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Beacon Hill

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    Filipino- Mexican Fusion Restaurant Opens on Beacon Hill, Volterra Expands to Kirkland

    Luisa Taqueria is now open at 15th and Beacon, according to Beacon Hill Blog. Run by the folks behind Inay's, the establishment features Filipino- Mexican fusion cuisine -- think pork adobo tacos. Hours are daily 10 a.m. to 9 p.m, except Mondays. In other news, Kirkland Views reports that Ballard- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Beacon Hill Will Soon Boast the Biggest Public Food Forest in the Country

    Seven sloping acres at the southwest edge of Jefferson Park is being transformed into an edible landscape and community park that will be known at the Beacon Food Forest, the largest of its kind in the nation. For the better part of a century, the land has languished in the hands of Seattle Public U ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Seattle's Nacho Picasso Gets Some Much Deserved Shine From The National Press. Will Local Listeners Finally Catch On?

    The Cloud Nice-affiliated MC with the grisly voice and a dozen killer tag names, Nacho Picasso aka The Tat In The Hat aka Young Henry Rollins (ect.), earned a couple of favorable looks from influential national sources Pitchfork and Stereogum recently (here, and here), increasing his visibility on ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 31, 2011

    NEPO 5K Don't Run

    The Cloud Nice-affiliated MC with the grisly voice and a dozen killer tag names, Nacho Picasso aka The Tat In The Hat aka Young Henry Rollins (ect.), earned a couple of favorable looks from influential national sources Pitchfork and Stereogum recently (here, and here), increasing his visibility on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Are King County's Juvenile Inmates Movin' On Up to Beacon Hill's Old PacMed Hospital?

    ​The old PacMed Hospital--most recently the corporate headquarters for Amazon.com--stands all but empty on its ominous perch atop Beacon Hill. Similarly, the Youth Services/Detention Center (juvie) on 12th Avenue in the Central District, is aging, inadequate and underused. Could a solution ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Beacon Hill's Pinata Party Set for Saturday

    ​Beacon Hill's annual Pinata Party is this Saturday, July 16 from 12-3 at Stevens Place Park (aka Triangle Park) on Beacon Ave S. between S. Forest St. and S. Stevens St, according to Beacon Hill Blog. The free neighborhood pow-wow will feature performances by Suntonio Bandanaz and La Banda Ga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Skip the Placenta Soap, Order the Chicken Wings at Foulee Market

    The chicken wings are better than the fried snapper (or snaper) at Foulee. ​In restaurants and stores, as in life, looks can be deceiving. Beacon Hill's Foulee Market, for example, is like the house the fourth pig built--the house completed with structural integrity somewhere between straw a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Seattle Homeboy Gets Stabbed Seven Times, but Won't Tell Police Shit

    ​Most. Gangsta. Headline. Ever.

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    When Buying Cheap Produce on Beacon Hill, Look for the Tamale Shack

    Don't let the pretty produce make you forget to go across the parking lot to hit the tamale shed.​The Stop: Beacon Hill. The Vibe: Jefferson Park, located a few blocks south of the station, is one of the city's highest open spaces. Even on a gray day, it boasts a commanding view of downtown a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Beacon Pub Bids Goodbye, Paseo Takes Winter Hiatus

    Sorry, you cannot eat this sandwich again until February 1, 2011.​The beloved Beacon Pub at 3057 Beacon Avenue South poured its last round of beers last night, according to Beacon Hill Blog. The neighborhood bar didn't go out of business, but is moving to Hillman City. In other bittersweet n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    The Beacon Pub Bids Neighborhood Goodbye, Vessel Pours Its Last Cocktails Downtown Today, & more

    Eritrean cuisine, courtesy of Hidmo​In Ballard, The Ridgeback Cafe is now open at 500 Northwest 65th Street. Owned by Hangar Cafe's Justin Taft, it features Belgian waffles, crepes, and sandwiches, as well as espresso and wine. On Beacon Hill, the Beacon Pub at 3057 Beacon Avenue South poured ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 22, 2010

    JusMoni

    Eritrean cuisine, courtesy of Hidmo​In Ballard, The Ridgeback Cafe is now open at 500 Northwest 65th Street. Owned by Hangar Cafe's Justin Taft, it features Belgian waffles, crepes, and sandwiches, as well as espresso and wine. On Beacon Hill, the Beacon Pub at 3057 Beacon Avenue South poured ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Dodging Construction For a Quick Breakfast at Delite Bakery

    Photos by Matthew Piel​The Stop: Beacon Hill The Vibe: "Um, can I walk here?" The street behind the Red Apple across from the Beacon Hill station was a chaos of people in hard-hats, torn up asphalt, massive trucks, and forbidding fences. It didn't bode well for getting much needed coffee an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    Neighbor Attacks Woman With Bucket of Piss, Shit and Vomit

    ​UPDATE: And now we have a victim's name and a video. Details after the jump. The 911 call wasn't like other 911 calls. On Sunday night, cops were called out to a Beacon Hill apartment building after a woman reported that she'd had urine, feces and vomit thrown on her. When he arrived at her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    The Station Beckons Coffee and Chocolate Lovers to Beacon Hill

    ​There is something oddly rewarding about a cafe so intimate that walking in the door automatically makes you part of "The In Crowd." Such is the case with Beacon Hill's fledgling café, The Station. With seating room for only about a dozen people indoors, all conversations must be resolved to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Serial Masturbator Loose in Beacon Hill

    Have you seen this man?​Beacon Hill Blog reports on a...well, let's just say a guy you'd rather not run into:There have been more recent sightings of the serial masturbator/flasher in the North Beacon Hill area -- at least eight reported incidents so far, we're told. He appears to still be dri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    Chalk Outlines: Beacon Hill Man Shot by Son, Police Say

    ​Seattle Police are reporting that a 50-year-old Beacon Hill Man was shot and killed by his 29-year-old son Saturday morning in a house on the 9000 block of 39th Ave S. They say the son called 911 to report having shot his father, and reportedly also admitted that he'd been smoking PCP about 4 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    Our Contributions to the Rapture Index

    Kirk Cameron!There's this charming little site called "Rapture Index" that describes itself as "the prophetic speedometer of end-time activity" and that tracks all the stuff that tells us that the apocalypse is near. (For example, unemployment, earthquakes, and "beast government.") It's unclear ex ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    Good News for South Seattle Cyclists

    There's a new bike lane on 15th Ave S. in Beacon Hill--or at least on a stretch of the north end of it. (The bike lane appears to be on the west side of the street--the side on which you'd ride uphill; the east side got a sharrow.) Beacon Hill Blog has the scoop.

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Beacon Hill Bear T-Shirt Invites Koan

    If you make a t-shirt about a bear sighting that likely never happened, should the bear on the shirt look like the bear that would have been sighted had a bear actually been sighted, or the bear in the minds' eyes of the would-be sighters? Our favorite bear, a 125-pound two-year-old with some serio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    False Bear Alarm in Beacon Hill? Go East, Young Bear!

    At last sighting, our beloved bear had made it all the way to east Shoreline and was seemingly headed for a triumphant escape into the sunrise over the Cascades. But this morning, a jogger in Beacon Hill this morning claimed to have spotted a black bear. Police were dispatched to find the little guy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Mind the Sand, Sound Transit

    If you haven't already, check out Kery Murakami's story today about Sound Transit's accidental swiss-cheesing of Beacon Hill's underground. Apparently, the deep-boring for the light rail tunnel hit several pockets of sand, which sifted down, leaving holes beneath people's houses. One woman in the st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    Top Tamales: La Benedicion Tienda Mexicana

    I am an unapologetic tamale snot; so thanks to photog Andrea J. Walker who offered the hot tip to Beacon Hill, but no directions, though I found my way anyway...guided by masa. La Benedicion (2556 Beacon Ave. S.) is an unassuming little Mexican grocery with a case full of Mexican concha and pastries ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    Transit Neighborhood Planning Goes Back to Transit Neighborhoods

    Back when everyone was beefing over the bill to require density around transit stations, one of the biggest beefs was the issue of local control. As Councilmember Sally Clark (who remained neutral on the bill) put it, "I'm a believer in the sanctity of grassroots urban planning." With the bill dead ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Bezos Has Fourth Quarter Last Laugh

    In your faces, Boeing, Starbucks, and Microsoft! After all the wretched fourth-quarter reports from those local titans (and the layoffs), Amazon.com just announced its ass-kicking results. From AP and Yahoo!: 4Q profit up 9 percent to $225 million4Q revenue up 18 percent to $6.7 billionToday's share ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Have You Ever Ridden the Sound Transit Lunch Bus?

    As a subscriber to Sound Transit's e-mail information services ("provided to you at no charge by Sound Transit"!), I get the occasional notice about the agency's Lunch Bus. It sounds essentially like an adult field trip, and is described in alternately dryly informative and breathless, travel brochu ... More >>

  • News

    October 8, 2008

    Thyme Bandits

    Will whoever’s stealing fruit and plants on Beacon Hill please stop? Gosh!

  • News

    September 17, 2008

    The Homeless Are an Economic Engine

    Parks employees are paid a premium to “clean out” vagrants in city greenbelts.

  • News

    September 3, 2008

    Stay Together, Carry a Gun, Protect the Hill

    Frustrated by what they view as police indifference, a group of Beacon Hill residents takes to the streets packing heat.

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    Galaxie Espresso to Become V3

    Frustrated by what they view as police indifference, a group of Beacon Hill residents takes to the streets packing heat.

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2008

    Amazon Up, M'soft Executive Out

    Frustrated by what they view as police indifference, a group of Beacon Hill residents takes to the streets packing heat.

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2008

    Walk It Out: Latin American Edition

    Frustrated by what they view as police indifference, a group of Beacon Hill residents takes to the streets packing heat.

  • News

    June 18, 2008

    Bamboozled

    Bamboo has captured the imaginations of green homebuilders and buyers, leading some growers to neglect their roots.

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2008

    Beacon Hill Doesn't Deserve its Light Rail Station

    Bamboo has captured the imaginations of green homebuilders and buyers, leading some growers to neglect their roots.

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2008

    Land of the Lost

    Bamboo has captured the imaginations of green homebuilders and buyers, leading some growers to neglect their roots.

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2007

    Cooking Class: Party Bites

    Bamboo has captured the imaginations of green homebuilders and buyers, leading some growers to neglect their roots.

  • News

    September 19, 2007

    District Puts South End Schools on Notice—by Giving Them a Couple of Million Dollars

    Rainier Beach High School, Cleveland High School, and Aki Kurose Middle School have been plagued by declining enrollment and mediocre test scores.

  • News

    June 6, 2007

    Seattle Dog Parks: a Critical Guide

    Rainier Beach High School, Cleveland High School, and Aki Kurose Middle School have been plagued by declining enrollment and mediocre test scores.

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2007

    The South End's obstacle course

    Rainier Beach High School, Cleveland High School, and Aki Kurose Middle School have been plagued by declining enrollment and mediocre test scores.

  • Diversions

    August 4, 2004

    Best Public Service Makeover

    TURF: URBAN LIVING

  • News

    April 9, 2003

    Crippled Home Front

    The Department of Veterans Affairs is being targeted for billions in cuts. Evidently, President Bush's support for the troops doesn't include their health care.

  • News

    January 1, 2003

    Between closed libraries, closed community centers, and closed parks, I am beginning to wonder why I bother to live in the city at all.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs is being targeted for billions in cuts. Evidently, President Bush's support for the troops doesn't include their health care.

  • News

    December 26, 2001

    Medical trouble

    The city's PacMed keeps losing millions.

  • News

    August 30, 2000

    Mean streets

    South Seattle confronts the baffling politics of sidewalks.

  • News

    April 19, 2000

    City of nylon

    Homeless activists use private land in a new strategy to site a tent city.

  • News

    April 5, 2000

    Books or banks?

    Homeless activists use private land in a new strategy to site a tent city.

  • News

    February 16, 2000

    Principaled stand?

    School district officials ask activists to drop appeal against developer.

  • News

    October 20, 1999

    Amazon.c(abo)om

    How much longer can Jeff Bezos sustain his fantasy?

  • News

    November 18, 1998

    Yellers and screamers

    A community council dispute calls into question the neighborhood governance model.

  • News

    September 23, 1998

    Reexamining El Centro

    A series of crises has the nonprofit's charismatic director circling the wagons.

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