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When we broke the news that the Jimi Hendrix statue would be staying on Capitol Hill, we also learned he would have iconic company in the form of the father of rock 'n' roll, Chuck Berry. Turns out, Hendrix and Berry will be joined by at least a third.
We saw Elvis being wheeled from his delivery drop point at the Elliott Bay Book Co. construction site on 10th over to his new home at the Broadway Building by way of Nagle Place. Hard to argue too much with the selection of this rock triumvirate -- Elvis, was a hero to most... but we're hoping three more get added to the scene.
The most important election you’ve never heard of, for a seat on the five-member King Conservation District board, is happening next Tuesday, March 16, at seven libraries around King County. The district gives out conservation grants and oversees land use in rural King County; the decisions it makes determine whether wetlands and habitat are protected or developed into suburban sprawl.
'Cola notes that candidate Max Prinsen has the support of many environmental groups. You can vote at the downtown library between 10:30 AM and 7:30 PM.
Velocity Dance Center is moving this month from the Oddfellows Building to the former Capitol Hill Arts Center at 1621 12th Avenue. They are asking for volunteers to help them with the move:
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED MARCH 15 - 31We need many friends to help us move. There are a variety of tasks available and we are seeking help the following areas:
* Party Helpers
* Flyer distribution
* Furniture & small box movers
* Cleaners
* Office organizers
* Theater tech
* Ladder climbers
* Owners of trucks & vans
Mayor Mike McGinnwill be our special guest at the celebration, marching with us in the parade and joining us for the ribbon cutting at the new space! We can't wait for you to be part of the festivities too. ALL AGES WELCOME!
We'll have FREE food and drinks, bands, dj's, performances, face painting, groovy dancer contest, and more!
Thanks so much to our local business donors including Mighty O Donuts, Pacific Continental Bank, Laredo's Grille, and the Adventure School.
Well it's tournament time again, and I'm super excited (and not just because my Kansas Jayhawks look so good). I don't know about you, but I had fun with last year's CHS tournament pool...
Let's do it again!
I'm a fan of the simplicity and quiet of the New York Times bracket site, and I've created a CHS group there. This link should take you to the group:
http://ncaabracket.nytimes.com/groups/men/Gu3wcFCvOSu
Hope to see you there; and let's try for some CHS basketball watch parties!
Sunday evening Seattle First Baptist Church, located at 1111 Harvard, hosts their monthly free labyrinth walk.
A labyrinth may be indoor or outdoor, permanent or temporary, made of beach wood, rocks, shells, or painted/inlaid in the ground or floor. Most commonly they come in the form of a large canvas mat placed on the floor. A labyrinth looks like a maze from above, but there is only one path in and one path out (you never make a choice). Labyrinth walks have been used for centuries by folks to aid in meditation as they walk in, spend some time in the middle, and then walk back out. You can walk the labyrinth slowly or quickly; you could even dance, crawl, or skip the labyrinth. Each experience with the labyrinth is unique.
The gentle music and dimmed lighting aids in relaxation which allows us to connect to the spiritual part of ourselves. The physical motion of walking occupies portions of the brain which often distract us when trying to meditate, allowing...
CHS likes very much the intersection of life and stats so we're looking forward to a special delivery in the coming week -- 2010 census questionnaires are on the way. The Census Bureau also makes a compelling argument for not procrastinating and sending in your response by mail:
It costs the government just 44 cents for a postage-paid envelope when a household mails back the 10-question form, which should take just 10 minutes to complete. It costs the Census Bureau $57 to send a census taker door-to-door to follow up with each household that fails to respond.
On the other hand, considering the economy, maybe we should create all the census work we can.
From the 2010census.gov site, here'a map showing the by-mail questionnaire participation for the Capitol Hill area in the 2000 census. Below, you'll find more details from the Census Bureau on this week's mailing.
2010 CENSUS FORMS ARRIVING IN MAILBOXES ACROSS WASHINGTON NEXT WEEK
The once-in-a-decade census count has arrived. Households throughout Washington State can expect to receive the much-anticipated, 10-question form in their mailboxes as soon as Monday, March 15. A small percentage of rural areas received hand-deliver forms earlier this month.
Census officials hope that people will fill out their 2010 census questionnaires and mail them back as soon as possible, saving hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars. It costs the government just 44 cents for a postage-paid envelope when a household mails back the 10-question form, which should take just 10 minutes to complete. It costs the Census Bureau $57 to send a census taker door-to-door to follow up with each household that fails to respond. In 2000, the nation reversed a three-decade decline in mail rates, achieving a mail-participation rate of 72 percent.
Mandated by the U.S. Constitution, the census takes place every 10 years. Census Day is April 1, 2010. Census data determine boundaries for state and local legislative and congressional districts. More than $400 billion in federal funds are distributed annually based on census data to pay for local programs and services, such as schools, highways, vocational training, emergency services, hospitals, unemployment benefits and much more.
Language-assistance guides and translations of the form are available online in 59 languages at www.2010census.gov. Telephone assistance is available in Spanish (1-866-928-2010), Chinese (1-866-935-2010), Vietnamese (1-866-945-2010), Korean (1-866-955-2010) and Russian (1-866-965-2010) in addition to English (1-866-872-6868). Deaf and hard-of-hearing persons can call the TDD number: 1-866-783-2010.
The US Constitution requires that everyone living in the United States be counted every ten years. All census information collected, including addresses, is confidential and protected by law (Title 13, U.S. Code, Section 9). By law, the CensusBureau can’t share respondents’ answers with any government agency such as the FBI, the IRS, welfare and immigration. No court of law or law enforcement agency can find out respondents’ answers. All Census Bureau employees — including temporary employees — take an oath for life to keep census information confidential. Any violation of that oath is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and five years in prison.
Police were just racing southbound on 23rd towards multiple reports of shots fired near Judkins Park.
So far there are no reports of injuries or property damage.
One caller in the 2000 block of Ingersol Place thought that the shooting occurred right outside her door.
Three juveniles were seen running away from the park, and a dark-colored van was seen leaving westbound from the area.
Curtis Erlinger single file (detail) 2005
file drawer, slides, eraser shavings, watercolor, paper (each slide: 1.5 x 1.5")
Carlos Vega, Clean-up Site , 2007
Acrylic and collage
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Word of the death of a Pike/Pine character spread today after a friend announced via Facebook that the skinny rocker Slats died this afternoon after a long hospital stay. The Stranger's Line Out blog is also reporting the woman's Facebook note and people who know the woman confirm that she was close to Slats.
Slats has been a fixture on the Capitol Hill scene for long enough to have developed an urban-legend level following complete with speculation and goofy tributes. Last year, we included him in our discussion of who should be on the Capitol Hill $1 bill.
Seattle City Light crews restored power to the Center House at Seattle Center about 1:30 p.m. today.
The initial outage started about 9:30 a.m. and included the entire Seattle Center campus and some surrounding homes and businesses. Most of those customers were back in service within 30 minutes.
The cause of the outage was a failed cable splice. Crews routed power around the bad section to restore power and will work on replacing the bad section of cable over the next several days.
We're lucky to have some amazingly well-organized and dedicated community groups around the Central District. There was a perfect example of it over on Hiawatha Place this morning where a large group of neighbors picked up dozens of bags of trash and spruced up the planting areas.
Power has been restored to most of the Seattle Center from an outge that started about 9:30 a.m. today. The only building that remains without power is the Center House.
Initially 156 buildings and homes in and around the Seattle Center were affected.
I have lived in Lake City on two separate occasions. What is frustrating is that there are few things to rejoice about in a neighborhood that could have so many cool things. I personally give thanks to The Beer Authority and Tubs Sandwiches. Everything else...not so much. Lake City has one of the only boulevards in the city yet it is littered with useless shops and vagrants. The drinking holes in Lake City are so terrible they're good (but still awful). The food offerings are dismal at best, with the only exception going to Thai-One-On and Toyoda. There are no friendly cafes that encourage an at-home sit down vibe (forget Starbucks). There are no music stores, shoe stores, or anything that people might find practical or enjoyable. Instead, there are stores that are absolutely random and it makes you wonder how they stay in business. Ever walk/drive past one of the many little bodegas and ponder how they stay afloat? Why is there so many meat stores...
A power outage was reported at the Seattle Center about 9:30 a.m. today. A crew was immediately dispatched to determine the cause of the outage and make repairs.
A total of 156 customers were affected by the outage. The general boundaries of the outage were Mercer Street on the north, Denny Way on the south, Taylor Avenue on the east and 1st Ave on the west.
Telephone pole posters are a visual representation of the pulse of Capitol Hill - they show which bands are getting big, what posters aesthetics are in or out of style, recent fashions in event themes, and so on. This is why I was stopped in my tracks by the poster for DarGarth: A Live Action Wargame that advertised upcoming bouts in Volunteer Park. LARPers on Capitol Hill, the hipster stronghold of Seattle? That takes chutzpah.
I sat down with John Senner, organizer of DarGarth, to find out more: why here? why now? And ultimately, why beat each other with padded swords? "I'm from Baltimore, where one of the largest foam fighting groups, Darkon, is located," says Senner "I really miss swordfighting, and I think that Seattle has a perfect combination of geeks and outdoorsy people to create a good audience for a live-action wargame," But isn't that what they do in Ravenna Park every weekend? Why reinvent the wheel? "We're not like the guys in Ravenna Park. The focus is on fighting and strategy. It's medieval...
Google -- by way of Fremont -- has introduced a new feature for its already pretty wonderful map service. Here's the bike route Google suggests for a trip from the 12th Ave bike corral in front of Cafe Presse to Volunteer Park.
CHS owns wheels but is a walker. Guess some of us are just born that way. So we'll have to depend on Capitol Hill's bike jockeys to give the service a full review. We also know that a lot of our neighbors work for Microsoft. Please holler if there's a MSFT technology we're not fully taking advantage of here on the Hill. If you install our app, we'll install yours.
East Pike's 8 Limbs Yoga is planning a rager. Owner Anne Phyfe Palmer is turning 40 and the studio is celebrating with a night mixing yoga and live music by New Orleans-based Sean Johnson and the Wild Lotus Band. Details below.
CHS also recently had news on Seattle Yoga Arts making a move to the Pearl building near 15th and Madison.
KIRTAN WITH SEAN JOHNSON & the Wild Lotus Band
Sunday, March 14, 20108 Limbs Capitol Hill8 Limbs welcomes guest teacher & kirtan musician Sean Johnson and his talented Wild Lotus Band back to Seattle for an evening of inspirational hatha yoga and kirtan. Come and experience a special live music class taught by Melina Meza, help 8 Limbs director Anne Phyfe Palmer blow out some candles for her 40th birthday, and then join Sean and band for kirtan, devotional chanting.
SCHEDULE
5:00 - 6:30pm All Levels Flow Yoga Class with Melina Meza accompanied by Sean Johnson and The Wild Lotus Band6:30 - 7:00pm Cut the Cake for Anne Phyfe's 40th Birthday 7:00 - 8:30pm Kirtan with Sean Johnson and...
MARCH 15, MONDAY @ THE TRIPLE DOOR—it’s the 21st annual celebration of the local jazz scene with a special performance by Greg Williamson’s A-Y-P Large Ensemble, playing the creatively re-imagined music from the 1909 Alaska Yukon Pacific (A-Y-P) Exhibition.
MARCH 16, TUESDAY, 8:00 PM @ HIGHWAY 99 BLUES CLUB—long a mainstay of the Seattle R&B scene, these seasoned players deliver the funk!
MARCH 18, THURSDAY, 8:00 PM @ TULAS—get your groove on with the sophisticated sounds of jazz standards, contemporary classics and Latin jazz originals.
MARCH 19, FRIDAY, 7:30 PM @ THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE—this 15th Anniversary show features award winning jazz bands—all have played at the prestigious Ellington Festival– from five local high schools.
MARCH 20, SATURDAY, 2:00 PM @ TOWN HALL SEATTLE—don’t miss this popular squeezebox extravaganza featuring crazy accordion music from five cultural traditions.
MARCH 21, SUNDAY, 10:00 AM @ EMP—gather the clan and head on down to emp for a full day of music fun!
MARCH 22, MONDAY, 7:00 PM @ MUSICQUARIUM LOUNGE—what could be more pleasant than sippin’ and trippin’ to lounge’esque music? It’s the perfect wrap to a long day! Drop into The Triple Door lounge every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month.
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On Tuesday, March 16th, 2010, Governor Christine Gregoire will be presenting two prestigious World Trade Club awards to those Washington-state companies that have significantly contributed to the expansion of Washington State’s international trade. This is an annual event organized by the World Trade Club and co-sponsored by the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle. The two awards are the Governor’s Trader of the Year Award and the Governor’s Emerging Trader of the Year Award. Past recipients of the awards have been: Expeditors International, PACCAR Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attachmate Corporation, and Eddie Bauer.
The Governor’s Trader of the Year Award recognizes a Washington State business that has demonstrated success and industry leadership through its innovation in products or services, its contribution to the local economy, and its service to the community.
The Governor’s Emerging Trader of the Year Award recognizes a small- to mid-sized Washington State business that has demonstrated recent...
You know the drill. It's the second Sunday of March this weekend so time to set your clocks forward and give up an hour of sleep. Action goes down at 2 AM Sunday. In return you earn knowledge that summer is right around the corner. Starts July 5. Meanwhile, here are some fresh Capitol Hill spring shots from the CHS flickr pool.
Looking for an escape this weekend? Here's what you can go and see:
- Central Cinema (a CDNews sponsor) is continuing their James Bond Fest, with showings of Goldfinger at 7:00pm and 10:30pm Friday and Saturday, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service at 6:30 and 9:30 on Sunday.
- The Post-Globe reviews "the best ethnocentric prison movie since 1993"
- The NW film forum is showing a documentary/concert film on the Isle of Wight music festival of 1970
- The Jewish Film Fest is running at SIFF
- More in the Post Globe weekly film guide
There are some big numbers involved with the 230 Broadway project. The redevelopment process that will demolish six buildings along Broadway and replace them with a seven-story structure containing 17,333 square feet of retail and 6,005 square feet of office space at ground-floor, 235 residential units above and underground parking for 354 vehicles is reaching another milestone this month with its official Land Use Application up for public comment and review. Oh, and they'll also be moving 45,600 cubic yards of dirt.
An early concept of how the project will look from Broadway
The official end date for public comment on the application is next week on March 17 but Department of Planning and Development's Lisa Rutzick tells CHS that, in this case, the date isn't so much a deadline but a minimum window planners are required to provide before moving forward with scheduling the project's next big public meeting -- the Design Review Recommendation session. Here's Rutzick's e-mail to CHS on the process:
...the required...
Three BAWM sites will be featuring TV-Tommyvision’s work tonight
Saying that an art walk in Seattle went on through the rain isn't the biggest news on the block but Thursday's crowd on Capitol Hill seemed more robust than average.
We lack the science to provide more accurate analytics so we'll depend on your comments to corroborate. Not everybody got rained on, however. Some of the savvier attendees found a warm dry place like Bluebird to sit back and enjoy the music.
Show Title: A Feminist Eclat
Show Duration: March 13 - April 4, 2010
Opening Reception Saturday March 13, 6PM, as part of the Belltown ArtWalk www.belltownartwalk.com
Juliette Fretté exhibits her primitivist paintings with a brilliancy or success of effort which attracts admiration or applause; eclat. Her first exhibit at Form/Space Atelier, Ms. Fretté is more widely known as the feminist columnist for Examiner.com Ms. Fretté, a resident of northern California, will be traveling to Seattle for the
Our friends at The Seattle Times were in the courtroom yesterday when Christopher Monfort, accused in the 10/31 murder of Officer Tim Brenton, launched into a rambling five minute speech against police abuses. It appears to confirm that a King County deputy's jail cell beating of a teenage girl was a possible motivation in the crime, as has been alleged by prosecutors:
In his first public comments since his arrest Nov. 6, Monfort compared the former deputy, Paul Schene, and another deputy also present in the holding cell to Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin.
Monfort said society depends on the police to "protect us from the police as well."
"If the police are wrong, we depend on the police to cross the blue line of silence and apprehend, detain and file charges against those police who are corrupt," said Monfort in a rambling discourse that took place before the judge entered the courtroom.
Prosecutors have alleged it was anger at Schene and the holding-cell incident that drove Monfort to kill Brenton...
A contemporary master of the ukulele, Jake Shimabukuro, has done a terrific version
When Janie Hendrix and The Friends of Jimi Hendrix Park began developing plans for the project at 2400 S. Massachusetts St., there was a lot of debate about whether or not the iconic statue on the corner Broadway Ave. should be relocated.
The debate is over. Jimi isn't leaving Broadway.
Hendrix said she discussed the issue at length with Michael Malone, the owner of the statue and the building on the corner of Broadway and Pine that had been home to Everyday Music and will soon be home to Blick Art Supplies.
"We've realized that Capitol Hill doesn't want to lose the statue," said Hendrix. Hendrix, CEO and president of Experience Hendrix LLC, is currently on tour with a 19-city tribute concert series.
If the news gives you the urge to kiss the sky, there's actually a new Jimi Hendrix album available. Valleys of Neptune is a collection of recordings from 1969, a little over a year before his death and after the release of Electric Ladyland. Sony Legacy Records and Experience Hendrix LLC are planning to release other memorabilia this year, the 40th anniversary of Jimi's death. There will be a new DVD documentary, a Hendrix-themed iPod and "Rock Band" video game, plus a re-release of all his major albums.
Could be something to add to your collection when Everyday Music opens in its new location next to Elliott Bay Book Co. in April.
"We sat down and discussed how we can solve the issue and have Jimi represented on Broadway and at the museum, and decided to create a totally different design," said Hendrix. "He was very charismatic when he was playing, so we can come up with something unique and different for the park that also represents him."
Hendrix hopes to have a statue commissioned and installed for the park's grand opening, tentatively slated for 2012, the year Jimi would have turned 70.
"We had a community meeting about a month ago, and a lot of people came out and were really supportive with nice ideas," said Hendrix. "We want to include a butterfly garden and rain drums, and are working on a crop circle design that would look like him from the sky."
Dear, Final Answer,
Grrrrl, you’re a MacDougal now!
Totes hipster wedding....
It's not every day that a group in the Central District gets a letter from the Governor. But New Hope Baptist Church did, in honor of their 60th Anniversary that is being celebrated this weekend.
The governor writes:
Every 30 years or so, a sidewalk sale hits the spot. (David
The Washington State Department of Revenue has launched a new website that enables consumers to research the operations of businesses and companies that they are interested in. Suspectfraud.com allows consumers to check whether a business is legally registered and licensed and pays its taxes. Site visitors may also submit reports to the state for further investigation, in the event of suspicion of fraud. Tax and license fraud includes: not registering an operating business; collecting, but not remitting sales tax; or registering a vehicle, vessel, or plane out-of-state if the vehicle is used in this state and use tax was not paid.
Suspectfraud.com is managed primarily by the Washington State Department of Revenue and the Department of Labor and Industries. Individuals can look up a licensed business by using the business or owner name, the Unified Business Identifier/tax registration number, or the reseller permit number. One may also report a suspected violation.
In addition to Suspectfraud.com, please visit the...
King County Metro tells CHS that a new bus stop for routes 43 and 8 will be in place by the weekend:
SDOT has approved Metro's request for a new bus stop eastbound on Olive Way on the far side of Harvard Ave E. It replaces the bus stop that was closed eastbound at John & Broadway.
The new stop should be in service beginning this Saturday morning, March 13.
Stops removed because of light rail construction and an SDOT decision to make for a more efficient transit route had created a long stretch with no service near the Hill's main Broadway artery. CHS commenters complained about the lack of communication and coordination between the city and the county that lead to the situation while Metro assured us they were working on a solution.
With massive infrastructure projects underway on the Hill, the likelihood of poor coordination between government agencies is likely increasing. Given these details shared by a CHS commenter who says he is a Metro driver<...
The Washington State Department of Transportation has announced that extended the deadline to comment on the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the SR 520 replacement/expansion plan until April 15.
The project will replace the aging 520 floating bridge with a newer, bigger bridge. What happens when the bridge reaches Seattle is currently the focus of much debate and discussion. Montlake neighbors, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and some state lawmakers are opposed to the plans put forth by the WSDOT. Eastside interests, including Microsoft, are urging that the project proceed as planned.
>Congress has begun debating how to revamp the No Child Left Behind Act and one of the nation&’s newest superintendents has an idea lawmakers should keep in mind: Education reform begins with child care, preschool and prekindergarten.
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>Congress has begun debating how to revamp the No Child Left Behind Act and one of the nation&’s newest superintendents has an idea lawmakers should keep in mind: Education reform begins with child care, preschool and prekindergarten.
>>&“If you
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