by Chris Maykut | Sep 19, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
If you’re interested in how the city plans to increase Seattle’s tree canopy, there’s an open house downtown on Tuesday. The Urban Forestry Open House is from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Bertha Knight Landes Room at City Hall, 600 4th Ave. Seattle’s goal is to...
by Chris Maykut | Sep 18, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Join your neighbors and take a tour of some of the city’s 73 P-Patches. Seattle’s Department of Neighborhoods and its P-Patch Community Gardening staff will lead six tours of five gardens each. The two-hour Northwest tour meets at the Greenwood Neighborhood Service...
by Chris Maykut | Sep 17, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
In honor of the Seattle Storm winning the WNBA Finals last night, the Woodland Park Zoo is offering half-price admission to fans on Saturday and Sunday. Show a ticket stub at the admission gate for any game to the conference finals or finals held in Sept., including...
by Chris Maykut | Sep 17, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
The Woodland Park Zoo has won the Association of Zoos & Aquariums’ Exhibit Achievement Award for its new Humboldt penguin exhibit. This is the fifth time WPZ has won the award for best exhibit.The achievement award is presented by the AZA for “outstanding...
by Chris Maykut | Sep 16, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
According to applications filed with the Department of Planning and Development, Caffé Vita Coffee Roasting Co. is opening a coffee shop and pizza place at 7402-7404 Greenwood Ave. N., between Zak & Zoe dog mercantile and Assemble Gallery & Studio....
by Chris Maykut | Sep 16, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
A group of volunteers is working on creating a “sensory garden” next to the rose garden at Woodland Park Zoo, and they need your help. What is a Sensory Garden? Come help us figure that out. We’re creating a garden to engage all the senses to be enjoyed by everyone...
by Chris Maykut | Sep 16, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Our sister site My Green Lake has an interesting story about what’s happened to all those rabbits that used to live in the field next to Aurora Avenue by Green Lake and Lower Woodland Park. If you lived here before 2006, you know that little field was filled...
by Chris Maykut | Sep 16, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Seattle Department of Transportation crews started work this morning on the new crosswalk across 8th Avenue NW and NW 73rd St. Here they’re creating a new curbcut that will make it easier for wheelchairs and strollers. Nearby residents have long complained about...
by Chris Maykut | Sep 15, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
The final show of Taproot Theatre’s 2010 season is the regional premiere of the comedy “Wedding Belles,” about a wedding snafu in 1942 Texas. Karen Nelsen, Charissa Adams and Kim Morris in “Wedding Belles.” Photo by Erik Stuhaug. When a bedraggled bride is...
by Chris Maykut | Sep 15, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Greenwood author Nathan Crowder has written eight novels and a number of short stories, and was most recently published in the anthology “Close Encounters of the Urban Kind” in April. Now, Crowder and fellow Greenwood resident and editor Caroline Dombrowski have...