The New Year’s Day Bad Wig and Ugly Tracksuit Walk is returning to Green Lake this Saturday (Jan. 1, 2011). The walk starts at noon at the Green Lake wading pool, which is located on the north end of Green Lake Park at Wallingford Ave N & East Green Lake Dr N. “Luckily,” a post about the event on Seattle Twistreads, “wigs do offer some insulation from hangovers and there’s no need to fret about bad bed-head.” The walk will happen rain or shine and kids are welcome.
December 2010
December 28, 2010 at 5:01PM
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Metro advises bus riders to prepare for snow showers
Snow showers are in the forecast for tonight (Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010) and tomorrow morning. King County Metro Transit is urging bus riders to prepare by signing up for Transit Alerts and by checking the snow routing for the buses they will ride tomorrow. Updates to online information will begin at 4 a.m. tomorrow. Metro is operating with a reduced schedule this week, which means some commuter and school-oriented routes do not operate, and other routes have individual trips canceled, indicated by an “H” in the timetables. Current weather forecasts indicate if snow falls Tuesday night into Wednesday morning in the lower elevations of…
December 28, 2010 at 2:49PM
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The Seattle Public Theater presents a New Year’s Eve production of The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)
The Seattle Public Theater (SPT) at the Green Lake Bathhouse (7312 West Green Lake Dr N) invites you to their second annual New Year’s Eve production of The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) this Friday (Dec.31, 2010) at 7 p.m. All proceeds will help the Bathhouse Ensemble produce their soon-to-be-announced 2011 summer season. The Seattle Public Theater | Photo courtesy GreenLakeThomasB The Bathhouse Ensemble and Seattle Public Theater present a ONE NIGHT ONLY benefit performance of The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged). Written by the Reduced Shakespeare Company Directed by Marianne Savell And starring Sam Harris, Jessa Lowe, and Elliott White New Year’s…
December 28, 2010 at 6:32AM
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Senior housing building Olmsted Manor to receive major upgrades
Seattle Housing Authority announced yesterday (Monday, Dec. 27, 2010) that they will be soon be making repairs at Olmsted Manor, a 35-unit senior housing building located at 501 NE Ravenna Blvd. The agency is receiving $3 million from the City of Seattle’s Office of Housing to update and repair four senior housing buildings, including Olmsted Manor. The $3 million in capital funding will be matched from Seattle Housing Authority’s reserves for the program. “Our Senior Housing portfolio is in need of significant capital repairs,” noted Executive Director Tom Tierney in a new release yesterday. “This funding will make it possible…
December 27, 2010 at 6:11AM
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New yoga memoir examines motherhood in North Seattle
Yesterday’s New York Times Sunday Book Review (Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010) includes a review, by Dani Shapiro, of local author Claire Dederer‘s new book Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses. The review begins with a mention of Green Lake: Early in “Poser,” Claire Dederer describes a regular walk she takes with a new-mom friend in her North Seattle neighborhood: “We made a circle around Green Lake, and so our talk traveled. We started with our babies and tried to decipher all the new rules we had to follow. The talk opened out to work, maybe briefly touched the real…
