Eastlake News

SPOKE AND FOOD: Bicycle to dinner tonight! More than a dozen venues around the city are donating part of tonight's proceeds to the Outdoors For All Foundation as part of the annual Spoke and Food fundraiser - dinner, 5-10 pm.

This April 4, 2014 file photo shows British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber at a press conference and performance in New York to announce the "Jesus Christ Superstar" North American arena tour.

This April 4, 2014 file photo shows British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber at a press conference and performance in New York to announce the "Jesus Christ Superstar" North American arena tour.

By Jeanne Sakata. Thursday, July 31, through Sunday, Aug. 3, ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle; $20-$35 .

Last July, Joel Reuter was shot and killed by two Seattle SWAT snipers. Reuter, suffering from a manic episode, fired a gun from inside his Bellevue and E Denny Way apartment after an 8-hour standoff.

Activists blocked the entrance to Boeing's office in Tukwila to protest what they call the company's support for Israel in its war on Gaza.

The company of the first North American tour of Wicked welcomes Chandra Lee Schwartz as Glinda and Etai BenShlomo today, July 29 in Salt Lake City, UT.

The Seattle Police Department is looking for a man suspected of robbing a Capitol Hill bank at gunpoint Monday morning.

The Schuster Group broker ground on Feb. 27, 2014 on Walton Lofts, a 136-unit apartment building at Vine and Western in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood.

A fire that began in the basement of a single family home in the 6500 block of Delridge Way S.W. shortly after 11am essentially destroyed the home though no cause or damage estimate has been announced.

Missed the news this weekend while you were partying your heart out at Capitol Hill Block Party? Well, then check it out: Seattle's going to see another vote on a monorail this fall , thanks to activist Elizabeth Campbell.

The mission to save the giant Bertha tunneling machine stuck 60 feet under Seattle has hit another delay.

Joel DeJong heads out from a section of woods in Cheasty Greenspace where volunteering Cleveland High School students helped clear away blackberry vines and English ivy.

Former Seattle Mayor Paul Schell, who died Sunday morning at the age of 76, was one of the rare defining figures of our political history.

SPEED CAMS: In addition to the two new ones that will be activated on Roxbury this fall, dozens of other locations remain under evaluation around the city, according to SDOT 's Brian Dougherty .

I would be lying if I didn't tell you that I'm barely dragging along. But I can't really complain - all of yesterday's acts were phenomenal.

AUTHORS AT WEST SEATTLE FARMERS' MARKET: "Readers to Eaters" presents two local authors at the WSFM today - until 11 am, it's Kim O'Donnel with her " Meat Lovers' Meatless Cookbook "; 11:30-12:30, it's Katherine Pryor with the kid-geared " Sylvia's Spinach ."

Schell served one term as Seattle's mayor from 1998 to 2002 before losing a re-election bid to Greg Nickels.

Thanks to Sharonn Meeks for sharing that scene from the Walking on Logs area along the southwest end of the West Seattle Bridge.

"See the fire touching the drum right there?" Brancato asks over the hum of roaster machinery at Caffe D'arte's new Federal Way headquarters.