Queen Anne’s Julia Bolz did something that many of us only dream about: she walked away from a successful career in 1998 to pursue work that inspired her and helped changed the world for a few of the world’s less fortunate.
The Mercer Street corridor, a major east-west corridor that links Interstate-5 with the Queen Anne and Magnolia area, didn’t live up to it’s name this week as commuters appeared to take changes to the roadway in stride.
On Jan. 23, 1905, the S.S. Minnesota set sail in its first voyage to the Orient from Smith Cove.
The largest ship to sail under the American flag, it had the cargo capacity of 2,500 train cars. It boasted 9 decks and measured 622 feet long. It weighed nearly 21,000 tons and could travel at speeds of almost 15 knots under full steam power.
Magnolia’s Dish It Up! appears to be one more victim of the ongoing recession.
The gourmet cooking store in the Magnolia Village that supplies just about anything a kitchen could need will close at the end of February. Owner David Reith has decided to consolidate his Magnolia store with his Ballard location at 5320 Ballard Ave. N.W., which has been...
Queen Anne Cub Scouts is holding their annual Pinewood Derby on Saturday, Feb 4 from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. at the Bethany Presbyterian Church. Tuesday, January 31, 2012
When talking about Shakespeare, one usually thinks of the playwright’s most famous and commercialized plays, like “Hamlet” or “Romeo and Juliet” I’m sure his tragedy “Coriolanus” (which he wrote later in his life) doesn’t come up much. Believed to be written sometime between 1605 and 1608, the play tells the story of the courageous but stubborn Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus. Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Storytelling is as old as speech. It is the path that links people to their past, their present and their future. From prehistoric narratives told in caves to today’s gossip shared at the dinner table or on Facebook, stories are what keep us entertained and enlightened.
In “The Grey,” it’s nice to see Liam Neeson back in a movie where he looks like he’s enjoying himself as opposed to picking up an easy paycheck, which is what he seems to have been doing that for the past couple of years.
You forget the 59-year-old Irish actor can be quite good.
Small, local businesses are saving money and improving the environment with the help of a new Seattle Public Utilities (SPU)... Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Jim Collins, CEO of Maninis, LLC, is building the Magnolia-based gluten-free food firm into a winning and tasty proposition. Thursday, October 20, 2011
Watch as world-renowned professional cheese carverSarah Kaufmann sculpts hundreds of pounds of cheese into edible art from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Uptown Metropolitan Market, 100 Mercer St., on Saturday, Oct. 22. Thursday, October 20, 2011
Outdoor portables. Overburdened teachers. Not enough space to accommodate children in need of an education. It’s not the ideal situation for Seattle Public Schools (SPS), yet a glimmer of hope exists for the future of the district: It could be worse. Thursday, November 17, 2011
Most people know very little, if anything, about hospital chaplains. What they do know typically comes from outdated Hollywood portrayals of a priest coming to save the sinner’s soul before death takes it
History is intriguing because 10 people can tell the history of something and all of them can tell it a different way and all of them believe their version.
This year, I resolved to be more optimistic, but I can’t shake the feeling that, one day in the next 12 months, I’m going to be run over by an automobile.
Former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, 85, succumbed Jan. 22 to lung cancer. His much-ballyhooed motto for his football program, “Success with honor,” has been a rallying point for those who have defended Paterno’s actions, or inactions, in the face of his program’s sex-abuse scandal. Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Led by 6-foot-7 guard Seth Berger, the Ballard Beavers beat second-ranked Bothell Cougars in a Kingco 4A boys basketball game... Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Here’s an efficient antidote to the post-holiday blues: Get on Interstate 5, point your car north and drive an hour to see... Wednesday, December 28, 2011
This is the perfect time of the year to briefly reflect on our garden experiences of the last year and start the plotting and planning... Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Seattle is fortunate: Forbes Magazine predicted we would have a strong, early recovery from the recession, and it looks like Forbes was right. The magazine also forecast the recovery would be sustained for a number of years due in part to our strong jobs market.
Bayview Manor resident Bill Russell isn’t one to let a good time pass him by.
That goes for the sledding along Queen Anne Avenue North during the recent snowstorm.
Russell, 74, just may have been the oldest kid sledding down Queen Anne Avenue last week. Armed with his saucer from Bartell Drugs, he ventured out onto the street for a little adrenaline rush Wednesday afternoon.
