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Meet the Capitol Hill artist | Emelia Black is sewing together community and sustainability at Summit Selvage

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(Images: Ananya Mishra/CHS)

Meet the Capitol Hill Artist is an occasional series on CHS documenting the lives of the artists behind the neighborhood’s galleries and arts venues.

By Ananya Mishra

As a middle schooler, Emelia Black would use her Project Runway-themed sewing machine to turn old bedsheets into experimental garments.

She grew up in a family that taught her the importance of repurposing items that would otherwise be thrown away. Her father and grandfather would eagerly take her to thrift shops in Snohomish County, hoping to find interesting repair projects. Today, thrift stores are still a primary source of unique fabric for Black. She has been able to transform them into one-of-a-kind pieces, including a jacket made out of fringe blankets, and several tote bags that are made out of tapestries.

After she graduated college, Black started a corporate job as a Product Designer. She designed and prototyped fire-resistant garments and other protective equipment. The job didn’t have a sewing component to it, so she continued to work on other upcycled projects on the side. Eventually, she quit her job to open up Summit Selvage, a business that combines her passions for sewing, community, and sustainability. Continue reading →

Inside 12th Ave’s NOD Theater, eXit Space School of Dance has taken a leap of faith on Capitol Hill

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(Image: eXit SPACE)

(Image: eXit SPACE)

While many Seattle arts organizations were hit hard during the pandemic, eXit SPACE School of Dance took a leap of faith, investing in a theater space on Capitol Hill — now the lively and flourishing NOD Theater.

Celebrating its 20th year next season, eXit SPACE began in a 900-square-foot space and now spans three studios including 12th Ave’s NOD Theater and offers over 80 classes a week.

“This space was so meaningful to our community for decades, and it was important to us to keep it open and accessible to the arts in Seattle.” said faculty member Karen Baskett.

NOD Theater was formerly home to Velocity Dance which opted to leave Capitol Hill prior to the pandemic looking for a more affordable base for its works. In a desire to preserve this space that provided an affordable place to perform and  a pillar of their community, eXit artistic director and owner Marlo Martin took a chance and signed the lease.

The theater has a long history in the dance community of Seattle and has been a home to a number of arts organizations. Continue reading →

Police: Evidence links First Hill ax murder suspect to killing of homeless man in 12th Ave alley

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A memorial to Paul Ewell (Image: United Way of King County)

Seattle Police say they have evidence that Liam Kryger, the First Hill resident jailed and charged in the bloody ax killing outside Seattle’s Town Hall in February, also used the weapon to slaughter a man sleeping in a 12th Ave alley 12 days earlier.

Detectives say mobile phone and video evidence shows Kryger carrying the ax behind the office building of the Seattle Men’s Chorus where 68-year-old Paul Ewell was found murdered early on February 10th with injuries “created by a heavy sharp object similar to a hatchet, axe, or maul” indicating “there were at least three such strikes to his head.” Continue reading →

Yes Parade including Poquitos and Rhein Haus part of Seattle’s growing ‘restaurant groups’

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(Image: Poquitos)

(Image: Poquitos)

As Seattle restaurant groups are claiming a growing share of the city’s dining revenue, a new local food and drink conglomerate with deep connections to Capitol Hill — as well as Ballard, Bothell, Tacoma, Leavenworth, and, yes, Denver — has taken shape.

The Yes Parade Restaurant Group now encompasses 13 venues including Poquitos and Rhein Haus locations on Capitol Hill.

Formerly organized as Weimann Maclise Restaurants, the company began in 2008 under founders James Weimann and Deming Maclise with Bastille Cafe & Bar in Ballard and the roster of restaurants under operating owners Rich Fox, Dustin Watson, and Matt Fundingsland now includes Poquitos (Capitol Hill, Bothell, Tacoma), Rhein Haus (Capitol Hill, Denver, Leavenworth), Stoneburner (Ballard), Macleod’s Scottish Pub (Ballard), Sabine Café and Bar Sabine (Ballard), Wally’s Wisconsin Tavern (Denver), Stoup Kenmore (Kenmore) and Stadium Golf (Tacoma).

“Yes Parade Restaurant Group is a collective of dedicated individuals and creative spirits united by a common philosophy,” the company says. “For over ten years, we have worked to create dining rooms, bars, patios, and experiences that foster a sense of comfort and enjoyment.” Continue reading →

New era? This Capitol Hill restaurant is ready to move on from its pandemic streatery

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A view out to the soon to be removed Barrio streatery

Some of the dining habits and street seating setups of the pandemic may never go away but times have changed enough for one Capitol Hill restaurant to move on from its COVID-era “streatery” and restore an increasingly rare feature along 12th Ave — street parking.

“We are selling our Streatery!,” Barrio Mexican Kitchen and Agave Bar announced this week. “Thank you to our guests, team, and neighbors for making covid a bit more bearable by enjoying this streatery with us, but the time has come to move on.”

Get your offers in now for the 60-foot long x 8-foot wide patio that the restaurant installed during the years of restrictions and precautions under a city program put in place to regulate the proliferation of street patios that sprung forward during the pandemic. Continue reading →

Beyond Oppenheimer, nuclear Issues highlighted in International Uranium Film Festival’s stop on Capitol Hill

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By Holland Burris/UW News Lab

Oppenheimer has been a cinema sensation with seven Academy Awards for its depiction of the physicist who helped develop the world’s first nuclear weapons. There are more — and more important — stories to tell. The first-ever film festival about nuclear power will stop in Seattle on April 12-14 at Capitol Hill’s Northwest Film Forum thanks to Jad Baaklini, a native of Beirut now residing in Seattle as director of communication at Epiphany Parish.

Baaklini became fascinated with the Hanford site in eastern Washington, learning about it after immigrating to the United States.

“I think people should just be aware of what’s around them,” Baaklini said. “Seattle can be in a little bubble especially if people are newcomers like me. I only moved here in 2018, and you know, you can live here your whole life not knowing the rest of Washington.”

After hearing about the International Uranium Film Festival, a Brazilian-based festival looking to stop in multiple locations in the U.S., he reached out to IUFF, pitched hosting to Northwest Film Forum, and connected the festival to its main sponsor, Physicians for Social Responsibility.

IUFF will show eight movies at the 12th Ave independent theater that will discuss nuclear issues from around the world, and include some panel discussions after a few of the films. Continue reading →

King County shifting plans for ‘zero youth detention’ at 12th Ave’s Judge Clark Children and Family Justice Center

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King County’s four-year-old, $200 million Judge Patricia H. Clark Children and Family Justice Center on 12th Ave will remain open through and beyond a promised 2025 deadline as officials pursue establishing “a network of diverse community care homes” in a quest to change how Seattle moves forward on youth detention and addressing its disproportionate impact on communities of color.

King County Executive Dow Constantine’s office is pursuing only three of six recommendations from an advisory council formed to examine the “future of secure juvenile detention” and what changes should be made at the relatively new youth jail facility at 12th and Alder. None of the recommendations currently being pursued by Constantine’s office, according to a final report from the advisory council, include a 2025 end of secure detention at the facility.

Black kids continue to be disproportionately detained in King County, making up about half of the population housed at the facility or on home detention.

The new youth jail opened in the winter of 2020 with 16-cell living halls designed to look like dorms but secured for incarceration with electronic locks and state of the art surveillance systems, new classrooms, and an expanded visitation areas where youth offenders can meet with family and lawyers. There is a Merit Hall where detained kids can earn TV time and officials repurposed an “interview room” as a video game room. And there are courtrooms where legal proceedings can be carried out.

“As we move toward zero youth detention, how we can repurpose space?” one official said at the time. “As our population decreases, we can move our secure perimeter.” Continue reading →

Massive art donation comes with a $25M gift for 12th Ave — plans for a new Seattle University Museum of Art

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Dick Hedreen (Image: Yosef Kalinko/Seattle University)

A 12th Ave Seattle University parking lot could become a new art museum and the center of the school’s art holdings as property developer Dick Hedreen has announced he is gifting his family’s 200-piece, $300 million collection of paintings, pottery, photography, etchings, and sculptures to the Jesuit university on the southern edge of Capitol Hill.

The rare handover comes with a $25 million donation to begin the development of the Seattle University Museum of Art, “a teaching museum that will showcase centuries of art history and be a true learning extension of the classroom,” Seattle U says. Continue reading →

Homeless man found stabbed to death in 12th Ave alley identified as longtime neighborhood resident

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Investigators have identified the man found murdered in a 12th Ave alley as a 68-year-old man who lived unsheltered in the neighborhood.

Medical examiners say Paul Ewell died of “multiple sharp force injuries of the head” early on Saturday, February 10th. His body was discovered later that morning in the alley near 12th and Terrace by a passerby. Continue reading →

Police investigating after body found in 12th Ave alley — UPDATE: Homicide

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Seattle Police were investigating after a person was found dead Saturday morning in an alley near 12th Ave and Terrace.

A 911 caller reported a body in a pool of blood behind the offices of the Men’s and Women’s Chorus just before 7:30 AM Saturday.

Seattle Fire was called to the scene but the person was reported deceased according to radio updates.

Police were cordoning off the area to investigate the scene and collect evidence. Continue reading →