Check out Art In Bloom this weekend

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Wallyhood reader Bridget Culligan wrote to let us know about a great garden/art event called Art in Bloom happening this weekend in Wallingford and other locations around North Seattle. Here are some details: The Garden Art is Blooming! Twenty local artists in a variety of media are opening their creative spaces this weekend for a free Seattle garden art and studio tour. This is a unique opportunity to see the artists at work and get an inside view of art in action! The tour…

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Free Women’s Self-Defense Class

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This Saturday, April 29th, from 2:00 - 3:30 PM, the Jae H. Kim Taekwon-Do Institute (1900 N 45th St) will offer their 10th annual free women's self-defense workshop: Learn the strategies and gain the knowledge to arm yourself against a possible attack! Our women's only class (appropriate for ages 12 and older) will cover the crime process, strategies for self-defense, and self-defense techniques. There is no cost, and pre-registration is not required. Wear casual, comfortable clothes and come prepared to kick…

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Defend Immigrant Rights with The Blue Moon and Floating Bridge Brewing

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The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, founded in 1984 with offices in Seattle, Tacoma, Wenatchee and Granger (Yakima county), supports immigrant populations by, according to their website, “defending and advancing the rights of immigrants through direct legal services, systemic advocacy, and community education.” The organization is headed by Seattle attorney Jorge Baron who was recently profiled in this Seattle Times article. Interested in supporting this organization? How about if you could drink a beer at the same time? Floating Bridge Brewing and…

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Rob Johnson Q&A for April: Limiting Home Demolitions, why HALA Targets Wallingford, and More

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Rob Johnson represents Wallingford on city council and is ushering HALA through the council as land use chair. This is a follow up to our January interview with him. Topics include Limiting Demolitions, Wallingford Neighborhood Planning, HALA Leaving Car Centric Communities Untouched, Transportation, Developer Impact Fees, The HALA Split on City Council, ADU / DADU Triplexes, and Meeting Rob in Wallingford. Q1- Limiting Home Demolitions: The main concern with HALA is that upzones will drive redevelopment that happens too quickly, destroying livability while…

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Drone Cinema Festival

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Here's something going on this week that you can only catch only two places in the world: at Vrijplaats Middelstegracht in Leiden, Netherlands and at the Good Shepherd Center here in Wallingford. The Drone Cinema Film Festival, now in its third year, showcases cutting-edge, ethereal works of drifting beauty that bring sonic drones into the visual realm. This year's festival,whose theme is GOLD, takes place again at Vrijplaats in Leiden, Netherlands, as well as a brand new location in Seattle, Washington. Cascone…

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City Rolls Out Updated Encampment Removal Rules

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Last week, the city introduced a revised set of procedures for the removal of camps on city property. These procedures govern such things as identification of camps to be cleared, notification of campers and storage of their belongings after a camp has been cleared. City workers got an opportunity to flex these new policies last week as they cleared – for the second time – the camp along the Burke Gilman Trail. More on that later. Wallingford is among perhaps a…

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Miyabi Reboot

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Miyabi (2208 N. 45th St), the Japanese restaurant on 45th Street, has re-opened with a brand new menu and concept. I asked Chef Kunise Stroh to tell us about the change, and she obliged: Miyabi 45 was closed for one week at the end of March, and we reopened on April 1st with a new menu and concept. When we first opened in 2013, we did not serve any sushi or sashimi because there were already a few restaurants in Wallingford which…

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