The event is island-grown, but the guitarist is an import.
For world-renowned guitarist Bill Frisell, who moved to Bainbridge a year ago, an appearance with a roster of local artists at the Nov. 11 “Homespun” variety show marks his first island gig.
“It’s good to be playing at home,” Frisell says, “and I’m looking forwaThe event is island-grown, but the guitarist is an import.
For world-renowned guitarist Bill Frisell, who moved to Bainbridge a year ago, an appearance with a roster of local artists at the Nov. 11 “Homespun” variety show marks his first island gig.
“It’s good to be playing at home,” Frisell says, “and I’m looking forward to getting up there with Robin (Holcomb, vocals) and Dan (Barnes, banjo).”rd to getting up there with Robin (Holcomb, vocals) and Dan (Barnes, banjo).”
When Suzanne Selfors and her daughter Isabelle Ranson disembark from the schooner “Sea Scout” at Alki Point next Tuesday, they will be retracing the steps of ancestors.
Selfors and Ranson with other descendants of Seattle’s first white settlers – the Bells, Borens, Dennys, Lows and Terrys – will be recreating the Nov. 13, 1851 debarkation from the schooner “Exact” to kick off a year-long celebration of Seattle’s 150th anniversary.
Voter support for an $8 million open space levy didn’t surprise Mayor Dwight Sutton. The level of that support – 68 percent – did.
“It’s a great outcome,” said Sutton, who proposed the levy earlier this year and shepherded it to Tuesday’s ballot.
Twin themes that emerged from Tuesday’s elections were “work hard, think green.”
The winners of the mayoral and three city council races did that. They campaigned virtually full time. And they established themselves early on as environmental candidates, allowing them to carry their campaign to the Bainbridge business community.
The flag had flown over the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., was given to the family by one of this state’s better known senators, and had been draped over the casket of a decorated World War I veteran before his interment.
For the Ed Brunton family, it was an heirloom as well as a symbol of their patriotism. And if you happened to drive along Ferncliff near Grand Avenue sometime in the past month, you probably saw the enormous flag – 5 feet by 8 feet, it measured – draped from a front yard willow tree.
It’s 3 a.m. by the time the film crew finishes adjusting lighting in a Seattle parking garage, and the cameras finally roll.
The actors advance, plastic guns in hand.
Suddenly, the garage elevator doors open and out pedal police on bikes, brandishing the real article.
That’s not part of the script, someone says.
“Drop your weapons!” police yell – and for a heart-stopping moment an actor is too frozen with fear to comply.
Anticipating approval of state Initiative 747, which would limit the increase in property tax collections to 1 percent annually, the city administration is proposing a “pretty conservative” budget for 2002.
The new traffic roundabout’s grand opening Tuesday went like counterclockwork.
The last glitch in the much-delayed project proved to be a reverse stencil job on the directional traffic signs.
As a year-long study of the ferry maintenance facility at Eagle Harbor begins, legislators want to know whether Bainbridge Island wants the facility.
The initial feedback suggests that the answer may be “No.”
Pity the potty.
Damaged by insects and the elements, its fixtures worn and its porcelain sullied, the Waterfront Park restroom has seen its last flush.
Monday afternoon, temporary fencing went up around the building, which includes a storage area and several covered picnic tables.
It will be razed after testing for asbestos and lead paint determines disposal options.
Jay Wence has spent most of his life in diners. And if all goes well, that won’t change now that he has moved to Bainbridge Island.
Wence and his wife, Michelle Enslow, will open the Big Star Diner next week in the Madison Avenue spot formerly occupied by Al Packard’s Blue Water Diner.
“I’m excited,” Wence said late last week. “Today I had a couple from Dallas knock on the door and ask if we served milkshakes.”
It’s hard to imagine a more will-motivated effort than the special education program in our nation’s public schools. As profiled in a two-part series in last week’s Review, the program’s aim is lofty indeed – educating students with physical, mental and emotional handicaps to the same level as their peers.
It might be pleasant to disappear into a Tom Fehsenfeld encaustic painting.
The lush landscapes at Kurt Lidtke Galleries glow with layers of translucent wax and rich textures that seem to invite touch.
The works are abstractions of Fehsenfeld’s Bainbridge neighborhood.
“My inspiration comes from small, local geographies,” Fehsenfeld said, “my farmhouse encircled by garden, orchard and woods – and the few miles of countryside within walking distance.”