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Hey, itchin' for some cultchuh? Wanna see some free theatah? Wallingford Presbyterian Church (1414 N 42nd St) is hosting Taproot Theatre Company’s Christmas Touring play Foolish Wiseman, here in Wallingford, walking distance from you, tomorrow morning, Sunday, December 9th at 10:30 am. Meet Ogion [o-jun], the comical and little-known fourth wise man. Afraid of the dark, this befuddled hero has little chance of following the Bethlehem star until he runs into two thieves, Leah and Jacob, who believe it would be profitable…

Megan James from Seattle Pops (1401 N 45TH St) writes: We are offering Christmas Trees again this year at Seattle Pops (1401 N 45th Street, Interlake & 45th) with 100% of the Profits going to Adopt a Family Charity through the Salvation Army. Thanks to the community, last year we were able to provide for two local families in need who had just transitioned from a shelter to their own home and were in need of basic necessities as well as…

As promised, here's a round-up of opportunities to do your holiday shopping hyperlocally, from Wallingford artists (and very close neighbors). Leading us off, Cindy Krafft writes: I'm an artist in Wallingford making geeky and sometimes feminist quilts. My website is 8-bitquilts.com . I'll also be the featured artist at Outsider Comics in Fremont during the First Friday Art Walk this coming week! Yara El Hage writes that she's from Lebanon, but has been living here in Wallingford for the past three…

Over on the Wallingford / Fremont Facebook page, Denys Howard posted this old photo of a poster from a cabaret that used to sit along the Wallingford / Fremont border: This photo is the northwest corner of N 36th St and Woodland Park Ave N, in East Fremont. At times in the past, what are currently two businesses on the ground floor were a single space. In the early 1980s, it housed a cabaret called the Kit Kat Club, with its…

We're heading into gift-buying season (or, you could say we're already deep into it, for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Chanukah-celebraters.) Either way, though, it's nice to shop local, so each year we try to do a round-up of local artists and crafts sales timed for the holidays. Please post in the comments are email me me at [email protected] if you've got something going on in the next month. Generally, this is intended to give light to local artists selling locally,…

If you've taken advantage of the nice weather in the early part of this month to rake some leaves, then you may have built up a real backlog. All this month, SPU has been taking extra containers of yard waste for free for customers that already subscribe to yard waste collection. But this is your last week to put out extra stuff! From the SPU website: SPU is providing free extra yard waste from November 1-30, 2018. Extra yard waste must…