Vendors, musicians and food lovers will be out in full force at both the Queen Anne Farmers Market and Interbay Farmers Market this afternoon. Check out what’s on the schedule for both neighborhood markets today.
At the Queen Anne Farmers Market:
4 p.m. – In the Chef Tent: Chef Jess Dowdell, of Whidbey Island’s ca’buni cafe, a treasure tucked in the woods outside Langley, Wa.
5 to 7 p.m. – In the Music Tent: Jam out with the Canote Brothers. Brothers Greg and Jere play American Roots music with a little quirk! Fiddle and guitar, and a pair of great voices!
6 p.m. – End of Crockett Street: Market SURPRISE!
Check out what’s fresh at the market this week here.
At the Interbay Farmers Market:
There is no cooking demonstration at the Interbay market today, but they’ll be plenty going on and lots of fresh eats!
Check out what’s fresh at the market this week here.
As always the Queen Anne Farmers Market will take place from 3 to 7:30 p.m. at W Crockett Street and Queen Anne Ave N. The Interbay Farmers Market will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Interbay Urban Center, located at 1819 15th Ave. W.
The Uptown Alliance is hosting the event. They’ll be snacks from nearby eateries, activities, clothing and food drives, and everything else you need to get to know your neighbors on a sunny (hopefully) August evening. From the Uptown Alliance:
This nationwide free event invites neighbors to meet in parks and on closed streets. A popular activity from the 2009 event, free “Bite of Uptown” food samples from local restaurants will be served on the hour.
Non-perishable food donations are requested for Uptown’s local food banks. The free clothing exchange is also returning. Residents bring clean, lightly used clothes and accessories to swap/trade. If you can use it, take it. No one is required to bring something or to take something. Remainders will be donated to local shelters. Board and card games plus storytelling will be available. Information tables from local organizations are included.
If you’d like to volunteer or lead an activity at Queen Anne’s Neighborhood Night Out, or just get more information, please leave a message for the Uptown Alliance at 206-499-2795.
Looking for something fun to do in the neighborhood this weekend? Check out Queen Anne’s weekend happenings:
Join in one of the historic Olmsted walks on Saturday with an all-day 12-13 mile walk from Ballard (leaving from Aster Coffee at 5615 24th Ave. NW at 8:30 a.m.) to Queen Anne by way of Discovery Park, Magnolia Blvd, Kinnear Park, and Queen Anne Blvd. Details here.
Pick your own lavender on Saturday and Sunday at the Interbay P-Patch’s U-Pick Lavender Sale. Swing by the garden, at 2451 15th Ave W, between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. either day. Cost is $3 for a small bunch and $5 for a large.
Listen to some fun and quirky tunes by musical due “Team Andrew,” who will be swinging by El Diablo at 4 p.m. on Sunday to share their music, and meet with fans during the Seattle stop of their International Tour. Check out their “surreal hip hop” in this music video.
If you venture out of Queen Anne this weekend, keep in mind that traffic is going to be tight both coming and going due to the SDOT’s Mercer Street I-5 on and off ramp closure all weekend long. There are also quite a few special events taking place around town this weekend, including the Capitol Hill Block Party, Chinatown and West Seattle Parades, the Roosevelt Bull Moose Festival, the Swedish SummeRun, various Seafair related events, and quite a few more. Many of these events will mean lane closures, and all will cause higher traffic congestion, so watch out. Download SDOT’s full weekend traffic advisory here (.pdf).
Yesterday Star 101.5′s Kent and Alan held a Red Carpet Wiener Dog Rally at Fisher Plaza in Lower Queen Anne, in preparation for the 15th Annual Wiener Dog Races taking place this Saturday, July 23 at Emerald Downs.
The winner from this qualifying race was one of the last to be moving on to the big event at Emerald Downs Saturday. From Star 101.5:
4 p.m. – At the Chef Tent: Chef demo with Matt Fortner, chef de cuisine at How To Cook A Wolf (Read Leslie Kelly’s 3-part interview with Matt at Grillaxin)
5 to 7 p.m. – At the Music Tent: Live music by Squirrel Butter, an old-time variety duet by Charlie Beck and Charmaine “Lady Li-Lei” Slaven (Appalachian, early country, jugband and blues with banjo, fiddle, guitar, and Lady Li-Lei’s amazing dancing feet!)
5 to 7 p.m. – At the Talent Show Stage: Queen Anne Performing Arts hosts “Queen Anne’s Got Talent!”, a show featuring young and old from right here on the hill
5:30 p.m. – At the Chef Tent: Kids Cooking event with Executive Chef Anthony and Head Chef Natalie of 5 Spot
As always the Queen Anne Farmers Market will take place from 3 to 7:30 p.m. at W Crockett Street and Queen Anne Ave N. The Interbay Farmers Market will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Interbay Urban Center, located at 1819 15th Ave. W.
For those of you wondering what a Lollipop Lick-Off is, here’s your chance to find out. Patrons of the new QA branch and Umpqua staff are all welcome to compete. Competitors are divided into three categories based on age (one to six, seven to 12, and 13 and up), and pitted against each other and timed to see who can lick their lollipop the fastest until it’s all gone.
The winner in each category will receive a gift card to a local Queen Anne business. Visit the store during operating hours (9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays) to participate. The winners will be announced at the store on Saturday, July 23.
Greg Sutton has lived in Queen Anne for over twenty years and has worked at Lower Queen Anne dive bar Streamline Tavern for the better part of the past 17. He’s the bar’s second-longest employee, and tonight he hanging up his bar-keeper hat and saying goodbye to the neighborhood and the community for good. Sutton is closing the book on his life here in the States next week to fulfill a longstanding dream–to retire in Vietnam.
Former PI reporter and co-owner of the Streamline, Mike Lewis, first met Sutton in 2004. He and some other journalists at the paper frequented the bar and got to talking Sutton, who at the time was the bar’s primary tender, working six days a week for most of the years he spend behind the bar.
“I’d been coming in the bar a bit when I was a reporter at the PI, and I got to know him a little bit there, and then I found out that he was teaching himself Vietnamese,” Lewis said. “I thought that was interesting that he was a Vietnam vet and teaching himself Vietnamese. He had been to Vietnam during his service, but then he also had gone back on one trip and had been blown away, both when he was in the military and then when he was there as a civilian.”
Lewis decided to do a story on Sutton for his dive bar column (you can read that story here) and found himself back at the Streamline, chatting with Sutton on a regular basis. One night Sutton started musing that there weren’t enough people tending bar at the establishment, and offered Lewis a part-time job spur of the moment.
“I filled in for him one day a week, and then he came back, and then the regular Thursday night guy quit, so I took over,” Lewis said. “At the time I thought I’d do this for a few months, but that turned into years and eventually led to becoming an owner at the bar.”
In more recent years Sutton, now 64, has been working three nights a week at the Streamline, as well as a number of day shifts. He’s last day on the bar was Monday, but Lewis has found a sneaky way to get him into the bar tonight for a proper send-off.
“We bought him a laptop and I’m teaching him how to use it, so under the pretense of him coming in for another computer lesson, he’s going to be in the bar,” Lewis says.
While you might spot Sutton hanging around the bar over the next week, as of Wednesday he’ll be off to Vietnam. Lewis invites anyone who’d like to say goodbye to Sutton to swing by the Streamline Tavern any time after 7:30 p.m. tonight.
“We are going to buy Olympia Pizza for the whole bar and will be putting out the big tip jar as a final fund-raiser for him,” Lewis said. Lewis says there’s no chance Sutton will read about the surprise send-off beforehand, as he doesn’t read anything online, but he asks that those planning to attend don’t mention the event to him beforehand—it’s meant to be a surprise.
“I’m definitely going to miss him. I think he’s pretty done with the bar business. It’s not easy if you’re young, but when you get older it can be a pretty demanding—moving the kegs around and all that stuff can wear on you a bit,” Lewis said. “He spent an enormous amount of time in that bar over the last 17 years, so I think he’s ready for a change and he’s ready to spend a lot of time somewhere far away from the bar and from Seattle.”
“I just thought it was a great way to memorialize many years of service,” he added.
The Queen Anne and Interbay farmers markets will be full of festive food-related activities this afternoon at their respective locations. Let’s just hope it doesn’t rain! Check out the schedules for both market below.
As always the Queen Anne Farmers Market will take place from 3 to 7:30 p.m. at W Crockett Street and Queen Anne Ave N. The Interbay Farmers Market will take place from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Interbay Urban Center, located at 1819 15th Ave. W.
For the next two weekends the Interbay P-Patch, at 2451 15th Avenue West, will be holding a U-Pick Lavender sale.
The sale runs this weekend Saturday, July 16 and Sunday, July 17 and the following weekend Saturday, July 23 and Sunday, July 24 from 10 a.m. to 4p.m. They will have several lavender varieties for culinary, decorative or craft uses. The cost is $3 for a small bunch and $5 for a large bunch. They will also be selling lavender wands, wreaths and sachets.
The Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) hosts a series of summer history tours, including a tour focusing on Aurora Avenue North. “Aurora: Life on Seattle’s Mother Road” is from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday, July 23. The tour will be led by local historian Roger van Oosten.
Thousands of drivers use Aurora Avenue every day, yet few understand how a city street can be as controversial as this one. Aurora plays host to a broad and colorful spectrum of Seattle characters, often receiving public criticism as a result. Historian Roger van Oosten will give an informative, witty, and fun tour of the heart of Aurora, offering insight into why this historic Mother Road is vital to Seattle’s past, present and future. A light lunch will be served in Licton Springs Park following the tour, weather permitting. Meet at the corner of N 90th St. and Stone Ave. N.
Purchase tickets for the tour at Brown Paper Tickets, or by calling 1-800-838-3006.
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