[ August 24, 2008; 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm. ]
Normandy Park’s Music in the Park series wraps up this Sunday, Aug. 24th, with a FREE live concert from “Island Bound” at Marvista Park, 20000 4th Ave SW in Normandy Park (see map below).
The show starts at 5pm and goes until 6:30pm, and on the musical menu will be Island Music, Hawaiian Reggae & Hula [...]

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Thursday afternoon, several unsuspecting cast members of Burien’s own Hi-Liners upcoming production of “Peter Pan” were arrrguably shocked when two authentic Seafair Pirates stormed in wearing full regalia, swords, axes, accents and costumes at their rehearsal space at Lake Burien Presbyterian Church.
The raiding scalliwags included “DC” and “ClapEye,” two real, working Seafair Pirates who even [...]

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We’re pretty sure this is a legit Youtube video of some Burien kid who calls himself l2ape doing a killer gee-tar solo – watch and let us know (in comments below) what you think – could this be B-Town’s own Jimi Hendrix?
Or have we been duped into a Purple Haze?
And if you know this [...]

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We’re only one week away from Blog Party 2.0, our special Food Bank Fundraiser, which is scheduled for MONDAY, AUG. 25th, starting at 6pm at Elliott Bay Brewery, located at 255 SW 152nd in downtown Burien.

Aside from being a fun and festive gathering, this event will also serve as a Fundraiser for both the Highline [...]

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[ August 16, 2008; 11:30 am; ] A very interesting and highly unusual musical art performance will be taking place Saturday (Aug. 16th) at Seahurst Park at 11:30am and Eagle Landing Park at 12:30pm.

The performance, called Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas will include opera singers and percussionists performing original work by Seattle Composer Byron Au Yong at Seahurst Park, Eagle Landing Park, Des [...]

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[ September 6, 2008; 10:00 am; ]

B-Town’s annual Artwalk is coming up Sat. Sept. 6th, with a wide range of amazing arts-related activities, including:

Do the Art Walk!  11am - 6pm
Art & Performance in the shops & main street
Lantern Making  10am - 3pm (at B.F.D.’s Kids Day)
Burien Fire Station, 15100 8th Ave SW  &  4pm - 8pm in front of Mick [...]

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[ August 25, 2008; 6:00 pm; ] We’re moving our second-ever “Blog Party” (which we’re cheesily calling Blog Party 2.0 just to sound cool, circa 2002 at least…) UP one day, to MONDAY, AUG. 25th, starting at 6pm at Elliott Bay Brewery, located at 255 SW 152nd in downtown Burien and YOU’RE INVITED!

Aside from being a fun and festive gathering, Blog [...]

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[ August 10, 2008; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] [CORRECTION: we mistakenly originally posted this as happening Sat. Aug. 10th when in actuality it's happening SUNDAY Aug. 10th...sorry for any mixup!]

The Seattle band Sonando will be grooving their jazzy latin rhythms live at Dottie Harper Park this Sat. Sun. Aug. 10th, from 4-6pm, for FREE!

Here’s a bio from their website:
Sonando was founded in 1990 [...]

 

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[ August 15, 2008; 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ]

Lake Burien Presbyterian Church, which so graciously opened its doors to host the Red Cross shelter for the apartment arson fire victims, is hosting a Block Party on Aug. 15th from 4pm to 8pm at 15003 14th Ave SW (map below).

The family-friendly party will include:

FREE backpacks to the first 300 guests!
Prizes
Games
Face Painting
Food
Music
Cakewalk
Family Fun

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[ August 16, 2008; 12:00 pm; ]

Good ol’ B-Town is definitely a party place, or so it seems every summer when SW 152nd gets closed down for not one, but at least two block par-tays, one of which is coming up Sat. Aug. 16th, from Noon-10pm.
That’s right – it’s time for Burien’s annual “Hot August Nite” which will feature:

Classic Cars (from [...]

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