Wallingford is bustling with mothers - young and old, hip or crunchy, working at home or in the office - all of whom deserve to be celebrated on Mother's Day (and everyday). Mother's Day is celebrated all around the world. Here, in the U.S., it's the second Sunday in May. In the late 1800's, there were several attempts to establish the holiday, but momentum didn't catch on until the efforts of Anna Jarvis. Wanting to honor her deceased mother's dream of making a…
My mom's birthday is Easter Sunday -- at least that's what she's been saying since she was a kid. She's wrong, but what the heck. She's the kind of woman who appreciates flowers, dresses, Easter bonnets, and colorful baskets full of trinkets and bunny shaped chocolates. So we'll give it to her. Her birthday is on Easter. Every year. And if she were in Wallingford this weekend, here are some of the Easter events she'd get to choose from. Most are on Saturday rather…
If you read last year's "Good Pesach!" post, you know how we feel about Passover: a truly bad-ass Jewish Holiday. The God of the Old Testament rains His wrath on those who enslaved His people, plagues fire from His fingertips, blood flows in the rivers, frogs pour from heaven, boils erupt on the skin of the oppressors, an avenging angel sweeps across the land in the dark of night, the very earth rises from the bottom of the sea to carry…
So what all is going on special in Wallingford this Valentine's Day? We already mentioned that you can tan yourself crispy for free at Tropical Tan, but did you know that Fuel has "heart-shaped Flipsides, Piepops (pie lollipops!), and our as-seen-on-TV Slab Pie!"? Put in your special order for those by Friday at 5 pm for Saturday or Sunday pick-up. And, course, the restaurants are getting in the lovin' game, too. Avila is offering a special menu for Valentine's that includes…
Yesterday, we covered what's going on New Year's Eve in Wallingford, but what about New Year's Day? For ourselves, we're planning on hitting the Polar Bear Plunge at Matthews Beach at noon on the 1st, but if we get the shivers, we may just slap a wig on, find ourselves the finest track suit we can, and head over to Green Lake. Says My Green Lake: "Meet at Noon, Friday January 1, 2010, at the Kiddie Wading Pool at Greenlake to…
Public Service Announcement: tonight is the last night to see the Argosy Christmas Ship™ before the ship docks for the season. See our initial post here, or detals about tonight's final Christmas sailing below. See you at Gasworks tonight, everyone! The Argosy Christmas Ship™ will stop just offshore at Gasworks Park for its final concert, sung by the Seattle Girls’ Choir – Prime Voci. The performance is scheduled for 9:45pm-10:05pm. Afterwards, don't forget to swing by 39th and Woodlawn to see Wallingford's own live…
We've been collecting a good list of holiday goings on, including some Christmas Eve services at local churches and New Year's Eve dinners at all the great Wallingford restaurants (if you've got anything to add to the list, which we'll be posting shortly, please leave it as a comment on our Holiday Haps post). Given all the Christmas and New Year's talk, it's been noted that we haven't mentioned Chanukah, which might seem odd given our decidedly Hebrew religious leanings, and…