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- 1. Seattle: the Emerald City
- 2. Pike Place Market • Pike Place is a farmers market that overlooks a bay. It has been in Seattle for more than one hundred years! • Pike Place is a popular destination on the weekends. On Saturdays and Sundays, it is full of tourists and also Seattlelites.
- 3. Pike Place Market • Inside the market you can find bookstores, record stores, antique shops, bakeries, and flower shops.
- 4. Pike Place Market • You also see street musicians playing their instruments for money. • They are usually playing the guitar, the harmonica, the piano, or the violin.
- 5. Fish Throwing at Pike Place • Fishmongers (fishermen who sell fish) have a tradition in Pike Place called fish-throwing. • It is simply throwing and catching the fish the customer has bought before it is wrapped and taken. • http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=9rdUnZVvoD0
- 6. Space Needle • The Space Needle is a symbol of Seattle. It is a 42-meter tower that offers you panoramic view of the city. • At the top of the Space Needle, you can find a gift shop and a rotating restaurant!
- 7. Other Interesting Things • Close to the market, you can find the bubble gum wall. It is literally a wall in an alley where thousands of people have put their chewing gum! • In Volunteer Park, you can find the doughnut, a granite sculpture by a Japanese artist . If you look closely, you can see the Space Needle through the inner circle!
- 8. Seattle Music • For many years Seattle has had a vibrant rock music scene. The city holds large annual concerts, like Bumbershoot and the Block Party. • There are famous jazz and rock musicians who were born in Seattle or started their musical careers there.
- 9. Seattle Music • Some of these musicians include: Quincy Jones (jazz producer), Jimi Hendrix (guitarist), and Kurt Cobain (Nirvana frontman). • Seattle was the birthplace of Grunge music: a form of hard rock with personal and sometimes dark lyrics. • PearlJam:http://www.youtu be.com/watch?v=qM0zINtu lhM
- 10. Capitol Hill: Where the fun is • Capitol Hill is the neighborhood with the best dance clubs. The clubs that stay open past the legal time are located in this neighborhood! • In Seattle clubs, people usually dance techno, house, and hip- hop. Latin American music, such as salsa or bachata, is played in a few places or on specific nights.
- 11. Capitol Hill: Where the fun is • One of my favorite places to go dancing in Capitol Hill is called Neighbors. It is open until four a.m. and always plays electronic music!
- 12. My Neighborhood: University District • When I studied at the University of Washington, I lived in the University District. • The U-District has many restaurants restaurants (mostly from China, Vietnam, and India), stores, and bars. It’s full of coffeeshops where students do school work or hang out with their friends. • The main avenue is called “The Ave” . It’s always full of students and it is where you find most of the businesses.
- 13. My Favorite Bar • My favorite bar in the U-District is called Flowers. It has that name because it used to be a flower shop before it became a bar. • Another bar my friends and I go to is called The Crescent and has karaoke!
- 14. Sports • Seattle has baseball, football, and Soccer teams. • Their baseball team is the Mariners, their football team is the Seahawks, and the Soccer team is the Sounders.
- 15. Sports • Two of the best Sounders players are the forward Freddy Montero (born in Colombia) and the goalkeeper Kasey Keller (also a goalkeeper of the national team) • Freddy: http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=tgGMBTgoA2E • Kasey: http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=qMIWjEGDcQA
- 16. Festivities • Seattle has some annual festivities and events. Some of them are three- day concerts like the Capitol Hill Block Party and Bumbershoot. Others are very unique events, like the Summer Solstice Parade. And others, like HempFest, have a controversial and political character.