by Courtney Crockett A gentle reminder to visit the neighborhood Farmers Market Express on Wednesday 1 July. An amazing array of brightly colored flowers, berries and cherries, summer vegetables, honey and jam, and freshly made tamales. Participants This Week Include: Shong Chao’s Farm – Flowers and Produce Chue Neng Cha Farm...
by Courtney Crockett JULY FIRST THURSDAY ART WALK on 2 July from 6 - 9 pm. Seattle's original Art Walk features more than 50 participating galleries and venues on the first Thursday of every month. Free and open to the public. Free parking with voucher at participating garages. https://www.facebook.com/pioneersquare. DANCING TIL DUSK on 9 July from 6 -...
By Beth Berube “The longer the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” Ralph W. Sockman. Being an avid DIY kind of person, I was delighted to discover a few establishments in our neighborhood that offer classes. I thought the only type of course I...
by Courtney Crockett Pioneer Square's Express Farmers Market is Open! In addition to Seattle's original farmers market, Pike Place Market operates weekly Express farmers markets at City Hall, First Hill, Pioneer Square and South Lake Union. The Express market brings fresh and local produce, flowers and food...
By Beth Berube Drones, workers, guards and queens. These words evoke images from a Dungeon and Dragons game. They are, in fact, names given to classify a being of the Apoidea family - having a hairy body, feeding on sweets; whoa…so far, Wikipedia is describing my...
by Courtney Crockett [caption id="attachment_5726" align="alignright" width="224"] Images Courtesy of Art of the City Fest[/caption] The Tashiro Kaplan Building (TK Artist Lofts) is busy programming its second annual Art of the City Street Fest slated for Saturday 1 August. The event is an entire day of indoor...
By Beth Berube I visited the gift shop at the Klondike Museum once, to admire their collection of cute, little stuffed mammals and to buy a National Forest Recreation Day Pass to hike up at the pass. The gallery is, after all, part of our National...
by Courtney Crockett With the waterfront redevelopment and the tunnel project, all of the rude construction makes it easy to neglect our neighborhood offerings on Alaskan Way South. That is one reason to go to the OK Hotel Gallery on 4 June First Thursday Art Walk. Another...
By Beth Berube “Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing.” A Macbeth witch seeking essentials for a potion might find at least some of these ingredients arranged methodically on armoire shelves inside this...
By Sarah Norton It's spring and there's music in the air -- your neighbors are singing this coming Monday, May 11th, at Café Paloma, just across from the Pergola. The program will begin at 7:00 pm with two young pianists, and then moves to a menu...