by PhinneyWood | Oct 23, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
The theme for the Phinney Neighborhood Association’s upcoming beer taste has taken on otherworldly dimensions with Beer Trek, which promises “to seek out new beers and to boldly go where no beer has gone before!” Beer as the final frontier....
by Chris Maykut | Oct 22, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of the event that devastated Greenwood – the arson that destroyed the Eleanor Roosevelt Building on North 85th Street, housing the Green Bean Coffeehouse, C.C. Teriyaki, Pho Tic Tac and Szechuan Bistro. The Oct. 23, 2009, fire...
by Chris Maykut | Oct 22, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
To commemorate the anniversary of last year’s major arson – or perhaps thumb our noses at the bad memories – PhinneyWood would like to post pictures of “A Day in the Life of Greenwood.” Please send us your happy or interesting photos of people, places or events in...
by Chris Maykut | Oct 22, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
The Seattle Department of Transportation started working on the crosswalk at the offset intersection of NW 73rd Street and 8th Avenue Northwest at the west edge of Phinney Ridge five weeks ago. They created the new curb cuts on either side of 8th, but then nothing...
by Chris Maykut | Oct 22, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Someone stole a more than 400-pound giant pumpkin from in front of Greenwood Market last week. The pumpkin was on top of a stack of pallets in the middle of the huge pumpkin display in front of the store at 85th and 3rd. A store employee, who didn’t want to be...
by Chris Maykut | Oct 22, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
The Sensory Garden Advisory Committee is holding a meeting on Saturday to start developing a sensory garden next to the Woodland Park Zoo. A sensory garden is a broad term for an area that can be therapeutic for the deaf, blind or those with autism. For example, it...
by Chris Maykut | Oct 22, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
The Woodland Park Zoo reports that one of its adult flamingos and two newborn flamingo chicks have died. The chicks hatched on Oct. 3 and 9. From the zoo’s press release: The older of the chicks was found dead this morning in the exhibit, and the younger of the...
by PhinneyWood | Oct 22, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
That helicopter over east Phinney and west Green Lake at 5:30 p.m. was a news chopper capturing the scene of a rollover accident on Woodland Place, just south of North 65th Street. The car came off southbound Aurora Avenue and flipped three times after hitting the...
by Chris Maykut | Oct 21, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Rising Stars at 7321 Greenwood Ave. N. has a few free passes left to a screening tonight of the new Disney movie “Tangled.” Rising Stars is open until 6 p.m. The movie starts at 7 p.m. at Pacific Place downtown. “Tangled” opens in theaters on...
by Chris Maykut | Oct 21, 2010 | PhinneyWood Neighborhood
Couth Buzzard Books Espresso Buono Cafe at 8310 Greenwood Ave. N. is hosting a Cabaret for Peace Saturday night, as a fundraiser for the Greenwood Food Bank. Admission is free with a non-perishable food item. Host and performer Kate Smith will be joined by poet Larry...
