This coming Saturday, the 23rd at 10 am and Tuesday, the 26th at 6 pm, the brand new Huckleberry Forest Seattle Preschool of the Arts and Science will be holding an open house. The school is located at 2102 N 40th St. (40th and Meridian) on the ground floor of the Gift of Grace Lutheran Church. While it is housed in a church, it is not a faith-based school. One-on-One Appointments are also available by contacting [email protected]. They are offering a…
This Saturday, Jan 23rd is Yoga Day USA (as designated by the Yoga Alliance, the registry overseeing yoga teachers), and many around the city are offering free yoga for the day to celebrate: Gordan Kaplan ([email protected]) writes: The good folks at the Wallingford Center (Amy Singer) are donating space for me to conduct a free yoga class as part of that larger national event. Saturday morning from 9 am - 10:30 I'll be teaching in that vacant retail space on the…
My full, legal name is Jordan Luther King Schwartz. Kind of an unusual name for a white guy (and a Jew, no less). How did I end up with a name usually reserved for civil rights memorials and streets running through the hood? Back in early 1960's, Jim Crow laws, mandating separate facilities for blacks and whites throughout the South, were still very much on the books and enforced. When Dallas County, Alabama blacks showed up on one of the two…
The Seattle Crime blog's Twitter stream is reporting that a child was found by police wandering near Meridian Park: Scanner: Police found a barefoot 5-year-old wandering near 50/Wallingford. Child is carrying a rabbit and has lighter in a purse (Thanks for the heads up, Kerri)
We're not all about posting specials all willy-nilly, but $50 off a meal at Cantinetta seemed worthy: http://deals.livingsocial.com/deals/340?ref=email-jp&rpi=33428 Disclaimer: it's one of those "social deals", so if one more person uses that link, we get ours for free. That's not why we mentioned it, though, just a perk.
Hot on the heels of the request for auction donations for the Meridian School, Jacqui writes: Adams Elementary is one of Wallingford’s SISD cluster schools, and the only public elementary in the Northwest to feature complete arts integration in its curriculum. The arts curriculum is funded by the PTA, which in turn is largely funded by our annual auction: Adams Elementary School Students Reach for the Stars – and the Paintbrush Music fills the art-adorned halls long before the first bell…
This Sunday, Joule's chefs Rachel and Seif are appearing on the hit Food Network show Iron Chef, and it sounds like they've got a viewing party planned. From their Facebook page: FINALLY, Joule Iron Chef premiere this Sunday! This is how it's going to go down. Joule is almost booked up for the Iron Chef Joule supper. There will be some cool creations using the secret ingredient for this dinner. And the viewing party! It will be at Murphy's across the…