Come on down to our Shiny world and be bad guys with us!
Hosted by the inimitable Brandon Ryan, inscrutable Peggy Gannon, special guest and MAP Theatre!
For the 21st episode in our MAP Theatre trivia series, we bring you…
FIREFLY/Serenity Trivia Night!
50 questions about your favorite band of space cowboys!
Tuesday, April 16th
7:00 – 9:30 PM
@ Central Cinema
1411 21st Avenue in Seattle (21st & Union in the Central District)
General Admission:
$6 ONLINE ADVANCE TICKETS https://central-cinema.com/tickets.htm
$8 AT THE DOOR
We will also be watching your favorite Firefly episode on the big screen after Trivia. Vote here to determine which one! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JZ9CGK8
**PRIZES**
The MAP duo has put together some killer prize packages. Teams of 1-5 are welcome. Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, & last place, door prize, costume prize, and random other prizes for being awesome. You don’t have to be good at trivia … just come on down and nerd out with us.
**FOOD & DRINKS**
Central Cinema has table service; one of the things that makes it our favorite place.
~Will Peggy bust out her “Companion” Skills? (you know what I mean)
~Will Brandon become the new Hero of Canton?
~Will anyone have a spare catalyzer?
All of these questions and more will be uncovered at our next TRIVIA NIGHT!
You can watch the show for free on Netflix streaming or you can rent the show from your local video store (such as On 15th Video, our dear sponsor).
Michale McGoin gets the Cafe ready to open in 2011. Photo by LizWas
Judkins St. Cafe is celebrating two years at 26th and Judkins today.
Situated deep in the neighborhood and not visible from any of the CD’s major commercial streets, the Cafe (a CDNews sponsor) still manages to pack the house.
As we reported in 2011, Judkins St. Cafe moved into the space after Charlie’s Flame Broiled Burgers closed. The Cafe keeps expanding its music and guest chef events.
Owner Michael McGloin thanked customers and neighbors today in a newsletter:
Hello Everyone,
It is quite hard to believe that today marks the 2nd anniversary of the cafe.
What an adventure it has been! I knew when I started that I had no idea what I was getting myself into and I’m not sure that even now I know what I have gotten myself into. I do know that I still look forward to being at the cafe each day. I am proud of what we have created, proud of our food, proud of our staff, and proud of our neighborhood.
And still it feels like this adventure is just beginning. In the months ahead we are planning many more special dinners and events, more live music and more new items on the menu.
For those of you looking for some good music and food this weekend, come by for a night of live jazz saxophone with Frank “Stainless” Steele this Saturday 2/16 from 6:30pm until close or join us for a fine weekend brunch served Saturday and Sunday from 9am until 3pm.
Finally, in celebration of our anniversary we will offer special happy hour prices on beer, wine and mimosas all weekend.
Thank you once again for all your support!
– Michael
The Seattle Channel’s CityStream profiled 23rd and Union recently, chatting with business owners and residents about the changes in the area.
The show also profiles the James and Janie Washington Cultural Center at 26th and Denny. Once the home and studio of acclaimed artist James Washington, the house is now home to an arts foundation in his name.
Give it a watch!
The Central Area Neighborhood District Council will discuss the 23rd Ave action plan and organization bylaws at their February 14 meeting. Things get underway at 6 at the Central Area Senior Center.
Here’s the meeting agenda: Continue reading →
Forget a stand-around class where you go home and forget what you’ve been watching and hearing! Come bring your pruning clippers or borrow ours and get dirty while pruning fruit trees for a few hours with your neighbors.
The Colman Community Harvest team welcomes back Don Ricks, from the Piper Orchard, for another FREE pruning workshop. We’ll be visiting the trees we pruned last year and taking look and starting on some new tress, as we continue our efforts to increase the health and productivity of trees in our neighborhood.
We’ll be working on apples, quinces, plums and cherries, as well as talking about pest management and thinking about all the great fruit we’ll be gathering this summer for the St. Mary’s Foodbank.
If you’ve been curious about how to prune your own trees, but feel a bit timid, this is a great opportunity to chop up someone else’s tree with some guidance. Wear clothes you can get dirty. Bring clippers or any tools you might have. Ladders over 8 feet tall will be helpful if you have them. We’re only canceling due to EXTEME RAIN or snow, so plan to come if it’s just our normal rain/mist.
Meet up at 9:30 at 733 25th Ave S for hot chocolate, coffee, cake and chit chat with class to start at 10:00, as we gather our ladders and head out to the different trees. RSVP is appreciated.
As always, we’d be happy to meet with anyone interested in starting a gleaning program in any other part of the CD and share our experiences with it. We can always use more volunteers for harvest season or for pruning on other days this spring, so if you’ve got an interest in backyard orchards, please feel free to drop a line [email protected]. Also, we’ll have a lots of plum branches this time…so for you fancy cooks and BBQ folks, if you want some fruit wood, this might be a great chance to get some.
Centerstone has partnered with the Seattle Police Department African American Advisory Council to honor Black History Month through an event showcasing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Please join us on Saturday, February 23rd at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park from 10-2 to listen to Dr. King’s speech. This is a family event, including entertainment for children and light refreshments.
Aaron Dixon, co-founder and captain of the Seattle Black Panther Party, graduated from Garfield in ’68 and into a full-time job as a militant revolutionary. I picked up a copy of My People Are Rising at a packed reading by Dixon at Black Coffee Co-op on Capitol Hill last month.
Why You Need this on your Shelf
The book is a beautiful object. The cover art is striking, the matte finish pleasing to hold. Perhaps the most charming production element is the collection of portraits of family members, friends and heroes that seem to bring the late 60s to life. Dixon’s writing here is formal—almost like it was written by a grammarian high school English teacher. And yet, the tenor of the 70s comes on occasionally like a radio transmission intercepted from the past:
“All power to the people, Comrade,” he said. “Did Tommy and the brothers break down for you what the party is about?” Bobby asked. “There is a lot of s*** for you to learn, brother. We got a lot of work to do. We gotta keep these pigs from killing Brother Huey. I want you to go up to the jail and visit him before you leave. You dig?”
“Right on, Bobby,” I answered. Continue reading →
Nancy Rawles
Race and Sexuality- Two Sides of a Double-Edged Coin
Nancy Rawles, author of the award-winning novel My Jim, will speak about race and sexuality in Istanbul during Baldwin’s time there. Rawles will also examine the role gays and lesbians played in the Civil Rights Movement, specifically the contributions of James Baldwin and his friends and colleagues, Bayard Rustin and Lorraine Hansberry. We ask that you join us to explore some of the difficult issues surrounding race and sexuality through meaningful conversation.
Free and Open to the Public
Light Refreshments will be available
Saturday, February 16th
6:00 – 8:00 pm
For more information Contact |Kay Hubbard | [email protected] |
206-518-6000 x 109
Seattle voters approved more than $1.25 billion in new school levies in early results from Tuesday’s special election.
The approval continues “a decadelong record of ballot box success” for school levies in the city, the Seattle Times reported.
Included in projects that will be funded by the new levies is a $14.5m line item to modernize and re-purpose the Meany school campus in the Miller Park neighborhood of Capitol Hill. Here’s information on how to get involved in the planning for that project.
The levy will also help rehab the Horace Mann building at 24th and Cherry to make way for the return of Nova in 2014. The World School, currently housed in the Meany building with Nova, will also get a new home in 2016, likely the TT Minor campus at 18th and Union.
Hamlin Robinson, currently operating in the TT Minor building, is on a search for a new permanent campus by the start of the 2015-16 school year.
The levy will also fund an addition to the McGilvra Elementary’s lunch room (insert childhood obesity joke here), roof repairs for Franklin High School, and seismic upgrades at Franklin, Leschi Elementary and Washington Middle School.
Full voting results will be available via the King County Elections site. Continue reading →
Celebrate the second annual World Radio Day by learning about community radio opportunities in the Central District! Declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Radio Day comes to Seattleat a community event featuring three King County nonprofits who each will apply for one of eight new low-power FM (LPFM) radio licenses available in Seattle when the FCC opens the only application window this October.
Even in the digital age, radio reaches the widest audience worldwide, and is able to connect better with communities regardless of economics or education levels and tell stories in a way that resonates in a different way than other forms of media are able to.
At 12:30 pm the local applicants will share why they are applying:
Rahwa Habte, OneAmerica
Amoshaun Toft, The University of Washington Bothell
Forrest Baum, Hollow Earth Radio
Sabrina Roach, “Doer,” Brown Paper Tickets
