New Belgium Clips July 25

New Belgium Brewing's Clips Beer and Film Tour returns to Gas Works Park this Friday, July 25th: New Belgium Brewing’s annual Clips Beer & Film Tour is hitting the road again, making its ninth stop of the 2014 tour in Seattle, Wash. on July 25. The event will take place in Gas Works Park from 8:00-11:00 p.m., with the films starting once dark descends. This beer-toting, film-traveling, nonprofit-benefiting show is going coast-to-coast hitting 21 cities in its fifth year. The best part is that…

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Design a Winning Little Free Library

I have a love affair with Little Free Libraries. To the point that my children now try to distract me whenever we walk near one ("Look Mom! Over there!"). Despite my offsprings' best efforts, I have located three more nearby LFLs since I last wrote about them (see below). Apparently I am not alone in my book lust, as Little Free Libraries are riding a wave of popularity that has crossed the globe. And now, the local architect/ humanitarians at Architects…

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Check out the Burke-Gilman Trail Orchard this Sunday

The neighborhood fruit trees are having a great year so far. They've produced bumper crops of cherries, yellow transparent apples, and are now into plums. Did you know there are 40 fruit trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail between the University Bridge and Northlake Place, west of Gas Works? Come and see a group of them on Sunday. City Fruit, a local non-profit which harvests fruit from private trees throughout the city, also takes care of fruit trees in 11 public Seattle…

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ORCA card at WCSC

Considering using (or using more!) Public Transportation this summer? With all of the summer construction projects on our local highways and byways, letting someone else do the driving sounds like a good idea. Come to Wallingford Community Senior Center on Tuesday, July 22nd between the hours of 11 AM – 1PM to get your ORCA card and learn more about the transportation services King County Metro provides. Representatives from King County Metro will be on hand with their “ORCA-TO-GO” card printing machine,…

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Meaningful Movies

Wallingford Night At the Meaningful Movies (5019 Keystone Place N. (1 blk east of Meridian Ave N & ½ blk north of N. 50th St) is back this Friday with "The Next American Revolution": Wallingford Meaningful Movies:  AN EVENING EXAMINING THE GROWING WORKER-OWNED COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES …A Viable Economic Model? Please join us Friday, July 18th at 7PM for this fascinating film, an eminent panel discussion and a community conversation exploring new alternatives for our economic and cultural future. Film:…

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Troll Mtg

Plans continue to develop to enhance and expand the Fremont Troll. The latest concept includes a P-Patch Community Garden. Want a say in how it turns out? Attend tonight's design review! Seattle Parks and Recreation, the Department of Neighborhoods and Harrison Design invite the community to the second meeting on Troll’s Knoll Park on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 from 6:30 – 7:45 p.m. at the Fremont Abbey Arts Center, 4272 Fremont Ave. N. At this public meeting, participants can learn about the new…

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Clockwise from left: Andrew McGinn as John Falstaff, Christine Marie Brown as Hotspur, Tony Pasqualini as King Henry IV, and Reginald André Jackson as Prince Henry of Monmouth (Photo by Daniel Morris)

Charmingly Weird Henry IV

(This review of the The Flower of England’s Face, now showing at the UW Penthouse Theatre, was written by Seth Halleran of the UW News Lab) He cranes his arm back then flicks it forward, launching his whip, snapping through the air near inches from his foe. The Earl of Douglas, leader of the Scottish rebels, pulls his whip back again, this time using it to snatch King Henry IV’s wooden sword from the ground at his feet. Though he lacks a kilt, the…

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