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The Chill of “Winter’s Bone”

This isn't actually about current climactic conditions.  But Winter's Bone, new at The Guild, sounds like it has a bite as fierce and hard to withstand as winter's worst.  Here are some quick impressions from your neighbors, caught as they exited this past weekend: "Great.  Very very well done.  Very depressing.  Very raw and gritty."  - Kim "I hope Middle America is not actually like that but I'm afraid it is.  Pretty scary to think of what meth has done to…

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Sutra at the Market

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It's Wednesday, which means it's Wallingford Farmers Market day at Wallingford Center. If you can get there by 4 pm, you can catch Chef Colin Patterson of Wallingford's Sutra performing a cooking demonstration (see our review of Sutra here, when they featured Wallyhood honey on their menu). We know the folks at Sutra worship local ingredients, so Colin should be especially good inspiration for your trip to the market. We're getting deeper into the season, so we should start seeing many…

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Spoke It Up

Reminder, tonight is Spoke and Food, a dining and biking event. The premise is cunning in its simplicity. You bike to one of the 14 participating Seattle restaurants (in Wallingford, that's the Blue Star and Cantinetta, but there are more in easy biking distance), you buy a meal, you eat it and then you bike home*. The restaurant, meanwhile, will donate a percentage of their evening's take to Lettuce Link, a program of the (Wallingford-based) Solid Ground that helps get fresh,…

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Wallyhood Roll

Ah, sushi. Thank God the Japanese came up with a better name for it than "raw fish wrapped in seaweed", otherwise we probably would never would have tried it. We were humbled when we recently heard that Rain Sushi (or Rain Modern Infusion Cuisine, as it's formally known) on 45th had named a roll in our honor: the Wallyhood Roll. We've loved Rain's rolls for years now, always rich and decadent, so this past Wednesday, we smacked our lips and went…

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Wallingford Real Estate

We just got an interesting look at a huge spreadsheet of data from the folks over at Redfin, detailing the state of the regional real estate market. Here's a few numbers to chew on: Median List Median Sale Median Sale Change from Last Mo Median Sale Change from Last Yr Median Sale $ / Sq Ft Seattle $460,000 $429,000 +4.3% +3.9% $289 Wallingford $587,655 $600,000 +15.4% +11.1% $379 Green Lake $575,000 $426,000 -1.8% 1.4% $350 Columbia City $309,000 $338,000 -4.6% -8.2%…

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French Host

This would aptly be titled "Host French", but then there's no pun. Jill Zawatski is coordinating a summer exchange program that has placed 15 French students in homes around Wallingford, Green Lake and environs. However, she's looking for a host for the group's chaperone, Nathalie: A school teacher from Paris, Nathalie is the French chaperone who is traveling to Seattle with 15 teenagers this summer.  During her stay, Nathalie will be busy working approximately 30% of the time.  She enjoys horseback…

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