Its not very often that something new comes to a neighborhood and you immediately know it will stand the test of the time and become an iconic part of the streetscape. Last summer the Wallingford Boys & Girls Club gave us that when they constructed a community courtyard and commissioned Seattle glass artist Rodman Miller and metal artist Mimi Riley to build a fence along 45th St. Mimi, came up with the concept of 'storybook stream side". Out of her vision…
Every since Petosa Accordions (313 NE 45th St) shrank its footprint from the whole east side of its block on 45th to just a third of its size, we've been wondering what will fill the space. First came Puffin Glass on the corner, and just this weekend we spotted this sign in the remaining store front between Petosa's remaining frontage and Kate's Pub. Between Jae Hun Kim Tae Kwon Do across from Bartell's, the Modern Martial Arts Academy by 45th and…
Recently, we came across a giant puffball mushroom (Calvatia Gigantea), a tasty edible, growing here in Wallingford, over by Eastern and 42nd. Well, we were pretty sure it was a giant puffball, and not the deadly amanita, with which is occasionally confused, but just to make sure, we snapped a picture with our iPhone and sent it off to our friend Matt. Matt's response was as succinct as it was wise: "Never identify mushrooms via MMS". True dat. Perhaps we'd be…
(This Saturday, the Hash House Harriers, a group of "drinkers with a running problem", held their annual Red Dress Run, culminating in Gas Works Parks. Veteran Harrier and Wallyhood writer Patrick Shaw went along the job.) I sneaked out of the house with my red dress tucked up under my tee-shirt - my wife didn’t think that the new neighbors should see me sporting a spaghetti strap dress and running shoes this early in their tenure here in Wallingford! The Red…
We’ve all been watching the devastation in Haiti and just yesterday the second crippling snowstorm that has paralyzed the Mid-Atlantic region and most of the Eastern seaboard. I wonder how many of us have been thinking about getting an emergency kit set aside. You know, some water and food, maybe stash a crank flashlight and first aid kit with it. For the past couple of years, Sustainable Wallingford and the Wallingford Community Council, in partnership with the Seattle Office of Emergency…
Got your attention, didn’t I? Well, this will be fun, though not quite as fun as the title. Almost every book we read in our house (and, let me tell you, we are voracious readers) comes from the library to which we make a generous annual contribution - and so should YOU!. We visit daily - so the reduction in hours was a shock and it inspired me to put together this tribute to the underappreciated Wallingford branch library: Your Helpful…
Hot on the heels of Joule's Rachel and Seif's appearance on Iron Chef last month (they lost, but neighborhood consensus has it they were robbed), Maria Hines of Wallingford's Tilth will be on the second season of Bravo TV's Top Chef Masters. We haven't been able to figure out when the episode will appear, but we promise to let you know as soon as we do. OK, the truth is, we get kind of confused with television. The whole idea that…