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If you're planning to head out to a bar on the Hill on Saturday night, here's a great chance to help educate the community about the importance of approving R-71. Volunteers will be meeting at 10:00 p.m. at a location to be announced and going out to the local bars to do some quick and easy outreach. Since you're already going out any way, make your way over to Washington Families Standing Together and RSVP to help with outreach! You can also check out their page with tips on how to be an outreach superstar! If you want to learn more visit GayCapHill.com 
Bonus: Please welcome Seattle's newest hyperlocal news source, Laurelhurst Blog. Check out their great tips for better gardening<... 
Not just for karaoke, tonight The Crescent Lounge features Eric Himan, the gay acoustic folk-rock singer who has earned a spot on Logo's Top Ten Click List. This solo performance is part of his Whisper To A Tour! show starting at 10pm, Friday Sept. 18. The Crescent is 21+ only. More details over at Seattle Gay Scene. 
Let the open space celebration begin. Here's Friday's schedule from People's Parking Lot:
Hungry? There will be at least one BBQ so bring some grillin' goods. Plus, Hollow Earth Radio will have a plot in the Central Park lot and is encouraging people to stop by to share their 'urban confessions.'
And of course Central Park isn't the only Park(ing) Day activity on the Hill. Sustainable Capitol Hill will be creating a pocket park in the street in front of Bluebird Ice Cream and Tea Room. Meanwhile Seattle Department of Transportation will be on Summit between Denny and Olive with a cool park to collect community ideas on, well, parks. From SDOT's e-mail to CHS:
And CHS will be out there to cover it all. See something cool? E-mail CHS or let us know on twitter @jseattle.
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Central Park is already sprouted. Come on out and enjoy.
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From this morning, here's the park on Pine in front of Molly Moon's.
Cal Anderson Park Alliance hosts. 
Ruth Harper, project manager with the city's Community Parking Program,... 
An energized cooperative movement has thrust the co-op business model into the spotlight, prompting interest in why this centuries-old way of need-meeting is experiencing a renaissance. In support of next-wave cooperative enterprise, October 3 at Richard Hugo House, Central Co-op and the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) Seattle will host Strengthening Local Independent Co-ops Everywhere (SLICE), a day-long workshop on cooperative basics for nascent and existing co-ops and folks who want to buff up their co-op engagement. “SLICE is an opportunity to get people together to grow, from the grassroots, a new, cooperative network that’s accessible, inclusive, and poised to promote the strength and relevance of co-ops,” said Aaron Waldkoetter, a SLICE organizer and Central Co-op worker. With the region’s best and brightest co-op mentors, participants will gain an understanding of how to start a cooperative, best practices, nitty-gritty details, and inspiration. The highly interactive program will address... It's a busy night on the CHS calendar with an parking open house and a community council meeting among the activities to keep you moving on a Thursday evening. A new edition to Capitol Hill's weekly entertainments debuts tonight at Central Co-Op's Madison Market: Community movie nights at the market launch tonight with a free showing of Network. From IMDB: A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit. A neighborhood news blog would never do that. Flick starts at 7p.
Po Dog, the new hotdog vendor coming to the hill, recently blogged about its troubles trying it install a mural on the southern blank facade of 1009 Union Street - adjacent to a parking lot. Laura Olson sent CHS email explaining the issue:
Chris Pardo of Pb Elemental (Po Dog's architect) says the objections of Po Dog's landlord and the parking... 
The students of NOVA alternative High School, which shares the Meany School building with the Secondary Bilingual Orientation Center (SBOC) have embraced the event, and are holding a potluck as part of the celebration, and invite you to bring a potluck dish to share (and suggest that it be an ample size, as the SBOC families who have been invited may be unfamiliar with the potluck concept!). Parks Department translated the invitation into 5 languages for the SBOC familes (Oromo, Chinese, Amheric, Spanish and Vietnamese), and we hope that some of them will be able to attend, and that their tournament-winning soccer team will play on the field. The evening will include:
Knowing full well that we risk falling into an uncomfortable niche (CHS visitors who read this post might also enjoy: Furry romp on Capitol Hill), here is yet another Capitol Hill video featuring a grown man dressed up like a little, CHS can't be certain about the location of this unusual performance though we're guessing Broadway is likely and looks a little like the intersection with Thomas. No? This Friday, people nationwide will be turning parking spaces into green spaces for the annual Park(ing) Day event. Seattle's FeetFirst organizes the effort locally, and makes it easy to create a park and take back some of the concrete jungle normally controlled by cars. Capitol Hill has the majority parks this year, including the People's Parking Lot Central Park . (it even has wi-fi ) Here's a map of our area, and a full map can be found here. 
Century Ballroom in conjunction with Velocity Dance Studio are hosting a Single Ladies Dance Off based on Beyonce's video! It's Saturday, September 19 at 9:00 p.m. To buy tickets, register as a participant, or lean more, visit Century Ballroom's website! Waxie Moon and Miss Indigo Blue are going to be there... so should you! Plus, you could win $300... what's not to love?! To learn more about this and other events, visit gaycaphil.com.
In addition to Friday's Park(ing) Day activities and Central Park (now with wi-fi!), there's another event this weekend involving a lot of room to run around and play on Capitol Hill. Miller Playfield and its beautiful new field turf open Saturday night with a brief ceremony, some athletic exhibitions involving Seattle University soccer, free ice cream from Blue Bird Ice Cream and Tea House and, most importantly, some CHS-motivated pick-up soccer time. The event starts at 6p -- the field will be open for pick-up from 8:30 to 10p. CHS has been teasing organization of a pick-up squad for Saturday night but now we're getting serious. If you are in, leave a comment. If you left a comment on one of the previous posts about Saturday's night's fun, I'll send you some mail. Now we just need to find some competition.... With street fashion site Pike/Pine calling it quits back in June, Capitol Hill's fashionable sidewalks haven't gone undocumented thanks to upstart style spy It's My Darlin. With a mix of fashion-focused posts from across Seattle -- and lots of Cap Hill screen time -- IMD can usually inspire you to at least throw a decent sweater on before heading onto the Hill. To find out more about what catches her eye, CHS sent a few questions to the woman behind IMD, Dana Landon. Do you live on Capitol Hill? Why did you start a street fashion blog?
How do you approach somebody you'd like to photograph? Why haven't you asked me? I'm quite fashionable. Why haven't I asked you? It's all about timing. Unfortunately, this isn't my day job so there is a very limited time frame in which you will catch me snapping photos on the street. In my experience doing this I have learned that the best outfits are worn by people who are either talking on their cell phone or in the middle of what looks like a very involved conversation with someone else on the street. So if you are a fashionable and live on either Capitol Hill or downtown you were probably doing one of these two things when I have seen you. How would you describe Capitol Hill's sense of style? What do you like about it? Anything you don't like about it? As for what I don't like, that is hard to say, but if I had to pick one thing that I really don't like right now it would have to be people using their clothing to advertise for a brand (e.g. Ed Hardy t-shirts or other items with enormous company logos on them). There is something about this that just goes in the complete opposite direction of personal style for me when I see it on people. Other than that I think just about any style can be pulled off when done right. I even walked past a man last night drinking coffee in front of Bauhaus who was successfully pulling of Crocs and looking really good doing it. Anything is possible. Best current trends you're seeing on the streets? Not sure how we missed this when it was created back in July. Forget any salacious aspects of furry culture -- this two-part video is most interesting for turning a fieldtrip through Cal Anderson park and down Broadway by five grown-ups in animal costumes into some kind of open source Disneyland. They dance to a live band, pose for pictures, shop QFC. It's weird. It's 20 minutes. It's pretty fun. Two fur-covered thumbs up. Check it out.
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After being happy resident of Seattle for six years, Comrade Bunny started blogging about it. That is so Capitol Hill. For more geek/green/Seattle, see Life on the Hill and Other Stories There's a lot to do on the Hill (and not too far away) tomorrow. Here are the highlights from the CHS Events Calendar. Bill W. from Gay Seattle Scene also posted a rundown of a few more Capitol Hill weekend activities here and you can also check out the newly launched Gay Cap Hill Events Calendar.
It's unlikely the weather for October's art walk will be this spectacular. But maybe more people will show up. Thursday night's Capitol Hill art walk was a little quiet. 12th Ave's restaurants were busy and people were definitely out and about enjoying the last lovely gasp of summer. But for many businesses along Pike and Pine, it was like any other beautiful harvest summer night. It also goes to show how well attended some of the earlier art walks were this summer -- a few of the pictures on this post compare/contrast scenes from September's walk with July's. Still, many of the galleries and the publicized art spots were bustling. And, later in the night, the streets were graced by guerrilla shopping-cart DJ 12-Hr Notice. Meanwhile, elsewhere on the Hill, more than 100 people marched against gun violence from Seattle Central to Volunteer Park. 
(Seattle Parks Dept. Press Release. Please see & distribute the attached flyer, or see the Miller blog. ) GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION FOR RENOVATED MILLER PLAYFIELD Seattle Parks and Recreation, the Capitol Hill community and sports field users are celebrating the renovated Miller Playfield on Saturday, September 19, 2009 from 6:30 – 10 p.m. The evening will include an ice-cream social to welcome Nova High School and the Secondary Bilingual Orientation Center to the neighborhood, a soccer clinic by Seattle University Men’s Soccer, a lacrosse clinic by Northwest Women’s Lacrosse Association (NWWLA), and time for community pick-up games. The clinics and ice cream social are scheduled from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. and from 8:30 – 10 p.m. will be pick-up games on the field. The field is located at 330 19th Ave E. "Between the renovated playfield and the two new schools, there is a new vibrancy in the Miller community," said Parks and Recreation Superintendent Tim Gallagher. "Young athletes, students, and parents are rightly excited about these improvements, which help create community and make this campus the true heart of the neighborhood." This project located next to the Miller Community Center replaces the existing sand/silt field with synthetic turf and accommodates for men and women’s lacrosse, adult soccer and softball. The renovation was requested by the community through the Community Capital Suggestion Process. The event is co-sponsored by Seattle Parks and Recreation, Bluebird Homemade Ice Cream & Tea Room, capitolhillseattle.comand the Design Kompany. To see Seattle University (SU) Men's Soccer skills in action earlier in the day attend the SU Redhawks game against Oregon State at 12:30 p.m. on SU Championship Field. For more information, please contact Parks Project Manager Ted Holden at (206) 684-7201; e-mail ted.holden@seattle.gov or visithttp://seattle.gov/parks/maintenance/millerplayfield.htm I (Andrew) note that the efforts to involve the two new schools at Meany (Nova High School and the Secondary Bilingual Education Program) are going well, so I hope many neighbors will be available to welcome the schools to our neighborhood AND to try out the new playfield. Soccer, baseball and lacrosse were being practiced simultaneously there this evening! Please share the attached poster with your friends and neighbors. Here's a few highlights of gay activities this weekend on Capitol Hill: FRIDAY 9/11/09: SATURDAY 9/12/09: SUNDAY 9/13/09: Look here for a complete list of gay happenings in Seattle this weekend. 
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2009 – Finding the local library and doing research on state history may not be a tough assignment for local students, but finding what you are looking for when you are not a native English speaker, are unfamiliar with the ins and outs of town and you only have two hours… is a whole other story. A group of local au pairs are up to the challenge this coming Sunday during a scavenger hunt starting at Westlake Center sponsored by Cultural Care Au Pair. Together they will prove that looking for a needle in a haystack can be a whole lot of fun. The au pairs, currently living with families in Seattle, will join 175 of their peers for a crash course in local geography and history. Together representing the countries of Germany, Thailand, Colombia, Sweden, and Mexico to name a few, the au pairs currently live with American host families as part of Cultural Care Au Pair’s cultural exchange and childcare program. The face-paced two hour scavenger hunt is a team event; the winning team...
I'm sure I don't have to tell you, but we are lucky enough to live in one of the most incredible neighborhoods in Seattle. It is a place where creative new buildings, such as Capitol Hill Housing's award winning Broadway Crossing and 'starchitect' Tom Kundig's 1111 E. Pike intermingle with pieces of history such as the Oddfellows Building, Holy Names Academy, and even Seattle's oldest standing home. It is a place where innovative businesses such as iLike and Cafe Vita make waves on the national scene, and where global chains are replaced by local Mexican eateries. Jimi Hendrix is memorialized here, Bruce Lee was buried here, and President Obama even lived up here as a baby. Oh, did I mention we are also the densest part of Seattle, if not the entire Pacific Northwest (Canada excluded)? Unlike the rather empty tracts of land along MLK, the Sound Transit Link Light Rail Station currently under construction on Capitol Hill will be at the heart of one of the most culturally, artistically, historically, and culinarily rich areas in all of the Puget Sound region. Also unlike ST's past projects, they decided to actually purchase the land above the station and they have asked us, the community for input on what to do with it. The four hour design charrette this Saturday, paid for and hosted by the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce and the TOD Stakeholders Group, is a chance for everyone in the community to open their minds and envision the most grandiose possibilities for the 3 acres of asphalt along Broadway. Not only is it a chance to share ideas and listen to others but sketch artists will be on hand to help people actually try and conceptualize what some of these possibilities will look like. At the end of the year the results of this design charrette will be presented to Sound Transit, who will presumably use the ideas generated here to decide what to build in the future.
Want to see an extension of Cal Anderson park that meanders into a public plaza for the Broadway Farmer's Market? Maybe you dream of a wonderful community center with views of downtown and Mt. Rainer? Perhaps you envision a beautiful icon, visible from all over Seattle, with the architectural integrity to be placed next to the Space Needle and the Central Library on Seattle postcards? Well this is your chance to share such ideas and actually have them incorporated into reality. Earlier this week the Capitol Hill Community Council's Planning and Policy Committee met to discuss the Broadway TOD*. The most common thread among us was the desire to have the development on this site stand for hundreds of years to come, for these buildings to be a timeless example of world class architecture, the likes of the Pompidou or the Louvre in Paris. With Sound Transit owning the property and the city open to land use changes, the community is able to go far beyond the standard mixed-use developments and actually envision something that will fundamentally enhance our already amazing neighborhood. But the key here is the community; we need to show Sound Transit and the City just how important this site is to us. Coming to the Design Charrette this Saturday is a perfect opportunity to show your support and participation.
While it was sad to see some of the old buildings come down, we have been given an unprecedented opportunity. We now have 3 acres of land in one of Seattle's greatest neighborhoods to play with. It is like we have been given an empty canvas and all the tools and paints we could ever dream of and told to do what we want. But again, the only way this will work is if we, as a community, are active and involved. We need to prove to Sound Transit and the City that this isn't your typical development site, but that this project has the potential to tie all of Capitol Hill's greatest pieces together in a once-in-a-lifetime achievement of urban expression. Capitol Hill is one of Seattle's greatest neighborhoods, but it could be one of the world's greatest neighborhoods. Its up to you, so sign up for the Design Charrette now!
* If you too would like to be a part of the Planning and Policy Committee send an email to chcc.planning@gmail.com and we'll put you on the email list and keep you up to date on all things planning on Capitol Hill. UPDATE:   (Photos: Matt Westervelt) Original Post:
Via Twitter, xaotica shares another angle on the bubble mound: "It's been years yet people tormenting these annoying capitol hill condos via soap really never gets old"
From a (very!) new site on Capitol Hill, here's word of an important organizing event for the supporters of Referendum 71. Take it away Gay Cap Hill:
We don't typically link to 1-post blogs but we're hoping to encourage Gay Cap Hill along. They're part of the Neighborlogs family, for one, but we also think the Hill could use more (original!) online news and information voices. Good luck, GCH. Got this note from a CHS neighbor we know and trust about an uncomfortable situation that echoes a conversation we had on CHS almost exactly a year ago. Here's the note:
We called MRJ Constructors to let them know about the situation and find out about their work site policy regarding these kinds of matters but nobody was available to speak with CHS about the issue this afternoon. We'll try them again in the morning. If this happened to you, CHS encourages your to call MRJ at (206) 621-7437 to let them know so they can address the problem. We're definitely not here to be hall monitors but, like we learned last summer, these kinds of situations can fester without anybody doing something to stop it. Save the whistling and the ogling for the dance floor, fellas. |
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