Many people can trace many of their life patterns to the influence of their parents. Now that Mother's Day is past and Father's Day is on its way I have been reflecting on the tremendous influence my parents have had on my "lifestyle." As a naturalist in the largest park in the city of Seattle, spending my days off enjoying nature, it is obvious my parents were positive role models when it came to the out-of-doors.
After a season filled with music, community, family activities, and, of course, over 40 Washington State farmers and small food vendors. Founded in 1998, the Columbia City Farmers Market is located in the Columbia Plaza at 4801 Rainier Avenue South and South Edmunds Street. Filled with a diversity of farm goods, vendors, and patrons, the market closed for the coming winter on Wednesday, October 13. It will open again in mid-May.
The danger of watching or reading any drama set in familiar digs is that it's possible to be besotted by loads of comforting references. Book-It Repertory Theatre's adaptation of Queen Anne-based writer Jonathan Raban's Seattle-centric novel "Waxwings" certainly includes quite a few Emerald City touchstones, from the steadfast constancy of KUOW-FM to our busy shipping port to the attitude-challenged, weekly newspaper The Stranger to the city's notorious intolerance of smokers.If one wanted to take in "Waxwings" just to survey the topography of our lives in what Raban described-during an opening night interview-as an overgrown small town, one could have a fabulous time doing so.
The Columbia City Farmers Market opened for its seventh season last Wednesday. Market-goers were entertained by Grupo Yawarmaya, Scissors Dancers of Peru.
A 20-year-old agreement governing development at Terminals 90 and 91 was feted last week at a special ceremony at Port of Seattle headquarters. Called the "Short Fill Redevelopment Agreement," the landmark accord was signed in October 1983 by members of the Neighbors Advisory Committee (NAC), which is made up of Port staff and board members of the Queen Anne Community Council (QACC) and Magnolia Community Club (MCC).
Nilo Cruz's smoldering poetic drama, "Anna in the Tropics," pays homage to Tolstoy's classic novel "Anna Karenina." The 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, now playing at Seattle Repertory Theatre, falls somewhere between Tennessee Williams, Anton Chekhov and Frederico Garcia Lorca - Williams for its steamy atmosphere; Chekhov for its complicated character relationships; Lorca for its lyrical language. The mixture, in Cruz's hands, is at best rhapsodic prose and, at worst, a fragmented masterpiece.
Paul Dorpat, well-known Seattle historian and an entertaining speaker, will give a talk on Thursday, Oct. 28, from 7-9 p.m. during the general meeting of the Magnolia Historical Society at the Magnolia Recreation Center, 2550 34th Ave. W.Dorpat will speak about the late Ivar "Keep Clam" Haglund, a former Magnolian. Also on tap is an exclusive discussion of Dorpat's manuscript-in-progress on Haglund, for whom Dorpat used to work; eventually the two struck up a friendship. Dorpat promises a personal and well-researched look at the man behind the guitar strumming, as well as Haglund's relentless promotion of clams, his restaurants and seagulls on the Seattle waterfront.
Imagine being 78 and looking like you're 50. Imagine being in your mid 60s and people assume you are a 30-something. Sounds impossible? Not if you are Doris Campbell or Joan A. Liddell, two longtime South End residents who have maintained their health and wellness through daily exercise, rain or shine.
It was one of those warm, golden, Indian summer days, and I was itching to take a bike ride.But I wasn't in the mood to play road warrior on the Burke Gilman Trail. I wanted to meander lazily at my own pace without having to hear "On your left!" every few minutes from those singleminded riders racing down the trail at breakneck speeds. With a more tranquil environment in mind, I headed to Duvall, where I knew I could access the Snoqualmie Valley Trail - a route for non-motorized vehicles that follows the abandoned line of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad.
A Seattle Police Department lieutenant and a City Attorney's Office lawyer say they have been meeting with Mr. Lucky owner Kyriakos Kyrkos, along with the owners of the surrounding parking lots, in an effort to put a lid on the violence that has taken place around the hip-hop club in Lower Queen Anne.Kyrkos has said he is hiring extra security, according to Tamera Soukup, a City Attorney's Office prosecutor for the West Precinct. And as noted before by City Attorney's Office spokeswoman Kathryn Harper, Kyrkos no longer plans to use the hip-hop promoter whose regular followers have been linked to violence, Soukup said - violence that included a recent homicide outside the club.
Come and join the celebration! This Friday, Dec. 5, from 4 to 8:30 p.m., Queen Anne Avenue will come alive with Holiday Magic - the name for a neighborhood celebration marking its first decade. There will be live music, live animals and Santa and his elves.
According to the adepts of Zen Buddhism with whom I used to sit zazen (meditate), Buddha's basic two commandments were not 'Love Your Neighbor as Yourself' and 'Love God Above All (other) Things.'The Buddha's basic duo is more factual statement than dual command. Buddha said 'Life is Suffering' and 'Life is Change.'Now there's no question about disbelieving those two maxims if you have lived at all.
I threw caution - and my health, it seems - to the wind and actually put potatoes into my mouth this afternoon.I had to hide in my pantry to do so, because I was so ashamed. Ashamed that I was sneaking carbohydrates and afraid my children would find me with starch on my breath, I cowered in the darkness. Hands shaking, heart beating fast as I consumed some of Idaho's best. While I was in the pantry, I found a renegade bag of potato chips that had fallen down behind my box of high-protein bars. Ripping into the bag with wild abandon, I tossed handfuls of the salty carbo goodness into my mouth, crunched with glee and swallowed them down. More! I needed more!
Nostalgia clashed with historical-preservation standards over saving the Chapel on the Hill in Discovery Park at a Magnolia Historical Society meeting last week.Magnolia resident Heidi Carpine, who has led the charge to save the chapel, noted it has become a very emotional issue for many Magnolians.
David Nissanov is steamed about Eden Flunker, his neighbor across the street on 24th Avenue West. The reason: she plans to expand an adult family home there. Adult family homes can house up to two staffers and six clients who suffer from disabilities such as Alzheimer's Disease, according to state and city regulations. There are a dozen such homes in Magnolia, and Flunker owns two of them. Her sister, Amor Youngs, owns five, and one of their cousins owns yet another one on Williams Street, they said.
Seattle Public Utilities is getting down to the finishing touches on a Solid Waste Facilities Master Plan, but there are some who think the city is going in the wrong direction.The preferred plan is to tear down, rebuild and expand the Wallingford and South Park transfer stations for $30-$35 million a pop. Recycling would also be ramped up at the two facilities, which ties into Mayor Greg Nickels' mandate to hit a 60-percent-recycling goal, according to the city. A third component of the plan calls for building a new intermodal facility where garbage trucks could dump their loads directly into containers on train cars, instead of the containers being trucked to a railroad spur. That would be good news for the Wallingford community, according to Janet Stillman, executive director of the Wallingford Neighborhood Office and vice president of the Wallingford Community Council.
A Magnolia resident who has spent countless hours researching and writing about local history was named 'Magnolia Historical Person of the Year' last week. Hall Will was presented the prestigious award by the Magnolia Historical Society at the group's fourth anniversary year-end meeting on Thursday.
Fans of those wacky film comedies from the 1930s and '40s will feel right at home with Seattle Repertory Theatre's current production, "Over the Moon." Rather than high art, it's good fun as a terrific ensemble of actors knock themselves out to entertain you.
