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*Updated Tuesday, May 31 at 11:54am Last night, the Cooking Channel aired Childhood Favorites: Unique Sweets, featuring Trophy Cupcakes at the Wallingford Center location. The program highlighted Trophy's "Hummingbird Cupcakes" (banana pineapple coconut cake with cream cheese frosting, zOMG!) and a few of Trophy's patrons made their television debut! If you missed the program, here's a list of dates/times for the re-broadcast: June 4: 5:30pm June 6: 10:30pm and 2:30am June 24: 9:30pm and 1:30am The Cooking Channel can be found…

If you've traveled on Aurora Avenue North lately, you might have noticed a radar speed sign that's posted at N. 48th St. facing southbound traffic.  According to the SDOT Blog, in the next couple of weeks, there will be another one installed on the northbound side near N. 39th St. The signs are part of the Aurora Traffic Safety Project we told you about back in April, when SPD and WA State Patrol nabbed hundreds of traffic violators on Aurora in…

Chroma, a new hair salon, will be opening by the end of June at 1905 N. 45th St., in the larger space formerly occupied by Not A Number.  Chroma will be an Aveda Salon focusing on hair and featuring a wide assortment of Aveda retail products.  Owners Dan Deaver and Bryce Francis have been Wallingford residents for five years, and in an email to me, Dan told me that they're excited to be located in Wallingford and are shooting for the…

Wallingford, Wallingford Center, and Trophy Cupcakes are mentioned in the current edition of Seattle Channel's Magazine Show, CityStream. You can view the program via the embedded link below, or go to: http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos/video.asp?ID=3071121 Seattle Channel Video can be played in Flash Player 9 and up

Reader Toby sent us an email the other day about an aggravated driver attempting to make a left hand turn at the corner of Stone Way and 40th St. while he and his family were in the crosswalk: We live in the Wallingfringe neighborhood east of Aurora and west of Stone Way. Every so often, I've been driving east on 40th and nearly hit by cars turning left onto Stone Way from westbound 40th. Today, my kids and I were crossing…