(Image: Soul Collective) Folina By Nicholas Williams/UW News Lab A Central District hair salon has become the unexpected host of monthly poetry nights in the midst of neighborhood development at 23rd and Union. Soul Collective, located below the Midtown Square apartments near neighboring businesses Jerk Shack, Neighbor Lady, Raised Donuts, and the Arte Noir gallery, is a space committed to sharing its artistic expertise of diverse ethnicities, backgrounds and hair textures. Owner Alexandria Folina says she founded the small business to desegregate hair care in an environment of unpretentio ..read more

A look at this curve of E Olive Way’s future (Image: King County) The Seattle Design Review program isn’t dead yet but Wednesday night’s session for an eight-story, mixed-use project planned to rise along Capitol Hill’s E Olive Way provided a few more reasons why the process could change. The development has been in the works for years after a massive 2019 real estate deal with Vancouver, Canada-based real estate investment and management company Low Tide Properties paying $21 million for a collection of commercial buildings including former Coldwell Banker offices and the former Fred Wild ..read more

The Seattle City Council’s Governance, Accountability & Economic Development Committee will open debate Thursday afternoon on legislation from committee head and council president Sara Nelson that would roll back the city’s minimum wage requirements for app-based workers amid complaints of soaring fees and lost work, and heavy lobbying by the industry. “The original legislation was adopted by the Council in 2022 and went into effect in January this year,” a council brief on the proposal reads. “The revised bill intends to reduce labor costs for network companies while still guaranteeing a ..read more

(Image: Poquitos) (Image: Poquitos) As Seattle restaurant groups are claiming a growing share of the city’s dining revenue, a new local food and drink conglomerate with deep connections to Capitol Hill — as well as Ballard, Bothell, Tacoma, Leavenworth, and, yes, Denver — has taken shape. The Yes Parade Restaurant Group now encompasses 13 venues including Poquitos and Rhein Haus locations on Capitol Hill. Formerly organized as Weimann Maclise Restaurants, the company began in 2008 under founders James Weimann and Deming Maclise with Bastille Cafe & Bar in Ballard and the roster of rest ..read more

The man arrested three years ago in a 4 AM Capitol Hill traffic stop driving a blood splattered car in which police found a 9mm handgun, two fired rounds, a bullet, and a half kilo of drugs has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to 30 years in jail. In February, a jury found Bryson Morgan guilty of first degree murder for the January 2021 killing of 21-year-old Autumn Young. Court records show Morgan was sentenced last week to 360 months for the crime. CHS reported here on the charge leveled against Morgan after his arrest as Young was found stripped naked and shot to death near Seward ..read more

Seattle’s new transportation plan makes a big deal about making the city’s sidewalks better and adding new ones to the remaining areas without. Cal Anderson Park is out in front on things. Capitol Hill’s central park is starting spring with its buckled eastern edge lined by a smooth new sidewalk and new solutions to help save the space’s Red Sunset Maples. Meanwhile, city officials are meeting with area business representatives and organizations with hopes to address larger questions around public safety on the park’s west side. On the east, the Seattle Department of Transportation’s three-bl ..read more

(Image: @seattledot) “Nearly one hundred years ago, on April 21, 1924, the first traffic light in Seattle was installed at 4th and Jackson…” The Seattle City Council Tuesday approved a new 20-year transportation plan for transit, street, sidewalk, and bridge projects across Seattle that will serve as the framework for the planned $1.35 billion transportation levy renewal vote this fall. While still massive in scale and the result of a two-year process of outreach, bureaucracy, and budgeting, Mayor Bruce Harrell and council leadership are emphasizing the plan’s focus on day to day issues like ..read more

There were no reported injuries and no arrests after a gunfire incident involving a shooter reportedly firing from the sunroof of an SUV on E Jefferson just west of Garfield High School Tuesday afternoon. According to East Precinct radio updates, witness accounts described the shooter in an SUV reportedly opening fire on another vehicle near an unloading Metro bus and students on E Jefferson near 22nd Ave around 1:20 PM. Both SUVs fled the scene. Police were collecting shell casings along E Jefferson and video evidence from security systems and the nearby Garfield campus. Police were also work ..read more

(Image: CHS) (Image: Tirto) By Juan Jocom It is a time for milestones in the commercial community that has formed around Capitol Hill’s 19th Ave E. Monsoon, which has grown into the small business core of the neighborhood since it began redefining Vietnamese dining in Seattle at the turn of the millenium, is celebrating 25 years on the street. There are more celebrations underway. Across the street at Tirto Furniture, a family business is marking its own anniversary, celebrating resilience and quality. Even as the industry has trended toward mass-produced, disposable, build-your-own furnit ..read more

Groups including Washington State Unite, The Revolutionary Student Union of King County, and student groups at the University of Washington and Evergreen College say they have organized a “statewide walkout” Tuesday morning with rally points across Washington including Cal Anderson Park calling for the end of U.S. aid to Israel and for the end of the Israeli occupation of Gaza. “We the students of Seattle refuse to turn a blind eye to the atrocities that Israel and the U.S. commits every day! Being silent is being complicit in these crimes against humanity,” the message from @wawalkoutforpales ..read more