Yearly Archives: 2021

Capitol Hill, your adaptogenic mushroom coffee joint is ready — Wunderground Cafe planning Hilloween opening

Posted on by

A sneak peak of the Electric Coffin art installation, Wunderground’s Brainchild coffee and a brain wash vanilla latte (Image: Wunderground Cafe)

Adaptogenic mushroom coffee joint Wunderground Cafe is planning a Hilloween debut.

The project from founder Jody Hall and chef Alyssa Lisle to create a new grain bowl, bone broth, and mushroom coffee cafe in the space formerly home to Hall’s E Pike Cupcake Royale location is set to open on Halloween, the newly launched Wunderground company announced. Continue reading →

Nearing 2,000 lives lost, King County proposal would begin planning for COVID-19 memorial

Posted on by

An image from 2020’s Mask Parade, a curation of face masks made by 27 different artists, at First Hill’s Museum of Museums

Plans are being put in motion for a memorial to lives lost to COVID-19 in King County.

As of this week, 1,974 people have died here since the start of the pandemic in 2020. Deaths continue. The county says in recent weeks around three people suffer COVID related deaths here every day, a rate that has remained unfortunately steady through the early fall.

Under legislation proposed by King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn, the county’s 4Culture agency would help develop a report by next summer with potential locations for the memorial, as well as costs and possible sources of funding and donors. Continue reading →

Police: Victim slashed in Capitol Hill Station knife attack after warning man to stay off tracks

Posted on by

A man was slashed across the face after warning his assailant to stay off the tracks in a late Sunday afternoon knife attack inside Capitol Hill Station, police say.

According to SPD’s report, a brief on the incident, and East Precinct scanner reports, the 27-year-old suffered a deep knife cut to his face and was driven to a nearby hospital where the injury required several stitches. Continue reading →

Latte to go? Mask up and grab it — But bring your vaccination proof if you’re planning to hang around your favorite Capitol Hill cafe, bars, and restaurants

Posted on by

Coffee at The Buzz at Seattle Central (Image: Seattle Culinary Academy)

You won’t have to show it if you’re just picking up coffee but if you want to hang around and linger in your favorite Capitol Hill cafe, you’re going to need your proof of vaccination.

Monday brings the October 25th deadline for the new health order across the county requiring proof to be shown for entry to indoor areas of restaurants and bars, live music events, performing arts, and gyms, as well as large outdoor events like professional sports with 500 or more people in attendance.

Smaller restaurants and bars with a seating capacity no greater than a dozen people will have until December 6th to implement the requirements. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill’s ‘bomb cyclone’ damage report: downed trees and branches, road hazards, and the lights (mostly) stayed on

Posted on by

Fallen Tree Blocking 17th Avenue (Image: sea-turtle via Flickr)

Sunday’s SPD street hazard responses (Source)

Capitol Hill and nearby neighborhoods made it through the worst of this week’s “bomb cyclone” winds with a Sunday of downed trees and branches, road hazards, and a mostly intact power grid.

Winds were predicted to continue and eventually die down as the storm passes north off the coast of Washington. Gust above 35 MPH were reported on some areas of the Hill while far out across the Olympic Peninsula, the state’s coast was pounded by huge waves and higher winds.

At one point Sunday night, Seattle City Light reported more than 100 different outages in the city with around 33,000 customers without power. Around Capitol Hill and the Central District, the area’s western core showed mostly no power grid issues while leafy areas to the northeast and southeast bore the brunt of utility damage in this area of the city. Continue reading →

‘Fare free’ rides, Capitol Hill Super Block, and kayaks: How council candidates come down on streets and transit

Posted on by

CHS examined the two candidates who are vying to be Seattle’s next mayor through the prism of what the future may hold around transit and transportation on Capitol Hill. The races for Seattle’s two citywide city council seats may feature some starker contrasts than in the mayor’s race, with similar stakes for pivotal decisions around the future of transportation in the city.

In the race for Position 9, the seat Council President M. Lorena González is vacating, the candidates offer pretty different visions of what government can and should accomplish. Nikkita Oliver, the lawyer, poet, and community organizer in the race, has built an ambitious campaign platform heavily based on the idea that the city should reform and expand its current revenue base to include new forms of progressive taxation. Sara Nelson, Fremont Brewing co-owner and former council aide to Richard Conlin, has primarily argued that the city should do a better job with current revenues. Continue reading →

Police investigate shots fired on First Hill

Posted on by

Police already in the area for an operation at an area apartment building scrambled from the scene after a round of gunfire echoed through First Hill Saturday night.

According to East Precinct radio updates, a unit responding to a standoff or crisis situation in a Seneca St apartment building scrambled from the building after a round of gunfire was heard nearby. Continue reading →

This week in CHS history | Whole Foods comes to Broadway, Bauhaus returns, Occupy at Seattle Central

Posted on by

Here are the top stories from this week in CHS history:

2020

 

Broadway’s Blade and Timber comes out swinging in fight over serving beer at Capitol Hill axe throwing venue

Seattle Police Department brings ‘perfect storm’ concerns to East Precinct community crime meeting


Continue reading →

Does it bring you Dough Joy? Vegan donut shop coming to Capitol Hill — UPDATE

Posted on by

(Image: Dough Joy)

Willis and Ballard (Image: Dough Joy)

Born earlier this year as a plant-based, yeast-raised donut truck, Dough Joy is pulling onto E Pike with plans for a new Capitol Hill shop.

Owners Sean Willis and Christopher Ballard shared the news with CHS about their plans to open next month in the former Old School Frozen Custard shop on upper E Pike. They’ll be on Capitol Hill to celebrate — you can find Dough Joy pop-ups at the 19th Ave E Fuel on Friday and E Jefferson’s Peloton on Sunday.

“We are so excited to bring our business to this vibrant community, and think it’ll be a great addition to the north end of Pike as well,” Willis and Ballard said in their announcement. We’ll forgive them the directional imprecision — it’s more like the east end of Pike — as Dough Joy’s homebase until now has been the Ballard neighborhood.

Dough Joy launched earlier this year as a vegan donut truck with “plant based handmade yeast raised donuts” and flavors like the Basic B glazed, Chocoholic, Cinny French Toast, Strawberry Milkshake, Mango con Chile, and Little Dippers, donut holes served with chocolate or caramel sauce. Current “specials” include Chocolate Twist, Cinnamon Glazed Twist, and a Pumpkin Spice Fritter. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill Community Post | When do you want your library to be open? Take SPL’s survey

Posted on by

The Capitol Hill Branch on its reopening day (Image: The Seattle Public Library)

From the Seattle Public Library

In 2019, Seattle voters overwhelmingly passed a levy to expand The Seattle Public Library’s hours and services, as well as ending overdue fines. Now that all Library locations are reopened, it is planning ahead for how to use levy-supported funds to expand hours and wants to hear from you. When do you want your neighborhood library to be open? What Library services are important to your community?

Let the Library know what you want by taking the brief survey at www.spl.org/LevySurvey. If you visit a Library branch, you can also use a computer to take the survey or ask for a paper copy. The survey is available in eight languages and is open until Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. If you have questions, call 206-386-4636 or contact www.spl.org/ask.