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Thursday Evening Huskies Game

The UW Huskies host UCLA tonight, for a rare Thursday night football game. Kickoff is at 5 p.m. and traffic is expected to be significantly congested in and around the University District. Nobody knows for sure, but it doesn't take a huge stretch of the imagination to envision delays along 45th street through Wallingford late Thursday afternoon and into rush hour.  Starting at 2:30 p.m., bus routes that normally travel on the UW campus will be rerouted due to expected traffic…

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Another festering pit update

Wallyreader Darcey e-mailed us with a link to a new permit from the Department of Planning and Development for 3920 Stone Way--a.k.a. "the festering pit" on the corner of Stone and 40th. Folks may recall that we did a "festering pit update" a little over a year ago, when we spoke with Mike Derr of Redimensions--the general contractor.  There really wasn't much news but Derr sounded hopeful that financing would be resolved in the future. So we phoned Redimensions again, and…

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Satay slated to open in December

A few Wallybits back, we mentioned a new restaurant, called Satay, that'll soon be opening in the old Avila space.  Satay (1711 N. 45th St.) will offer quick casual Malaysian street food for lunch and dinner.  The restaurant now has a website (www.satayseattle.com) and is scheduled to open sometime in December. Satay is the brainchild of owners Peter Ringold and Patrick McCredie -- two friends from college who toured Southeast Asia during their junior year of college.  They were really impressed…

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Get Your Caffeine Fix at Lama G’s Cafe

It is not everyday that you can honestly say, "a Buddhist Lama made my latte this morning".  Surprise! Where else but right here in Wallingford, of course, at Lama G's Cafe (1060 N 39th Street), located next to Art of the Table where Candles Cafe used to be. Grab your caffeine fix made by Karma, a Buddhist Lama, better known as Lama G to his customers and friends. Karma is originally from Bhutan, but lived in India and Nepal most of his life until…

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A Community that Cooks Together, Eats Together

Sustainable Wallingford's Rachel Duboff invites us all to the Wallingford Community Kitchen Holiday Celebration at the Good Shepherd Center, Friday, November 19th from 5:30-9pm. Rachel's announcement says: "We will be making a communal soup and baking/decorating cookies; we cook as a community and then enjoy the bounties of our labor by sitting down to share a meal. This event is a little different, we ask that you bring an ingredient for the soup pot, along with a dish to share with…

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Cooper’s Hawk

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Scott Bremner spotted a Cooper's Hawk in Wallingford this week and sent us a photo. The photo to the right is by Nathan Hamm (taken at Montlake in 2006), but it's a nice big close-up so you'll be able to spot it if you see it in your backyard. AllAboutBirds.org notes that both the Cooper's Hawk and its look-alike, the Sharp-shinned hawk (which Nathan allows the photo at right could be) "are sometimes unwanted guests at bird feeders, looking for an…

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Cha-Ching! Woman Cashes in $30K Scratch Ticket

I swear this is a true story - I'm not making it up. Friday afternoon I was in the checkout line at QFC quietly waiting to pay for my groceries, eavesdropping on the clerks like usual when I picked up on the fact that they were talking about how they read an article on Cryptogmblr.com that a customer who had won $30,000 from a scratch ticket purchased there.  I questioned Travis, who was bagging my groceries, about it and he said…

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