Latest / Best of Redmond: Redmond Washington News, Events, Restaurants & Things to Do / Tinned Fish Bar in Redmond? Arts in the Park & Best Biking Trail in Redmond?
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- 0:01Jennifer Davis: Welcome to The Best of Redmond.
- 0:03Jennifer Davis: I'm Jennifer Davis
- 0:05Dan Schulz: And I'm Dan Schultz, and this is Redmond's twice weekly newsletter and podcast about all of the amazing things happening right here in and around Redmond for the next seven days
- 0:16Jennifer Davis: Your neighbor just wrote a 75-mile walking guide to Seattle.
- 0:22Jennifer Davis: A Redmond neighbor just wrote a book about walking Seattle's history, and he's celebrating it tonight.
- 0:29Jennifer Davis: Brick and Mortar Books hosts local author Peter Hendrickson at 6:30 for the release of Emerald City Trail, a walking guide covering a 75-mile route past parks and landmarks designed by the Olmsted brothers.
- 0:45Jennifer Davis: Hendrickson actually lives on a small Redmond farm and has spent years leading walking tours in cities everywhere.
- 0:54Jennifer Davis: Stop by to hear him talk about the project and grab a signed copy.
- 0:58Jennifer Davis: It's free, and it's exactly the kind of small local event that's easy to miss unless somebody tells you about it, which is us.
- 1:06Dan Schulz: The market you take for granted until you actually go.
- 1:12Dan Schulz: The Redmond Saturday Market is back this weekend on Saturday morning, running from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM in the Overlake Christian Church parking lot.
- 1:22Dan Schulz: More than 45 vendors set up with produce, eggs, honey, flowers, baked goods, and prepared food, plus live music playing throughout the morning.
- 1:32Dan Schulz: It's dog friendly, kid friendly, and EBT is accepted.
- 1:37Dan Schulz: This is one of those Redmond traditions that's easy to take for granted until you actually show up and you go.
- 1:43Dan Schulz: Bring cash for the smaller vendors, bring the dog, and plan staying longer than you meant to.
- 1:49Jennifer Davis: Downtown Park turns into a stage and a marketplace this weekend on Saturday from 4:00 Arts in the Park wraps up its September run with the Redmond Academy of Theater Arts and Seattle Community Theater performing live, plus a pop-up
- 2:04Jennifer Davis: fair of local artisans and small businesses.
- 2:08Jennifer Davis: It's free, all ages, and built for wandering.
- 2:11Jennifer Davis: Watch a bit of the show, browse a few tables, grab something from a food vendor.
- 2:17Jennifer Davis: This is the kind of evening that makes a Saturday feel like an event without costing anything.
- 2:23Jennifer Davis: Bring a blanket and stay for the whole thing
- 2:26Dan Schulz: Your dog's agility party.
- 2:29Dan Schulz: That's right, your dog has an agility party to go to.
- 2:33Dan Schulz: Pickles Playland is hosting an agility party this Tuesday from 11 to 2 PM.
- 2:39Dan Schulz: It's a $25 daycare event with mini agility course training, a photo pup date, and healthy-ish treats, plus optional $6 printed photos and a $6 scratch-off prize ticket.
- 2:53Dan Schulz: It's only open to dogs already booked for daycare, boarding, or grooming that day, so reserve through the client portal ahead of time since spots go fast.
- 3:03Dan Schulz: If your dog's already a regular there, this is worth booking around.
- 3:07Dan Schulz: You need to have a dog with agility.
- 3:10Dan Schulz: You don't want them tipping over every time you look at them
- 3:14Jennifer Davis: Sama Cellars is digging into Syrah this Sunday from 3:00 to 4:30.
- 3:20Jennifer Davis: Certified Sommelier J.R.
- 3:22Jennifer Davis: Seebach leads the tasting, walking through how the grape changes depending on where it's grown and how it's made.
- 3:30Jennifer Davis: It's $25 for club members and 35 for everyone else, and that cost gets credited towards select wine purchases the same day.
- 3:40Jennifer Davis: This isn't a casual happy hour pour.
- 3:43Jennifer Davis: It's an actual education session for people who want to know what they're drinking.
- 3:48Jennifer Davis: Reserve ahead, because the series tends to fill up
- 3:52Dan Schulz: Remember those old TV commercials, The Most Interesting Man in the World?
- 3:56Jennifer Davis: Ja
- 3:56Dan Schulz: J.R.
- 3:57Dan Schulz: Seebach, the sommelier.
- 4:00Jennifer Davis: I can hear it, yeah.
- 4:01Jennifer Davis: I can hear it in that voice.
- 4:03Dan Schulz: he gives that guy on TV with the bad beard, uh, such a run for his money, man.
- 4:09Dan Schulz: I would love to meet that dude and hang with him Soul Food's crowd actually listens when Makia Oaks plays.
- 4:18Dan Schulz: Soul Food Coffee House hands the stage to Makia Oaks tomorrow night, Friday, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
- 4:26Dan Schulz: She's played this room before, and the Soul Food crowd tends to actually sit and listen instead of talking over the music.
- 4:33Dan Schulz: There's no cover charge, just coffee, food, and a couple hours of live music in a small, low-key space.
- 4:40Dan Schulz: it's a good one if you want a night out that doesn't require a reservation or a babysitter's worth of planning.
- 4:47Dan Schulz: Show up whenever, stay as long as you want.
- 4:50Jennifer Davis: The quiet talk about why birds keep hitting your windows.
- 4:55Jennifer Davis: The Redmond Library is hosting an Eastside Audubon program this Wednesday.
- 5:01Jennifer Davis: Doors open at 6:00, and the program starts at 6:30, goes to 7:30.
- 5:07Jennifer Davis: Speaker Judy Bowes covers something most people never think about, birds dying from window collisions.
- 5:14Jennifer Davis: We've all experienced it, right?
- 5:16Jennifer Davis: And it's always bad.
- 5:18Jennifer Davis: It's one of the leading causes behind declining bird populations in North America, and the talk covers what's actually happening and what a person can do about it at home.
- 5:29Jennifer Davis: It's free, open to everyone, and held in the library's meeting room
- 5:34Dan Schulz: Here's something most homeowners don't think about.
- 5:36Dan Schulz: You could have a water leak right now and not even know it.
- 5:40Dan Schulz: Underground leaks don't show up like a burst pipe.
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- 6:22Dan Schulz: This message brought to you by Simply Leak Detection.
- 6:27Dan Schulz: It is time for the Redmond History Minute.
- 6:30Dan Schulz: Are you ready for today's question, Jennifer?
- 6:32Jennifer Davis: I am
- 6:33Dan Schulz: And are you ready, dear listeners?
- 6:36Dan Schulz: I, I can't hear you.
- 6:37Dan Schulz: This is a podcast that we recorded earlier.
- 6:40Dan Schulz: Here is the question.
- 6:42Dan Schulz: Before Redmond got its current name, the town was called Melrose.
- 6:48Dan Schulz: Where did that name come from?
- 6:51Dan Schulz: Was it A, a wildflower that grew in the valley; B, Warren Perrigo's inn, named after his hometown in Massachusetts; C, a brand of whiskey sold at the general store; D, Luke McRedmond's middle name.
- 7:09Dan Schulz: And your timer starts now.
- 7:12Dan Schulz: What do you think?
- 7:12Dan Schulz: Luke Melrose McRedmond.
- 7:16Jennifer Davis: Oh man, when
- 7:17Dan Schulz: huge fan.
- 7:18Dan Schulz: You know why he called himself Melrose?
- 7:19Dan Schulz: Big fan of Melrose Place in the '90s, Jen.
- 7:22Dan Schulz: He loved it.
- 7:23Dan Schulz: Loved it, Luke, Luke did
- 7:25Jennifer Davis: you know, it, I, you maybe had a premonition about that.
- 7:28Jennifer Davis: I don't know.
- 7:29Jennifer Davis: It'd be so different if the town was named Melrose.
- 7:31Jennifer Davis: It, it just would be different.
- 7:34Dan Schulz: be better or worse, Jennifer?
- 7:36Dan Schulz: The town is listening.
- 7:38Dan Schulz: Be very careful
- 7:39Jennifer Davis: I think it'd be worse in a way.
- 7:41Jennifer Davis: It just doesn't sound right.
- 7:42Jennifer Davis: Maybe that's just 'cause I'm used to Redmond.
- 7:45Jennifer Davis: But,
- 7:45Dan Schulz: me too
- 7:46Jennifer Davis: I'm gonna go with C, a brand of whiskey sold at the general store, 'cause it, it's so random.
- 7:52Jennifer Davis: I love random things.
- 7:53Jennifer Davis: I'm gonna go C, 'cause I'm a random person who likes random ideas
- 8:01Dan Schulz: I am so sorry.
- 8:04Dan Schulz: It's very-- It's a-- I love your logic though, Jen.
- 8:07Dan Schulz: I'm not gonna argue with your logic.
- 8:08Dan Schulz: It just this time it was wrong.
- 8:10Dan Schulz: The answer is B, Warren Perrigo's Inn, named after this hometown in Massachusetts.
- 8:16Dan Schulz: When Warren Perrigo and his wife Laura built an inn called the Melrose House, named after Perrigo's hometown of Melrose, Massachusetts, the inn became so popular that the whole settlement adopted the name when the post office was opened in
- 8:32Dan Schulz: 1881.
- 8:33Dan Schulz: Luke McRedmond was not thrilled.
- 8:36Dan Schulz: What do you think of Luke McRedmond?
- 8:38Dan Schulz: The more I learn about this Luke McRedmond, he seems to have a hair trigger, uh, temper.
- 8:45Dan Schulz: When he became postmaster in 1882, he petitioned to rename the town after himself.
- 8:50Dan Schulz: It worked, but it caused bitterness between the McRedmond and the Perrigo families for years.
- 8:56Dan Schulz: The town got named by a postmaster who was tired of living in somebody else's hotel shadow.
- 9:02Dan Schulz: What, what is go- this, I swear to
- 9:06Jennifer Davis: Whoa.
- 9:07Jennifer Davis: I had
- 9:08Dan Schulz: town has such an insane history, whether it's Billy Brown we call him, Bill
- 9:15Jennifer Davis: mayor.
- 9:15Jennifer Davis: Yep.
- 9:16Dan Schulz: who, who hung around way longer than he probably should've.
- 9:19Dan Schulz: And now we got Luke McRe- sorry, Luke Melrose, McRedmond getting mad about this guy.
- 9:27Dan Schulz: This is unbelievable.
- 9:28Dan Schulz: This city is so crazy sometimes
- 9:39Jennifer Davis: Okay, this one definitely got our attention.
- 9:43Jennifer Davis: Rumor has it a natural wine and tinned fish shop is being planned for downtown Redmond.
- 9:49Jennifer Davis: Natural wine and tinned fish.
- 9:52Dan Schulz: Tinned fish.
- 9:54Dan Schulz: there has got to be such a huge call for this business to open up
- 9:58Jennifer Davis: Retail up front, eight bar seats in back, and a menu that's basically whatever they can open with a key.
- 10:05Jennifer Davis: It's weird, cheap, and apparently already working in Ballard.
- 10:09Dan Schulz: No, that-- makes sense.
- 10:11Dan Schulz: No offense, Ballard, but, uh, you know, you guys are a little nutty over there.
- 10:15Dan Schulz: Yeah
- 10:16Jennifer Davis: None of this is confirmed yet, including the exact location or timeline, so would you actually go to a tinned fish bar in Redmond?
- 10:25Jennifer Davis: Dan, I'm assuming no.
- 10:27Dan Schulz: I can't say that I would, Jennifer
- 10:28Jennifer Davis: If you've got a guess or have heard something, head on over to our Facebook page at facebook.com/bestofredmond and drop it in the Redmond Rumor Mill Guesses post
- 10:40Dan Schulz: And while you're at our Facebook page, sorry Ballard, find the Your Picks post and answer this question.
- 10:46Dan Schulz: We wanna know what you think is the best biking trail in Redmond.
- 10:51Jennifer Davis: If you've enjoyed this podcast, you're gonna love our companion newsletter.
- 10:55Jennifer Davis: Find it at bestofredmond.com and we'll see you in the next one
- 11:00Dan Schulz: Or maybe before then, walking in and around Redmond Tinned Fish Bar