Last week tolled the bell for the final Wallingford Farmers Market of 2010, and this week we ring out a year of Wallingford Art Walk. Tomorrow, Wednesday October 6th from 6 - 9 pm marks your last opportunity to stroll the avenues and alleys of Wallingford as if it were Paris in the Spring, popping into galleries to admire the works of artists while sipping on a glass* of wine and chatting with your neighbors. Where should you stroll? Here's what…
In the mood for something a bit fancier than the Rancho Bravo Taco Truck? Already worked your way through Cantinetta, Joule, Tilth and Eva? Then how about you get your pork on with Wine & Swine at Smash? This Thursday, October 7th, Smash will be hosting guest chef John Sarich, culinary director Chateau St. Michelle Winery and host of the the TV show Best of Taste: Travels with John Sarich. The menu, subtitled "A Celebration of the Pig" features...pig! Chanterelle Mushroom…
Since the dawn of the Wallyhood blog in January 2009, we've been pretty lucky to only have two or three times when we felt we needed to remove a comment left by a reader. Discourse has been remarkably reasonable: people with radically differing opinions have listened to each other, complimented one another when a good point was made, and occasionally admitted when they were wrong. It has all been very fitting for the character that we admire in Wallingford: thoughtful, inquisitive,…
The King 5/Evening Magazine's "Best of Western Washington" is a time honored tradition here in...well...Western Washington. It's a chance for local businesses to be chosen as "the best" in their category by popular vote. This year, there are a total of 8,700 nominees from all of Western Washington, and of those, 115 of them are Wallingford businesses in 73 different categories. We've put together a list of our "favorite" favorites so you can vote on who you like (oh, and, pssst...your favorite…
We were perusing the New York Times magazine this morning, moving with the gentle lethargy of a man with three-quarters of a cup of coffee left to drink, when what should we find but a vicious attack on our writing style. It began: Theodore Rockwell, who served as technical director for the U.S. Navy’s nuclear-propulsion program in the 1950s and ’60s, shared a telling anecdote about his onetime boss, the famously irascible Adm. Hyman G. Rickover. “One time he caught me…
While Saturday’s Community Celebration at Hamilton International Middle School had a little lower turnout than the ribbon cutting ceremony, there were still plenty of students eager to show parents their lockers and classrooms during the open house. Visitors had access to all three floors of the school and were treated to the sounds of Hamilton’s marimba ensemble on the outside courts, as well as the jazz band that played in their own classroom on the ground floor. Have a look inside the…
Okay, I know cars are evil. They spawn obesity, strip malls, suburbs, social isolation, oil wars, pollution, and the destruction of the atmopshere. But sometimes, they're so darn cute! Witness these darling Nissan Cubes cropping up around the neighborhood. A trend?