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Capitol Hill Happy Holidays Card 2024

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This year’s holiday card setting will be a familiar one for the neighborhood — a scene of E Madison under construction. But the colors of the new sculpture from Seattle artist Ben Zamora shine through along the now open RapidRide G bus line that has changed the streetscape along Madison between the waterfront and Madison Valley. Like so many elements of the new transit investments, the sculpture is mostly complete but somehow still surrounded by construction equipment and barriers. Sometimes, it feels like RapidRide G will never be complete. This too shall pass.

Zamora’s work, designed to display multiple color gradients depending on where one stands to view it, can also be a symbol for the year ahead. The attacks and erosion suffered by human progress have come at multiple scales, sometimes larger, sometimes small. The sculpture will give Capitol Hill, the Central District, and the corners of 14th and Madison another marker to be proud of — and defend.

Happy holidays. May you successfully mount a defense of getting some extra rest or at least an extra cookie or two. CHS is also resting but not far away. If there is something we should know about, call or text (206) 399-5959 or say hey @jseattle here or here. You can also check in with neighbors in the CHS Facebook Group. Thanks for reading CHS.

 

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Happy Hill-a-days: The model train is running in Volunteer Park, the Punk Rock Flea Market is this weekend, and the Capitol Hill Community Council is holding an ugly sweater contest

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Volunteer Park and the Volunteer Park Conservatory were done up in seasonal finery Thursday night for the annual Holiday in the Park event with music, hot chocolate, and cookies. The conservatory’s holiday model train will keep running through December every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

This weekend will bring some good opportunities for the gift giving season to Capitol Hill as the Punk Rock Flea Market hosts its December edition at 15th Ave E’s Quality Flea Center: Continue reading →

Cookies, cocoa, and ‘600 glowing luminarias’ at Thursday’s Holiday in the Park

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Thursday will bring hundreds of luminarias and lots of holiday spirit to Capitol Hill’s Volunteer Park with the 2024 Holiday in the Park celebration.

The Volunteer Park Trust’s annual free event celebrates the holiday season with music and 600 lanterns decorating the Capitol Hill park.

As usual, there will be free hot cocoa, cookies, and more.

The 2024 Holiday in the Park is Thursday, December 5th starting at 6 PM.

You can find more Capitol Hill holiday events, markets, pop-ups and more on the CHS Calendar.

 

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Where to watch Seattle’s 4th of July fireworks from Capitol Hill, USA! 248th birthday edition

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By CHS Independence Day Robot

CHS has made a long running joke about our annual “where to watch fireworks” post being written by robots. The sense of humor runs somewhere around, through, and over celebrating America’s birthday, exhibiting journalism, one of the pillars of democracy, and the capitalistic quest for fully automated production. In 2024, as we mark the 248th birthday of the United State of America, we really do have article writing robots And jokes about the pillars of democracy and capitalism and USA! USA! USA! will never die.

Happy birthday, ‘Murica!

Here are this year’s ideas on where you can walk to watch the fireworks and celebrate your country with your closest neighborhood patriots without leaving Capitol Hill.

  • The 2024 Lake Union fireworks show is planned to begin around 10:15 PM. It will last about 18 minutes this year. The show typically lasts 15 to 20 minutes.
  • Here’s what it looked like last year.
  • The prime Capitol Hill-connected viewing zone stretches along our northwest edge above Eastlake along steep streets like Boston and Lynn or some blocks of Harvard Ave E. Continue reading →

Celebrate a Pike/Pine Cinco de Mayo at Fogón Cocina Mexicana’s Fiesta en la Calle

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The corner of E Pine and Belmont will once again be filled with a Cinco de Mayo street party as Fogón Cocina Mexicana hosts a second year of its new tradition.

Sunday’s free 2024 celebration will feature DJs, a day of mariachi, and a night of drag hosted by Queen Andrew Scott along with vendors including Bakescapade with panadería sweets.

There will be plenty more Cinco de Mayo celebrating going on around the neighborhood including a day of mariachi performance from Luis Cano at 15th Ave E’s Smith under its new ownership from the Club Cultura business family.

 

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Capitol Hill Happy Holidays Card 2023

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Santa is coming in for a landing and Broadway is ready to receive the happy elf. No matter what type of magick you have planned over the next few days, CHS hopes you find the balance of wonder and rest your body needs. We will be wonderfully resting, too — but not far away. Call or text (206) 399-5959 or say hey on Twitter @jseattle if there’s something we should know about. You can also check in with neighbors in the CHS Facebook Group. Happy Holidays and thanks for reading CHS.

 

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2023 Capitol Hill holiday highlights include 65th annual Julfest, Holiday in the Park, Guilty Holiday Pleasures Party

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While you’re recovering from the Thanksgiving holiday, brace yourself — Capitol Hill is going to be a festive place for the next few weeks. Here are a few Capitol Hill holiday highlights from the CHS Calendar. You can find more events and gatherings here — or add your own.

Sunday, December 3rd brings the 65th annual Julfest to E Pike’s First Covenant Church:

Thursday, December 7th is the date for the annual return of the Holiday in the Park celebration with hundreds of glowing luminaria, music, crafts and games, and treats in Volunteer Park:

Chabad of Capitol Hill & The Central District will also hold its Grand Menorah Lighting and Celebration in Volunteer Park on the 7th:


The Guilty Holiday Pleasures Party returns to Chophouse Row on Thursday, December 14th:

The Local Brilliance market and art exhibition takes place at 19th Ave E’s Ritual House on Saturday, December 16th:

Plus, lots more coming up soon around the Hill:

 

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For the holiday party season, Capitol Hill is getting a Christmas Dive Bar

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The neighbors have their Christmas decorations up already.

The Christmas Dive Bar will be popping up in Pike/Pine through New Year’s starting Thursday — a week before Thanksgiving.

“Hanging from the ceiling of the main area of CDB, there’s kitschy decorations, overscale ornaments, and enough colored light strings wrapped in tinselly-garland to make Mrs. Claus happy,” Murf Hall of the Burgess/Hall family of Capitol Hill businesses — and “huge Christmas buff,” according to the press release — says about the new project temporarily replacing 11th Ave’s The Woods dance club.

“We’ll be shaking up Christmas cocktails like Cranberry Collins and Eggnog Espresso Martinis and serving up snacks such as Crockpot Little Smokies and Cherry’s Xmas Chex Mix,” Hall’s business partner, husband, and presumed favorite secret Santa Joey Burgess says in the release. “We’re a dive bar with a festive twist ready to make the holiday season a little brighter, one drink at a time.”

The new setup in the club on 11th Ave between Pike and Pine includes “jingle bells, classic blow molds, and vintage décor” where elves will be mixing “festive cocktails” below “vintage chandeliers hung with ornaments and dozens of rolls of wrapping paper covering the walls create the perfect vibe for the holiday season.”

The pop-up announced this week hasn’t been a secret to anybody walking 11th Ave where small town shopping district-worthy window painting has advertised the changeover. It comes in a time when venues giving themselves over to temporary and seasonal pop-ups has become an alternative source of revenue for bars and restaurants but the twist here is a local business taking the reindeer reins and running the show themselves. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill holiday fun this week includes December Art Walk, annual Holiday in the Park, and maybe a little more snow

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The holiday season began over the weekend with snow on Capitol Hill and Christmas trees at Stevens Elementary. More Hill holiday good times are ahead.

The school’s parent teacher association held its annual tree and holiday wreath sale Friday night and Saturday morning, living on as Capitol Hill’s only charity tree lot on a cold and icy first weekend in December.

The cooler weather will continue but we’ll see mostly rain until Friday night and through the weekend when the National Weather Service says we should see a mix of rain… and snow.

Holiday things to do will continue, too, including Thursday night’s December Capitol Hill Art Walk and the annual Holiday in the Park event in Volunteer Park.

Check the CHS Calendar for Hill area holiday events and more. You can also check out Shop the Hill for holiday gift and shopping ideas.

 

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