Scott and Rinck holding ‘Crisis Care Center Townhall’ on Capitol Hill

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The proposed Broadway site

There have been few public updates on the King County Department of Community and Human Services plan to open a mental health Crisis Care Center at Broadway and Union but two Seattle political leaders are collaborating on an event next week on Capitol Hill to raise support for the project.

“7/7 @ 7PM is our chance to lift every voice in support of a behavioral health crisis center that will help the Capitol Hill community and its people,” reads the social media post from Rep. Shaun Scott. “Come ready to have a good time at Vermillion with community leaders who support an inclusive Seattle.”

The Crisis Care Center Townhall will take place Monday night at the 11th Ave art bar and will include Seattle City Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck, according to the flyer.

We have inquiries out to Scott and Rinck to learn more. King County DCHS is also listed as part of the event as is comedian Brett Hamil.

“Drinks + Comedy + Civics,” the pitch reads. Continue reading →

Seattle voters will decide on $1.3B school levy renewal this fall

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The Constellation Center job training academy is expected to open on Capitol Hill in 2027

Mayor Bruce Harrell last week signed legislation that will put the proposed $1.3 billion school levy renewal on the fall ballot.

In November, Seattle voters will weigh in on the increased tax and boosted spending plan for childcare and preschool, K-12 academic supports, and the Seattle Promise program.

$235 million earmarked for school safety investments in the plan has become one center of debate as the city weighs a possible return of Seattle Police officers assigned to campuses. CHS reported here on the proposal to add a “School Engagement Officer” on Garfield High School’s campus as soon as this fall.

A key amendment from Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck calls for focused spending to “guard against the school-to-prison pipeline” by focusing on diversion and social programs but changes by her fellow council members leave room for the return of the SPD School Engagement Officers. Continue reading →

911 | Cal Anderson rape investigation, pedestrians injured in Broadway hit and run — UPDATE

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  • Cal Anderson rape: Police investigated a reported sexual assault in a tent at Cal Anderson Park late Friday night. According to East Precinct radio updates, police were called to meet the victim on Broadway after the assault where she described the attack in a tent where she was staying in the nearby park. Police found ten tents in the area and kept watch for the suspect to return but there were no reported arrests. The victim was taken to Harborview.
  • Broadway hit and run: Police were looking for the driver of an SUV who fled after hitting two pedestrians crossing Broadway late Sunday night. Police say the collision through one of the victims onto the adjacent sidewalk and left the other down in the street but both people fortunately suffered only minor injuries and were taken to the hospital for treatment. Police say the driver of the dark SUV sped away on Broadway, colliding with another driver at Republican before fleeing the area. Police say the SUV in the 11:55 PM crash was captured on a Metro security camera but could not be immediately located. Continue reading →

The Capitol Hill Class of 2024: ‘If you want to do something that hasn’t been done yet…’ — Ramie celebrates first year on Capitol Hill

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By Domenic Strazzabosco

Trinh and Thai Nguyen (Image: Ramie)

In spring and summer 2024, Capitol Hill welcomed several new bars and restaurants to The Hill. CHS checked in with owners to see how the first year of business has been and what residents can expect to see and experience in the upcoming year. In Part 1, CHS talked to Koko’s Restaurant and Tequila Bar on 10th and Broadway’s Chandelier Lounge. This time around, we visited with 14th Ave’s Ramie.

Trinh Nguyen, who co-owns Ramie with her brother Thai, said they’re happy with the way the first year has gone and how Capitol Hill has responded to the restaurant’s approach to Vietnamese cuisine.

“The first year is always like a whirlwind. You never really know what to expect until you open,” Nguyen said. “We’re super happy with what we’ve accomplished so far. I can’t even believe that it’s already been a year — like it went by so fast.” Continue reading →

CHS Pics | ‘Let Trans Kids Bloom’ — 100+ pictures from Trans Pride Seattle and Capitol Hill’s 2025 Pride Saturday celebrations

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Thousands filled Broadway and Cal Anderson during Saturday’s annual PrideFest street festival

Trans Pride 2025 from the sky above Volunteer Park

Seattle is focusing this weekend’s Pride celebration and Sunday’s big downtown parade on inclusion and support for the trans community. Friday night, Volunteer Park again was filled with Seattle’s Trans Pride celebrations while Saturday was all about Capitol Hill and the neighborhood’s long tradition of a Pride street festival on Broadway and parties and beer gardens across Pike/Pine.

Below, you’ll find more scenes from Capitol Hill’s 2025 Pride including Friday night’s Trans Pride Seattle and Saturday’s PrideFest street festival across Broadway, the AIDS Memorial Plaza, and Cal Anderson Park. Continue reading →

This week in CHS history | Deadly shooting and CHOP cleared, love for Jeepney, Mighty-O comes to Hill

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

2024

 

Woman reported dead in Capitol Hill parking lot shooting — UPDATE

Capitol Hill grocery store transformed for Punk Rock Flea Market stays busy: Seattle Zine Fest this weekend


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Seattle’s mysterious Sea Dragonsss artist reveals story behind Capitol Hill’s time-traveling sculptures

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If you have wandered across Capitol Hill, Columbia City, Seward Park, or even Los Angeles, you may have spotted them — colorful, CD-studded dragon faces grinning from telephone poles, their reflective surfaces glinting in the sunlight. Emerging from the imagination of the pseudonymous Sea DragonSSS, these sculptures carry the mystery of their creator with backstories involving time travel that are as deliberately obscure as the artist himself.

The artist — who goes by Eddie after his signature dragon character — shared with CHS the story behind his decade-long journey from obscure noise musician to guerrilla sculptor, his installation mishaps, and his ambitious plans to bring his time traveling dragon universe to life through animation.

FROM FAILED MUSICIAN TO STREET ARTIST: THE UNLIKELY ORIGINS OF SEA DRAGONSSS

Long before dragons adorned Seattle’s streets, Sea DragonSSS was a struggling experimental artist.

“I started as a musician. Was playing music in the 90s, mostly noise, not very popular stuff. Got some grants along the way to put out CDs. I also was a filmmaker too. CDs and DVDs of my work, none of them sold. Well, I shouldn’t say none of them, but not very many of them.”

Faced with boxes of unsold discs, he saw an opportunity. Continue reading →

Police investigate after shooter in a tux riding a scooter reported on First Hill

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Seattle Police were searching for a shooter in a tuxedo making his escape on a Lime rental scooter after gunfire Thursday afternoon near Freeway Park.

The James Bond-like scene was a serious deal. Police found multiple shell casings strewn across streets in the area. A check for victims around First Hill and at nearby Harborview fortunately turned up empty.

SPD says its officers were called to the area of Hubbell Place and University around 2:15 PM Thursday to reports of gunfire. Witnesses reported a shooter described as a white male in his early 30s, around 5’11” and thin with short blond hair, wearing a full tuxedo suit down to the black oxfords, and riding a rental electric scooter. It wasn’t clear who, if anybody, he was firing at. He was last reported headed south.

Police searched the area but found only the spent shell casings in the street. There were no arrests.

 

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Groovy — Capitol Hill mushroom coffee joint Wunderground adds founder of one of Capitol Hill’s most popular cafes

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A founder of one of Capitol Hill’s most enduringly popular cafes has returned from retirement to help create “the coffeehouse of the future” with an overhaul of E Pike adaptogenic mushroom coffee joint the Wunderground Cafe. They’re celebrating Saturday with a Pride rave.

Ericka Burke says she is joining Wunderground founder and CEO Jody Hall to give the four-year-old E Pike cafe and adaptogenic mushroom startup’s showcase cafe a fresh start, “offering food and beverage to nourish and flourish.”

CHS reported here on the fall 2021 debut of Wunderground, a grain bowl, bone broth, and mushroom coffee hangout in the space formerly home to Hall’s E Pike Cupcake Royale location and a center for the startup coffee company and its fusion of “health benefits” from mushrooms like Lion’s Mane, Chaga, Reishi, and Cordyceps with the daily ritual and the “antioxidant properties” of coffee. Continue reading →

City-run grocery stores in New York? Seattle Councilmember ‘not looking to legislate anything’ after Broadway Whole Foods shutdown

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Zohran Mamdani’s political surge in New York City, of course, has a grocery store element.

Soaring prices, faded services, and eroded humanity are an industry-wide trend that is hitting hardest in America’s largest, busiest, most expensive cities.

With this month’s nearly overnight closure of the Broadway Whole Foods only the latest major grocery corporation cutback in the city, don’t look to Seattle leadership to champion city-run grocery stores — yet.

“I’m not looking to legislate anything,” District 3 representative Joy Hollingsworth told CHS about her comments following the rapid shutdown of the Broadway at Madison Whole Foods two weeks ago. Continue reading →