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Sesame Street characters Elmo and Abby Cadabby are going to be at Southcenter Mall this Saturday, February 4 as part of the Sesame Street: K Is for Kindness Pop-Up Tour event from 11 – 4. A 15-minute live show will be performed at 11:30am, 1pm and 2:45pm. This is a free event and partly timed…
I told you a little bit about about the 20th annual Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Sweater Drive kickoff at the KCTS 9 Seattle Center studio (and most likely your own local PBS station). Now that local (for Seattle) drive is expanding. New and gently used items can be donated at the Redmond and Bellevue branches of…
One of the iconic images of Mister Rogers was his cardigan sweaters. That has carried over into the television show “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood” where the title character wears a red sweater. New and gently used sweaters and coats for both adults and kids are being gathered in the name and in honor of Fred Rogers…
Pack meetings have changed format a bit. They start out with a calmer activity to keep the kids from running around making it easier to start the meetings. I like it. One of the pack outings was to the Museum of History and Industry, which we went to last year, but this was Xavier’s first…
I did not know Amazon Restaurants was a thing, let alone complete hands-free ordering of food. I got an email about how Alexa, Amazon’s intelligent assistant or whatever is inside the Amazon Echo, will reorder a meal. I’m thinking to myself “How can Alexa reorder a meal?” I go on Amazon’s website and lo and…
Seattle based restaurant El Gaucho will be hosting an etiquette course at each of its locations. Seattle (both locations), Bellevue, Tacoma and Portland will have noted etiquette expert Cortney Anderson-Sanford help recapture some of what is increasingly missing from today’s digitally connected world – real connections and manners. These classes will come in two flavors, one geared…
evenSaturday September 24 will see BabyFest arrive in Seattle. Portland is getting the same event in May of next year. This event will be held from 11:00 to 5:00 at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, but there are some ticket packages that will get you in earlier, along with a few extra perks. What is…
The Washington State Fair is one of the biggest in the country. Every September a massive throng of people flock to Puyallup over the course of a few weeks. Now “The Fair” is adding even more days, stretching out from 17 to 21 days by kicking things off Labor Day weekend and opening September 2….
Pokemon Go players wander around their neighborhoods in an attempt to gather that elusive …. whatever they are looking for. The Washington State Fair is going to open up for Pokemon Go players to wander the grounds and check out the various gyms and Pokestops. The grounds will be open and free on August 8…
I don’t discuss upcoming films much, but this one is an exception. Life, Animated tells the story of Owen Suskind, an autistic boy how found his voice through Disney animated films. The film has already opened in several theaters, but over the coming weeks it will be in several more. I will post the full…