Drugs

Meaningful Movies: ‘The House I Live In’

Every Friday night for the last nine years, neighbors in our community have been showing free screenings of "Meaningful Movies" that cover issues around social justice, followed by an open community discussion about the evening's topic. The screenings take place at the Keystone Congressional Church (5029 Keystone Avenue N.) from 7:00pm to 9:30PM. Many times, the organizers bring in advocates about the issues presented in the evening's film, or the filmmakers themselves will stop by for a Q&A session after the…

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Medical Marijuana comes to Wallingford

Last week, we learned via Wallyhood Forums that a new business named "GMG" had moved into the other half of the building that Cutz Meridian operates out of.  We sent out guest blogger, Annie Mouse, to check it out.  Thanks, Annie! Grasshopper Medical Group (GMG) is now open in Wallingford, at 4515 Meridian Avenue North, Suite A -- next to Cutz Meridian and just behind Murphy's Irish Pub. I dropped by recently and was met at the door by two very…

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Wallingford Cannabis Farmers Market Shut Down

Wallyhood introduces a new guest blogger, who we'll call "Annie" here.  She's our little anonymous mouse, guest blogging about the Seattle Cannabis Farmer's Market in Wallingford.  Welcome, Annie Mouse! Hello everyone! Today Wallyhood got a tip that there is a medical marijuana dispensary in Wallingford & that there was a smoking tent outside.  Did Wallyhood  know what is going on? I do!  I do!  Wallyhood thought I might, and asked me to write about it.  Thank you for letting me do…

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Stoned Soup

We were chatting with our friend D. the other day, who mentioned he had recently attended a performance at Stone Soup Theatre's production of How I Learned To Drive, by Paula Vogel. We reproduce our best recollected transcription of his orally delivered review here: Oh hey, you know that little theater on Stone Way, little place tucked in up from that pit on 40th? Hey, it's a gem. We stopped in there, pretty baked one night last week, just on a…

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July 4: The View From Up Here

Traffic along Wallingford Avenue, above 40th Street, began to build by 11:00 a.m.   As I mowed my lawn, I marveled over the families that hauled their blankets, coolers, chairs, strollers, and kids 8 blocks down the hill.  By 3:00 p.m. the rain pretty much put the kibosh on my yard work, and the steady stream of people tapered down to a trickle.  But around 6:00 p.m., the thickening crowd resumed their pilgrimage to Lake Union. During a dinner party at my…

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Wallingford Inn Madness

We got an e-mail from Forrest last night, who spotted something up at the Wallingford Inn: I saw (what looked to be) prep for a pretty hefty undercover bust of the Wallingford Inn on 45th & Aurora as I got off the bus...Drugs? Looked pretty serious. Yep, drugs and more. Here's a snippet from the full story on the Seattle Crime blog: A man wearing a Seahawks' Lofa Tatupu jersey was arrested in Greenlake on Wednesday, December 2nd, following a drug-fueled…

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Big Brother Follow-Up

A couple weeks back, we posted a query from a reader who spotted the sign you see to your right on a telephone pole around 55th and Wallingford. The question: why was someone writing down license plates in our neighborhood. We know that many readers don't go back and read comments on older posts, but this issue seemed important enough to bubble up as a follow-up post, so we're reprinting some of the comments that were posted. Sara wrote: Those of…

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