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20 years of Neumos, the musical center of the Pike/Pine universe

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The future: a mixed-use Neumos, of course (Image: CHS)

Neumos asked for AI visions of its next 20 years so up top is CHS’s take on the corner during Capitol Hill Block Party 2044.

There is no telling what the next 20 or 30 years will bring at the southwest corner of 10th and Pike. CHS can tell you what the past 30 brought: music, drinks and good times.

The first decade of those good times? That was Moe’s Mo’Roc’N Café and an assortment of clubs that lived hard and died young. But those last 20? Those are all thanks to Neumos, the outgrowth of Moe’s that has gone on to be a center of the neighborhood’s entertainment community with a place among Capitol Hill legends like Neighbours, Century Ballroom, The Cuff, Wildrose, and Linda’s.

The live music club celebrates its 2004 birth Wednesday with a free night of music and performance. The free tickets were still available when we started writing this. They might be snapped up before you are done reading.

Asheville’s Wednesday band on the Neumos stage (Image: Neumos)

“We saw all these people walking down the hill for shows … we thought ‘why not have something here,’” Moe’s founder Jerry Everard told CHS about the original inspiration to transform an old Salvation Army on the corner into a new hangout 30 years ago. Continue reading →

COMEBUYTEA’s craft take on boba steams up the Capitol Hill tea scene

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(Image: COMEBUYTEA)

(Image: COMEBUYTEA)

Like the Starbucks Roastery a few blocks away continues to draw crowds of visitors dotted by the occasional Capitol Hill local, it seems like the new COMEBUYTEA at the corner of Pike and Broadway might be busy forever.

The first Seattle location of the Taiwanese chain debuted earlier this month with lines around the block waiting for COMEBUYTEA’s take on tea focused around craft and its steam-billowing “TEAPRESSO Machine” that completes “the 5-step Kungfu brewing method” in “a 60 second comprehensive brew” that produces “a perfectly balanced tea every time.” Continue reading →

CHS Pics | More scenes from Machiavelli’s last night on Capitol Hill

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CHS included a few images from the final night of service at Ristorante Machiavelli in our report on the real estate deals and development behind the closure that will transform its block but we wanted to also provide a few views of the night focused only on the good times and hugs from the Thursday, February 15th event.

Below, you can find more images from Machiavelli’s last night so you can remember the neighborhood favorite and get ready for what will come next on the block. Continue reading →

‘Unfortunate, but amicable’ — How Capitol Hill’s Machiavelli block is becoming the Voodoo Doughnut block

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One last night at Machiavelli

As diners paid their respect to Ristorante Machiavelli during one last night of service on Capitol Hill last week, the restaurant’s Melrose Market block just above downtown Seattle is undergoing a doughnut-centered makeover under San Francisco-based real estate company Prado Group that will transform its Pine facing edge after it acquired the property for $5 million in 2022.

A Voodoo Doughnut, the first Seattle location for the Portland-born company, is coming along with a near full-block turnover for the businesses that have called this stretch of Pine between Melrose and Minor home. The change is bringing and end for Machiavelli as well as its neighbors Pho 4 U and Lan Hand-Pulled Noodles.

For this small cluster of Capitol Hill businesses in the middle of real estate and development change, the situation around the ending leases have similar echoes of high costs and the fact that time has run out.

“Unfortunate, but amicable,” is how a Prado Group representative described the end of Machiavelli’s run after more than 35 years at the Capitol Hill corner. Continue reading →

Meet the Capitol Hill Artist | Carolyn Hitt is reconciling timelines, sharp lines, geometric shapes, and bright colors on 11th Ave

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(Images: Ananya Mishra)

Meet the Capitol Hill Artist is an occasional series on CHS documenting the lives of the artists behind the neighborhood’s galleries and arts venues.

By Ananya Mishra

One of the interpretations of the multiverse theory is that there could be alternate timelines, or multiple universes, that exist in parallel. Carolyn Hitt, an integral part of the Capitol Hill artist community, thinks very deeply about this concept. It has shaped her perception of humanity and its connection to everything. Continue reading →

Horizon Books ends a 53-year-old Capitol Hill story

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Horizon was giving away its remaining stock for free last weekend on 10th Ave (Image: CHS Facebook Group)

Let’s close this current chapter of neighborhood classics saying goodbye. Another of the longest running businesses on Capitol Hill closed quietly last weekend. It wasn’t a restaurant, cafe, or bar.

Horizon Books was proudly established on Capitol Hill 53 years ago making it contemporaneous with fellow class of 1971 business licensees Country Doctor Community Health Clinic, architect Roger Newell, and Vogue Coiffure Beauty Salon on our list of the oldest businesses in the area a few years back.

The bookseller that made its name on Capitol Hill long before Elliott Bay Book Company was transplanted to 10th ve quietly turned the page and liquidated its stock last weekend, handing out free books to anybody who stopped by its underground 10th Ave space home to “the largest and finest used books collections in Seattle.” Continue reading →

A Bainbridge Island restaurant family will extend to Capitol Hill with Ramie, ‘contemporary Vietnamese’

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Hopefully they bring Ba Sa’s soft shell crab roll to Ramie (Image: Ba Sa)

(Image: Ba Sa)

Don’t be too worried about closures in the Capitol Hill food and drink scene. Most spaces don’t look like they’ll stay empty for long. On 14th Ave, the exit of Omega Ouzeri and retirement of restaurateurs Thomas and Rebecca Soukakos in January now comes with a Tết announcement of Ramie, a new dining project from Trinh and Thai Nguyen, “the sibling chefs behind Bainbridge Island’s acclaimed modern Vietnamese restaurant Ba Sa.”

“Providing sterling hospitality in a space that’s welcoming, serving contemporary Vietnamese food that incorporates simple, old-school cooking techniques, and offering a robust cocktail program will be the guiding principles of Ramie,” the announcement reads.

They say the 3,055-square-foot restaurant neighboring Nue and Spinasse “will undergo some cosmetic and design changes,” but “the basic layout of the open kitchen, dining area, bar, mezzanine, and seasonal patio dining will remain.” Continue reading →

Thank Nirvana! Thank Linda! Linda’s Tavern celebrates 30 years on Capitol Hill

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Linda’s Tavern, the kind of place they really mean when they talk about an icon of Capitol Hill, celebrates three decades of memories, music, and moments Tuesday night. Founded in 1994 by Linda Derschang and two dudes from Sub Pop, the bar has survived as a cherished, grunge-y gathering place for locals and visitors alike.

“When we opened Linda’s 30 years ago, it was simply because we thought it would be really fun to open a bar on Capitol Hill,” Derschang tells CHS from New York City where the onetime “Seattle queen of clubs” now calls home.

“It was my first bar venture, following my experience opening a punk rock and rock ‘n’ roll clothing store in Denver in 1984.”

Capitol Hill was the natural choice for Derschang who had already established roots in the neighborhood with a clothing shop on Broadway. “What other neighborhood would I have wanted to open a bar in? That was the place, and that’s where I lived,” she says.

Reflecting on the changes in Capitol Hill over the years, Derschang highlights both the positive and negative. “One of the best things about the change was when Elliott Bay Books moved to Pike Pine about 15 years ago,” she reflects. “It helped solidify the neighborhood as both a daytime and nighttime destination.” Continue reading →

Police arrest man after E Pike shots fired incident

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Police say a man was arrested after firing shots and pointing a handgun and people near Harvard and Pike early Saturday morning.

According to the SPD brief on the incident, police were called to E Pike around 1:20 AM Saturday to a report of a man yelling who reportedly pulled the gun out in a nearby alley and fired several shots into the air before pointing the gun at people. “No one was hit by any rounds, but one victim said a round was fired in their direction,” SPD reports.

Arriving police took the 44-year-old into custody, and recovered a handgun from the suspect. Police also found 9mm casings and possible damage to a nearby building at the scene.

SPD says the suspect was booked into King County Jail for investigation of assault. There were no reported injuries.

 

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Seattle Police Department tries to answer liquor board ‘lewd conduct’ enforcement questions at LGBTQ Advisory Council

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Police officials got an earful and expressed uncertainty about the future of the department’s involvement in liquor board enforcement at last week’s meeting of the Seattle Police Department’s LGBTQ Advisory Council.

The session held in a conference room of the 12th Ave Arts community and apartment building was the first meeting of the council since the Washington Liquor Control Board and SPD backed down from lewd conduct enforcement at Capitol Hill area gay bars after protest from owners and patrons.

Dorian Korieo, an assistant sergeant and LGBTQ+ liaison for the department, said last week the Joint Enforcement Team that SPD participates in with the liquor board will not evaporate but the department is looking for best ways to utilize it.

The liquor board said no citations would be issued in the lewd conduct enforcement cases and that enforcement would be suspended while board members work out new rules to address concerns around targeting and bias. Continue reading →