I live in Seattle. These are things that catch my attention, pique my
interest and/or make me want to pass notes in class like a 7th
grader
The Columbia City Cinema to Reopen?
Nonprofit SEEDArts is hoping to relaunch the darkened movie house.
Want to help make it happen? Donate at seedseattle.org/donate.
There’s still hope for the recently shuttered Columbia City Cinema, thanks to southeast Seattle nonprofit SEEDArts. The art-loving administration just announced plans to revive the much-missed movie house.
Closed since May, the three-screen cinema went under after the city denied owner Paul Doyle’s request for more time to install fire code-mandated sprinklers. (To be fair, the city said it tried to work with Doyle and discussed options over the course of a year.) SEEDArts, which also owns the Rainier Valley Cultural Center and the Columbia City Gallery, has decided to step in, and is currently working with a community advisory board to raise $60,000 for rent on a one-year lease. That will allow them the time and space to conduct a feasibility study and raise $1.1 million to reopen. The study will take about three months to look at community resources, talk to potential donors, and scope out interest levels in a revived community cinema. Should the results come back positive, the campaigning begins.
If everything goes according to plan, the theater could reopen—fully refurbished with a new sprinkler system—as early as September 2013, said art director Jerri Plumridge. They plan to show first- and second-run films, foreign, and independent films. Given the recent successes of the revived Uptown and Neptune theaters, this could be a very good thing for Columbia City.
Donate at seedseattle.org/donate.
I volunteered here for almost 3 years and I would be delighted to do it again. Fingers crossed that this community cinema makes a come back. I love this place and it is such a wonderful asset to the neighborhood.
Blue Scholars - Rani Mukerji
My current favorite song from the Blue Scholars latest album, Cinemetropolis. Musically addictive and politically inspiring this album is completely worth the purchase.
suitep:I love unexpected views of the Needle from rainy bus windows.
Sometimes I forget just how beautiful this city really is and then I see shots like this and I remember how lovely Seattle is, even when wet.
Slick Watts by The Blue Scholars from Cinemetropolis
“Seattle is so beautiful,” I thought as my plane landed yesterday afternoon. “I’m so happy to be home.” The air feels fresh and crisp and cool. All the places I recognize. My old friends.
Oh. Um, hello. What’s that? What is that?
It’s a man in Costco jeans and Teva’s with some kind of all-purpose raincoat tied around his waist.
Let me back on the plane. I love New York.
But that’s sort of part of our upper-left charm! That and our resistance to jaywalking even in the middle of a rainstorm; even when there are no cars for miles.
Just got my tickets!
(Source: westcoastwins)
Secluded in the upper left dominantly gray shaded skies
Every other day, sorta like the bay
Just a little bit wetter and cold in the winter
Proximity to water make the soul a little gentler
Out-of-towners don’t be knowin’ about the best-kepts
Ain’t nothin’ better than the summer in the NorthwestInkwell- Blue Scholars
Seattle, the most appreciative audience sunlight has ever met.
(Source: upgradeyourvices, via ourseattle)
Attention Seattle: Great Author, Great Cause
BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF
Art of Racing in the Rain
Over a year on the NY Times Best-Seller List
WEDNESDAY APRIL 20 - 7:30 PM
RAINIER VALLEY CULTURAL CENTER
3515 S Alaska at Rainier in Columbia City
See Garth Stein and Support the Cinema
$12 Suggested Donation at the Door
Garth has become a local legend. He has generously donated his time. Please come. Get to know him and show him a good turnout. It will be an evening to remember, and still faced with the sprinkler issue, the cinema needs your support. Garth’s truly wonderful book will be available. Tickets can be purchased online, at the cinema and at the door. Thanks.
See you there!
I really wish there was a pie shop in my neighborhood. It is about forty percent because I love the show Pushing Daisies. The other sixty percent is because, lets face it, pie is one of the greatest things ever.
Research shoes the closest pie shop is Shoofly Pie Co. At less than 4 miles, West Seattle is mentally further than it is physically so I am determined to break down the internal barriers that keep it from my common consideration. For the sake of pie, I am going to rally the energy and possibily the troops as I head way out west this weekend. Update to follow.
