Hey Capitol Hill! We are a brand new Verizon Store located right across the street from the Rite Aid on Broadway. We are ready for all your cell phone and home solution needs! We have great grand opening promotions going on right now.
Stop by and say hi!
– Lee & Ashley from the management team
(Images: John Feit)
Buildings are relatively simple to write about.
They are objects within the landscape and as such are easy to quantitatively define easing the path to a qualitative assessment. Landscapes, on the other hand, can be more challenging as they are often composed of a seemingly infinite number of parts. The relative position between landscape and viewer can present challenges as well. Buildings typically has a front, back, and sides. The main facade, often where the entry is, usually grabs the most attention and is the view seen in glossy magazines. Landscape lacks such frontal qualities. What tree, hill, river, or plaza has a defined front (or back, for that matter)? While there are certainly advantageous views that elicit feelings of lesser or greater satisfaction, landscapeâs ensemble of vegetation, geography, geology, buildings, and other characteristics make it more challenging to succinctly describe; yet, it is these very qualities that also make it more satisfying and emotionally evocative than most buildings.
It is these multifaceted and often elusive qualities that keep me writing about what I enjoy most about Capitol Hill, the amazing variety of landscapes both architectural and otherwise. Landscape is all encompassing, yet hard to distill to key points that are succinctly shared.
With landscapes as diverse as Pike/Pine and Volunteer Park, one would have to put conditions on what constitutes one’s favorite Capitol Hill landscape, such as: which is my favorite commercial street, distant view, or verdant park? Despite this inexorable taxonomical quandary, Bellevue, Bellevue, and Bellevue, on the northwest corner of the Hill, certainly presents opportunities to engage landscapes that are among the Hill’s finest.
Its charms are many — too many for just one post — so I start with with that quality which I think is the most noteworthy: the combination of both close-in and distant vistas as well as the variety of both natural and created landscapes that are all available for enjoyment within a two or three block area. Continue reading
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Images: Alex Garland for CHS
A group of around 60 demonstrators tossed rocks, broke windows and smashed fences as they marched and ran through the streets around Broadway and Pike/Pine Saturday night in an anticapitalist protest in solidarity with recent Ferguson-related demonstrations.
Marchers masked up, got a pep talk and headed out from Seattle Central’s plaza around 10:30 PM on a night with temperatures in the mid 20s. Anarchy banners were on display, not the posters and signs that had been on display in the week’s Ferguson demonstrations. Continue reading
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This morning on Capitol Hill, the force awakened. And wanted breakfast.
CHS wasn’t going outside this early for this little snow, either!
With light snow falling steadily at times on Capitol Hill, meteorologists nailed their predictions for a dusting of snow across the Seattle area Saturday. As of just before 7 AM, the periods of light snow had mostly failed to stick on streets and sidewalks even at the highest points of Capitol Hill around Volunteer Park.
A few wintry scenes on the Capitol Hill Traffic Cameras page this morning
The forecast calls for a continued drop in temperatures — but also very little precipitation.
It hasn’t all been fun, however. Snowy branches and winds have conspired to knock down trees with street blockages reported at 22nd and Aloha, Interlaken at Delmar and 30th and E Howell.
Even with the modest snowfall, we’d like to see your pictures from Capitol Hill and share a few on the site. Send us mail at [email protected] or txt (206) 399-5959.
You can check out the CHS Capitol Hill Traffic Camera page to see what’s going on out there. Here’s a local weather station if you want to know exactly how cold it is on Capitol Hill. And here’s the latest forecast from the National Weather Service.
Weâve asked Karyn Schwartz, owner of the Sugarpill apothecary on E Pine, to contribute to CHS about health and Hill living on a semi-regular basis. If youâre an expert and want to share with the community in a recurring CHS column, weâd like to hear from you.
I love that there are still churches here that ring the time of day, on the hour, with their bells. Whenever I hear them, I find myself longing for the time before digital anything existed. A time when TIME was still analogue, and there was mystery about the everyday ordinary details of life, like what your friends are doing when youâre not with them, or whether or not someone is thinking about you in exactly this moment.
We used to look at the sky to know what time it was. We used to look at the sky just to wonder. We used to sit still and not feel like we were wasting time. We used to listen to records from beginning to end. We used to write letters and postcards by hand and address, stamp and send them, and someone would receive that thought days or even weeks later, and it would interrupt a different moment in time than the exact one when the thought occurred, and a response would be considered, lingered over, signed, sealed. Continue reading
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#ferguson #Seattle At pike and bway. “Black lives matter” pic.twitter.com/lUORf4ktYG
â Casey Jaywork (@CaseyJaywork) November 28, 2014
A week of protest continued around downtown Seattle and Capitol Hill Friday as hundreds of protesters pushed their way inside Westlake Mall and Pacific Place before marching up Pine to Capitol Hill. UPDATE 4:02 PM: An attempt to stop the march from returning to downtown at Pine and Boren resulted in a clash between police and protesters that included SPD deploying flash bangs and the use of pepper spray.
Original report: A crowd of marchers around 200 people deep spent part of the cold and soaked afternoon marching through the streets around Broadway and Pike/Pine as the streets around East Precinct once again went into lockdown. In addition to the continued anger over the decision not to charge a Ferguson, Missouri police officer for shooting a black teen to death, the protest also included some specific Capitol Hill targets. The protest crowd stopped at 10th and Pike to rally where “Lost Lake, Cafe Vita, Comet Tavern & Neumos profile Somali Youth,” one journalist reported on Twitter. Continue reading
Shop the Hill is an annual community collaboration featuring CHS, the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce and local merchants.
Shop the Hill/Shop Local on Capitol Hill.
TODAY, Friday, November 28th â Sunday November 30th!
SugarPill
(Image: In Your Head with permission to CHS)
What year did you open on Capitol Hill: 2011
Tell us about your business: A modern neighborhood herbal apothecary, featuring medicinal as well as specialty culinary items, cocktail essentials, rare chocolates and decadent offerings for your body, your home and your favorite people.
What is the best thing about having a business on Capitol Hill? Being surrounded by the most interesting and creative folks in town and from all over the world.
Why is it important for people to shop local, especially around the holidays? The only way that the unique and interesting things in your neighborhood survive is if you support them. Small independent stores will never be able to compete with the amazonian scale companies that offer you everything at a âdiscountâ, but we will give you the human connection and the personal service that remind you that you are a part of a community. Â If we lose our neighborhoods to big box stores, chains and on-line commerce, we will lose our whole sense of belonging, to this place and to each other.
