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On Friday, May 11, 2018, Archie McPhee (1300 N 45th St) is unveiling their brand new Rubber Chicken Museum. A Grand Opening ribbon cutting starts at 3:00 p.m. There will be cake! And plenty of other fun surprises and oddities for sure. Bring your own drumstick. Museum features include the history of the rubber chicken, a signed Svengoolie, the world's largest rubber chicken, and more! This is clucking awesome! The museum is located inside the store, and daily museum hours will be…

Most of us would probably agree that our city could stand a little sprucing up here and there (or, maybe, just about everywhere). If you’re willing to pitch in and lend hand, the city is ready to provide you with tools and other supplies you’ll need to make Seattle, umm, the cleanest, umm, city with a Space Needle in the Northwest. (Yeah, we can make that happen!) Spring Clean is a collaboration among the city’s Department of Neighborhoods, Seattle Public Utilities…

Representative Nicole Macri, Wallingford's representative in the 43rd district, will be speaking at the Wallingford community council meeting tonight, May 9th. She'll be speaking about affordable housing and ensuring livability with increased density. The community council meeting starts at 7:00 in the Good Shepherd Center, and Nicole is scheduled to speak around 7:30. The community council meeting also includes officer elections. You must be a member in order to run for the council or vote in the elections, but the meeting…

I've always been fascinated with sourdough. With regular bread, you've got your flour, your water and your yeast. The yeast comes in a powder from Fleischmann's or whomever, and it's yeast: you mix in with the flour and water, you wait for the little yeasties to eat the sugars in the flour, toot out some carbon dioxide bubbles to make your bread fluffy, and you're good to go, wherever you are. Same flour, same yeast, same bread, give or take. All…

The Tilth Edible Plant Sale is this weekend.  Saturday and Sunday from 9am - 3pm at Meridian Parks , with early bird sale this afternoon from 5-7pm. Ellen added a great story to her running gardening column earlier this week. However, she buried the lead about the Edible Plant Sale.  This sale has become a neighborhood tradition.  The Tilth plant sale captures something unique to Seattle and our neighborhood.   The sale prepares a 32 page pdf of all the edible plant starts that…

The poor farmer grows weeds. The fair farmer grows crops. The good farmer grows soil. -- Sarah Pellkofer; Founder and Chief Soil Scientist of Micraculture and Wallingford Resident Vegetable gardens are becoming increasingly popular in many city neighborhoods and Wallingford is no exception. Small home gardens provide not only fresh produce but also add beauty and biodiversity to our urban streetscapes. Soil quality in the city can be variable based on the history of excavation and construction for a site and…

May Day is an ancient holiday, dating back at least to the days of the Roman Republic, when it was celebrated as part of the Floralia celebration on April 27th. Obviously, they didn't call it May Day back then, both because it wasn't May and also because they spoke Latin. It can also be traced back to the Gaelic Beltane celebration, reaching back into the fog of pagan pre-history. Here in Seattle, several groups of Morris dancers have been celebrating this…