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[Editor's note: With this article, Wallyhood is pleased to welcome Aakanksha Agarwal, a self-described "food and lifestyle writer" to our writing staff. Aakanksha is a recent arrival to Seattle, and we are happy she has chosen to make our neighborhood her home. Look to see more from her in the near future.] "If you can walk you can dance; if you can talk you can sing." An old Zimbabwean saying, hanging in a little frame on the wall set the mood…

Lovers of the Ethan Stowell restaurant empire will welcome a new eatery opening some time this spring on Stone Way. While I would love to say that we got the scoop on this first, the Seattle Met got the jump on us, and they have the story here. The new Stowell place, called Super Bueno, will be located at 3627 Stone Way -- just a few doors up from Manolin. The cuisine will be … what else? Mexican. If you’ve been…

Back in February, I wrote about strange street markings that had appeared just north and south of 40th St., but I couldn’t find out what they were about. When I queried SDOT, they replied that it was definitely part of a City Light project, but when I asked City Light about it, I got no reply. Now it seems the mystery is solved. Maybe. I guess. Sort of. Those of us living near 40th have noticed numerous “No Parking” signs (the…

The letter below, from City Councilmember Lisa Herbold, was sent to me here at Wallyhood unsolicited. Although Herbold represents District 1 which includes West Seattle and southwest Seattle, the issue she addresses here -- the amount of parking required for new housing developments -- has been hotly debated in the comments and forums here and throughout the neighborhood more generally. For that reason, we’re bending our usual rule, about content needing to be neighborhood-centric, to bring you this perspective. On Monday,…

I stopped in Wine World & Spirits in its new location over on Fremont Ave last week, hoping to pick up an interesting spirit, QFC and Trader Joe's selection being exactly what you'd expect from a grocery store. Unfortunately, the "& Spirits" part of the name is still aspirational: their license only allows them to sell wines, beers and ciders, at present. There are still some issues to resolve with the WSLCB, it seems. While there, though, I was roped into a…

There's this whole set of stuff that I can't get rid of. It's not sentimental, it's garbage, but garbage that doesn't fit in my can AND that our otherwise excellent curbside recycling program doesn't take. This Saturday, we have an opportunity to purge it. The City of Seattle is holding a special recycling and reuse event this Saturday, March 31st, from 9 am - 1 pm at the Woodland Park Gravel Parking Lot (west of the Upper Woodland Tennis Courts). Accepted items…

[Correction! Alert reader Richard noticed that the plan which I referenced for this article, dated May of last year, was updated this past March 20 (a few days after I downloaded the PDF of what was then the current plan). Although bike lanes will still run along 40th, the layout of those lanes has changed significantly. I have updated this article to reflect this new plan. I apologize for not checking to make sure the plan was still current before this…