Wallingford, Seattle

As many of you are aware, Wallyhood was "reborn" in the beginning of April, following the outcry of Jordan's attempt to "sign off" from the blog back in January. Since then, we've had 4-5 volunteer rotating weekly editors and over a dozen volunteer writers help keep the lights on! Thank you to everyone who has stepped up to contribute to this community resource, during a time when it seems like just about everyone is over-committed or simply too busy. It seems like a good…

  PARK(ing) Day is a city-wide event where folks get the chance to turn a parking space into a little work of art. Best of my knowledge, nobody from Wallingford participated last year (please correct me if I'm wrong). I'd love to see that change. Here's the deets on the upcoming deadline: Just a reminder that you have one week to submit your applications for PARK(ing) Day 2015! Applications are due on Friday, August 28. Don’t delay—the application is quick, easy,…

Our green cone is a thing of beauty this year with all the heat, provided a bad acid trip is your idea of beauty. I'm not sure what these things turn into when they grow up, but I know I'm not doing an Internet image search to find out: And that's just for a vegetarian green cone. Maybe in a carcassatarian green cone the maggots would have sharp little incisors and vertical eye slits? If you want an ecosystem of your…

We've been busy crushing bugs on the redesigned Web site. Please let us know if you see more problems or have wishes for the site. The old template was craptastic so we were afraid to change things, but now we are liberated. Here's a list of semi-recent fixes: Fonts and spacing everywhere should be correct- previously some fonts were squinty The smartphone view is now updated as well, complete with a new banner The sidebar widgets for comments and forums should…