Results tagged “woodlandpark”

• Our hearts and all our positive thoughts go out to Amber at the Rainier Valley Post and her neighbors. The RVP, which has been tireless about covering neighborhood crime, has had violence strike far too close to home. Amber's neighbor was stabbed to death yesterday by another neighbor, the victim's husband.
• Capitol Hill Seattle is still playing with Google Street View (no blame, we totally are too) and CHS stumbled upon an interesting scene on 12th Avenue street view. Looks like a parking cop is giving a lecture, surely an unpleasant moment for at least one party. It's frozen now for all to see.
• Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, West Seattle Blog is all about the next round of holidays. They have not one, but two posts about West Seattle Christmas lights, as well as a post about where in West Seattle to get your Christmas tree.

Want to name a baby gorilla? Happen to know Swahili, Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba? Then this is the contest for you! The Woodland Park Zoo is inviting the public to participate in naming the latest addition to the zoo's gorilla family. The baby girl gorilla was born in October and is in need of a name that reflects her species land of origin, Africa.

Adult gorillas aren't cute. The last time we saw one at the Woodland Park it climbed a tree and crapped a giant turd into its giant hand. Parents were shielding their poor children's delighted eyes.

The eternal feud between evolutionary rivals bears and crows finally came to a dramatic conclusion recently at the Woodland Park Zoo, as the persecuted bears claimed a decisive victory over their winged foe, the goddamned crows. Jim Woodring was on the scene and documented the victory on his blog (click through the drawing below for a larger more readable version):

Kakuta Hamisi, a member of the Maasai tribe of Kenya, is working over the summer at the Woodland Park Zoo, talking to zoo visitors about Maasai culture and conservation.

If this video of Woodland Park's new tiger cub wantonly slaughtering stuffed animals, blankets and leaves isn't enough for you she's now on display at the zoo from 11am to 2pm daily. And she's got a name now and everything: Hadiah, which we hadiah-ate. Why do tigers have to always have fake African-sounding names? Next time something's born at Woodland Park they should hire Hodgman to name it.

On Greenlake Way between 50th St. and the putt-putt golf course, in that parking lot bordering the Lower Woodland Park fields, lives a King County Sheriff's car.

Buried in an P-I article about "The Jane Goodall of tree kangaroos" is this sad information:

It may be one of the subjects the P-I used to deride the City Council lately, but we're happy to see someone paying attention to a form of recreation in this city that doesn't involve fleece, lycra or gortex. Skateboarding exists in the collective mind of the city government - That's a good thing.

-There was a positive development in the life of the woman who was once a P-I reporter and a spy, which is a change as you can imagine.

After kicking our collective asses for four consecutive days, the heat is finally backing down. So pull yourself together. Go outside again -- especially to Capitol Hill this weekend.

If you don't have kids, stay the hell away from Zoomazium at the Woodland Park Zoo. We say this not just because you won't be let in without a kid (the sign says "no adults without kid supervision" -- get it? Ha! Parent humor), but because your head will likely explode when exposed to toxic levels of prepubescent ruckus.

There used to be a time that, beyond our natural concern for all life, we could really give a gigantic crap about elephants. They're big - That's their defining characteristic. Whoop dee doo. There's a lot of big stuff in the world. Big stuff makes humans feel small which we tend to like. But in Bamboo's case we read a rare affecting guest editorial in the Tymes once that made us care and made him more than just big. We're not sure why Woodland Park is so set on keeping this fatass in a zoo when there's a perfectly good elephant sanctuary that's ready and willing to take him in. Of course, different people have different opinions on what's best for Bamboo, but 1 acre in a zoo where he's failed to play well with others in the past vs 2700 acres at a sanctuary seems pretty clear cut. Someone somewhere must have a dollar amount attached to Bamboo that they feel represents what he contributes to ticket sales in a year. Fucking bean counters, right? They'll be at the Woodland Park Zoo presiding over a fundraiser today which some people think is a great opportunity to go make some noise about Bamboo's proper home. Go join em, they're right. Check out "Free Bamboo."

Listen people, skateboards are not a tool of the devil. Wouldn't you rather have your kids outside, getting some exercise in a publicly-sanctioned location, rather than either sliding down your neighbor's handrails or off doing much worse? Not if you live in the Greenlake/Wallingford neighborhood, it would seem.

Seattle's the most well-educated city in the country, says the AP. 51% of Seattle residents graduated college, more than any other U.S. urbanoland. And yet we built two giant sports stadia right next to each other! Go figure.

-People are still pretty pissed about Mooie, the puppy that was found with acid burns all over it recently, and they should be pissed. There's a reward for information leading to the culprits and King County Animal Control is getting a lot of crap for how they handled the case.

Zoo Doo is a program from the Woodland Park Zoo that allows Seattle residents to buy bear shit, ostensibly for their gardens. Want a garbage bag full? You can have it! A truck-load? Possible! Seattlest would like to know if we could just get a dime bag of the stinky stuff, but there's no mention of less than intent-to-distribute quantities in the press release.

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

The third album by mighty morphin' power-poppers the New Pornographers, Twin Cinema, goes on sale tomorrow. For Seattlest, this is like Beatlemania meets Pottermania, except that Pornomania likely won't be nuts enough to inspire a Robert Zemeckis film.

It's not every day that a personal acquaintance of Seattlest makes A1 of the Seattle Times. (Without connection to scandal of some sort, we mean.) But that day is today. Jan van Oosten was an internationally known bird expert (and former director of the Woodland Park Zoo). When he passed away in May, he left his family with an enormous collection of avian paraphernalia to offload somehow.

If you are a bad baseball player, you get transferred from the major league Seattle Mariners to the minor league Tacoma Rainiers.

Ever since catching The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill at Seven Gables last week (where it's still playing), Seattlest has been wondering where our St.-Francis-and-the-birds moment is. Turns out we can skip the 15 years of homelessness in San Francisco; it's at the Woodland Park Zoo.

Animal lover? Music lover? Both? No matter what, Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo has you covered, as they've just announced this summer's ZooTunes lineup!

Existing somewhere between Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits is local performer Jason Webley. From humble beginnings as a U-District street performer to tours up and down the West Coast (and occasional jaunts as far away as Russia), Jason's particular blend of witty and poignant lyricism, musical arrangements (piano, guitar, accordion, and shovel often figure prominently), concerts that blend showmanship, performance art and audience interaction, and an infectious love of humor and pranksterism have earned him a loyal following of fans throughout the Seattle area.

-The M's start playing something vaguely resembling baseball.

Seattlest has seen flight demonstrations at the Woodland Park Zoo, and at the time we couldn't help thinking, "Why doesn't the bird just fly off?" We watched as a falcon flew out over the zoo and was out of sight for nearly a minute before returning safely to a trainer's gloved hand. This was performed repeatedly. "Why doesn't the bird just fly away?" Seattlest wondered.