January 2013

Mason, a Bull Mastiff, is happily at home with Mark Haller and his fiancé Martha Fletcher both of whom are residents of West Seattle for the past three months.

"Mason was a rescue dog," said Haller. "We were looking for a dog for the both of us and we ran across him on Petfinders.com. He was actually rescued from a Bull Mastiff rescue organization out in Roy. He and I connected right away so I went back and showed Martha a video of him. We put our heads together and decided we were going to do it so I came down and picked him up and he's been with us ever since." That was a year ago.

They estimate he's about three years old but that's not certain since there are no records for him.

Mason weighs 147 lbs, "after the holidays" said Haller chuckling. "He's been on a diet but yes the vet was not happy about his weight," said Fletcher.

Mason loves attention and actually gets pretty vocal about it. "He cries when Mark won't pet him," said Fletcher. "He'll get scratched and if I stop he will look back at me and 'woof' and he'll demand that I scratch him again, almost a commanding, 'why did you stop?' "

Samia El-Moslimany was raised both in Burien and the Middle East. Considered Saudi Arabia's most famous female photographer, she has photographed both princes and paupers. She also shot the Sept. 19, 2009 Time Magazine cover. That image, you might say, mirrors her own. Depicted are two very different female Arabs standing side by side. On the left is a chic, attractive woman clutching a soft black briefcase. On the right, her more traditional counterpart, who dons a black burkha covering her entire body except her eyes, and holds no briefcase.

The headline reads "Saudi Women's Quiet Revolution". Turns out both are the same woman, a model often used by El-Moslimany and her staff at Photography by Samia, her studio based in Jeddah, a city of over three million on the Red Sea.

TUESDAY, JAN 29, 2013

Basketball: Boys JV Conf. Game, 5:45pm, vs. Redmond, at Ballard High School

Basketball: Boys Varsity Game, 7:30pm, vs. Redmond, at Ballard High School

WEDNESDAY, JAN 30, 2013

Basketball: Girls JV Conf. Game, 5:45pm, vs. Redmond, at Ballard High School

Basketball: Girls Varsity Game, 7:30pm, vs. Redmond, at Ballard High School

THURSDAY, JAN 31, 2013

Gymnastics: Girls Varsity Conf. Meet, 7:00pm, Away vs. Roosevelt,Ballard, Garfield, at Roosevelt High School

FRIDAY, FEB 01, 2013

Swim & Dive: Boys Varsity & JV Kingco Champ., 8:00am, Away vs. ,Ballard, Bellevue, Bothell, Eastlake, Garfield, Inglemoor, Interlake, Issaquah, Juanita, Liberty, Lake Washington, Mercer Island, Mount Si, Newport, Redmond, Roosevelt, Sammamish, Skyline, Woodinville, at Juanita Pool

KingCo Combined Swim and Dive Championship 11 Dive Meet. (There are no other events at this location except diving, all swimming events will be held at the UW pool)

Basketball: Girls JV Conf. Game, 2:00pm, vs. Roosevelt, at Ballard High School (Time Changed)

The Lindbergh Eagles visited the Tyee Totems in a Seamount league conference game on Friday, January 25th. Going into the game, Tyee had a 1-10 conference record and 2-14 overall, while Lindbergh’s record is 7-4 conference, 9-8 overall.

The first time these teams met was on January 7th. Lindbergh dominated that game with a final score of 72 to Tyee’s 31. Not one Tyee player scored in double figures.

This game was different - Tyee did what they did not do the last time: keep the game close. “We faced them a couple weeks ago,” Tyee coach A. J. Campanelli said. “We had a really tough time handling their defensive pressure and traps. We turned the ball over a lot, so we worked on passing the ball early before we got traps and then attacking after that. We wanted to keep the ball off the sidelines, keep it in the middle of the court. We wanted to work on stopping their big guy [Chris Harraway], but we weren’t really quite able to do that.”

I don't know if it was overconfidence on Lindbergh’s part from their previous game with Tyee that kept this game close, but I do know Tyee played with confidence - played smart and aggressive to stay in this game.

Friday, Jan. 25
Boys basketball
Kennedy 50, Evergreen 36
Kennedy's Lancers won Friday with the help of 16 points from McCluskey and 15 points from Sierhuis. Mikel Abraha scored 12 for Evergreen and Christian Sainz hit 11.
Renton 65, Highline 30
Renton more than doubled the scoring total of the Pirates this past Friday.
Mt. Rainier 80, Aub.-Riv. 72
Mount Rainier outgunned the Ravens in a close, high-scoring game on Friday, led by the 25 points of Caden Rowland.
SCS 87, Life Chr. 65
Seattle Christian School had a trio of top scorers Friday against Life Christian of Tacoma.
Pierotti led with 21 points and Miller followed with 20 as Eble knocked in 19.
Girls basketball
Mt. Rainier 73, Aub.-Riv. 58
Mount Rainier remained as the No. 1-ranked team at the Class 4A level with Friday's win.
Brittany McPhee led the Lady Rams with 28 points and Williams added 19.
Life Chr. 49, SCS 48
Seattle Christian was edged out by Life Christian in double overtime Friday.
Weber scored a team-high 22 for the Warriors.
Kennedy 57, Evergreen 23
Abrejera finished with 15 points to lead the Lancers to victory Friday.
Lindbergh 53, Tyee 33

Even though we can't root, root, root for the home team this Super Bowl Sunday, we can still plant our roots at Vera Johnson's Village Green Perennial Nursery, 10223 26th Av. SW. This weekend, Feb. 2 & 3, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. is her big "Pollinators and Mid-winter clearance sale".

50% off sleeping beauties...(sleeping plants)
We have so much inventory, much of which is asleep/dormant.
Hostas, geraniums,
Daylilies,
Crocosmia,
Gorgeous grasses, ferns,
Azaleas
Northwest Natives-perennials and shrubs
pollinators like echinacea, asters, Salvias, mahonia,
maple trees, raspberries, strawberries, hyssop, angelica, alliums
astrantia, catnip, mints, herbs, cardoon

Even though we can't root, root, root for the home team this Super Bowl Sunday, we can still plant our roots at Vera Johnson's Village Green Perennial Nursery, 10223 26th Av. SW. This weekend, Feb. 2 & 3, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. is her big "Pollinators and Mid-winter clearance sale".

50% off sleeping beauties...(sleeping plants)
We have so much inventory, much of which is asleep/dormant.
Hostas, geraniums,
Daylilies,
Crocosmia,
Gorgeous grasses, ferns,
Azaleas
Northwest Natives-perennials and shrubs
pollinators like echinacea, asters, Salvias, mahonia,
maple trees, raspberries, strawberries, hyssop, angelica, alliums
astrantia, catnip, mints, herbs, cardoon

According to lore, the archaic form of Neapolitan-style pizza started in Naples, Italy in the 16th century. It was a peasant food cooked quickly in insanely-hot wood-fired stoves, with a diversity of ingredients slapped onto flatbread and sold cheap on the streets.

Legend claims pizza stepped up in clout in June of 1889, when Naples pizza man Raffaele Esposito created the first Pizza Margherita (the simplicity of tomatoes, mozzarella and basil – representing the Italian flag) and presented it to the queen consort of Italy, Margherita of Savoy. She dug it, and the rest is history.

Some 124 years later, Cary Kemp and his establishment Pizzeria 22 in West Seattle carries on the Neapolitan tradition of making pizza, and his pursuit has been officially recognized by L’Association Verace Pizza Napolentana (VPN for short, “True Neapolitan Pizza” in English) in 2013. Kemp joins 430 other pizzerias worldwide with the distinction. Around 150 of them are in Naples, or, as Kemp calls it, “ground zero of pizza.”

By Dusty Henry

“Mama” is a heartfelt film about the joys and blessings that come from raising feral children. Despite the difficulties, one family overcomes the odds and learns what it means to give the greatest gift parents can -– love.

Well actually, no. That’s not what happens.

Hyping up a movie as being the new Guillermo Del Toro film puts a lot of expectations to live up to. Whether it’s the artistry of “Pan’s Labyrinth,” the campy fun of the Hellboy series, or even the fan-boy dream of the “Pacific Rim” trailer, audiences know they’re in for something special.

However, “Mama” is not directed or written by Del Toro, he only produced it. Which means this movie is a completely different beast.

Ghosts and monsters seeking revenge is not a new plot device. There are countless movies of a villainous being destroying a family in their own home. “Mama” carries on that tradition.

Seattle Police are looking for a suspect who stole a silver 1993 Ford F150 truck from a man in West Seattle in the early morning hours of Jan. 29. The incident occurred near the intersection of 28th Ave. S.W. and S.W. Nevada, near the golf course.

Here are the specifics from SPD's Blotter:

Carjacking near West Seattle Golf Course last night

Police are searching for an armed suspect who stole the victim’s truck at gunpoint early this morning in the North Delridge neighborhood.

Just before 2:00 am, officers responded to the the area of 28th Avenue SW and SW Nevada Street for a report of an armed carjacking/robbery. Officers contacted the victim who told them that he was parking his 1993 Ford F150 truck on the west side of 28th, just north of SW Nevada. He stated that he had just parked his truck and was walking away when he was approached by an unknown suspect. The suspect was armed with a silver handgun and pointed it at the victim, demanding that he hand over his personal property.