In the few blocks around Dicks one afternoon. At Sunnyside and 44th, a man with a shaved head, eyeglasses and dark crimson monk's robes gets out of a car with Utah license plates. Two blocks over, a disproportionately large inflated blue and green tower looms up in the yard of the house next to Mosaic Coffee. On closer inspection it looks like a child's water slide. Inside Mosaic itself, my daughter sits reading her book while a woman on a couch…
It's 3 a.m. and you're starting to feel the jones. Your personal stash of Longfellow is long gone, your tomes of Emerson worked over ragged. Heck, you've even thumbed through your girlfriend's Dickinson, surfed the Internet for cheap haiku, but you've still got an empty, hungry pit in your stomach. You need it, you need it now: poetry. Fortunately, you live in Wallingford, which is home to no fewer than three, count them three, separate places where you can enjoy poetry…
Earlier this week, we posted a note from a reader asking if there were interest in having a community bulletin board space where kids looking for odd jobs (babysitting, lawn mowing, etc.) could post as could those looking to hire. The response was unanimous and overwhelming, so we've gone ahead and done it: Wallyhood now hosts a Job Board on our forums. Feel free to post what you're looking for or offering. Just click the "Forums" link in our toolbar (or…
Every Fourth of July—around 4:00 p.m. or so—I watch as scores of drivers swoop in for one of the precious few remaining parking spaces on my street. As the hours pass, the scene changes from motorists to pedestrians, who make their way down Wallingford Avenue in a slow and steady stream. They’ve got quite a few blocks to go before they hit Gas Works Park, but this stretch of Wallingford becomes a giant block party in and of itself. The street…
Carrie recently wrote: Would you consider doing an article with free ads for neighborhood kids looking for summer employment (i.e. I have a 14 y.o. with babysitting experience looking for work, pet sitting, etc). It might be beneficial to readers and kids. When we were ten, we got our first paper route, and held it for years. Afternoons after school, we'd cruise the neigborhood on foot or bike, and weekend mornings we'd be up with the birds. Once a week, we'd…
Take heed. Noted on 46th St. at Sunnyside Ave. N. Title speaks for itself:
We don't get to spend as much time in bars as we'd like, these days, what with the kid and all. You know how it is. We did manage to get ourselves up to Vermillion on Capitol Hill last night (which has an amazing and disturbing set of art on the walls these days) as well as The Unicorn (which has an amazing decor coupled with a disturbing lack of service these days), but that's something of anomaly. Instead, we rely…