This isn't actually about current climactic conditions. But Winter's Bone, new at The Guild, sounds like it has a bite as fierce and hard to withstand as winter's worst. Here are some quick impressions from your neighbors, caught as they exited this past weekend: "Great. Very very well done. Very depressing. Very raw and gritty." - Kim "I hope Middle America is not actually like that but I'm afraid it is. Pretty scary to think of what meth has done to…
It's Wednesday, which means it's Wallingford Farmers Market day at Wallingford Center. If you can get there by 4 pm, you can catch Chef Colin Patterson of Wallingford's Sutra performing a cooking demonstration (see our review of Sutra here, when they featured Wallyhood honey on their menu). We know the folks at Sutra worship local ingredients, so Colin should be especially good inspiration for your trip to the market. We're getting deeper into the season, so we should start seeing many…
Despite distinctively un-summerlike conditions, the good folks of Seattle persisted in celebrating summer festivals last week (denial is a coping mechanism in these situations). Check out great photos of the Greenwood Car Show in the PhinneyWood blog and the Capitol Hill Pride Festival in Capitol Hill Seattle. And of course, the Solstice Parade in Fremont Universe (try to look beyond the gray skies and shivering participants). My Green Lake announced registration is open for the Annual Green Lake Goggle and Mashed…
We passed the heat of the evening out front of Not A Number the other evening, sitting in their big "hand" chairs, chatting with Jon and Kara and amusing Baby Z with wind-up novelties. In passing, Jon mentioned that they're looking for volunteers to help man the Rocking Chair Races booth at the Fourth of July festivities down at Gas Works this Sunday, so we thought we'd pass it along. At first, we figured that Rocking Chair Races would mean a…
Nah, we know you like us, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this. What we mean is will you Facebook Like us? Yeah, yeah, it seems kind of corny and all, but there's a practical side to it: if you "like" us on Facebook, then when we post articles and such, they'll show up in your news feed. Then, you'll say "Gosh, I liked that article" and you'll click the little "like" button and then the article will show up in your…
Reminder, tonight is Spoke and Food, a dining and biking event. The premise is cunning in its simplicity. You bike to one of the 14 participating Seattle restaurants (in Wallingford, that's the Blue Star and Cantinetta, but there are more in easy biking distance), you buy a meal, you eat it and then you bike home*. The restaurant, meanwhile, will donate a percentage of their evening's take to Lettuce Link, a program of the (Wallingford-based) Solid Ground that helps get fresh,…
Ah, sushi. Thank God the Japanese came up with a better name for it than "raw fish wrapped in seaweed", otherwise we probably would never would have tried it. We were humbled when we recently heard that Rain Sushi (or Rain Modern Infusion Cuisine, as it's formally known) on 45th had named a roll in our honor: the Wallyhood Roll. We've loved Rain's rolls for years now, always rich and decadent, so this past Wednesday, we smacked our lips and went…