Neighborhood Round-up: Introducing Deborah! June 20, 2007
[Editor's note: When I noticed that Deborah Burns was writing a most wonderful blog about Seattle's Urban Villages, I could help but hope that she make take a part in helping to write about Seattle neighborhoods on RCG! And to my great pleasure, she agreed! Deborah has been with RCG for a long time (she even attended our first RCG meet-up back in April '06). One of the things Deborah has offered to do is to take over the neighborhood roundups I started a while back, which seems more than appropriate considering her interests... However, I sincerely hope she doesn't limit her involvement to this genre. 
Without further ado, I'm happy to welcome Deborah as the newest RCG contributor!]
So…here we go….
Over in Alki Summer Dreaming is manifesting itself on a plate at dinner and it looks oh so yummy…. Beach Drive Blog spotted a photo of a telephone pole with a poster of a handsome young dog lookin’ for love!
Ballard Avenue also posts a photo of a telephone pole with an application for P.U.G.s and one of the questions was: “Can pugs be spotted?” At large in Ballard ’s Dad passed along an article in The Boston Globe about Ballard, both it’s Nordic past and it’s trendiness today (see if you can spot the CEO of an innovative Seattle real estate company who makes an appearance at Cupcake Royal in the article) and ALIB defines “Hipness” for her PI readers.
Capitol Hill host a pizza & boxed wine party to welcome Art Cars to Seattle and The Fremont Solstice Fair. Red Brick Blog poses the eternal summer question…where’s the pool?
Miller Park Neighborhood Association has a eye grabbing headline: “Miller Neighbors buy drugs for one year old on Madison” a ‘catastrophe’ in the making. West Seattle Blog counts down to Emergency Preparedness this Saturday, are you disaster proof?
So go for a little virtual drive around the neighborhoods, take in the sights and stories.
Neighborhood Roundup: Seattle Uncovers a Funny Bone April 1, 2007
Due to the success of last week’s neighborhood roundup, I thought I’d make another attempt…
After a confusing vote on the Viaduct replacement, the Need to Know Seattle Condos blog lets us know about the grassroots movement to replace the viaduct with condos… This type of mixed-use development is sure to please the folks at City Comforts (temporarily, known as Viaduct, the blog)…
The Capitol Hill Seattle folks are shocked to get fast (and dry) pizza delivery in Seattle. “Because the Pagliacci delivery guy refuses to purchase a fender for the rear tire of his bike (he claims the tips aren’t that good), our pizza not only takes a long time to get delivered, but the cardboard box arrives soaked whenever it rains! The fact that Palermo’s delivery guy uses a car is a big plus (even if it doesn’t please our social sensibilities!).” Do you think it would help the Pagliacci delivery guy to know that he could get free maintenance advice for his bike at the Garfield Community Center on Sunday afternoons?
Seth over at the Seattlest loves the rain. (He obviously doesn’t order pizza from Pagliacci very often).
A much more prominent Seth seems more than a little concerned that Ballard’s Archie McPhee is selling Cap’n Danger Stunt Monkey’s for kids. The photo says tells the story…
The West Seattle Blog lets us know about the “West Seattle Pet Rodeo and Snooty Walk”. Seriously, here’s a link to the event…
Others in West Seattle are looking to return a missing fowl.
Ballard Avenue uncovers this (I’m not sure how to describe it!) video from Finland. Thanks to the fact that my wife loves this video, I’ve watched it more times than I care to admit…
Today’s saddest news in the Seattle neighborhood blog scene… Rumor has it that the writers behind the Seattlest and Metroblogging Seattle decided it would be a fun April Fool’s prank if they switched blogs for a day. However, the joke backfired when readers couldn’t tell the difference…
And finally, this post just missed the entry time for the Carnival of the Cities that is going to be hosted by The Seattle Traveler… (there’s a carnival for everything!) What a bummer!
Neighborhood Roundup: Breaking the Espresso Rut March 25, 2007
Creating the list of active neighborhood blogs was only the first step in my grand vision… (or is it Greg that has the grand neighborhood vision?) Okay… Maybe there is no grand plan, but I thought it would be fun to give a roundup of recent neighborhood posts…
The West Seattle Blog has turned to Cafe Rozella to break out of an espresso rut and is “really impressed”.
Dave at the Learning from Lake City expanded my skatepark world view considerably… Skatedots? Skatepots? Districts? Regionals? Who knew?
Georgetown Stew highlights a scam where people are not only taking advantage of day laborers, but it gets worse…
Not only are some folks in South Park being stiffed out of their wages, the employer(s) are apparently asking the workers for their home address, with the promise that a paycheck will arrive in the mail. And then the surprise arrives. Not a check, but officers from Immigration & Naturalization show up.
Beach Drive gives us a beautiful photo of a brave soul on the Sound…
Linked a day too soon to the Outer Limits blog… Ericka announced that she was moving on (thanks to a job!) and looking for a replacement…
The Miller Park Neighborhood Association blog is looking to get people out at an upcoming (March 28th) Sound Transit meeting to show support for lightrail on the eastside…
The Kirkland Weblog highlighted a great new photo blog out of Kirkland… The idea (as I understand it) is that the author of Kirkland 52 is planning to post photos of Kirkland once a week over the next year.
The Capitol Hill Seattle blog indulges their love of maps with an interesting map of voter patterns on the Viaduct Replacement. (PI Article)
The Belltown Bent highlights an award given by a Harvard Group to Weiss/Manfredi Architects for their work on the Olympic Sculpture Park.
Ballard Avenue wallows a bit in the transportation history of Ballard… I think the photo makes the post.
