Bike to Work Month is a time to park your car and put away your bus pass in favor of a nobler vehicle -- the bicycle! During the month of May, you can compete with Bike to Work Teams around the region, and be counted as one of the many thousands of bike commuters around Seattle. There are a couple of ways you can participate: Join the Group Health Commute Challenge – Commit to riding 5 round trips between May 1 –…
Kimberly writes: My Morris dance troupe (Sound and Fury Morris) will be at Gasworks Park again this year to dance the sun-up on May Day (this Saturday, May 1st). We’d love to invite the neighborhood to join us for some quasi-pagan fun, heralding the coming summer and making sure the crops grow well. What can you expect at 5:30 am this Saturday? Four teams of Anglophile dancers dressed in their finest kits, dancing to live music (including several accordions, a banjo,…
This weekend marks the start of May. April showers bring May flowers, so hope for some sun and get out in the 'hood. Here's what's on tap for the weekend. And don't forget that Seattle Restaurant Week ends tonight. Several Wallingford restaurants including Avila, Joule, and Tilth are participating so check it out. Three course dinners for $25. Three course lunches for $15. Talk about a deal! Friday, April 30th Rachel Matthews at GSC- Jack Straw Productions presents Rachel Matthews, new chamber music performed by…
A few weeks back, we introduced a new resource to our ever burgeoning trove of Wallingford wonkery: the Wallingford Nightlife Calendar, an oft-updated compendium of all the adult-focused music, trivia nights, and dancing around our unprepossessing little 'hood. It listed the bands playing at SeaMonster, the trivia nights and open mic nights at Murphy's, North Indian music night at Kabul, even salsa nights at that bar we love to hate, Babalu. Nobody seems to care. That is, based on our spot…
May is the right time to protect your apples, pears and Asian pears from apple maggot fly and codling moth. Can't have that! City Fruit, a 501(c)(3) non-profit helping residential tree growers grow healthy fruit, harvest & use what they can, and share the rest, offers a comprehensive pest protection class at the Solid Ground Bldg in Wallingford on Saturday, May 1, 1:30 – 3:00 pm. Conveniently scheduled so you can attend the Seattle Tilth Edible Plant sale in the am,…
The saga of the crime trap motels along Aurora continues, but perhaps we're in the final act. You may remember that several Wallingford and Green Lake motels along Aurora have distinguished themselves as wretched hives of scum and villainy (see Motel Crackdown, More Trouble at the Italia Motel, Wallingford Inn Madness, Wrong Police Raid, Police Looking for Bank Robber at Marco Polo, but also BBQ at the Marco Polo for the background). When we left our heroes, the city had taken…
Have a secret (or not-so-secret) love of comic books? Know there's a totally rad comic book shop right here in Wallingford? Annual Free Comic Book Day is Saturday May 1st and Comics Dungeon on 45th and Thackeray is giving away a variety of comic books all day from 11-8. The books are special editions (some first prints) marked with the "Free Comic Book Day" logo and come from many publishers, including DC, Archie and Dark Horse. Check out these samples: There…