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After Riverdance took him around the world, dancer Tyler Knowlin’s toes are still tapping on Capitol Hill

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More than 4,500 miles separate Dublin, Ireland, from Seattle, but the connection is close and personal for Capitol Hill resident and tap dancer Tyler Knowlin. Between 2016 and 2022, Knowlin was a member of the international touring production of Riverdance, performing in more than 1,000 shows worldwide.

Raised in Manchester, Connecticut by his mother Frances, Knowlin was first introduced to tap dancing lessons at age five — and hated it.

“The kind of tap I did in those lessons was the sailor suit with the bow tie, the shiny tap shoes, and the pink cummerbund,” Knowlin, 40, explained during an interview at Post Pike Bar & Café on Broadway. “I was one of the only Black boys at the time. It was just miserable.”

By age 10, he started appreciating how the artform inherently created space for individual artistic expression. “Tap wasn’t like ballet, where everyone had to fit into the same mold. With tap, you could stand out. Even at 10 years old, I knew there was something free about it.”

Today, Knowlin and his partner Candy Winters live on Capitol Hill where he is a barista at Top Pot on Summit Ave.

After putting away his tap shoes and resting his feet for a few years, Knowlin is ready to perform again. Below, he shares his experiences touring with Riverdance, as well as meeting his tap-dancing idol Gregory Hines, reading lines as a teenager for a film with Sean Connery, and his next tap-dancing moves in Seattle.

Three years have passed since you performed with Riverdance. Do you still tap, even if it’s just for your enjoyment?

It never stops. There’s a dance studio on 15th Avenue that I rented for a while. I didn’t have a performance coming up. It was just to work out. I’m always tapping. Even at Top Pot, you don’t see me in the back, but I’m tapping.

Riverdance has been parodied often over the years. What’s your take on that? Continue reading →

Cornelly ready to expand from Capitol Hill with new Queen Anne pizza and pasta joint

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Part of Capitol Hill’s pandemic-challenged food and drink class of 2020, Cornelly craft pizza and pasta is adding a second, larger location in Queen Anne.

Sam Carroll talked with the Seattle Times about his plans. Cornelly’s expansion with a second location in the former Queen Anne Cafe space will be three times the size of the Summit Ave original and, adding some neighborhood envy to the news, the new spot will also have a bar. Continue reading →

One of a kind on Summit Ave, Single Shot marks 10 years on Capitol Hill

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By Emily Riehl

As Single Shot Kitchen and Saloon marks its 10-year anniversary on Summit Ave on Capitol Hill, the “food- driven” eatery has spanned a decade of crafting innovative cocktails, serving an imaginative variety of food, and helping to add to the vibrant community in one of the Hill’s most energetic neighborhoods. Single Shot occupies one of the very few remaining single-story, brick buildings in the neighborhood.

“The kitchen itself is pretty small,” says Rory McCormick, the owner of Single Shot. “We get daily deliveries just to keep up with our food program and that’s kind of why we maintain a limited, smaller, condensed menu. Working with local growers and following the seasons, people recognize that we print our menus daily so things have a way of organically falling on and off the menu.”

The original Top Pot Doughnuts, Summit Public House, Cornelly, and Sol Liquor Lounge also neighbor Single Shot. Single Shot has undergone surprisingly few changes in the past decade, with the exception of adding a parklet outside for additional seating as the result of the COVID- 19 Pandemic.

McCormick says that dense blocks of condos and apartment buildings surround the 960-square-foot restaurant, allowing them to exist in a “special pocket” thriving off of a walkable customer base.

CHS reported here in 2014 as Single Shot came to life where McCormick said the out-of-the-way location and the original masonry building drew him to Summit Ave. “I’m very aware as to what’s happening to Seattle as a whole,” McCormick said at the time. “You don’t find a lot of single-story brick buildings built in the 20s.” Continue reading →

‘Summit Life’ — Capitol Hill’s Summit Pub turns 20

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Jay Janicek and his business partner Sam Munguia have been the owners of the Summit Public House, a local gem of the Capitol Hill community, for the past 20 years. Their climb, marked by perseverance and a deep love for their neighborhood, started before they became owners. “We took it over in 2004, on St Patrick’s Day they handed us the keys,” Janicek recalls. Over the years, the neighborhood has transformed dramatically, but Summit Pub has remained the local watering hole.

In 2004, Summit Avenue was a different place. “There were no other bars here at all, just Top Pot Donuts, a pizza place next door, and a bookstore,” Janicek reminisces. Today, Summit Pub is surrounded by a variety of establishments, making it a bustling hub of activity. Despite the changes, Summit Pub has thrived, with Janicek attributing their success to consistency and careful management.

“We’re pretty consistent. We have really good local beers and things on tap, and we don’t run out of anything.” Continue reading →

Suspect in Summit Ave deadly shooting charged after US Marshals arrest in Portland

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The suspect in last month’s shooting death on Summit Ave was tracked down and taken into custody in a Portland motel room last week by the United States Marshals Service.

Prosecutors say the shooting stemmed from an argument in the street and dispute over a girlfriend and that the suspected killer has a record of gun and knife assaults including a recent threat of gun violence in a dispute over a parking space on Capitol Hill.

39-year-old Summit Ave resident Darren Davis has been charged with second degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm in the Sunday, February 20th murder of Kalani Boward.

Boward, 31, was found down on the Summit Ave sidewalk suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and died after being taken to Harborview. It’s not clear from the court documents if Boward also lived in the area.

According to court documents, the search for Davis began after witnesses to the shooting recognized him as a resident in a week to week apartment building near the scene of the murder. Police say witness accounts describe Davis shooting Broward once in the chest and then continuing to shoot “multiple times as he lay defenseless on the ground.” Continue reading →

Analog Coffee: after a decade on Capitol Hill, still focused on Summit Ave

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After the pandemic, Hayden is ready for anything — even 25 more years on Summit Ave

With photos and reporting by Alex Garland

Ten years ago on Summit Ave, coffee slingers Danny Hanlon and Tim Hayden set out to bring new energy to Seattle’s cafe scene with a new joint on Capitol Hill and a simple, straightforward approach that was more about fostering the vibe of a favorite neighborhood bar than creating a caffeine corporation. They vowed a decade ago that Analog Coffee would be the only coffee shop they would ever open.

“When we started having those talks in 2008/2009, the Seattle coffee scene seemed like it needed some new blood,” Hayden told CHS this week when we came calling to wish the cafe congratulations on its decade on the Hill. “it was full of great coffee shops but most were roasters. There weren’t a lot of strong independent shops at that time. We really value that independent shop model, we weren’t interested in being roasters. We love interacting with people and creating a special spot in the neighborhood. We decided we would try to make our own version of our favorite shop through Analog.” Continue reading →

Why the man in the Capitol Hill ‘axe-wielding’ break-in isn’t in jail

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TV news reports are highlighting a June Capitol Hill apartment break-in as the latest example of Seattle’s soft approach to crime even as mental health evaluation required by state law determined that the suspect in the incident is not competent to stand trial and a mental health evaluation apparently deemed the man fit for release from King County Jail.

“A 46-year-old man was arrested for breaking into an occupied Capitol Hill apartment armed with an axe, a hatchet and a spiked glove was released from jail without charges Monday — after state case workers concluded he is incompetent and unable to defend himself in court,” KIRO reports. “A couple living in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood is frustrated that a man who allegedly entered their apartment last month will not have a criminal case against him move forward,” KING added in its story on the break-in.

SPD detailed the June 16th arrest in a “significant incident report” posted here describing the apartment’s resident arming himself with a handgun during the break-in: Continue reading →

Insurrection in the Capitol: Huseman pleads not guilty in assaults on journalists, three more SPD cops investigated

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The Capitol Hill, Seattle man accused of assaulting and threatening media in Olympia the same day as the January 6th storming of the Capitol in Washington D.C. has pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against him.

Meanwhile, three more Seattle Police officers are being investigated for their part in the day’s chaos at the U.S. Capitol.

Damon Huseman pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Thurston County Superior Court.

CHS reported here on the pre-Inauguration Day arrest of the Summit Ave resident who had been charged with two counts of assault and a count of felony harassment in the days following the attempted storming of the Governor’s mansion in Olympia and was the subject of a search warrant and an “Extreme Risk Protection Order” barring Huseman from having access to firearms. Continue reading →