We hope you made it over to the Wallingford Wurst Festival this past weekend. If you have a child and you did not go, the sense of loss that child no doubt now feels will take years of therapy, several dysfunctional romantic relationships and a long-term drug habit to fully exorcise. You have nobody but yourself to blame. If, on the other hand, you did go, your child is still probably talking about the bouncy house, the bouncy slide, the other…
OmCulture, the new yoga studio on Pacific Ave, is having its grand opening this Saturday, Sept 26, starting at noon. Here's the schedule: 12:00 - 3:00 pm Open Play Gym (for kids and grown ups) 6:00 - 7:30 pm Yoga class taught by Laura DeFrietas, Michael Suzerris and Eza King 7:30 - 8:30 pm Social time with food from India House and Lululemon Fashion Show 8:30 - 11:00 pm Live Music with the Rafe Pearlman Band (suggested $10 donation, but no one will…
Two interesting shows at the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center this weekend. The first, on Friday night, is by Gamelan Pacifica, an experimental and traditional gamelan ensemble: The first part of the program features the music of Jessika Kenney, including Bahar Amad (based on a poem of Mowlana Rumi) and Her Sword (based on a poem of Attar), which also feature the mercurial viola stylings of soloist Eyvind Kang. ... Her music combines aspects of Persian and Indonesian…
Not to be outdone Caspar Babypants, children's musician by day and indie rock band leader by night, Sarah Shannon of the 90's Sub POP band Velocity Girl is taking her turn crooning for the cradle set as front woman for The Not-It's. Perhaps you and your little ones would like to sample her ankle-biter anthems? Stop by Alphabet Soup Children's Books (1406 N. 45th St) for an in-store concert this Saturday , Sept 26th at 11 am. We're glad they've included…
It says something that no less than five people e-mailed us today to make sure we knew that the free Wallingford Wurst Festival is happening this weekend, and not one of those people are involved in putting it on, just excited attendees. That said, we're not quite sure whether Sara was encouraging us, warning us or threatening us when she said "Wait 'til next year when Baby Z will want to go through the bouncy house at least 20 times!" From…
Following up from the story of the weekend, we grabbed these photos that Robert Reis shot of the surprise Presidents of the United States of America show at Wallingford Steps this weekend. The city is a sparkling gem in the background: (Thanks for the link, Ian!)
Word has it that the mystery show Friday night at the Wallingford Steps featured Seattle's own Presidents of the United States of America. Wallyhood wants pictures.