Marcus Eaton @ Babalu

Sunday evening Babalu was host to Marcus Eaton, an extremely talented songwriter and guitar player.  Joined by Kevin Rogers on Drums, the duo played an intimate show to a very attentive audience.  The show was dynamic fusing Rock, Jazz, and Folk influences with finger picking, strumming, live guitar looping, a drum machine, and most importantly a My Little Pony.

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Not a chopper

We've gotten a few inquiries from readers along the lines of "What's up with the helicopter circling over Wallingford? Are we in a war zone?" Turns out, it's not a helicopter at all. Instead, it's some enormous pavement grinder grinding pavement on I-5. Dan snapped this picture of it: As long as you're not sleeping, you may as well read more about it on the WSDOT web site. (Thanks to Emily for the link.)

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SeaMonstrosities

We first envisaged this blog as a sort of combination newspaper and gossip column for our neighborhood. We feel we've been fairly weak in the gossip department, though. Our apologies. In the hopes of righting this omission, we offer the following tale, as told to us, of the latest events at SeaMonster Lounge (2202 N 45th St). About a year ago, Andrew, the owner of the SeaMonster Lounge, sold it to Todd and Julio, who agreed to make regular payments. They…

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Happy Hours of Wallingford

A while back, we added a link to a list of Happy Hours in Wallingford to our Wallingford Resources page. It was hosted by a local travel site. Well, we're totally fickle, because we're changing the link to point to GoTime's list of Wallingford Happy Hours. We found it to be more complete than the previous list, more readable, plus it has sweet features like the ability to filter down to places that have air-conditioning. Also, it doesn't force us into…

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Ivar’s adds adult offering

Don't you just hate those eye-catching headlines that, while technically accurate, are misleading? A struggling little blog will sink to anything for click-throughs, it seems. OK, we admit it, Ivar's waitresses aren't going topless, but they are serving a new "adult" offering: spiked sno-cones. Jim writes: We wanted to forward you information about Ivar’s Salmon House’s new offering – something we tested out last week during the major heat wave – sno-cones! They’re served in a rock glass – due to…

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