Monthly Archives: November 2016

CHS Pics | Record rains at Broadway and Republican

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(Images: Tim Durkan with permission to CHS)

(Images: Tim Durkan with permission to CHS)

We can’t say exactly how much rain fell on Capitol Hill last month but we would speculate that it’s a pretty good bet the neighborhood kept solid pace with the record setting totals recorded at Sea-Tac.

Our October 2016 tallied 10.05 inches of rain for the month. The old record was 8.96 inches set in 2003. October featured a sopping 25 days of recorded rain, also reportedly a record.

If you’re wondering if you are living through the End Times, it’s hard to say. But “climate models driven with increased greenhouse gases show a dramatically increased amount of early fall precipitation, particularly during October.”

Happy November.

 

Old Value Village building will go out with holiday Punk Rock Flea Market

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V2’s day as a temporary arts and events venue are numbered (Image: CHS)

CHS broke the news earlier this year about just how temporary the temporary arts space V2 really is as the project bought a year for dance and performance on 11th Ave. We know what the planned preservation and development project set to replace the old Value Village will eventually look like. Now we know how the auto row-era building that housed the popular vintage store will go out before the demolition and preservation process sets in.

The Punk Rock Flea Market announced this week it is planning a final three-day, music-soaked blowout for the old VV space: Continue reading →

Capitol Hill Community Post | The Untitled Play About Art School

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untitledplay_poster_final3From Copious Love Productions

Copious Love Productions Premieres

The Untitled Play About Art School

by Nelle Tankus

WHO: Copious Love Productions

WHAT: A brand new play about surviving Art School, written by local playwright Nelle Tankus.

WHEN: December 1 -21, 2016 @ 7:30pm

WHERE: 12th Ave Arts, Studio Theatre, 1620 12th Ave. Seattle, WA 98122

TICKETS: $15 General Admission ($18 at the Door), $12 TPS, Student, Senior ($15 at the Door) – Brown Paper Tickets

Seattle WA – When Amy Antonia fails to show up for her thesis presentation and it is blamed on her depression/anxiety, she is threatened with expulsion from Whetmore’s College of Performing Arts. Meanwhile, in Ancient Greece, a carnivorous beast has escaped Echo’s watchful eye and is hungry for blood. As Echo and Amy’s friends continue to betray them and bystanders are devoured, they must decide whether to give up on theatre while they still can, or burn everything to the ground and start over. The Untitled Play About Art School is a very harsh comedy following an unbreakable friendship that tries to find a way to heal when all hope seems lost.

Join Copious Love Productions for our first full-length production of Season 4. Nelle Tankus is a trans woman playwright and performer born and raised in Seattle, and is an alumni of the Lambda Literary Emerging Writers’ Retreat.

ENSEMBLE

Madison Jade Jones as AMY ANTONIA

Grace Carmack as ECHO

Jeremy Behrens as RHETT WHETMORE / CHIONIDES

Merri Ann Osborne as WILHELMINA ROSEMARY / GREEK CHORUS MEMBER 2

Richard Sean Glen as DONALD MAYES / GABRIEL JOY / TEIRESIAS

Alexei Cifrese as IRA HUXLEY III / GREEK CHORUS MEMBER 1

Samantha Routh as MARNY FAITHFUL EVELYN / GREEK CHORUS MEMBER 3

ARTISTIC TEAM

Writer: Nelle Tankus

Director: L. Nicol Cabe

Stage Manager: Emily Cioc

Technical and Sound Design: Chris Leher

Lighting Design: Zanna Paulson

Set Design: Reiko Huffman

Hair/Make-up Design: Saya Jean Burchfield

Costume Design: Fantasia Oslund

Puppet Design: Zane Exactly

Fight Choreographer: Tom Dewey

Dramaturgy: Sara Keats

Capitol Hill food+drink | Gnocchi Bar latest to say arrivederci to 12th and Pine

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(Image: Jackie Donnelly via Gnocchi Bar)

The meatball-loving dogs of Capitol Hill might end up the biggest losers in all of this. But we’re all going to miss out on the underrated treats of Gnocchi Bar. Owner Lisa Nakamura has announced a November 20th last night of service for the gnocchi restaurant and dessert spot at the corner of 12th and Pine.

“I am proud and honored that so many of you have come in, dined with us, patronized our little shop, purchased our gnocchi in grocery stores and have made yourselves part of our family,” Nakamura wrote in the announcement sent to customers Tuesday. “You helped make one woman’s vision into a reality, and for that, thank you so very much.” Continue reading →

Seattle’s first publicly financed election season kicks off in January

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No, Kshama Sawant will not be on Seattle's democracy vouchers -- but she might benefit from them in 2019

No, Kshama Sawant will not be on Seattle’s democracy vouchers — but she might benefit from them in 2019

In less than a week, the 2016 election season will, mercifully, end. So it’s on to 2017, featuring races for Seattle mayor and the two at-large City Council seats. The election will also be the first to utilize Seattle’s groundbreaking campaign finance law.

Last year Seattle voters approved the Democracy Voucher Program, a first-of-its-kind local election law that enacted a property tax levy to fund a voluntary public financing system of giving eligible residents four $25 “democracy vouchers” that they can then give to candidates.

Vouchers are scheduled to be mailed out during the first week of January. Voters can immediately start giving the vouchers to qualifying campaigns for the November election.

On Wednesday, the Seattle Ethics and Election Commission will be discussing and possibly voting on a handful of rules to implement in the program. Among the proposals are clarifications to how campaigns must re-pay unspent voucher funds if a candidate drops out or doesn’t complete the race. You can also provide feedback on the program via email — [email protected]. Continue reading →

Library fined for illegally sponsoring District 7 congressional debate

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screen-shot-2016-11-01-at-4-22-16-pmThe Seattle Public Library has agreed to pay a $450 fine after the city’s ethics board found it violated election law by sponsoring a congressional election debate in July without inviting all the candidates on the ballot.

Republican candidate for the 7th Congressional District Craig Keller filed the complaint after he and five other eligible candidates were excluded from the July 14th debate at the Central Library. The debate featured Pramila Jayapal, Brady Walkinshaw, and Joe McDermott. Continue reading →

Buy, sell, or trade: Odd Fellows building hits market

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(Image: Westlake Associates)

Odd Fellows gets the glamour shot treatment (Image: Westlake Associates)

The 1908-built building that embodies pretty much everything — good and bad and in between — that Pike/Pine has become is for sale.

The Odd Fellows building at the corner of 10th and Pine and home to restaurants, retailers, and a rather popular ice cream shop hit the market mid-October. The price? A cool $30 million.

But this isn’t your typical $30,000,000 Capitol Hill building sale.

Brian Bergman, principal and managing broker at Westlake Associates, tells CHS the six-person partnership that owns the building have completed a refinancing of the property and “are now exploring other opportunities, including exchanging into a different asset class.” Continue reading →

Blotter | E Pike knife threat arrest, First Hill IT burglary

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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.

  • SPD report on 23/Union shooting: According to the police report on last Thursday’s shooting inside Earl’s Cuts at 23rd and Union, witnesses inside the barber shop “did not come forward” and “would not cooperate” with the investigation after a man suffered gunshots to both legs:
    screen-shot-2016-11-01-at-3-23-10-pmPolice are still looking for the suspect captured on security video leaving the scene. The victim suffered serious but not life threatening injuries in the incident.
  • E Pike threats: A man who had been threatening concert goers with a knife as they lined up for a show at Neumos was apprehended by police without incident. Police were called to the area around 10th and Pike on Monday, October 24th around 9 PM and found the man standing nearby after a short search. Victims told police the man had been making threatening remarks and waving around a knife: Continue reading →

CHS Pics | From the Bates Motel House to the 18th Ave White House, Hilloween in the trick or treat hot zone

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On Halloween, the streets of northern Capitol Hill spur off E Aloha like a spooky skeleton’s ribs. The neighborhood is a mix of some of the city’s most expensive homes and some of its most neighborly neighborhoods. We think it is the city’s trick or treat hot zone. With the return of classics like the Bates Motel house and the tiki-torched freaks who set up the annual zombie jungle house every year, 16th, 17th, and 18th Avenues East also included new displays of horror — and fun — like this year’s White House complete with replica Washington Monument in the shadow of the St. Joe’s tower…. plus lots and lots of candy. Here is a look at what CHS found on the busy streets around the trick or treat hot zone Halloween night. Let us know in comments if you have images to share. CHS hopes you had a fun and safe Hilloween.

(Image: CHS)
(Images: Alex Garland for CHS except where noted)

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RIP, Ballet (which, it turns out, closed for good this summer and won’t get a Rancho Bravo-powered revamp)

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(Image: CHS)

(Image: CHS)

As we tick off the new openings from our 2016 new bars and restaurants to come list and celebrate the not really death and really rebirth of Sur 16, there is a passing we failed to note this summer that has left a small hole on E Pike just as the street is filling in with new options.

When we first reported on the melding of the business acumen behind Rancho Bravo with the location and history of E Pike dive Vietnamese restaurant Ballet, the pairing seemed like a most excellent recipe. But restaurateur Freddy Rivas said his overhaul of the old E Pike joint on the Comet Tavern’s block is not happening. It turns out Ballet closed for good with a quiet whimper this summer. Continue reading →