The colorful mural in the 57th St. underpass has been hit by taggers again. PhinneyWood reader JM sent us these photos. Last year, taggers hit the same mural near the zoo, and the city accidently painted over it, sparking a neighborhood controversy. Cleaning crews...
A train headed to Chicago hit and killed a young man on the tracks at Carkeek Park, Seattle Police say. The accident happened at 9 p.m. on Saturday night. Witnesses report there were a few people on the tracks when the Burlington Northern Santa Fe train blew its horn,...
Thousands of people packed Fremont today for the annual Solstice Parade. The most popular attraction is the naked and (mostly) painted bikers, who kicked off the beginning of the parade. Complete coverage of the parade and the Fremont Fair on...
Update 11:40 p.m.: Just as firefighters were packing up their gear from the 87th and Greenwood fire, they rushed to a new fire in a house near Greenwood Ave. and Holman Road. There was heavy smoke and flames when they arrived and just when firefighters thought they...
The Seattle Public Library is offering a number of author events this summer for the 2009 Summer Reading Program at libraries throughout the city. All programs are free. Children 12 and under will receive a free paperback book and pass to the Burke Museum after...
FYI: A group that wants Woodland Park Zoo to send their elephants to a sanctuary in Tennesee plans to protest outside the zoo’s south entrance from 11 a.m. to noon, Saturday. Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants (“Friends”) is proud to join IDA (In Defense of...
The Sneakery, 612 NW 65th St., is collecting used bottle caps for recycling, playing off an initiative started by Aveda. Drea writes: I’m probably not the only one who cringes every time I throw a cap in the trash when I put a bottle in the recycling bin. I...
The Phinney Neighborhood Center will get a new mural for the upper parking lot this summer and they need your help picking a theme for the public art project. Volunteer artist Priscilla Neilson has created three different concepts, which you can view before voting for...
Taquería Tequila, 301 NW 85th St., hopes to add a bar in the space next door at 303 NW 85th St., which is now occupied by an accounting office, seen in the right edge of this file photo. Here’s a link to the permit request. The Greenwood discussion...
TW78 wrote in the forum last night: Just wondering if anyone knows who the great singers are who are at this moment standing in the little circular bench area across the street from Red Mill/Starbucks. Very nice to open my window on this warm night and hear a choir...
