Monthly Archives: January 2010

Home Design and Remodel Fair at PNA

The Wallyhoods have been dreaming and scheming now that Detached Accessory Dwelling Units (DADU, aka your garage converted into a mother-in-law unit) have been legalized in Seattle. To feed our micro-developer jones, we're heading to the Home Design & Remodel Fair this weekend at the at the Phinney Neighborhood Center: The PNA is hosting its 13th annual home design and remodel fair on January 31, 2010. The event runs from 10am-4pm in the Blue Building of the Phinney Neighborhood Center (6532…

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Seattle Youth Garden Works shutters its doors

Seattle Youth Garden Works, a local charity that provided at-risk and homeless youth with garden-related jobs skills, has announced that it is ending operations due to budget shortfall: Seattle Youth Garden Works (SYGW) would like to thank our community of exceptional friends, volunteers and donors for the support we received throughout 2009. Through your generosity, you affirmed that SYGW is doing important work in providing essential garden-based job training programs for Seattle’s homeless and at-risk youth. However, despite our best efforts,…

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Is That Jazz? Festival

This past weekend held the first performances of the Is That Jazz? Festival at The Good Shepherd Center. The festival continues this weekend with performances by Jesse Canterbury's Vertigo and Bad Luck on Friday and the Tom Baker Quartet and Cuong Vu Trio on Saturday. Check out our previous post for more info. Until then, enjoy these silent slides of the shows: Sunship Sun Ra Tribute Bill Smith Trio Threat of Beauty Any jazz aficionados want to share their impression of…

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Cookin’ Up Community

(Wallyhood welcomes our newest writer, Helen Kim, reporting on last week's Wallingford Community Kitchen. Slideshow photos by Matt Mason.) Imagine being a member of a big extended family. Big. Really big. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, teenagers, even an adorable little baby. All cooking a big meal together. Now, imagine the residents of Wallingford as the members of that family in the kitchen of the Good Shepherd’s Senior Center. This was the scene at the Community Kitchen I attended on Friday night. About…

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Happy Birthday, Dear Dick’s

Dick's is celebrating their 56th Anniversary this week. To celebrate, they're offering 2 for the price of 1 cheeseburgers today (Tuesday) from 2 - 6 pm and this Friday is 10¢ Coke Day, where all soft drinks are just a dime. Why call it 10¢ Coke Day when it's any soft drink? Well, there isn't quite the same ring to 10¢ Any Soft Drink Day, now is there? Anyway, did you know that in the South, they refer to all soft…

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No more Pupu!

We just spoke with Tony, the owner of the Luau, and confirmed what tipsters like Maya have been telling us: tomorrow night, Tuesday, is the end of an era for the Luau Polynesian Lounge in Tangletown. "It was just time," Tony told us. "I'm 35, my wife's 36, we've been at this for eleven years now, we're starting to think about having kids, and it's just time. You know, when you start to think about all the things you could do…

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