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Gourmet . . . donuts?  You better believe it! The Food Network Challenge has selected another neighborhood eatery for its show, Tangletown's Mighty-O Donuts.  The episode airs Sunday, April 10th at 8 PM. An enthusiastic donut-eater myself, I caught up with Mighty-O's competitor, "donut creator extraordinaire" Sara Beth Russert. I know you aren't supposed to give away the ending, but what was the challenge? We had to make several different kinds of donuts and create a showpiece, a giant donut sculpture. …

The Sixth Annual Edible Book Festival has concluded.  And I'm going to tell you all about it because it was super fun. First, though, if you have no idea what I'm talking about, catch up here.  Contestants created works of edible art that were inspired by books. There was the Caramel Sutra (Bronze winner in the Drop-Dead Gorgeous category), and the Harry Potter Series: the Deathly Ho Hos, The Peeples Almanac, and Ethan Fromage.  And many more!  While I didn't manage…

April is here! (O.k., officially, it'll be here tomorrow).  Time to break out that spring jacket (the one with the hood and zip-in liner in case the temps dip ) and get outside to enjoy all the lovely colors of spring (set against the dull gray backdrop).  I'm not a big fan of spring, can you tell?  Used to be a big fan.  BIG FAN.  Can't stand it now, because it's when I suffer the most from allergies and I'm forced…

You know what this neighborhood needs? More gargoyles. You can never have too many gargoyles, in our opinion. Last week's What in the Wallingford contest photo was pretty easy to recognize as a gargoyle, but we had lots of guesses as to which gargoyle it was. As it happens, it's on a house on the corner of NE 54th and 1st Ave NE. Sadly, it seems that whoever lives in that house is not a Wallyhood reader, as nobody responded (correctly)…

With the move to their smaller space completed, and the store reopened, Not A Number owners Kara Ceriello and Jon DeLeeuw enlisted members of their Kids Club to raise funds for stranded families in Japan through ShelterboxUSA.org.  Many Wallingford businesses have donated all sorts of goodies for the cause, and Not A Number will hold a series of daily raffle drawings for prizes beginning this Friday, April 1 at 7pm----both in-store and online through their website: NotANumberGifts.com. For the past five…