Smash and Grab

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Our friends up the street by NE 44th St and 4th Ave NE (just a block off I-5) reported a disturbing burglarly the other day. They were getting ready to leave in the morning and had put a bag into their car and returned into the house to get the kids. As they were gathering their things, they looked out the window as two men on motorcycles pulled up. One hopped off his bike, smashed their car window with a tire…

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Tidings from Tangletown

June full moon.  Cold, gray sky.  Tangletown north of 50th St. is full of messages: Inside Mighty O Donuts.  Truly words to live by, my friend. Outside Meridian Market.  No, that is not the sun.  It is a figment of your imagination. Holy moley!  Drinks of the Decades at the Pour House. Disclaimer:  I take no responsibility for libel.  I am just a reporter.  Sign at the corner of 55th St. and Keystone Ave. I don't know what the questions are,…

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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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