http://www.yourstreet.com/news/seattle-wa YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us (Lincoln Park photo courtesy of Shannon) Our tree-laden parks are great, but neighborhoods need trees too, which is why 4 short-on-trees West Seattle neighborhoods are among 6 citywide that are eligible for free trees from EarthCorps and the city. While we’ve... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751870/free-trees-deadline-s-coming-up-for-west-seattle-applications Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:23:08 -0700 West Seattle filmmaker Jamie Burton Chamberlin sends word that “ZZ Top: Double Down Live” is now out on DVD - “the first historic concert performance ever to be approved for release by the band,” he says. It packs “28 years of hard rock,... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751871/west-seattle-filmmaker-s-double-down-live-to-premiere-here Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:09:08 -0700 The new community edible garden behind C & P Coffee - built today by CoolMom- and Sustainable West Seattle-organized volunteers as part of the worldwide 350 Day of Action - was taking shape in a big way when we stopped by around noon - four raised beds behind... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751876/350-day-of-action-west-seattle-garden-building,-and-more Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:40:08 -0700 Hundreds of students, staffers and parent/community volunteers teamed up in Friday’s soggy, blustery weather for another successful Lafayette Elementary Walk-a-Thon. This is a big year for the school in Admiral, as it’s added two classes and is now the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751882/despite-blustery-weather,-lafayette-s-walk-a-thon-rolls-on Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:13:08 -0700 Seattle is flush with--among other things--neighborhood grocery stores, bars, and, of course, breweries. If one suffers inspiration to refill the fridge, you only have to walk a few blocks to stock up on a local brew. In the Lake City neighborhood however, one... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751885/brown-bagging-it-at-the-beer-authority Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:00:08 -0700 Image via Sprint has been teasing Chicagoans for over two years with its proposed WiMax, a 4G wireless network that would blanket the city with high-speed internet access. Although the network was originally supposed to be available in 2008, PC World reported that... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751627/wimax-to-finally-hit-chicago-next-month Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:40:08 -0700 Image via the BookFest website Uh, so why did it take so long for Seattle to re-establish a local book festival after the Northwest Book Festival fizzled out in 2003? Regardless, there seems to have been some sort of suppressed need for such a thing, as the good... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751891/bookfest-success-makes-us-feelgood Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:30:08 -0700 Pioneer Square and Ballard tees, $15 each Neighborhood shout-outs are fun! Because then everyone knows you live there, in that neighborhood! Seattleite hoofinitdesigns takes ‘hood designs and hand-screens them onto cotton t-shirts. Simple as that. For the time... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751892/made-in-seattle-neighborhood-tees Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:45:08 -0700 It broke my heart to learn that Northwest Flower and Garden Show found Duane Kelly was getting out of the expo game; there are many great expositions, conventions and shows in Seattle each year but the best of them for me has always been the Northwest Flower and... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751917/return-of-the-northwest-flower-and-garden-show Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:52:08 -0700 "Paramount Theater" courtesy of pink_fish13 SIGN LIGHTING PARTY : The original sign, in place since 1930, is damaged beyond repair. The new sign is made from environmentally responsible materials and is 90% more energy efficient. The new sign will be lit for the... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751897/can-t-miss-it-wednesday Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:45:08 -0700 While our beloved city is known for many things ( music , tech , caffeine , seafood , more tech , and on and on ), comedy doesn’t usually factor high on any such list. As a result, we’ve learned to get the laughs where we can . Though the comedy line-ups... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751898/an-interview-with-comedian-mike-birbiglia Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:30:08 -0700 If it seems like First Hill’s Sorrento Hotel has been around forever, that’s because it has. Well, relatively speaking, in Seattle time. This year the Sorrento is celebrating 100 years. Part of the festivities is a Midnight Symposium series which has its... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751919/mark-your-calendar-midnight-symposium-at-the-sorrento Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:07:08 -0700 The 2009 Earshot Jazz Festival is gaining momentum with tonight's premier of Sarah Jane Lapp's Animated Jazz Experiments film Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist . The film is a hand-drawn (India ink, gouache and wax) animation, which follows a prospective... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751899/i-wanna-be-a-professional-eulogist Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:15:08 -0700 Local hip-hop artist, Macklemore. Hugo House will be officially kicking off its 2009-2010 Literary Series this Friday with well-known Seattle favorites such as Rebecca Brown , Keri Healey , Eric McHenry , and local hip-hop artist Macklemore . The readings and rapping... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751901/hugo-house-dares-us-to-remember Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:00:08 -0700 Courtesy tbirdshockeyfan, from our Flickr pool No sense in dwelling on the shortcomings of Seattle’s American football teams. This Monday, there’s only one sports story worth writing and reading about, and that’s the Seattle Sounders FC. The... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751906/weekend-sports-roundup-sounders-in-the-playoffs Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:30:08 -0700 The Saga of Gösta Berling by Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf is not generally well-known in the United States, despite the fact that the novel received a Nobel Prize in 1909 and inspired the 1924 silent film which launched the career of Swedish actress Greta Garbo.... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751909/an-interview-with-paul-norl-n,-author-and-swedish-translator Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:45:08 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshc/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 These arms are snakes. Sure, they aren't the best for executing handstands or gripping silverware. But they're great for climbing trees, and they can swallow large prey whole, which is nice. These arms are snakes,... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751911/these-arms-are-venomous Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:30:08 -0700 Please forgive Seattlest for the horrible attempt at a punny play on words headline, but we spent most of Thursday watching a spaceship balloon drift across Denver . So now our brain is dead. But, that doesn’t absolve us from previewing yet another important... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6751914/weekend-sports-preview-wizards-and-devils-in-the-cards Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:00:08 -0700 Block 37's developers are close to leasing prime top-floor space along State Street to a dinner-theater troupe with elements of vaudeville and circus acts. Teatro ZinZanni, based in Seattle, would take over around 40,000 square feet, sources close to the project... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6749873/block-37-nears-show-time Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:00:08 -0700 A Seattle City Councilman has announced a plan to boost citizen engagement and bureaucratic efficiency with new tech tools that could make Seattle a leader among local governments. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6744205/city-looks-to-technology-to-serve-its-citizens Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:49:08 -0700