Capitol Hill

Repairs to the historic Seattle Central College building are complete. But SIFF is ending its lease, citing a bleak outlook for arts funding and the resources needed to operate there.

After months of meetings, the King County Council has approved spending more than $41 million to purchase the Polyclinic building and turn it into a walk-in mental health crisis center.

The historic Capitol Hill building includes rehearsal and meeting rooms, plus a recording studio. Seattle Theatre Group has plans to preserve the space as an arts hub.

Punk Rock Flea Market will host an event June 22-23 in a vacant building in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. Organizers hope to show how empty spaces can serve a community.

Seattle has agreed to pay demonstrators who sued over the police department's heavy-handed response to protests following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

Baristas and other employees at a Seattle Starbucks have voted to unionize, the first such vote in the city where Starbucks originated and the latest in a nationwide push to organize the coffee shop chain.

There are only a few lesbian bars left in the United States and one of them is in Seattle. The Wildrose opened on New Year’s Eve in 1984 in the Capitol…

Pablo Picasso once said: All children are artists. But the problem is how to remain an artist once the child grows up. This has not been an issue for…

In 2010, a friend of Eric Andres told him that some Northern Arizona University classmates regularly got together for real-life Quidditch games. The fact…

For those of you who have them, get ready to bust out your best bedazzled unitard and start practicing your triple Lutz. Capitol Hill is getting its very…