one of the oldest in Seattle, was formed in the 1940s to serve the needs of the Queen Anne area.
Back in the days when on-line commerce was in its infancy, ChefShop.com, the brainchild of a Queen Anne husband-and-wife team, rode the first wave of that brave, new world.
The upcoming Seattle Women in Jazz Festival is drawing talent from around the country. It’s all thanks to Jessica Davis, a jazz vocalist whose idea and efforts are bringing this first-of-a-kind event to life here this month.
This column is about meeting neighbors. By definition, “neighbor” means someone who lives in close proximity. Betty Warner doesn’t: She’s now part of Magnolia’s history.
Carolyn Conn, the manager of Magnolia Ace Hardware Co., is appearing in the King’s Players’ presentation of the musical “Annie” at the Shorecrest Performing Arts Center (15343 25th Ave. N.E.) in Shoreline on Friday, March 8, though Sunday, March 10.
......Seated behind a desk, Jack Nicholson wears an expensive-looking cream-colored suit. The suit goes with the pre-smog daylight in the room; the light is itself like heavy cream; it looks as if it would feel like heavy cream to walk through.
Queen Anne’s James A. Larimore, the deputy director for Student Success at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a former dean at Dartmouth, Stanford and Swarthmore universities, has been named the new Amherst College Dean of Students, following an extensive national search. He will start full-time this summer and begin working for the college part-time in April.
Capitol Hill is seeing some changes and additions...
The kids in Sierra Leone smile. These smiles are due in part to the kids in Magnolia, who also smile. When one group smiles, the other group smiles right back. Why all the smiles?