Fisher Plaza - with its institutional granite trim and green-glass highlights - looks like it has the perfect design for a building in the Emerald City.
A woman who is a former parishioner of Sacred Heart Catholic Church on lower Queen Anne filed a lawsuit April 29 against Fr. Gregory Schmitt, alleging that the church's priest abused her during a six-year-long affair.
How much can you expect from a one-person play performed on an almost bare stage? Usually not much, but it's magic, sheer magic when it's ACT's current production of "The Syringa Tree."
The Magnolia Community Club (MCC) has won a minor concession from Seattle Parks and Recreation over lighting at the West Magnolia Playfield near Catharine Blaine School.
It's commonly said that in life, there are no guarantees. It's also true that in life there are no scripts. Things tends to just happen and we're expected to do the best we can with what we're dealt.It was no different for longtime Magnolia resident Johnnie Jessen, who passed away Oct. 7 at the age of 94.
Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River" is so good, rich and satisfying a movie - enough that almost any other contemporary American film looks pathetic alongside it - every adult filmgoer should see and be open to its power, while knowing as little as possible about it in advance.
Antiwar protesters from Queen Anne and Magnolia march down Queen Anne Avenue from the top of Queen Anne Hill on Saturday, Feb. 15. The marchers were heading to the Seattle Center to join thousands of other demonstrators against the Iraq War for an antiwar rally. The Queen Anne and Magnolia activists were accompanied down Queen Anne Avenue by protesters from several other neighborhoods, including Fremont and Ballard, and a police escort. Later in the afternoon, participants in the rally marched to the Federal Building and the Immigration and Naturalization Service offices in downtown Seattle.
Magnolia resident Kathleen Brose is overjoyed that a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled on April 16 that race cannot be used as a determining factor for assigning students to Seattle schools.
Image, a Journal of the Arts and Religion, headquartered since 2000 on the campus of Seattle Pacific University, will conduct a national conference exploring the relationship between storytelling and religious faith this week, beginning Thursday, Nov. 6.
West African artist Won-Idy Paye has been teaching students at Lawton Elementary School a variety of cultural activities through his residency, which began Oct. 6 and continues through the end of next week.
Two bills currently under consideration in the state Legislature could derail plans for a new sewage treatment plan in Snohomish County and force the West Point plant in Discovery Park to expand, according to worried state, county and local officials.
Renaissance man, or woman, is a handy title to toss around about someone who is good at several things.Then there are those who are really good at several things.Wes Wehr, 74, artist, paleobotanist, writer and composer who grew up in Magnolia and graduated from Queen Anne High School, has received the Paleontological Society's Harrell L. Strimple Award. It means a lot in the paleobotany universe.
The sky was blue and the air crisp last Wednesday afternoon as a battery of skills evaluations kicked-off the early season for Magnolia Little League. The local league draws nearly 600 kids between the ages of 5 and 16 - all the way from T-ball to the serious business of competing in the Little League World Series.A gaggle of parents, coaches, league board members and volunteers stood with clipboards in hand as boys age 10-12 were evaluated on such fundamental baseball skills as batting, fielding, throwing and running. For many, it was the first time swinging a bat since last summer.
Recently, we Seattleites spent a day enduring the heaviest rainfall during a 24-hour period ever recorded. This last October was also the wettest October ever recorded. This is payback, no doubt, for last summer's untypical endless warm weather.
Magnolia's Heron Habitat Helpers organization celebrates its second birthday this month, and the group is even throwing a party on Feb. 25 to mark the milestone.
I recently ran into what I believe was a case of discrimination at Ozzie's karaoke joint on West Mercer Street. It involved me, actually, and I debated whether to take advantage of my position as a journalist to complain. But suspecting my experience is probably part of a larger trend, I figured: why not?
When The Burke Museum sent their mummy out for a CT scan, they discovered "Nellie" wasn't wearing her original feet. The pair that had been displayed with Nellie for years did not belong to her, according to Peter Lape, the Burke's curator of archaeology and a University of Washington acting assistant professor of anthropology, and Laura Phillips, the Burke's archaeology collections manager.
It's a busy weekend as people come and go from two new businesses on west Queen Anne Hill, Hollys Espresso & Desserts and the Ice Box - Grocery and Delicatessen.
