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Capitol Hill, this might be our happiest holiday travel season... ever. By way of fellow community news site B-Town Blog covering lovely Burien, CHS has learned that we'll all get a great present from Uncle Google this year -- free wireless Internet at Sea-Tac:
We also talked to Bruce Gray of Sound Transit about the start of light rail airport service which is scheduled to happen 'late in 2009' according to the airport link project page. Gray says the announcement on the start of service will come later this week and said the trains will be continuing through to the Sea-Tac stop "in time for the holidays." "Which holidays?" CHS asked. Just wanted to be sure. Gray said we'll find out this week.
Here's as-it-happened coverage of the Cal Anderson Independence Day picnic pie eating contest. A few hundred have trickled through the park's festivities on one of the sunniest Seattle 4th of July in memory.
This is the first time in a very long time that I'll be on Capitol Hill for Independence Day. I'll be at the Capitol Hill picnic at Cal Anderson park on Saturday. If you're staying in town, hope to see you there. I'll have a jar of CHS crow buttons and will Tweet our picnic blanket location -- stop by, say hello and put down a blanket nearby if you like. Meanwhile, this sunny Friday holiday kind of snuck up on us. What are you doing with it? And where will you be on Saturday? (photos: laundryninja, liquidnight, zeebleoop)  NKO Originally uploaded by liquidnight Last year, CHS asked for some tips on where to see the city's fireworks from Capitol Hill. Below is what we learned. Expect a few more bodies this year as the Lake Union fireworks will be the only show in town. Don't want to overload any one place so make sure to spread out and let the short people up front. And bring your singing voice.
Message is the same for all locations. Don't even try to drive. You'll never find a place to park. UPDATE: 
If you are looking for something closer to the red, white and blue fringes this Saturday, you might want to twist up your dreads and hitchhike your way uphill for a 15th Ave E 4th of July.
 Soccer field at Cal Anderson Park Originally uploaded by rutlo After the amazing debut of Saturday's Capitol Hill Pride Festival:
A noisy but intriguing takeover of the People's Parking lot:
And a general sense of good times all over the Hill as people claimed the streets as their own for a weekend, some people are asking for more:
The 7th annual Capitol Hill Independence Day is waiting for your to build on it. Not that it needs too much help. Already planned:
The planned portion of the event runs noon to 5p. But CHS has also heard about an interesting opportunity in the park later that night. Reportedly, the parks department will be leaving the lights on at Cal Anderson Park's Bobby Morris play field ALL NIGHT LONG. Ostensibly, this energy expenditure is designed to deter idiots from burning holes in the artificial field turn. But it seems like an opportunity begging to be embraced and extended. Remembering the lessons of the 'guerrilla dance party,' creative and respectfully-quiet young patriots might be able to put the Cal Anderson midnight sun to work. Happy Independence Night. Do you want your 4th of July to be about a record 60,000 people crushed into Gas Works park or an increased police presence to handle larger than normal crowds in Eastlake trying to see the city's only fireworks display this year? Or would you rather your 4th of July be about Capitol Hill community, a picnic in the park in the heart of the city, live music, good food and goofy games? CHS will take the latter please. Below are the details for Capitol Hill's 4th of July celebration in Cal Anderson park. If you want to catch the Gas Works fireworks over Lake Union (remember, no Elliott Bay fireworks this year), this CHS comment thread has some good Hill viewpoints.
I've got a 1 1/2 year old and, yesterday, bought a dozen eggs, a bottle of vinegar and whatever it is they put in PAAS egg dye packages these days. I could not resist. We are having friends over for Sunday brunch. Hell, we'll probably end up baking hot cross buns and praying or something. So it goes with holidays. Hard to avoid. And, in the end, always good to have more excuses for a party. If you are looking for Easter fun -- or looking to avoid it -- here are some Cap Hill items to consider. Want to hunt eggs with the people? Miller Community Center -- Capitol Hill's only community center! -- is hosting a Spring Hunt for kids 1 to 11 at 10a on Saturday. For the roster of other community center hunts around the city, check out the city's event calendar. More interested in the brunch part of the tradition? Here are three choices taking reservations. Have something else to suggest for the weekend? Leave a comment From OpenTable's East Brunch list: Stew from Olivar. Savory tarts from Poppy. Treats from B&O Espresso. Cherry pie from High 5 Pies and Fuel Coffee. No, not my lunch menu. The Capitol Hill Community Council is holding its (rescheduled!) public holiday party Thursday, 7p at the Cal Anderson park shelter house (just north of Bobby Morris playfield). It's free. It's community. It's potluck if you wanna bring a side to add. Haven't had a CHS meet-up in awhile. Consider coming out and saying hi. I'll have crow pins, too, if you don't have yours yet. You'll definitely be able to score your fix on New Year's Day. You earlybirds just need to hover while the baristas sleep in a tad. Somebody tell Vita to answer their damn phone already. People wanna know. (Update: Seattlest's MvB hooked us up with the Vita intel) As for everything else, you'll have to just head out on a personal voyage of discovery and find out for yourself. Good way to start a new year, that. NYD 2009 Coffee Who's Open When List
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Thought I'd create an open thread to let everybody check-in from your various holiday travels (and non-travels). Leave a note, say where you are, add a picture if you're savvy (you can use standard HTML in comment field). Happy holidays, all. Stay warm. Dear Santa, We have been a very good neighborhood this year. We mostly didn't do too many bad things though there was a little bit of graffiti here and there. We cleaned our plates and finished our lattes and helped keep the drains mostly clear. We didn't do a great job keeping the sidewalks free of ice -- but it's not because we didn't want to (please see requested gift #2). For the most part, we spent the year celebrating in the streets and being very, very good to each other. Here is what Capitol Hill would like for Christmas this year. Please also read the comments for more. Love,
When I talk about CHS (when am I not talking about CHS?), the word 'experiment' comes up a lot. It is both an accurate description and an overstatement. A lot of stuff we do here is new journalism or new media or new community. But most of it is only the natural course of what is interesting, what is fun and what is necessary to tell the story. So, here's an, um, experiment to ponder. I will be out of town next week. Except for a few planned stretches of time, I will be online and updating the site from afar. That's part one of the experiment. Part two of the experiment is what will determine the longterm success of CHS -- the community of CHS neighbors is running the site. It happens all the time already -- I logged on last night to find three posts suddenly appear on the front page of what I used to consider 'my site.' Anybody can post to capitolhillseattle.com and I've given a wide range of experienced contributors the ability to feature the best posts on the CHS homepage. I'm just part of the team now....
Celebrate the longest night of the year with the 1300 block of Pine St! Bootyland, The Copper Vine & Whimsy invite you to join them Dec. 21st from 4-7pm for a Solstice evening of cider, cookies & seriously local shopping.
The rumored special deals: + Buy 2, Get 1 Free on Holiday Items at Whimsy + 10% off Gifts at Bootyland - Offer Valid WITH Other Coupons + 20% off Any Item Purchased as a gift at The Copper Vine and... For each customer that mentions Unpaving Paradise when making a purchase, The Copper Vine will donate $5 to the park-to-be at John and Summit! Here's the deal. Even if it never snows, this city is going to be frozen mess on Thursday. Holiday parties aren't happening the way they used to. And we didn't plan a CHS-related get-together this month. All of these provide excellent reasons to stop by Thursday night's community holiday party hosted by the Capitol Hill Community Council. Need more to compel you than getting to celebrate with the community, meet me and, if you're sweet, score a crow pin? How do you like these apples?
If you are the creative type, please also consider bringing a small side or snack to share. The council is looking at this as a chance to get together with the people of the Hill and have a good time in addition to celebrating the council's re-birth. There will be...
Low enough to see...
Notice the wreaths and garlands along Broadway and Pike/Pine? That's because the Hill's chamber of commerce (who footed the bill for the holiday greenery and lights) convinced workers to go back out and lower the decorations within eye level. Apparently the Hill's main corridors had so many banners, etc. flying that workers decided to add the the holiday installations where there was space requiring passersby to look nearly straight up to see. No longer. Now the urban grit has a little seasonal decor low enough to see but, of course, high enough to keep you crazy kids from grabbing some decorations for home. Merry Xmas.
Your friends and neighbors are budgeting. Corporate Xmas parties are getting the axe. Your holiday joy this year, it seems, falls to the community to provide. Next week, the Capitol Hill Community Council is throwing a public holiday party. And, yeah, everyone's invited. Plan is for the council to forgo its regular public monthly meeting on the third Thursday of the month, and, instead, enjoy some food and drink and community. There will be snacks and beverages provided -- thanks local merchants! -- but potluck is also encouraged so bring a snack or side to share. If you haven't been to a council meeting before, this is a good time to get involved. Part of the night's mission is some very modest fundraising -- suggested $5 donation. But really, it's about getting everybody together for a little holiday time. Would be great to see you there. CHCC Public Holiday Party CHS is an experiment in collaboration. When you leave a comment here, you are working with the group to expand the conversation. Users post stories, pictures and videos. More and more, we're finding ways to work together in significant ways -- I'm looking forward to seeing what Cheesecake and EmilyP cook up with his next video episode and her design skills. In that spirit, we'd like to try another new thing -- CHS Giving Snowball 2008, an experiment in holiday giving. At the center of any community collaboration, there needs to be a driver. For Snowball 2008, it's neighbor pffft who wrote in looking for a way to expand his plans for holiday giving. Pffft will help get the Snowball rolling by throwing $100 in the group pot (see below) and pledging $400 to Northwest Harvest if we meet our $700 giving goal. Thanks pffft! CHS is also throwing $50 in the community pot to get things rolling. And there is no time like the present to get things rolling -- I'm hearing all sorts of anecdotes about challenges faced by... This one definitely belongs on the CHS Holiday Awesomeness 2008 map -- need to pin down an approximate location and add it. "Personally affronted" by the recent theft of a sign adding, um, counterbalance to a Nativity Scene at the state capitol, neighbor Arboreality created this unique holiday decoration of her own:
She plans, she says, to fly the banner proudly from her balcony. Want one? She also set up an online shop to procure your own 'Sol in Solstice' gear. A few images from tonight's special holiday edition of the 2Tue art walk. Lots of snacks and free flowing wine. Scored a nice little painting of a seahorse which apparently is going to be the hip animal of 2009 bumping deer back to pasture. Enjoyed a singer songwriter type performing inside Retail Therapy. Heckled the carolers inside Barrio. It felt like a different Capitol Hill. Some will turn their nose up. But there were enough reminders of the Hill's good stuff in the night that only a hardened cynic would have passed on taking a turn on Santa's lap. 
Paper lanterns
Retrofit turned gallery
Carolers inside Barrio
12th Ave Santa + elf
Judged solely by this link list, today may be the busiest Tuesday in the history of the world.
Heading out the next couple of nights to take a few pictures of the Hill Holidaze. Any displays of particular note that I should be on the lookout for? Comments, please. I'll add everything, of course, to the CHS Holiday Awesomeness 2008 map. Three entries thus far. Thousands more to come, I'm sure. 
Seasonʼs Greetings everyone! The merchants of 12th Avenue would like to welcome you again this year to a night of revelry up and down our block between Pike and Madison, on Tuesday December 9th starting at 5pm.
Free nibbles! Special holiday cocktails! Carolers! Art and jewelry shows! Chestnuts roasting! And if youʼve been a very good girl or boy this year, you can get your picture taken on Santaʼs knee. Participating restaurants and merchants: Retrofit Home Pacific Supply Izilla Toys Balagan Theatre Boom Noodle La Spiga Ferrari Maserati Trace Lofts / Gun Club bar Pizza Fusion Barrio Cafe Stellina Even more details here (pdf). When I was a younger man, I, too, would have been less than enthusiastic about the provincial message that is shop local. But I am old. And I now have my own business (you're reading it). And I know that you only get so long to spin around this planet. And make things. And get things. And I sure don't want to end my spinning knowing that I didn't get things in a way that helped my friends and neighbors. Take The Economist and wipe your bum with it. Go shopping local this weekend. Here's the list of Hill merchants, restaurants and watering holes taking part in the City Stimulus promo this weekend. Happy spinning. And, oh, btw, if you have a Hill biz and want to get in the mix, leave a comment here to let people know.
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