Chris Witwer

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Chris S. Witwer likes to call herself Wallyhood’s “Lower Wallingford Correspondent.” Chris is a former Texan (is there any such thing?) who came to Seattle in 2005 for three reasons: weather, scenery, and coffee culture. It has taken her four years to begin to understand Seattle humor, but she’s getting there. Chris is a bureaucrat by day, and caffeine-fueled blogger when she’s not reading novels or pretending to write one. She lives with her partner, Laura, and two cats — Dolce and Molly, and uses the internet to make fun of stuff on her personal blog, http://felsputzer.wordpress.com.

Weekend Roundup

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What a week!  Finally, it’s time to start planning the weekend.  Woot, eff tee dub, and all that.  Here’s what’s going on:

Friday

5:00-7:00pm Wine tasting City Cellars (1710 North 45th Street) Continuing with Washington Wines, this week, they’ll feature Tertulia Cellars from Walla Walla.  $3.00-$5.00. Christopher DeLaurenti, a composer and sound artist living right here in the ‘hood, invites us all to his gig at the Chapel Performance Space in the Good Shepherd Center.  It’s called “Thrill: A Jazz Madrigal.”  Friday, 8pm.  $5- $15 sliding scale. Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies presents Oliver Stone’s “South of the Border,”…

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Magma Fest

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Remember when Hollow Earth Radio was in Wallingford?  Yeah, that was cool. Even cooler is the fact that they’re bringing part of their annual MagmaFest back to Wallingford.

What is a Magma Fest?  It’s a festival to support local indie musicians and to expose more people to Hollow Earth Radio’s volunteer-run, online, freeform radio.  What a great combo!

The festival is already happening now at various venues across the city.   Learn more here or drop by the Chapel Performance Space in the Good Shepherd Center March 18th & 19th.  Tickets $10 -$20, sliding scale.  $60 Magma Passes are also available.…

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Blowfish in the Wind

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Something fishy this way comes, at least if you’re down in lower Wallingford tonight.

Smell that stench?  It’s not your compost bin.

Have you ever seen that television show, Deadliest Catch?  Sometimes the freezers break or the engine fails or some other mishap occurs and the fish die while the boat is still at sea.  Then the captain has to dock the boat so it can be fixed.  Landlubbers hate that.  Fishermen hate it more, of course.

Chris C, who works near Essential Baking, told us that 30,000 pounds of dead fish are aboard a fishing vessel moored near the …

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Who R U? Leave Me Alone!

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Last Thursday at 7:55am, I approached the intersection of Stone Way & 35th on foot.  I wanted to cross Stone Way.  But there was a guy standing there are the intersection, shaking uncontrollably and unsteady on his feet.  I hung back until the light changed, then passed him.

After crossing the intersection, I turned left headed toward Solsticio.  I wasn’t thinking about the man at the stop light anymore.  But as I turned to drop something in a trashcan a block later, I saw that man out of the corner of my eye.  He was practically on my back!  How …

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3/1 Deadline for Family 4th Fundraising

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Last year, people all over the Pacific Northwest donated their time and money so Seattle could enjoy the Family 4th at Lake Union one last time.  But then, it doesn’t have to be the last time.  One Reel is committed to making sure the event happens every year.  They just need our help to pull it off.

But we haven’t guaranteed this year’s 2011 celebratiaganza.  Not yet.  Donations are still essential to making the 2011 Family 4th at Lake Union possible. While almost 70 percent of the event budget has been secured, for the show to go on, another …

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Sustainable Wallingford – Climate Action Event

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Sustainable Wallingford is holding a political letter writing party.  Which reminds me of the last time I went to a political letter writing party.  It was for Howard Dean, and I lived in South Carolina.  Yeah, there were like, 3 of us.  And my co-workers kept calling me a Communist.

Anyway, if you enjoy the near-dead art of letter writing, or if you’d like to send a message to Olympia about the environment, you’re in luck.  Sustainable Wallingford will be meeting on Thursday, February 24th, to write letters to our elected officials regarding legislative priorities in 2011.   These environmental priorities …

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Community Kitchen: Chocolate in Unexpected Ways

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Unless you are Margaret, who is completely satisfied with a Whitman’s sampler from Bartell’s (sic), you might just want to check out  Sustainable Wallingford’s Community Kitchen on Friday, 2/18.

Why?  Cuz it’s about chocolate.  “Chocolate in Unexpected Ways,” to be exact.  Here’s what they mean by that:

Chocolate crostini with sea salt A mixed green salad with a chocolate vinaigrette Pasta with sage & chocolate Vegetarian chocolate chili chicken enchiladas with mole

To participate, pre-order your $9.99 tickets here, or pay $15 at the door on Friday night.  Event starts at 5:30 at the Wallingford Community Senior Center in the …

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