Cal Anderson

Seattle’s Pride was moved to September last year. As Pride 2022 approaches, last weekend’s cloudy skies might have felt a little like fall — or, at times, winter — but the celebrations of LGBTQ+ communities are ready to resume their rightful place in June after last year’s pandemic delays.

Dozens of volunteer efforts this Saturday to “turn the values” of Mayor Bruce Harrell’s One Seattle vision “into shared action and meaningful improvement” will include clean-ups of Cal Anderson Park and the surrounding streets of Pike/Pine and Broadway. CHS reported here on Harrell’s launch of...

SEATTLE - Thousands joined a rally in Cal Anderson Park to support abortion rights Saturday. Organizers had expected around 4,000 people to attend, but the number exceeded those expectations. The massive crowd stood in solidarity with other groups nationwide, calling to protect a person's right to access to abortion. "Today...

Seattle Fire responded to a fire Thursday afternoon in one of the remaining single family style home mid-block along 11th Ave E between E John and Denny just north of Cal Anderson. The old home is one of a handful lined up to be demolished to make way for a new housing development.

Breaking: This just dropped, so I'll give it to you straight. "The city of Seattle agreed to pay nearly $200,000 and improve its public records process in a settlement with The Seattle Times this week," reports the Seattle Times. "While the settlement can’t restore the texts, it does force the city to make changes in how it retains and releases government communications going forward. State law generally requires government records to be saved and available to the public, to ensure voters have unvarnished information to hold elected officials accountable." In the settlement, the city denied any liability for the way it handled the public records requests. Woof.

This summer will mark two years since Cal Anderson Park was raided by police and cleared as part of the removal of the CHOP occupied protest. In the time since, community efforts boosted by the city have continued with hopes of helping to continually improve the park while addressing issues and public safety concerns. Many of the issues raised at a recent community meeting dedicated to the park trace back through the park’s history and involve smaller issues like varmints and off-leash dogs while mental health and addiction issues and the city’s homelessness crisis continues.

Back in March 2020, the Seattle Park District released a long-range strategic plan, to guide park development through 2032. Also in March 2020, COVID happened. Pretty quickly, parts of that plan were put on hold as city tax revenues cratered owing to the lack of economic activity in the early stages of the pandemic.

Here are the top stories from this week in CHS history:. Seattle Police clear Cal Anderson Park over COVID-19 concerns — ‘Your current conduct is placing yourself and your fellow Seattleites in danger’. COVID-19 updates: Seattle 8 PM — clap hands, raise voices, bang some pots and pans,...

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Police were investigating gunfire in Cal Anderson Park and a male gunshot victim found a half hour later a mile away across I-5 in a Wednesday morning incident that stretched across Capitol Hill and South Lake Union. According to Seattle Police, the male victim was found just after 11 AM...

The first installation of an artist’s new “quiet space for communal mourning and personal contemplation” is lighting the northeast corner of Cal Anderson Park. The first of three stations in Horatio Hung-Yan Law’s sculptural Ribbon of Light installation in the park debuted early this month as Capitol Hill nonprofit Gay City hosted a World AIDS Day commemoration marking 40 years since the first cases of the virus were identified.

2022 will bring a new sushi restaurant to the base of Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, one of the neighborhood’s newest sushi joints is celebrating a re-start, of sorts, as it finally can offer in-person dining after opening earlier this year under COVID-19 restrictions. Wasabi Sushi is lining up plans for a...

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MAGMA FEST IS BACK!!! Hollow Earth Radio’s much beloved music festival returns as a free, one-day extravaganza at Cal Anderson Park on Saturday, August 28 from 2 – 7 PM. This mini-Magma Fest features live performances by amazing local bands Versing, somesurprises, and Coral Grief, followed by sets by DJs Razberry Beretta and Dos Leches. Mask up and spend the day at the park with us, check out some great music, and grab some brand new Hollow Earth Radio swag.

Police say Sunday morning’s shooting on Capitol Hill was a reported act of self defense during a street robbery at the Cal Anderson basketball court. According to the Seattle Police report on the just before 5 AM incident, the shooter told police he fired several rounds “into the ground to scare the robbers away” as he was being mugged in a strong-arm robbery attempt.

You’ll have a few chances to gather to celebrate Pride on Capitol Hill this weekend despite a heat wave and a wave of disappointment for one event’s organizers. Here is an updated look at Pride weekend events around Capitol Hill and the Central District as the city’s largest in-person celebrations have been rescheduled for later in the year.

Mayor Jenny Durkan has announced the city’s COVID-19 crisis moratorium on residential and commercial evictions will continue through at least the end of September as Seattle continues its recovery from the pandemic. A Thursday night rally in Cal Anderson organized by the office of Councilmember Kshama Sawant to call on...

The City of Seattle backed away from creating a mountain of controversy and issued a last-minute permit to allow the CHOP Art group to hold a Juneteenth celebration in Cal Anderson Park this weekend, organizers say. A collection of tents and shades went up along the park’s Bobby Morris playfield...

Seattle Parks and the city’s Office of Economic Development have issued last-minute denials of permits for an event in Cal Anderson on the one-year anniversary of the formation of the occupied protest on Capitol Hill. CHS reported on the June 11th to June 13th celebration planned for months by a...

Here are the top stories from this week in CHS history:. ‘His brother works here at this precinct’ — Police say Capitol Hill protest shooting suspect was ‘fearing for his life’. 2019. 2018. 2017. 2016. Where did deadly cocaine in Capitol Hill overdoses come from?. 2011. Capitol Hill food+drink: New...