Yearly Archives: 2013

CHS Pics | This week in Capitol Hill pictures

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Untitled, originally uploaded by pnwbot.

The CHS Flickr Pool contains more than 16,000 photographs — most of Capitol Hill images, many glorious, some technically amazing. The pool is a mix of contributions from Capitol Hill — and nearby — shutterbugs. Interested in being part of it? If we like your photo and it helps us tell the story, we may feature it on CHS so please include your name and/or a link to your website so we can properly credit you. Interested in working as a paid CHS contributor for scheduled assignments? Drop us a line – our roster is full for general assignments but pitch us on an idea.

Below, more of what we found in the pool this week. Continue reading →

Hillebrity | Constant Lovers

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 Constant Lovers – Band

IMG_3036Do you guys actually live up to your band name?

Well in the past 5 years we have never been in an argument. We all have matching turquoise heart tattoos which is our bands emblem. It’s from an earring that Gavin’s wife owns… we were headed down to a show in LA and we needed merch so Gavin saw it hanging in their bathroom and silk screened it onto a bunch of shirts. Now, we all have them in different places but most importantly Ben has it tattooed on his butt and that really must mean love, right? It must be said that we also got our album name from the Quentin Tarantino movie “True Romance.”

Constant Lovers plays Neumos Saturday, November 30th with Sandrider and Dust Moth.

Revelry from Constant Lovers on Myspace.

Previously on Hillebrity

Blotter | iPhone robber loses foot race with police, Hill man busted for child porn after Microsoft alerts authorities

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See something others should know about? Email CHS or call/txt (206) 399-5959. You can view recent CHS Crime coverage here.

  • iPhone robber busted: An 18-year-old suspect who the victim said choked her and stole her iPhone was chased down in a foot race with police Thursday afternoon near 21st and E Olive Street. SPD has posted a brief on the afternoon incident and arrest:

    At approximately 3:28 p.m. the adult female victim was using her cell phone at 20th Avenue and East Madison Street when an unknown male suspect grabbed her in a choke hold and forcibly removed the phone from her hand.  As the suspect fled the scene on foot the victim was able to use the cell phone of a man changing his tire to call 911 and provide a suspect description and direction of travel.  Continue reading →

Lest Capitol Hill artists be scattered like roaches, symposium looks for Seattle art space answers

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Art needs space, and in a place like Seattle, that space is exceedingly hard to come by. This week, dozens of artists, venue owners, and developers put the art space conundrum in their sight to, as one attendee put it, prevent the “roach-like scuttling” of artists every time an old building gets torn down. -5

Squared Feet 2013 was a day-long symposium held Monday in three Capitol Hill venues, organized by the City’s Office of Arts and Culture and the office’s newly hired Cultural Space Liaison, Matthew Richter.

During the first session of the day at the Seattle University’s Lee Center for the Arts , representatives from arts organizations gave “rapid fire” spiels on their space needs.

Researcher Anne Gadwa Nicodemus gave the day’s keynote address at the Northwest Film Forum. According to event organizers, Nicodemus wrote the definitive paper on “creative placemaking.” She said arts organizations looking for space should work to change the paradigm from “‘yes sir could I have some more,’ to thinking about what assets you bring to the table.”

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Transit notes: King Co’s ‘Plan B’ for Metro cuts, Capitol Hill Station light rail in January 2016?

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  • In September, CHS reported that Sound Transit planners were considering an early opening for the more than seven-year, $1.9 billion project to build the U-Link light rail line connecting downtown to UW via Capitol Hill. Seattle Transit Blog reports on just how early the line might be ready:

    The earliest option, a Q4 2015 opening, would incur additional costs of $10-12m, while the other two options incur no additional costs. Accordingly, staff recommended the middle option to the board: that the construction schedule be left intact, that systems testing be shortened from 180 to 90 days, and that the 169 days of float be used. Doing the back-of-the-napkin math, ULink could open as early as January 8, 2016.

    U.S. Senator Patty Murray and Sound Transit Board members will be at the UW Station construction site Friday to announce the push for the early operation of the line. Sound Transit says the project is currently 80% complete and $100 million under budget. Judging the project’s early or lateness depends on at what point in time you measure from. In 1996, Sound Transit planned to have the route completed even earlier than 2016 — the planned start of operations then was 2006.

  • Metro is again in the position of tightening its belt and making service cuts across King County — including a handful of Capitol Hill routes on the possible chopping block. King County Executive Dow Constantine is pushing for a new spending package in Olympia to make the cutbacks less severe. But he also is cooking up a “Plan B” —

A balanced statewide transportation package, with local options for funding Metro Transit and roads in the cities and unincorporated areas, remains King County’s first choice – but in the absence of action by state Legislature, County leaders say they will develop legislation by year’s end to give voters the chance to save bus service and maintain roads.

At the same time, King County Executive Dow Constantine was joined today by the president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587 to announce tentative agreement on a new three-year contract that, if ratified, could preserve some bus service.

You can read the whole, lengthy thing here.

Seattle Schools final boundaries mean upheaval for some — sigh, even on Capitol Hill

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These Lowell kids are probably already driving and working on Wall Street but we're sure the alumni are proud their school's boundaries are now even more expanisve (Image: CHS)

These Lowell kids are probably already driving and working on Wall Street but we’re sure the alumni are proud their school’s boundaries are now even more expansive (Image: CHS)

Capitol Hill’s Stevens Elementary is losing its Central District students while Lowell Elementary continues its expansion through Belltown and the ID under school growth boundaries approved Wednesday night in a marathon school board meeting that numbed even the hardiest of parental and media posteriors.

The Seattle School Board unanimously approved the plan (PDF) during the meeting that lasted a whopping seven hours. The vote comes after months of wrangling between school officials and parents on the future enrollment boundaries for neighborhood schools and is to be part of an annual process of adjustments, the board decided Wednesday night.

The school board also solidified plans to shift students into the new Meany Middle School in 2017 (PDF) and move the World School, currently on the Meany campus, to T.T. Minor (PDF). Students from Stevens and Lowell would join those from Madrona (K-8), McGilvra, and Montlake in Capitol Hill’s Meany campus when its $14.2 million overhaul is complete in 2017. Currently, students from those schools all feed into Washington Middle School in the Central District. Do you have children living on Capitol Hill? No? You are saint for reading this far. Continue reading →

Puzzle Break masters turning Pike/Pine suite into real-world puzzle

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fall_2013_flyer_largeLong ago, an immersive computer game called Myst pushed gamers to solve riddles in their surroundings to escape rooms and unlock doors. Similar puzzles and the equally immersive environment of an old building in Pike/Pine are part of the new Puzzle Break kicking off Friday, November 22 on 10th Ave between Pike and Union, in Studio D.

Here is how the adventure begins.

“Puzzle Break is our spin on a love letter to Escape the Room games. Doing this in a live and collaborative environment is a new, unique, and stupendous experience,” said co-founder Nate Martin. Players will be brought into the Puzzle Break room with up to twelve other people and presented with the challenge to find clues, solve puzzles, and “think outside the box to find the way out of the room,” adds Martin.

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On the List | Revolutionary Films, Health Yourself!, Bad Santa pics, Cornish Dance, silhouette portraits

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joli_photo3-245_featureThe Chris Marker Revolutionary Series at Northwest Film Forum, Friday through Monday, celebrates the French filmmaker’s  “contributions to politically and socially engaged cinema in this series of films made by Marker and his group, as well as films inspired by Marker, created by contemporary filmmakers.” The opening film is Marker’s  newly restored Le Joli Mai (1963), in which the filmmakers interviewed Parisians about a wide range of topics, from dancing to racism, editing the footage into what has been called an essay in film.

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Weekend Highlights:

  • healthGroup run with your dog around Capitol Hill on Thursday, 6pm.
  • Go Health Yourself! on Thursday offers booze, live music, and answers to your questions about healthcare coverage for all starting in 2014 through the Affordable Healthcare Act. If you haven’t already signed up, Chop Suey on Thursday is as good of a place as any to do so. Starts at 8pm.

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  • Too soon for Santa? Von Trapp’s, Sleighr, and the Sugar Plum Elves think not. Join this merry crew for Bad Santa photos on Friday at Von Trapp’s, 8pm – 10pm. The event is a fundraiser for The World Is Fun, an organization which connects volunteers, corporations and charities in need.
  • Cornish Dance Theater, the performing ensemble of the dance department at Cornish, presents their Fall Concert at the Broadway Performance Hall on Friday and Saturday, 8pm. Contributing choreographers include include Pat Hon, Wade Madsen, Marlo Martin, and Ohad Naharin.

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  • Have a silhouette portrait created by artist Kerry Cook at Bootyland on Sunday, 11am – 3pm. Cook’s silhouettes are created in the traditional portrait style and are cut freehand– no drawing, tracing, or projection.

See more events on and around Capitol Hill on the CHS Calendar.
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Student-run Project Encourages Widespread Engagement in Listening to the Community

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Astonished by the lack of communication a group of high school students decided to get involved in their community and help start a movement. They noticed the general decline in social interaction, and started a group called “The Listen Project” to spread a message to society.They noticed that there are many people with very interesting backgrounds and/or life stories but their stories aren’t heard. They are trying to get people involved in learning more about peoples’ past as well as provide a place for people to share and listen to stories of people from inside your community to around the world.

The group encourages everyone to have a conversation with someone new, catch up with an old friend, or talk with a neighbor. Their goal is to show people that everyone has a unique and interesting background and story that makes them who they are. People often get so caught up in their own lives that they forget about others. To create a better sense of community, people should attempt to meet a new friend and find out what their story is, it’s amazing what you can find out if you just sit down and listen.

‘Like’ their Facebook page to learn more https://www.facebook.com/golistenproject

Cafe by day, bar by night, Corretto to come correct at the base of Capitol Hill

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Coffee, corrected (Image: Corretto)

Coffee, corrected (Image: Corretto)

It’s a theme so perfectly Capitol Hill you will be ashamed you never thought of it. Opening next spring at the base of the Hill in the brand spanking new Pine + Minor building, Corretto is planned as an homage to the classic Italian pairing of a shot of espresso and a shot of liquor.

Word of the new bar began trickling out this week as food and drink entrepreneur Travis Rosenthal sealed the lease on the corner retail slot on the ground floor of the big red apartment building that has risen below Melrose Market above and the Pillars Dog Park. He’ll have some lucky neighbors living upstairs.

Rosenthal, who has told CHS in the past he falls into the “work your way up” camp of food and drink financing, is the owner of longtime tapas favorite Tango and its nearby sibling rum bar Rumba which he opened in fall 2012. The investment just up Minor from his other holdings gives Rosenthal a trio of properties in the maturing Melrose entertainment economy.

The Pine + Minor building. It's red. (Image: CHS)

The Pine + Minor building. It’s red. (Image: CHS)

With a planned opening slated for next spring, Corretto will bring Italian craft cocktails and pizzas, antipasti, sliced meats and cheeses to the space at night. By day, Corretto will be an espresso bar with house-made pastries. The buildout will fill an impressive space: 25-foot ceilings, 20-foot tall windows, a 35-seat mezzanine and — why not? — “a hidden back bar with moving pieces.” Corretto will also boast large sliding glass doors and a canine-friendly 50-seat patio with a view of the dog park below. Bau-bau.

The combination of coffee and booze, of course, isn’t brand new on the Hill. Liberty on 15th Ave E probably is the most dedicated to the cause but the intertwining of the craft coffee and cocktail cultures has resulted in many successful pairings. Rosenthal is looking for people who cross into both these worlds saying Corretto needs “a great coffee manager during the day and also a bar manager at night that is not afraid of an espresso machine.”

Meanwhile, word of the new venture is another reminder of new waves of retail/food and drink space coming to the Hill with the completion of construction projects around the neighborhood. You’ll see one of these ripples beginning in December and January as a new Linda Derschang restaurant, a cookie bakery/Molly Moon’s and Capitol Hill-styled general store open on 19th Ave E.

For now, you can watch for updates on the Corretto Facebook page.