Results tagged “universitydistrict”

Beveridge Place Pub, West Seattle ("Micro" Mondays 3 p.m. to close). Known for their willingness to accommodate man's other best friend, look to this alehouse with over 22 handles as a nice respite from the heat outside for you and your dog. Look out for $3 Red Dot pints and $12 pitchers.

Solidifying the U-District Farmers Market's reputation as a haven for NPR-listening liberal-lefties, no less than the Huffington Post has named it one of the nation's 10-best farmers' markets. You can go online to rate them; currently, the U-District market is ranked third in the polls.

(Seattlest, say hello to Monica Cohn, one of our new shopping correspondents.)

63 percent of the University Congregational United Church of Christ voted to open their hearts and their parking lot--at 15th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 45th Street--to the roaming homeless encampment known as Nickelsville.

Nickelsville has moved for the third time in about as many weeks, this time setting up camp in the University District. The homeless encampment has moved from Discovery Park to a parking lot owned by the University Christian Church on 15th Avenue Northeast. Organizers are hopeful this will become a more permanent home for the encampment, but as with the camp's previous incarnations, the city most likely has other plans for Nickelsville. Plans which seem to involve forcing the camp to move week by week to opposite ends of the city, with the constant threat of arrest for campers and organizers, despite the fact the city has no better housing option for residents.

'70S NOSTALGIA: Called "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies” by the Rolling Stones, the not oft-toured band, Steely Dan, makes an appearance at the Chateau Ste. Michelle out in Woodinville. Drive out to the beautiful winery, have a glass, and remember the days in which people stood in line at the gas stations and screamed at each other, rather than simply paying through the nose for a full tank.

Holy Jeezits, what an outstanding weekend!

Damn, this is the kind of story that really makes our stomach churn. This morning, a skater was hit by a bus killed when he fell under a bus wheel in the U-District. The 20-year-old skater, according to the Times, "ran into the side of the bus and fell under the rear wheel...He was pronounced dead at the scene." Apparently the bus driver didn't even realize she'd run over the kid until the cops stopped her a block later.

The University District was plagued with violent assaults this weekend. Within a 36-hour period four students were assaulted in what were thought to be related attacks, a man was seriously injured in a stabbing, and another University of Washington student was robbed at gun point.

“Wow. Wii!”

According to the Seattle Transit Blog, the University link of our not-sure-we-wanted-it-but-now-we-got-it--might-as-well-expand-it light rail system is getting the Federal funding it was looking for. It's headed to the President's desk with Seattle receiving the highest possible recommendation for funding from the Federal Transit Administration arm of the U.S. DOT. Screw you, Prop 1! Love you Patty Murray!

We love lists. Which is why we're a little sad that we didn't know about Amazon.com's UnSpun until we read The Paper Noose's post on Georgetown's place in the Top "Hip" Neighborhoods to Live in Seattle, WA. There's nothing we love better than completely arbitrary lists with no discernible criteria beyond kneejerk personal opinion -- except maybe passing them along. According to UnSpun users, the top 10 "hip" neighborhoods are: 1. Capitol Hill (surprise,...

There's been a string of articles around lately about the patrons of whatever bar causing havoc in whatever neighborhood. Of course you all read this one from the North Seattle Herald Outlook on June, 6 about Tommy's in the University District:

Every summer, Seattlest caves in and buys a deeply discounted Entertainment Book full of coupons valid for the rest of the year. We throw it in the back of the car and tell ourselves that if we redeem just one coupon for a meal, we’ll recoup our Alexander Hamilton.

If you like trucks, if you like the darndest equipment and gear, or if beefy firefighters and/or the color turns you on, grab the family and head on over to Fire Station 17 this weekend! They are having an Open House this Saturday. We live about two blocks from these guys and girls and they really earn their keep; we're glad to have them as neighbors. We occasionally see one come in to buy a snack at the Plaid Pantry on 50th and Roosevelt while we are buying aerosol cheese and print pornography. Every time, we want to hug the living beejeezus out of them --but we don't because it might seem a little forward. Maybe we'll bring them hot soup instead.

--Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie is reported to be set for his big screen debut in the adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. Gibbard himself is not a hideous man, though.

NE 52nd Street, University District, Seattle

Local Quakers recently shut down a homeless camp that they'd permitted around their University District building.

We hate to use such a cliché for a post title, but in this case it's actually true. Seattlest had an opportunity to check out the children's improv show Hogwash this weekend, and despite worries that it would provide nothing but boredom for us (we're happily childless), we were suprised at how entertaining the production actually was, and would heartily recommend it for you Seattlest readers out there with little ones in tow.

The UW became a more urban campus today with the purchase of the Safeco tower. Don't get us wrong; we love the sprawling, verdant expanses, nooks, and crannies of the main campus. However, a properly urban university -- like its students -- should engage with its neighborhood by wandering beyond campus and fanning into the surrounding area.

The other night, we happened to be walking by the Wannabee Cafe and it was bursting at the joists with music and people. They had moved all of the handcrafted tables -- works of art by themselves -- out onto the sidewalk. Inside was a band playing relatively loudly for a cafe.

Unlike Seattle's University District, the town of Whistler is a bit more used to living with, and near, bears. Over the past holiday weekend, we discovered just how close one can get, as the record-breaking snowfall from this past winter at Whistler means the bears coming out of hibernation this spring can't get very far up the mountain just yet.

To get home from work Seattlest would walk up the hill to the bus tunnel downtown, get on a 72X or 73X that takes about 5-7 minutes via the I-5 express lanes to get to the University District and then hoof it along the Burke Gilman to Wallingford. If things went well it could take about fifteen minutes and involved some nice walking - Not too bad, and not much slower than if we drove. Of course that had to end, though. We gave up on the University expresses when the bus tunnel closed and can now be found on the 26 which takes approximately fifteen hours to get from downtown to Wallingford.

A little while ago, we did a little data mining of the Missed Connections on Craigslist, to check Seattle's romantic pulse. Frankly it was feeble and thready. But we were hoping that with the onset of spring, things have picked up.

As you know, there's a strict quota on mentions of Craigslist per quarter. Not too many, not too few. Our longtime favorite CL section is the Missed Connections (not altogether unsimilar from the Stranger's I Saw U ads), for their mix of inept stalking, momentary erotic yearning, and occasional literary gems.

And stadium updates weren't the only item on the menu for the City Council yesterday. This issue has been a friend of Seattlest's since way back when we were both struggling to get into this business. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wonder where you've seen him before. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for the Alcohol Impact Area!

Monday Nov. 28

When you move to Seattle you rent a room in a communal house that you share with a bunch of freaks who explode if you store meat in the fridge but can't bring themselves to wash the chai crust out of a mug. A couple jobs later and you're ready to grab someone sane who you actually know outside of Craigslist and move into a daylight basement. If you're lucky up to three of those exterior walls won't be underground. It's nice living for awhile, but ultimately a falling out over a bunch of calls on the shared landline to Europe and/or a promotion at work will inspire another move, this time upgrading to the glorious detached mother-in-law in some family's backyard. With housing prices as they are you may be paying that guy's mortgage indefinitely. Better settle in.

Spin writer Chuck Klosterman is to Nick Hornby as Augusten Burroughs is to David Sedaris.

Look out residents of The Ave - The University District Street Fair is going to be all up in your face Saturday and Sunday. Seattlest is guessing that the choices you made in life many years ago will dictate whether you'll be in attendance or not, so this post is just a reminder for the people out there who are firmly in the "Of course I'm going...when is it again?" camp. Or maybe you haven't been seen on University Way since American Apparel was Pier One. Go down and have a look.