Competitors at Saturday’s Queen Anne Cub Scouts Soapbox Derby get ready to roll. The derby, which has been losing momentum among Scout troops, is alive and well with Troop 70/72. This year featured bullet and kit cars.
Webelo Scouts Anders Charlton, David Minguez and Miles Bellamy sat in a circle nervously waiting for their second heat in thea annual Queen Anne Cub Scouts Soapbox Derby. They were arguing over the best place to put a weight on a car to make it go as fast as possible. "If we put weights on them that would just be madness," concluded Charlton excitedly. Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Males between the ages of 15 and 20 will not enjoy Elizabeth Allen's newest film "Ramona and Beezus." Then again males of other ages may not enjoy it either. Tuesday, July 27, 2010
What do you do when you witness child abuse in public? A couple of weeks ago, I was riding a Metro bus in the Downtown Transit Tunnel when I was confronted with this question. We had reached a stop, and when the rear door opened, a little boy, maybe 3 or 4 years old, stepped onto the bus, stopped and pulled his baseball cap down over his face. Tuesday, July 27, 2010
John Richard Cothern was arrested July 13 and charged Friday, July 16 with five counts of possessing depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Cothern was arraigned on Monday when he pleaded not guilty. He is being held at the King County Jail on $750,000 bail and is scheduled for trial Aug. 24. Tuesday, July 27, 2010
So this marketing representative from Hills Bros. Coffee flies in from Philadelphia to check out the viability of the Seattle market and spent most of the day complaining to local radio icon Earl Reilly that all he had to eat that day was a Baby Ruth candy bar. Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Magnolia's Summerfest organizer, Heather Ussery, will be stepping down after this year's festival, and the organization is putting a call out to get a new director for 2011. Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Who is Salt? Is she a Russian spy? Are Russian spies setting her up? These are the central questions in Phillip Noyce's newest film "Salt," which turns Angelina Jolie into a female Jason Bourne, without the memory loss. Tuesday, July 27, 2010
From the get-go, the clock is ticking for one Michael McCrea who has found himself up to his neck in debt to the most notorious gangster in all of Dublin, Ireland. Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Lub-dub, lub-dub. The drumming sounded like a heartbeat. The vibrant colors of the regalia-special dress worn for the festival-flashed before the audience's eyes when the performers danced. Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Audience excitement was palpable at the opening of Lynn Nottage's "Ruined" at Intiman last Friday night. And small wonder. The Broadway hit comes with an impressive pedigree including the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for drama, most of the original award-winning cast intact and even assertions of influencing United Nations policy (UN delegates including Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon attended the initial New York staging. Wednesday, July 14, 2010
So far this year Pixar and DreamWorks have been dominating the animated movie scene with "Toy Story 3," "How to Train Your Dragon" and "Shrek 4." Now Universal Studios delivers its animated film, "Despicable Me." Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Buckle your seat belts, filmgoers. Christopher Nolan's "Inception" is going to take you on a thrill ride through exotic locales both real and imagined, bending both time and physics as you accompany expert "extractor" Dom Cobb (Leonard DiCaprio) and his team of specialists. Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Though State Superintendent Randy Dorn decided over the weekend to provisionally adopt a national set of standards in an attempt to get up to $250 million in federal funding, the funding will not come. Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Superintendent Maria L. Goodloe-Johnson, has announced leadership appointments for the 2010-2011 school year that include three executive directors of schools, four elementary school principals and three high school principals. Wednesday, July 14, 2010
The Seattle School Board voted unanimously last week to place a three-year, $48.2 million supplemental operations levy before Seattle voters on the Nov. 2 general election ballot. Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Students at McClure Middle School are learning firsthand what it means to show compassion in their community. Sixth-grade teacher, Bonnie Powers, designed the curriculum for a character-building course called "Appreciating Differences." She had been trained by the Spokane School District to use "Character Counts" in the classroom before coming to Seattle. The course focuses on six pillars of character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. During the study of citizenship, students show compassion for others by doing 10 to 15 hours of service for the community. Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Village Ballet at Magnolia Community Center will present its spring recital at 5:30 p.m., Friday, June 11, in the Catherine Blaine School auditorium. Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Katie Chao of Queen Anne continued her winning ways by taking first and second place trophies at the recent Washington State Invitational Karate Championships held May 8 at Edmonds Community College. Wednesday, June 09, 2010
