If you haven’t noticed, there’s a place on the Wallyhood website for YOU the reader to post your own musings, questions or midnight rants. Click the Forums link to the right of the Home button and let rip. Here are some highlights from last week:
People living in vehicles and Dogs on the playfield continue to be hot topics. Check out these long, detailed posts. Why not chip in your 2 cents? Has the neighbor’s dog run over and pooped in your yard once too often? Or fed up with people who are too uptight about a little dog poop? …Growing Young Gardeners
Let’s face it, kids like nothing better than mucking around in dirt. And messing with sticks and harassing worms. The Children’s Garden at Seattle Tilth, tucked southwest of the Good Shepherd Center, allows them to indulge their primal side to their hearts’ content while nurturing knowledge about gardening and a love of nature.
I recently chatted with Lisa Taylor, the exuberant, ukulele-playing Children’s Program Manager. She said the Children’s Garden was conceived in 1988 when the Center’s unused swimming pool was filled in and turned into a garden. They began with family P-Patches and worked with the kids at the …
Espresso Paintings at Irwin’s!
Okay, check these out. Was at Irwin’s today enjoying an enormous cinnamon roll with my daughter. We looked up at the wall next to us and noticed some paintings in suspiciously familiar brown tints. Yes, these are paintings done in espresso. Two are copies of Van Goghs (did he drink a lot of coffee?) and one is an original composition. Wow, makes you wonder with so much of the stuff around, what else could we do with it? If you got desperate could you soak these in hot water and get a decent cup of joe out of them?…
3 Years of Mosaic Coffee
Wednesday was Mosaic‘s third anniversary. For those of you who don’t know, this is a coffee house where you decide how much you want to pay. And they’ve been doing this successfully. For three years. Kind of restores your faith in human nature, doesn’t it?
Mosaic is located in the basement of Seattle First Church of the Nazarene, on 2nd Ave and 44th Street, right behind Dick’s. It’s slightly dark and very spacious with lots of old couches, armchairs, heavy tables, and even a little electric fireplace and piano. To one side is a large meeting room which groups can …
Living in the “Dying City”
Continuing with the premise that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, here is another handy pros-vs.-cons guide to Dying City, now playing at Green Lake’s Bathhouse Theater (honestly! Green Lake is not that bad!).
Cons:
9/11, The Iraq War, Abusive Families, Infidelity, Homophobia, Lies, Suicide – too much of a downer, man! That actor dude playing twin brothers, I don’t get it Why do good women fall for bad men?Pros:
The actor dude has terrific stage presence and is totally convincing playing two completely different people The situation is gripping and the people seem real It’s…What’s up in the Neighbor-‘Hoods?
Okay, you may be asking yourself, “Did anything happen worth knowing about outside of Wallingford last week?”. To expand your horizons (a bit), here are the highlights from blogs in the surrounding ‘hoods:
Gertie the Hippo: Sadly, Phinneywood reports that the oldest animal in the Woodland Park Zoo, at 47 years and 5,000 pounds, was euthanized. Let’s hope that you and I fare better. Hazel Heights P-Patch: Opened on March 21st at NW 47th St. and Baker Ave. NW according to Fremont Universe. Good growing! Big Hands Guy: My Green Lake reports this notorious thief (seen earlier here in Wallingford)…Putting the Pieces Together
Ever have one of those days where it feels like things are falling apart and you can’t keep it together? Wouldn’t it be nice to take all those broken pieces and arrange them into a lovely and meaningful work of art?
Such is the concept behind Seattle Mosaic Arts, a studio on 46th between Stone and Interlake filled with rows and rows of jars of broken glass in intriguing colors, shapes and textures. You begin by laying out the pieces on sticky contact paper, covering them with tile tape and then attaching them with cement to a base layer. Like …