Imagine acquiring the power to produce your own food. Boom! Veggies over here. Bam! Herbs over there. Wham! Strawberries! Zap! Fresh-laid eggs, coming right up! Most city-livers are so distant from the sources of what they eat that this seems like magic. But in her new book Your Farm in the City, Lisa Taylor of Seattle Tilth explains that starting an urban farm is no mystery, but rather something deeply satisfying that we can all do. Meet Lisa, learn about the…
Wallingford has been dubbed as one of "The 20 Best Places to Live Now" according to the April issue of Seattle Met. In an interview with Wallyhood's Jordan Schwartz, Seattle Met's Matthew Halverson provides a perspective on our neighborhood's "crunchiness": When Jordan Schwartz moved to Wallingford from the East Coast in 1993, he found a neighborhood overrun by felines. 'You couldn’t walk down the street without seeing cats,' he says. 'They were all over.' Nearly 20 years later, he still feels…
Acoustical scientists explore the Harmonic Scalpel! Get wet in a "surround sound opera bath"! Hear scenes from Rosenkavalier, Tosca and La Boheme! Honestly, we don't know what half of that means, but it sounds intriguing, no? Well, it's all going down at the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center this Thursday, March 31st: Watershed Opera presents Opera and Science An evening that will nourish the soul and stimulate the brain On Thursday, March 31st 2011 at 6:30 pm, Wallingford’s Chapel Space…
With the economy the way it is, the long-time goal of Wallingford community activists to extract money from the city to bring a community center to Wallingford has drifted further out of reach. But, if we are nothing else, Wallingford is a neighborhood of roll-with-the-punches problem solvers. When they say it can't be done, we do it just to be show 'em. Thus, we unveil the "distributed community center" (or "virtual community center", if you prefer). It's like a building, but…
Can you think of anything more small town America than the editor of the local newspaper getting his news about the farmers market while getting his hair clipped at the local barbershop by the head of the local chamber of commerce? I swear, if Opie had walked in barefoot with a PB&J on white bread, Normanl Rockwell would have risen from his grave to paint it. Of course, it's not a newspaper, it's a blog, and Cutz Meridian isn't a barbershop,…
Did you notice that warm, sunny days of Spring arrived on the first day of Spring? Coincidence? I think not! But the weatherMan (you know, The Man, the one who's always putting us down) predicts rain for the weekend, so hopefully you got your garden dug and there are seeds just waiting for water. And what should you do while your seeds are drinking? It would be a fine time to watch a movie, and we've got a few going on…
Here's my quick thumbs-up versus thumbs-down rundown for Green Lake's Bathhouse Theater's current production of "The Happy Ones": Ah, Southern California in the '70. Even if I wasn't there, I watched it on The Brady Bunch and that was the life The soundtrack to The Big Chill is my favorite Fun-lovin', outspoken leading lady in tall leather boots? Groovy! Not at all happy. Sad. Too, too sad I have no nostalgia for the '70's. The '70's are over-rated Eh, California -…