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AUGUST 11, 2021
VOL. 102, NO. 32
Queen Anne Days back next month Chamber needs volunteers, donations for the festival By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor
After having to cancel Queen Anne Days in 2020 because of COVID-19, the Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce members are excited the popular event will return with a modified format
Sept. 10 and Sept. 11 at Big Howe Field on top of Queen Anne. Queen Anne Chamber Executive Director Charley Shore said, not only is the 2021 event later in the year than usual, it will feature events and activities that will follow all social distancing and mask
guidelines. There will not be any indoor activities this year. “Well, we’re trying to keep it as similar as we can,” Shore said. “Our biggest focus is that it’s community oriented.” On Friday night, the beer, wine and cider garden for residents 21 and over will be open from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and it will feature tribute music of Phil Collins, Invisible Touch and STYX Borrowed Time. Saturday’s festival begins with the Kids ’N’ K-9’s Parade, spon-
sored by Wag ’N’ Wash. Participants will line up at 12:15 p.m. in front of the Queen Anne Community Center. The grand marshal this year is “Elvis,” who will lead the parade along the perimeter of Big Howe Field. The entourage will finish on stage to receive awards in the different categories. There will also be an aikido demonstration, and the Boot Boogie Babes, a line-dancing troupe started by Queen Anne resident
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Local couple opens hybrid plant, tattoo shop across from MarQueen Hotel By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor While plant shops and tattoo parlors are scattered throughout Seattle, only Uptown has a hybrid plant and tattoo shop. Aleisha Tilson and her boyfriend, Joseph McSween, opened Nightshade, 615 Queen Anne Ave. N. in Uptown, across from the MarQueen Hotel, in March. “There’s a lot of plant shops and a lot of tattoo shops, so we wanted to be unique,” McSween said. Tilson runs the plant end of the shop, while McSween set up his tattoo shop operations at the back of the business. Tilson admits, however, opening a new business during a pandemic had an element of risk. “It was a little stressful but a little exciting, too,” she said. Tilson has sold plants online since 2019, and McSween has been tattooing for six years after working most of his career as an oil painter. “I kind of mastered oil painting, and I was just challenged by tattoos,” McSween said. “Just staying dedicated and focused has helped me a lot, I feel like.” Tilson said when they first met, McSween was doing tattoo pop-ups at different plant shops, including the one Tilson worked at part time. “And we saw how excited it got people, so we wanted to open one of our own,” she said. McSween said, with Nightshade, they now
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