Our neighborhood music festival, now called Tangletown PorchFest, will be presenting its fifth annual show next week. This family-friendly event will be held on Saturday, June 21st, beginning at 12:30 pm, with the last performance starting at 8 pm. The performance porches are located along N 52nd Street on either side of Meridian Avenue N, and on N 54th Street at Keystone Place N up to Kirkwood Place N. Specific locations are listed on this map.

There will be 15 bands of various styles and genres playing in succession, approximately every half hour, so you can drop …

Green Lake isn’t really Wallingford…but it’s close! And as such, many of us take advantage of its proximity and amenities to enjoy one of Seattle’s favorite parks. One of my old parental colleagues, Tami Oki (our kids went through John Stanford International School, Hamilton Middle School, and Ingraham High School together, quite a long time ago), sent a note about summer camps at Green Lake sponsored by Seattle Parks & Recreation. It’s been ages, but I remember what a scramble it was to piece together a mosaic of summer camps once school let out—and I’m sure that hasn’t changed. Here…

Wallingford, of course, is home to Lincoln High School. If you didn’t already know this, you have obviously not tried to shop at QFC on weekday afternoons. We at Wallyhood have been working to establish a better line of communication with the school, because much of note happens there. Elite academics, sports teams, music, and the arts are incubating right here in our neighborhood.

 

Lincoln High School parent Camille shared the information below about some upcoming activities that will support LHS’s athletic programs. Please consider attending a ball game next Tuesday, or dining out in the ’hood all this week …

Come walk with me.* A mere 27-minute walk from the heart of Wallingford** resides a quasi-resurrection of the Landmark Guild 45th Theater in all her former, pink glory. Though now aptly named The Lake.

The walk north in the direction of Green Lake is fairly linear, though not for long, as my dog and I make our way through North Wallingford and into Tangletown, so named because of the deviation from the city’s typical grid pattern, creating a “tangle” of streets. This is one of my favorite parts of wandering the neighborhoods south of Green Lake. There are a plethora …

With the departure of Theo Chocolate from the Fremont scene back at the end of 2023, there are chocoholics among us who may have been suffering withdrawal symptoms. Those folks can now rest easy with the arrival of Spinnaker Chocolate to Stone Way.

Spinnaker had previously operated a shop in Ravenna, which they closed in April. They opened up at 3509 Stone Way N around mid-May, although they consider themselves to be in a “soft-opening” phase at least until early June. A café is slated to open at some indefinite point in the near future. (I noticed the espresso machine …

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This past week I walked to the U District light rail station to meet my son for dinner up on Capitol Hill, and I was a little surprised and delighted to see a pop-up Mexican food (tacos, burritos, chiles relleños, …