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.
Blame the Seahawks' Super Bowl loss on inept (or even crooked) officiating, if you must. Many have, on sports talk radio and online chat boards. There, fans have been ranting with levels of invective that might make Ann Coulter blush. But the title of a chat room at sqidly.com/seahawks said it cleanly and simply: WE WUZ ROBBED! Given the nation's current overabundance of cynicism, it's easy to fantasize about corruption in high places everywhere. But even if the Seahawks didn't entirely lose on their own accord, does it really matter?
When news came on Jan. 27 that the Washington state Legislature finally passed a gay civil rights bill, the story felt slightly anti-climactic. I'd read of Bill Finkbeiner's conversion to the gay cause earlier this year and appreciated his impassioned speech on the senate floor about his change of heart the day of the vote. He said "I don't believe that it is right...to say that it's acceptable to discriminate against people because of that, because of who their heart chooses to love. I cannot stand with that argument." fter decades of fits and starts with the gay rights bill, I wasn't ready to celebrate until the final vote assured victory.
The newest addition to serial drama on Capitol Hill chronicles the ups and downs of high school life. As presented by Bad Actors Productions, don't expect any insight into the life of real teenagers living on the Hill. "This is a riff on all those high school TV shows that you hate but watch anyway," said Jason Sharp, Bad Actors marketing director who plays Red, an indie rocker, in the show. Playwright and director Dan Dembiczak started "Capitol Hill High" as a small cabaret show for a friend's bar. However the script kept growing. With 14 characters and a tangled plot line that paid homage to Dembiczak's favorite high school dramas, the show needed a bigger stage.
The following are based on incident reports from the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct. They represent the officers' accounts of the events described.
Watoto (trunk at left), the 37-year-old African elephant at the Woodland Park Zoo, helps create one of two paintings by the zoo's three elephants that celebrate the Seahawks playing in the Super Bowl. Painted in the Seahawks' blue and green colors, the paintings were sold to a single bidder for $787.77 (for a 10-by-20-inch painting) and $510 (for a 12-by-16-inch painting).
As the final score of 21-10 was announced and the Seattle Seahawks relinquished their dreams of winning Super Bowl XL, an anticlimactic shuffle filled the Blue Moon Tavern in the University District. eople who had been waving pennants just moments before and howling at the television screen were suddenly quiet. They looked around, kicked at their bar stools and then drifted off into the night just after 7 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 5.
Artech employees, who specialize in moving art pieces, maneuver a truck carrying Richard Beyer's "Waiting for the Interurban" statue from its island home at North 34th Street and Fremont Avenue North to the corner of North 34th and Troll Avenue North.
The city is close to approving a controversial proposal to replace a parking lot at the corner of 15th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 42nd Street with a six-story, mixed-use building, say several of those familiar with the project. he project involves the University of Washington, the school's long-term property-management company, a religious foundation that owns the property, the University Temple United Methodist Church and objections from a host of community activists such as Philip Thiel, a former architecture professor at the university.
Members from more than 800 families as far north as Monroe to as far south as Federal Way gathered on Jan. 21 to mark the 50th anniversary of Wedgwood's Temple Beth Am, 2632 N.E. 80th St. The celebration included song and a presentation of original artwork to the temple's surviving founders.
After a generation of delay, the Washington state Legislature finally approved the gay civil-rights bill. The bill prohibits discrimination against members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in housing, employment and insurance in the same way such religious or racial discrimination is prohibited. Without question this is good news. >But such news is not the whole story. It says something discouraging that such basic protections took nearly 30 years to achieve. And it says something positive about the persistence of legislators such as the late Rep. Cal Anderson and his successor, Rep. Ed Murray, and others who consistently championed the cause.
Ten years ago, when I was 10 years younger, I decided my world would be perfect if only I could relocate my entire neighborhood of Fremont to someplace warm, like Arizona. >Only one aspect of Fremont in particular, and Seattle in general, do I detest with a deep-seated hatred and all the malice to which I'm capable. ne feature I would change whenI am crowned queen of the world or I have captured the genie in the lamp. One fact I've traveled thousands of miles to escape only to return because one negative isn't enough to outweigh all the positives...
It was almost 110 degrees outside in Kansas when Donald Campbell saw a Coca-Cola sign along the road. Helping his father's company build a local highway, he was tired and thirsty after driving his non-air-conditioned truck. The compelling Coca-Cola sign was calling. hat same day in the Coca-Cola parlor, Gladys was working her shift, not knowing that fate was driving toward her that minute, asking her for a Coke. They have been inseparable now for 70 years and counting.
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