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That s the wading pool in Highland Park, which didn t open last summer because the city hadn t done federally mandated safety upgrades. They d been shelved because it s slated to be converted to a spray park (as first reported here six months ago). R...

topics: architecture, design, environment, neighborhood, on-the-boards

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The first time I heard that one, I was sitting on a couch at a party full of theater people. An actor said it about somebody (Gabriel Baron?) who was leaving for New York to kick his career into high gear, like many former residents of Seattle: Heidi...

topics: arts, festival, on-the-boards

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By Tracy RecordWest Seattle Blog editorAs a member of the citywide Neighborhood Plan Advisory Council, Sharonn Meeks facilitated several groups during the series of plan-status meetings that ended in Delridge last night.The turnout along the way had ...

topics: affordability, architecture, arts, ballard, bicycle

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Somehow I missed this announcement by the NEA two days ago the agency has awarded $29,775,000 in 631 grants to arts agencies and organizations as part of the federal stimulus package. The money is intended to support jobs that would otherwise have ...

topics: arts, gallery, henry-art-gallery, jazz, on-the-boards

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Two years ago, we wrote about poor old Washington Hall (and poor old Oddfellows Hall and poor old Eagles Aerie #1):A mile and a half south, in an office on the corner of 14th Avenue and East Fir Street, Charles Adams is sitting in his office in Washi...

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The NW New Works Festival begins this Friday, June 5 and runs through all of this weekend and the next. Tne NW New Works Festival is an annual festival of world premiere works by Northwest-based artists and ensembles.Performances vary so much that t...

topics: dance, festival, on-the-boards, premiere, restaurant

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Responding to the protest scheduled at On the Boards this Friday, OtB's communications czar sent this:Noted. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]...

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Greg Lundgren is a busy one. He of the Hideout, the cast-glass headstones, PDL, a Genius Award, and probably lots of secret, mad-scientist projects nobody knows about yet, has announced the second of his arbitrary art grants.Lundgren's Vital 5 produc...

topics: festival, on-the-boards, representative

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Anyone else who saw it now unable to sleep? Am staring at the ceiling thinking about vaginas giving birth to cans of Rainier, that guy having sex with that rifle, and shopping carts dancing through infinity. [ Subscribe to the comments on this...

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The Belgian city of Ghent (pop. 594,582) has declared Thursdays meat-free:Restaurants, canteens and schools will now opt to make vegetarianism the default for one day a week, and promote meat-free meals on other days as well.In other Belgians: Jab Fa...

topics: on-the-boards, restaurants