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While much has changed in our neighborhood in the past decade and a half, one constant has been Meaningful Movies. (Well, okay, there’s Dick’s also!) James Little was kind enough to write and let us know about an important anniversary coming up for MM, and he provides this interesting little history: Meaningful Movies in Wallingford will celebrate their fifteenth anniversary at the Friday, 2 Feb 2018 screening of the documentary, “War on the EPA,” followed by a panel discussion with former…

Found this gem of an event on the Seattle Burning Man Facebook page. Set your alarm for early! Please join us in Gas Works park in Seattle on Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 at 4:45 AM to sing Total Eclipse of the Heart karaoke style for the 76 minutes that the eclipse is, in fact, total. Note that this edition is not in Cal Anderson park largely because of Gentrification. Future editions of the Total Eclipse of the Heart singalong that occur…

For the past two months, artist Anthony Huss has shared wall space with nine other artists for the inaugural exhibit of Kerf International at the Blue Star Cafe. This month, he has the space all to himself! His fabulous abstract paintings are now on display in the back room of the restaurant through Saturday, March 3. But you can meet the artist at the opening reception this Saturday, January 27, between 4:00 and 8:00 p.m. Anthony started out as a photographer…

[Editor's note: As we wrote back in May of last year, improvements are coming to 40th Street courtesy of SDOT’s Neighborhood Street Fund. Now, interested reader Kit Lewis writes to tell us that we can expect some additional changes to the signage relating to the school zone.] Have you ever driven westbound on NE 40th St, between the University Bridge and Wallingford Ave N, during School Zone hours?  Have you ever wondered why there’s no “End of School Zone” sign on…

The average visitor to the Triple R Brewery taproom at 916 NE 64th St. in the Roosevelt neighborhood may not give much of a thought as to where the beer is actually brewed. But the frequent-flyers to our local breweries may well look around and ask themselves, “Where are all those stainless steel fermenters and such that every brewery has?” You won’t find those at the taproom though, because the beer isn’t brewed there; the beer is, in fact, brewed here…

We're all on tenterhooks, what with North Korea, Donald Trump, and the Hawaiian Alert, so that BOOM that rattled windows rattled hearts across Wallingford, as well. If I'm reading the LightningMaps.org website correctly, though, it was just a very, very close lightning strike, centered close to the QFC (but sounding like it was in my backyard over by the John Stanford School). The rain intensified noticeably a minute or so after, which I've noticed is common with big lightning strikes. Maybe it's…