Here's the way it usually works: you see a pothole, graffiti or something else that you want the city to deal with. But, of course, when you see it, you're out and about, so you think to yourself "I've got to email the city about this when I get home." Then, you're home and one thing and another... To help grease the wheels a bit, the city has released a Find It, Fix It app for mobiles phones: "Find It, Fix…
Explain: Parks are beautiful, green natural playgrounds, but "parking" means you take a giant piece of petroleum burning metal and maneuver it onto a rectangle of asphalt. Makes no sense, right? Well, here's your opportunity to square up the mismatch. From WSDOT: On Friday, September 20, Seattleites can participate in PARK(ing) Day and help to create a walkable, livable and healthy city. For just a few hours (from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.), anyone can convert a couple of on-street parking…
We've got a van that we leave parked near our house by the John Stanford school. A couple times over the past few months, I went to drive it, and was surprised to find the tank on empty, when I thought I had filled in recently. I mentioned it to my wife, who pointed me towards a recent post to the Green Lake Moms mailing list from someone who suspected that their gas tank was being siphoned. So, when I filled…
Get ready for Seattle Tilth's Harvest Fair happening at Meridian Park (4649 Sunnyside Avenue North) on Saturday, September 7, from 10:00am to 4:00pm. This hands-on festival is a fun day of workshops, activities, music and dancing, cider pressings, and cooking demonstrations. Try your luck in playing Chicken Poop Bingo, check out the harvest parade, see some chickens, goats, and bees. Plus, there will be up to 100 community organizations, vendors and organic farmers. Seattle Tilth is also taking applications for vendors.…
Studio Evolve (3333 Wallingford Ave. N. Ste B) owner Martine Dedek wrote to tell us about a new Prenatal Pilates class offered by Olivia, an instructor at the studio: Everything is different when you're pregnant, including how you exercise and what muscles you need to be strong. Olivia is currently working on her degree in Midwifery and is an experienced Pilates instructor. Join Olivia for a weekly workout that will keep you strong and comfortable through your pregnancy as well as work on…
If your favorite vintage is full-bodied and earthy with undercurrents of suspense, then you should make your way to Wine World tonight or tomorrow for their annual brown bag wine tasting. Its real purpose is to get you tasting wines that you would never pick up off the shelf because their labels are too ugly. Those ugly labels will be disguised under the cover of a brown bag. No peeking is allowed. Wine World’s brown bag tasting will be held tonight…
Joe Hurley dropped us a line to let us know that there's a design review meeting on Monday, August 19 for a new apartment complex at 3801 Stone Way N. Plans call for a "5-story structure containing 281 residential units above 9,956 sq. ft. of commercial and 4 live-work units in an environmentally critical area. Parking for 268 vehicles to be provided below grade. Project includes 27,778 cu. yds. of grading. Existing structures to be demolished." You can view the entire…