Monthly Archives: July 2009

Wallyhood would like to offer a warm welcome and thank you to our newest sponsor, The Folkstore. Tucked away behind the shade of a green maple on Roosevelt Ave, the Folkstore has that what-ya-see-is-what-ya get Appalachian sensibility that makes sense anywhere you can find it: it's a music store, operated by a musician for musicians, buying and selling musical instruments, books, strings and all manner of musical necessity. There's just nothing to argue with about that. While a Seattle Times article…

As we did last week, we'll be publishing a map of the weekend's Wallingford / Green Lake garage sales on Friday, but we need information from you about where, when and what you're selling. E-mail us at [email protected] and let us know what you're planning. Last week's map got over 6,100 views, so it's a great opportunity to unload your crap...errr...pass along your family treasures.

For those of you watching the reconstruction of the Hamilton Middle School (just South of the Wallingford playfield), you'll be interested to note that some additional park space is being created for the community, as well. The designs indicate an expanded "sunken garden" area (now the narrow strip between the Wallingford Playfied and the school's playground area) that will include a 50 - 60 person amphitheater area for school and community use. It's all funded by the $73 million Hamilton School…

When we were in high school, a friend of ours was something of a musical prodigy. He'd learn the piano part for the school musical just by listening to it on his car tape deck on the way to the show and we remember one night sneaking our way into a jazz open-mic jam session at a local bar filled with grizzled old bluesman. After Jamie played, there were suddenly all these old men pressing their phone numbers into his palm,…

Last month, we posted a reader's question asking how one goes about holding a block party (including getting city permission to close off the block). For those of you who didn't read the comments, here's the skinny: There is a city-sponsored "Night Out Against Crime" coming up August 4th, where they're encouraging people across the city to hold block parties and stay out late, talk to neighbors and not break into each other's cars. If you're interested in organizing one for…

My Green Lake reports that Milk Carton Derby was a big success: Most notably, 500 pounds of food and $500 was donated to Northwest Harvest. It was a bit windy out (though talk about luck with the weather considering today’s rain) so we found it most exciting to watch the boats battle to stay behind the starting line until “Ready! Set! Go!” From the looks of it, there were some great floats afloat: Unfortunately, we couldn't attend the Kiddie Parade, but…

We saw this photo (by SRDaly) appear recently in the Wallingford Flickr Pool, but it took a while to figure out where in Wallingford it is. How about you?