Results tagged “buskers”

Hey, we made the Los Angeles Times: "In a ruling with potentially wide implications for street artists throughout the West, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday struck down curbs imposed by Seattle on those performing at the popular Seattle Center, home of the landmark Space Needle."

If you're planning any trips to Pike Place Market this week, take a moment and pay some respect, attention or even toss in a few bucks to our local buskers (the British lingo for street performer). It's their week, World Busk Week. PhinneWood Blog alerted us to the holiday as well as one of UW facilty members Michael Partington, an international concert classical guitarist who plans to celebrate busking daily throughout Seattle for charity. And if you happen to be in the Market at noon this Sunday, just listen, a new world record is being set for the biggest busk around the world.

The first thing that struck us about the 3.15-mile, $1.6 billion project that is the University Link light rail line is that it will have half of the projected ridership of the 16-mile Central Link line. Kinda makes us think they should have started with the U District - Capitol Hill part first. As it is, the Central Link goes online in 2009, University Link in 2016.