Pacific Northwest Ballet's new "Hansel & Gretel" places 65 young dancers on the stage of McCaw Hall, dancing everything from the leading roles to moonbeams and black cats.Unlike most of the past PNB school recitals, this fully staged ballet tells the complete fairy tale of the brother and sister who become lost in the woods and narrowly escape being baked into gingerbread by the Witch.Hansel & Gretel" plays for two performances only on Sunday, March 18.
The Queen Anne Community Council Transportation Committee met Feb. 28 at the Queen Anne Community Center to hear Rob Johnson from the Transportation Choices Coalition review the legislation and state planning for state Route 99 (Au and the highway and urban-design alternatives that are in play. Johnson spoke about the legislative actions in Olympia which have set out the parameters for how central waterfront elements of SR99 are to be considered. He explained the efforts at Seattle's city hall to ensure that the elevated structure endorsed by the governor and some legislators is not the project that will be constructed.
It's almost a done deal, and the preferred location for a Queen Anne farmers market is along the east and south sides of the community center, according to Don Harper, chair of Parks Committee for the Queen Anne Community Council.Speaking at the council's meeting last week, he conceded that the expected questions about parking, traffic and conflict with use of the nearby ball field came up. But the Parks Committee felt those concerns have been addressed, Harper said.
Five appeals have been filed to block the Department of Planning and Development permit for demolishing the aging, run-down building that has been home to the Queen Anne Seventh Church of Christ Science since 1926. Three of the appeals are based on historical-preservation grounds, and two are concerned with adverse environmental impacts allegedly associated with plans to tear down the church at 2555 Eighth Ave. W, said DPD spokesman Allen Justad.Justad said he couldn't comment further because the appeal will be heard in front of a city Hearing Examiner, making the dispute a quasi-judicial matter.
The Seattle City Council voted 8-1 March 5 to designate the exterior of the turn-of-the-century Treat mansion on Queen Anne Hill as historical. It was a decision cheered by the Queen Anne Historical Society and condemned as unfair by owners who wanted to sell the building to a development company, which in turn wanted to tear the place down and construct 55 housing units. The council vote was a culmination of two earlier rulings: the first by the city's Landmarks Preservation Board, which called for preserving the exterior, the lobby, a staircase and an inside callbox used in the old days to summon the Queen Anne Counterbalance trolley.
On a fall day in 1987, the rock group U2 gave an impromptu concert at San Francisco's Justin Herman Plaza on the Embarcadero. During one of U2's rock renditions, front man Bono spray-painted and sang, "Rock & Roll Stops the Traffic," and, indeed, the Embarcadero freeway traffic came to a stop.Ironically, two years later a different type of rock and roll stopped the traffic. It was the Oct. 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake, which collapsed Oakland's Cypress Structure and rendered the Embarcadero Freeway unsafe.Both structures were similar to Seattle's viaduct.
The old proverbs and axioms have lasted for centuries because they contain big bites of truth.The Irish, those extraordinarily verbal and vocal people did, for my money, coin the single greatest explanation of human conduct in one line, when some old Celtic wit proclaimed that, "A borrowed saw cuts anything."Sports clichés are always turning out to be true: "Use it or lose it" ends up being physiologically sound advice according to all the latest medical information. Who knew Knute Rockne was profound?
And the winners are....Two lucky kids will hear their names at the end of that sentence on Sunday, March 18, for the Books for Bikes awards.After an ice cream social at the Green Lake Library, one boy and one girl will each receive a new bicycle and a $30 gift certificate to Gregg's Greenlake Cycle for a safety helmet.Why? Because of a reading program initiated by the Green Lake Masonic Lodge and designed by Esther Myers, children's librarian at the Green Lake Library.
In the near future, secondhand computers from the Seattle area may begin new lives in schools and small businesses in rural villages in Chile.InterConnection, a nonprofit organization based in Wallingford, has begun a campaign to send thousands of refurbished computers to Chile for distribution to lower-income areas. Many local businesses and residents have donated old and used computers to InterCon-nection to be fixed and sent to Chilenter, a nonprofit organization located in Santiago. Charles Brennick, founder of InterConnection, hopes to send around 4,000 computers to Chilenter in the next year.
King County is putting the final touches on Downtown Seattle's newest office building. But even as we prepare to celebrate the opening, there is still one thing left to do, and we need the help of King County's young citizens. Our new county building needs a name
A former medical assistant at the Country Doctor Community Clinic who is accused of raping and sexually abusing clinic patients inside the exam rooms is in custody at the King County Jail awaiting trial.Bail was set at $200,000 for Fitsum Habtom Fikak, a 28-year-old medical assistant allegedly targeted patients who he knew to be fragile and unlikely to fight back once they received sexual attention. The charges state that Fikak began making unwanted advances on patients last September at the longtime community health clinic at 19th Ave. E and E. Republican St.
That the block was on Sound Transit's list was well known -Broadway's future light rail station is slated for the east side of the block at Broadway and East John Street. Nonetheless, the official word still came as a shock. Last month, Twice Sold Tales owner Jamie Lutton received notice that the transit agency would be acquiring the building her bookstore has called home for the last 16 years. While the news was fully expected, and while she has until March 2008 to vacate the space, such notice puts Twice Sold Tales' Capitol Hill future at risk.
I'm finding myself reminiscing a lot about my high school days. Last summer I returned to Cleveland to attend my 25th high school reunion at an all boys Jesuit college prep school. Friends warned me I wouldn't recognize a lot of my classmates, many of whom I hadn't seen since graduation. I prepared myself for a multitude of paunchy stomachs and unrecognizable balding heads. But overall I was amazed at how many fellows resembled their younger selves and appeared happy and content with life.Last week, I paid a visit to Lakeside School to learn more about a work opportunity. Lakeside reminds me a lot of my own high school, except there are girls.
I haven't lived anywhere but Capitol Hill since moving to Seattle. I have always lived within walking distance of Broadway; at the most, about a mile, at the least, one block. I found my Seattle home here. I have not lived anywhere this long in my entire life. Not in my geographically tumultuous childhood or as an adult. In spite of the fact that I've had a bunch of different addresses here, Capitol Hill has been the only place that has ever really been "home."
RAINIER BEACH­ - Cornerback Marcus Trufant has made an immediate impact for the Seahawks since he was drafted in 2003. His secret to success in the National Football League? Eating a well-balanced breakfast each and every morning.Trufant visited Emerson Elementary School on Tuesday, March 6, and spoke to the students about the importance of starting each day with a healthy breakfast. With the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) testing beginning later this month, schools across the state are stressing breakfast after a 1998 Harvard University study linked test-taking performance to the morning meal.