Here is a CHS link pile to get your week started — added a few event-type things to help you plan it all out. Good luck!
- Capitol Hill Community Council was busy last week. First, the council voted to go ahead with planning for a June 27th Pride event on Broadway…
- And money was approved for the first printing of Capitol Hill buck coupons, an idea to spur more local shopping. First two editions of the bill will feature Frances Farmer, Cal Anderson. Who’s next? You?
- Forum to discuss community uses for the light rail ‘transit oriented development’ is Wednesday night.
- East Precinct community meeting is Thursday night. This is an underutilized opportunity for people like you to ask questions, get information from Seattle Police.
- Also on the CHS calendar, limber up for your SPD speaking engagement with a Thursday night visit to Vino Verite (CHS sponsor!) for a tasting with Eyrie Vineyards.
- The Seattle Courant runs down the week’s planned fun and games down at City Hall.
- One reason to check out this exhibition: photos of Peru. Another, figuring out exactly where the Electric Tea Garden is on E. Pike.
- Dani Cone earns Puget Sound Biz Journal write-up on three Fuel Coffee shops and a new High Five pie biz.
- Seattle Times tells of a time when Broadway was crooked, made more straight.
- KING 5 story says businesses ‘feeling affects’ of Sound Transit work. We’re with you on the lighting thing — it’s dark on Broadway these days. More on that later this week.
If this is a “pride” event, then I am totally against having separate pride events. They politically weaken the fight for lgbt rights and marriage equality in particular, just as separate and competing antiwar marches weaken the antiwar movement. If this is just a way to drum up patrons for businesses on Broadway, then I’m against the misappropriation of the political term “pride”. It’s even more disrespectful given that this is the 40th Anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion.