Results tagged “pioneersquare”

Neighborhood shout-outs are fun! Because then everyone knows you live there, in that neighborhood! Seattleite couple hoofinitdesigns takes their original ‘hood designs and hand-screens them onto cotton t-shirts. Simple as that. For the time being, only Queen Anne, Pioneer Square, Ballard and Fremont tees are available, but we're rooting for some new neighborhood designs to be posted in the future.

Flash mobs dancing to "Beat It" in honor of Michael Jackson's August 29 birthday. Jackson would have been 51. At Kerry Park, Pioneer Square, and Pike Place Market:

THE CHILDREN ARE OUR RALLY: Friends of Children’s Hospital, your friendly neighborhood Fearey Group-promoted advocacy group for Seattle Children's Hospital is taking it the steps of City Hall. The rally is to show support for Children's after Laurelhurst Community Club protested Children's proposed expansion and won the city hearing. Few moments in life offer the moral high ground of this rally, and it should be a great way to meet hot nurses and doctors. noon-1:30 p.m. // City Hall's west side steps, 600 4th Avenue // FREE

Cooper's Alehouse, Maple Leaf (Monday-Friday, 3 to 6 p.m.) $1 off pints and $2 dollar off all menu items combined with the bottomless bin of pretzels helps anyone regain their balance. Recognized in CAMRA's guide to good beer--there is no better endorsement than an alehouse mentioned by beer experts.

       

At last week's First Thursday in Pioneer Square, we happened upon Molly Norris' exhibit at the Marni Muir Gallery and were all the better for it. Culture Complex: Editoons is described in the promotional literature as "illustrated satire and thoughts in both 2- and 3-D by this local writer, artist, and filmmaker," but we'd call it "New Yorker cartoons if they were actually funny."

"smithy" by flickrd1 , from our Flickr pool

June 6, 1889: Seattle aped "world-class cities" such as Chicago, London, Boston, and Peshtigo, WI, by losing our entire downtown to a fire.

In five years, Aleksandar Hemon will most likely be solidly confirmed as one of America's top authors. Really, he already is, but these things take time to cement, which is perhaps another way of saying that you should go see him tonight at Elliott Bay Book Co. (100 S. Main St, 7:30 p.m.), because a couple years down the road it's going to be at a much bigger venue and not free to see Hemon speak.

In an attempt to reassemble New York City piece-by-piece, Seattle's Parks and Recreation department is shopping around the idea to put in a downtown ice-skating rink next winter. Park officials plan to place the (presumably) tourist-filled skating rink to take over in Pioneer Square's Occidental Square Park. In theory, it sounds like a good idea. (What recession?) But where will all the bums go who currently claim the park? Should we have them strap on some hockey skates and give 'em a go at hockey greatness with a bum-rush hockey league? Or maybe a broomball league?

• Today is 4/20, so you know what that means, 53 days left till TV goes digital and it's National Lima Bean Day too. And you thought we were going to go there. For shame.
• Capitol Hill wants to know, has anyone seen Kiwi?
• Gas is up 17 cents, but transportation luck is on our side, first the ORCA card, now the debut of Sound Transit light rail on July 18.

Untitled photograph by itsallinfun (Jonathan Armstrong), from the Seattlest Flickr pool

Woodblock printing and illustration artist Antonio Frasconi is having his first-ever Pacific Northwest exhibition in Pioneer Square's Davidson Gallery, and we will just say it outright--this guy is totally amazing.

Pioneer Square's Megan Mary Olander Florist wants to turn your recession frown upside down.

MargiDavid Salon, in conjunction with Sound Magazine, will host Couture Carnivale, their second annual fashion show, at the Last Supper Club this Sunday, March 29th from 6-11 p.m. The show benefits FareStart, a job training and placement program for homeless and disadvantaged individuals. Sunday's event combines a fashion show featuring four local boutiques, burlesque performances by Miss Sugar Magnolia, Iva Handfull and Fannie Beaverhausen, and music by DJ Sang-Do. We caught up with Carrie from MargiDavid Salon to discuss the hotness.

Seattlest's wine guy, Ronald, kicks off the weekend by hosting a $75, 5-course, 5-wine wine dinner Friday at Portfolio, the dining room of the Art Institute's culinary academy. (Note: 20 percent discount to Seattlest readers; call 206-239-2363 for reservations.) Saturday night will find him, Barolo in hand, at Mitchelli's for a farewell toast to the venerable "Trat," closing later this month after 32 years in Pioneer Square.

In the latest flare-up of violence on the streets of Seattle, three men were shot by a gunman from an alleyway in Pioneer Square at 2:30 a.m. today. Two of the men are in critical condition at Harborview, and the third has been released with minor injuries. While the details are nowhere near clear about the gunman's motivation, the SPD seems fairly certain the flare-up was not random and citizens should not--repeat, should not--be concerned about getting shot from an alleyway unless they're involved in something sketchy. (Is there ever a perfectly legitimate, compelling reason to be hanging out on a corner in Pioneer Square at 2:30 in the morning, we wonder? In the rain, no less?)

Last night there was a drive-by shooting in Pioneer Square (at James and 2nd Ave.) in what appears to be another outbreak of gang violence. No one appeared to be hurt, as it was 3 a.m. on the snowiest day of the year and the streets were all but deserted; the only two witnesses are saying the car might have been a VW Passat, which is not very gangsta. We're just saying. Four businesses were hit and the ever-competent SPD gang unit is investigating. As a commenter on the P-I article points out, it's kind of ironic that the mayor starts talking about banning guns from public places while gang violence simultaneously intensifies. Then the commenter starts talking about citizen deputies and vigilantism, thereby losing our initial support. That's not the kind of civilian involvement we need here.

Pioneer Property creditors received notice from the group's bank over the weekend of the group's bankruptcy filing that their bills are not being paid. Pioneer Property Group was behind the Live Historic brand, and at one point owned seven "rehabilitated" vintage buildings on Queen Anne, Capitol Hill, and First Hill, and in Fremont and Pioneer Square. We visited a few of them, condo-shopping, and they were great old buildings, but Pioneer was sailing directly into the teeth of a bursting real estate bubble and general recession. Our condolences to the people who thought they'd bought into the safety and security of a home. UPDATE: Now we hear that bankruptcy has not been filed, but Live Historic's office is closed and their phone is dead.

"Leaves Falling Down(town)" by Scott Cahill Rude

Central Washington plays Western at Qwest Field this Saturday, unremarkable for non-alumni except for the fact it marks the first time real teams with winning records from the state will play in Seattle this year.

• Hello, weekend windstorm! The neighborhood blogs were aflutter about wind damage, power outages, and waves crashing over 520.
• The Rainier Valley Post has their weekly must-read letting you know what your City Council Member is scheduled to be up to this week. Looks like an exciting week at the City Council, covering topics such as sidewalk cafes (right in time for winter!) and the Mercer mess.
• MetBlogs has something about free money--which automatically makes us click off, fearful of what identity scam is coming next. But at quick glance, it appears to be legitimate--show up and get $10 and there is some pay-it-forward aspect to the scheme.

Have you heard about WISAARD? It's a really cool toy research tool from the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP) that helps you locate historic sites statewide, searchable by county, city, and registered site name or status. It might not be stylized or streamlined, but WISAARD is just plain neat--and useful, if you're looking for details but don't know precisely which details you're looking for yet. Amateur local history nerds, read on:

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"No Future" by Shawn McClung (Slightlynorth)

The death of a 49-year-old-woman Tuesday at the Frye Hotel marks the third murder at 223 Yesler Way in less than six months. Initially regarded as "the finest hotel in Seattle," the Frye has ironically degenerated into a portrait of violence and despair.

Wild speculation surrounding the possibility of Radiohead playing somewhere in Washington sometime in the next year has got us pissing ourselves with excitement. The P-I A P-I reader blog called Ear Candy** thinks they might headline the Sasquatch Festival at the end of May with REM and The Cure but our sources are suggesting the band will embark on a West Coast run after their European summer tour ends. As of right now, the only guaranteed U.S. shows are a handful of random gigs in the South--kicking off in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Cinco De Mayo of all times and places. After all, nothing pairs quite like cheap tequila and sophisticated Brit rock.

We remember what happened seven years ago, when poor Kristopher Kime got himself beaten to death on the street while cops stood by and did nothing. Not taking any chances tonight, those coppers. They've pulled their fearsome mobile command units up to the fire hydrants at First and Yesler, ready to do battle.

Tonight you have two options; you can either watch Super Tuesday results on the TV, or head down to Pioneer Square with Dax, T-Bone, and a handfull of beads.

It’s early on a Sunday morning and for once, parking is easy to find in Pioneer Square. We click across the historic red-bricked plaza to the flagship store of Caffe Umbria. We’re met by a long, polished steel bar with clean lines. It’s classic Italian design, second only to the other, more rustic half of the store with exposed brick, wooden beams and beautifully painted tile work. The friendly baristas smile alluringly and then surprise us by asking for our drink orders in plain old English. We really thought it was going to be Italian.