The Latin dance community in Seattle is a large and fast growing scene. You are able to dance, usually with a live band, almost every night of the week somewhere. Wallingford now has three of those night right in the center of our neighborhood. Babalu features Latin Mambo Night on Wednesday. Featuring live music by Cambalache a nine piece high energy Salsa band covering several styles from Salsa to Bachata to Mambo. Some of the best dancers in Seattle come out…
Okay, check these out. Was at Irwin's today enjoying an enormous cinnamon roll with my daughter. We looked up at the wall next to us and noticed some paintings in suspiciously familiar brown tints. Yes, these are paintings done in espresso. Two are copies of Van Goghs (did he drink a lot of coffee?) and one is an original composition. Wow, makes you wonder with so much of the stuff around, what else could we do with it? If you got…
OK, we've got a little confession. You want to know the real reason we don't want to write about crime on this blog? It's because our mom reads Wallyhood every day, and she worries about us! We write some little thing about car prowl and we've got fliers for The Club in our mailbox; someone gets their camera swiped from their counter and suddenly we've got deadbolt catalogs stacked on our kitchen table. That said, we must stay vigilant. Michelle writes…
Carrie writes: I wanted to give you the heads up about parking tickets and infractions in our little neighborhood. My fiance and I live on 43rd & Stone, have 2 cars, and always park on the street. Because we both work downtown, we either carpool or take public transportation. This past week we noticed a few orange stickers on the windshields of cars parked in that area. On Thursday, my fiance's car (and the one we drive less frequently) had one…
If you haven’t spent time poking around the Wallyhood Forums, you should. Head on up the the page there, that’s right – just next to the home button, and click! Our community is chatting a fair bit – here are some recent highlights: People Living in Vehicles: Want to know the Seattle regs about what vehicles can park where? This conversation has been going on for 2 months! Dogs on the Playfield: This is great – a long conversation about dogs,…
Kimberly C. writes: CoolMom.org will be doing a pinwheel "wind farm" installation at Green Lake for Earth Day. We're collecting used pencils, at least 6 inches long and with at least a little bit of eraser left, as the bases for our pinwheels. Deadline for collection: April 9th. We have collection spots at the John Stanford International School (the entrance on 42nd. The bucket will be just inside that door), the Green Lake PCC (inside attached to a cork board above…
Wednesday was Mosaic's third anniversary. For those of you who don't know, this is a coffee house where you decide how much you want to pay. And they've been doing this successfully. For three years. Kind of restores your faith in human nature, doesn't it? Mosaic is located in the basement of Seattle First Church of the Nazarene, on 2nd Ave and 44th Street, right behind Dick's. It's slightly dark and very spacious with lots of old couches, armchairs, heavy tables,…