http://www.rainiervalleypost.com Proudly serving Southeast Seattle since 2007 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:22:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/places-we-like-deadhorse-canyon-stairway-walk-in-rainier-beach/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/places-we-like-deadhorse-canyon-stairway-walk-in-rainier-beach/#comments Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:25:08 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=36761 by Jake and Cathy Jaramillo (Seattle Stairway Walks) The term “Deadhorse Canyon” evokes the image of squinty-eyed bandidos riding emaciated horses through dusty badlands. It’s an odd-sounding name for a wooded south Seattle ravine, and there are several theories about it. One of them says that during logging days, whenever felled trees landed too awkwardly [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/places-we-like-deadhorse-canyon-stairway-walk-in-rainier-beach/feed/ 3 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/places-we-like-bob%e2%80%99s-quality-meats-in-historic-columbia-city/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/places-we-like-bob%e2%80%99s-quality-meats-in-historic-columbia-city/#comments Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:00:25 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=35973 Examiner: Bob’s Quality Meats is a family-owned full service butcher shop located in historic Columbia City on Rainier Avenue South in Seattle. Bob’s offers everything you want from a neighborhood butcher, from organic grass-fed and free-range meat, to dry-aged roasts and steaks cut in whatever thickness you prefer, oxtails, ground in-house-daily ground beef; pork chops, [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/places-we-like-bob%e2%80%99s-quality-meats-in-historic-columbia-city/feed/ 5 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/save-the-date-new-improved-seward-park-playground-to-open-oct-24/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/save-the-date-new-improved-seward-park-playground-to-open-oct-24/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:00:56 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=28281 Related: New Seward Park Playground Scheduled for Completion Next Summer (10/30/09) SPPIF Surpasses Goal, on Track to Break Ground Next Spring (10/16/09) SPPIF Just $50k Away From Goal to Spiff Up Seward Park Playground (9/12/09) SPPIF to Present Final Plan for Seward Park Playground Redesign (11/12/08)]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/save-the-date-new-improved-seward-park-playground-to-open-oct-24/feed/ 1 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-scenes-schools-out-full-tilt-is-the-place-to-be/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-scenes-schools-out-full-tilt-is-the-place-to-be/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:00:25 +0000 admin http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=23490 Seattle Public Schools broke for summer vacation yesterday afternoon and within an hour, dozens of families were crammed into the Rainier Valley’s favorite ice cream parlor and old-school arcade. At times the line was more than a dozen deep as Ken and his peeps scooped the manna from heaven they call “ice cream”. What’s your [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-scenes-schools-out-full-tilt-is-the-place-to-be/feed/ 9 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/i-scream-you-scream-we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-beer-its-hot-full-tilt-is-open/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/i-scream-you-scream-we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-beer-its-hot-full-tilt-is-open/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:14:25 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=11930 Columbia City neighbor and Full Tilt Ice Cream co-owner Ken Anderson wins the Best Timing of the Year Award for getting his awesome new shop open just in time for this crazy heat wave. Current flavors – made right over in White Center – include Birthday cake, Ube (yam), Horchata, Rocky Road, Mint Chocolate Chip, [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/i-scream-you-scream-we-all-scream-for-ice-cream-beer-its-hot-full-tilt-is-open/feed/ 14 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/places-we-like-gather-reopens-even-the-loo-is-lovely/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/places-we-like-gather-reopens-even-the-loo-is-lovely/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:51:17 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=10820 For all those south-end moms on a budget whose kids look more fashionable than you do – your day has come. No more shopping at Sweet Pea’s for the kids wondering why you’ve got to schlep all the way to Capitol Hill for the adult equivalent, because Columbia City has a new consignment shop strictly [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/places-we-like-gather-reopens-even-the-loo-is-lovely/feed/ 3 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/happy-b-day-columbia-city-cinema-celebrates-5-years-on-the-scene/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/happy-b-day-columbia-city-cinema-celebrates-5-years-on-the-scene/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 15:00:54 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=8101 From Paul Doyle, founder and proprietor of Seattle’s coolest neighborhood theater: It seems hard to believe, but five years ago, May 7, 2004, Columbia City Cinema opened its doors. It was a Friday, we played Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, townhouses were still selling, and eighty excited people showed up. Hardly anyone thought we [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/happy-b-day-columbia-city-cinema-celebrates-5-years-on-the-scene/feed/ 2 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/support-our-sponsors-salon-vibe-is-hot/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/support-our-sponsors-salon-vibe-is-hot/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:20:07 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=6662 You know how it is when you take on a new hair stylist… Will she make you beautiful or will you walk out looking like your mother? Well you can stop worrying, because magic-maker Traci Floyd has just opened the Rainier Valley’s newest house of beauty – Salon Vibe in Columbia City – and to [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/support-our-sponsors-salon-vibe-is-hot/feed/ 0 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/places-we-like-holly-park-greenhouse/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/places-we-like-holly-park-greenhouse/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:26:54 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=6714 Too early for peppers & tomatoes! Strawberry starts! Cool! Herb garden! Neat greenhouse! Citrus tress! Pear trees! Holly Park Greenhouse is located at 4031 South Willow Street in Othello. Photos/do communications, inc.]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/places-we-like-holly-park-greenhouse/feed/ 4 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/seward-park-in-the-sun-good-for-the-soul/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/seward-park-in-the-sun-good-for-the-soul/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:13:51 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=6328 At nearly 70 degrees, today was easily the most beautiful day of the year thus far. Good news: Tomorrow’s going to be even better. Photos/do communications, inc.]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/seward-park-in-the-sun-good-for-the-soul/feed/ 4