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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS LIHI, Plymouth Housing, Mars Hill Church Everclear show, Belltown Art Beat 
AFTER MORE THAN A DECADE of (mostly dumb) movies set in Seattle but filmed in Vancouver, Universal Studios expects us to get all excited because they came here for one measly day of shooting on their romantic comedy Traveling. photo by Clark Humphrey Remember a couple of summers back, when Third Avenue was all torn up and repaved? Now that's going to happen on Fifth Avenue, from Denny Way down to Columbia Street, starting in May. Seattle Department of Transportation crews will replace asphalt, repair the concrete or brick base beneath it, and add new or upgraded curb ramps. Traffic signal detector loops are being upgraded to sense bicycles waiting for traffic signals. After paving is completed, SDOT will talk with property owners about adding new street trees. But before that happens, get ready for lane closures, pedestrian detours, parking restrictions, noise, and dust. Work hours will be 7 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays, with occastional night and weekend shifts. --- The Low Income Housing Institute's no longer going to build apartments and a Belltown Community Center at its current office site on First Avenue south of Wall Street. The project's complex financing fell through. While LIHI seeks to relaunch the scheme, the City's looking for a new community center site. So how about putting it in a building the City already owns-the Parks Department office building in Denny Park (which happens to be several blocks outside the City's official neighborhood boundaries for Belltown)? City Councilmember Richard Conlin mentioned this possibility at a recent Belltown Community Council meeting. Conlin also mentioned two other alternatives-finding another mixed-use project to stick a community center into, or to plan a larger (and costlier) stand-alone project. BCC members will meet with Parks Department head Tim Gallagher on April 23 to discuss this further. --- The Plymouth Housing Group's moved its administrative offices into its new Langdon and Anne Simons Senior Apartments, 2113 Third Ave. The building's 92 studio apartments officially opened in January. Plymouth has announced its next affordable-housing project will be at the southwest corner of First Avenue and Cedar Street. The 75-foot-tall structure will include about 84 housing units plus ground-floor retail. The Archdiocesan Housing Authority, meanwhile, plans to replace the current Recovery Cafe/Rose of Sharon House building, at the northwest corner of Second and Bell, with a low-income housing project aimed at homeless and "in-transition" women. The six-story building will combine 50 studio units, a "congregate housing" shelter for up to 40 women, and 2,500 square feet of retail. --- Portland singer-songwriter Art Alexakis brings the new version of Everclear, his long-running Portland-based rock band, to an April 5 show at Mars Hill Church, 2333 Western Avenue. Tickets are $15 plus service charges from ticketweb.com. The performance will be a benefit for another Belltown organization, New Horizons Ministries. Located at Third and Cedar, New Horizons has served Seattle's homeless and "street-involved" young people since 1978. In other faith-based news, New Horizons is one of six area organizations that have formed the Belltown Covenant, a coalition of "spiritually rooted groups" seeking "to help grow a safe, healing, and hospitable neighborhood through lives of companionship, service, and civic engagement." Other groups currently involved include Emmaus Road Church, First Church of Christ Scientist, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, Mental Health Chaplaincy, and the Recovery Cafe. Further info is at belltowncovenant. ning.com. And First United Methodist Church has finally moved out of its historic Fifth Avenue home. It's currently holding services at Seattle Children's Theater, until its new home at Second and Denny is built. --- Art Beat: Local artist Diana Falchuk will create a site-specific installation for McLeod Residence that incorporates the gallery's signature wallpaper-and cake icing. "Salvage" opens with a reception April 4, 5-9 p.m. Also opening is a skatedeck series curated by Kristen Rask of Schmancy and Kurt Barbee of 5280 Lasers; plus digitally-altered Holga photographs by Jenene Chesbrough. The cocktail lounge at McLeod (2209 Second Ave.), previously open only to gallery members and opening-night attendees, is now open to the general public nightly (except Mondays). Live and DJ'd music will be regularly featured; see mcleodresidence.com. "Hollow Monkey," an exhibit of Lynn Schirmer's paintings, drawings, and sculptures, continues through April 6 at Form/Space Atelier, 2407 First Ave. Some pieces refer to 1950s-era psychological experiments on rhesus monkeys; others reflect on what Schirmer calls "attachments, negative and positive." The Center on Contemporary Art (COCA) is back in Belltown, in a way. COCA's curating a little space at the Avenue One condominiums, First Avenue and Clay Street. The 38-foot long, 4-foot deep display case is visible from the building's Clay Street exterior. Exhibits will change every 60-90 days. --- Don't expect the Crocodile Cafe to reopen any time soon. Groupee.com, the social-networking Web company that had applied to take over the historic rock club's liquor license, has withdrawn its application as quietly as it made it. --- The University of Washington operates a little-publicized primate lab in an unmarked building on Western Avenue, near the Olympic Sculpture Park. Of course, where live monkeys are experimented upon, you can expect PETA protestors to show up. They did so on March 5, bearing such picket-sign slogans as "NO STATE $$$ FOR UW MONKEY TORTURE" and "WHY CAN'T WE SEE THE LAB ANIMALS?" --- The third annual Belltown Pageant took place March 9 at the Rendezvous Jewel Box Theater. The host, drag queen Anita Goodman, awarded top prizes to "Mr. DBG" and "Ms. Science McGee" as Mr. Belltown and Belltown Betty respectively. Cedric Ross has posted video of the event at blog.culturemob.com. A Belltown Manifesto 58. The game of life has no infield fly rule. |
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