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Wallyhood is a "group blog" with many contributors. However, whenever you see a post written by "Wallyhood", that's Jordan Schwartz, Wallyhood's founder, Editor-in-Chief, Publisher, community manager, janitor, account executive, and chief enthusiast. Jordan has lived in the same little house in Wallingford since 1993. He arrived from points east with his cat, Fourth, and has since been joined by his wife Michelle, son Zevin, chickens Dominique, Winny and Betty and bees innumerable and unnamed. Days find him working on Pathable, a social networking service for conferences and events.

Edible Plant Sale this weekend

Jordan March 19, 2010 1 Comment

Magnuson Park is outside our bailiwick, but we’re big enough fans of the edible garden that we’re going to post it anyway:

Wallingford-based Seattle Tilth will be holding their first-ever Early Spring Edible Plant Sale this Saturday, March 20, 9 a.m.- 2 p.m at Magnuson Park, Hangar 30. If you want your pick of the choicest plants, head on over tonight, Friday from 5:30 – 7:00 pm for their Early Bird Sale. Sale benefits Seattle Tilth.

Don’t worry if you miss it, as their regular edible plant sale will follow on May 1st and 2nd at the Good Shepherd Center. …

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Festering Pit, Fester On

Jordan March 19, 2010 15 Comments

Vanessa Ho over at the Seattle P-I ran a story yesterday about the Festering Pits of Seattle (not titled as such, but perhaps it ought to be). Seems Wallingford is not alone in its despair over abandoned construction projects, and the city is considering legislation to encourage developers with stalled projects, such as we have at the corner of 40th and Stone Way, to do something more constructive while they wait.

Should such an idea come to pass, we would like offer our list of suggestions for the developers on how they could put the space to use while they …

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Dim Sum

Jordan March 19, 2010 10 Comments

Back in December, we reported that the old Home Realty spot by 49th and Stone Way was being remodeled by the owners of House of Hong, the famed dim sum restaurant in the International District, and would become Bamboo Village. The My Wallingford blog has followed up with a call to the owners to get some more info:

Lee told us that the restaurant, called Bamboo Village, will open in late May or early June and will serve dim sum all day, every day. “Customers always asked to have dim sum later in the day,” Lee said. Bamboo Village …

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Wallingford Walks Seeks Walks

Jordan March 19, 2010 3 Comments

“Wallingford Walks” is a series of guided tours of various aspects of Wallingford. For example, one month, they toured solar-powered homes around the neighborhood and another they toured backyard chicken coops and bee hives (hosted by nous). Walks generally start from Tully’s on a Saturday and rove around Wallingford for a couple of hours.

Mike “Build a Wallingford Community Center or die trying” Ruby has organized the walks in years past, and has asked us to put out a call for suggestions for this years walks. Got ideas? Leave them in the comment section here or join their Ning …

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Grizzled Wizard

Jordan March 18, 2010 19 Comments

Our first clue came from Chuck:

I just walked by a door marked Grizzled Wizard on 45th between the UPS store and the Erotic Bakery.  I did a bit of Google sleuthing and found a liquor license application by Savoy Foods and Joseph L. Couden.  But my investigative abilities end there.  Since you’re a guy in the know, or at least a guy who knows guys in the know, would you be able to find out any more info?

Always up to the challenge, we checked Everyblock and found little more than Chuck was able to discover:

Location 2317 N. …

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Pour House Opens Tonight

Jordan March 16, 2010 6 Comments

(This post originally appeared on My Green Lake, who totally scooped us)

After Tangletown’s beloved Luau Polynesian Lounge (2253 North 56th St) closed its doors on January 26, rumor had it that it was to be replaced by a cocktail lounge.

Excitement grew once word got out that Pour House, a bar and dining spot billed as “upscale casual without the pretension” was coming soon to the corner of N 56th St and Kirkwood Pl N.

Tonight (Tuesday, March 16, 2010), Pour House opens its doors to you.

Tonight only, opening time will be 6 p.m. Starting tomorrow, the …

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Boat Livin’, Lake Union Style

Jordan March 16, 2010 1 Comment

OK, so maybe you can’t live in a treehouse, but you can live on a boat. Sure, you could shell out $2.5M for the houseboat Tom Hanks lived on in Sleepless in Seattle, but you’ve got better things to do with your money, right? Instead, for a cool $30,000, you could buy the Frieda Fey, a 40′ 1944 Vic Frank Naval Launch converted to a live aboard cruiser.

Docked just a stone’s throw from Gas Works (literally), the Frieda Fay is the home of our friends Hannah and Joe, their baby boy Ely and their faithful hound Wilco. …

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