Wallingford, Seattle

The Meridian School holds its 30th Annual Fall Carnival this Saturday, October 26 from 1 - 4 pm at Meridian Park. Sarah writes: Everyone is welcome to attend this popular community event that features food, fun prizes, and dozens of indoor and outdoor games and activities for kids of all ages, including a haunted house, face painting, raffle, and more. A professional photographer will also be on-hand to take Halloween portraits. The carnival is free to attend, although there is a…

Just in time for filling out your ballots, the online stream of the city council and mayoral debate at Lincoln High School is now live online: The council debate went well but was missing O’Brien and Sawant, which hurt with the ability to do candidate comparisons. I'll be voting for Conlin and Shen because they bothered to show up and acquitted themselves well, while O'Brien thought a fundraiser was more important and Sawant ditched us at the last second to go…

Sharon (aka the Woodlawn Santa) asked us to pass this along: Hi everyone, This is Santa on Woodlawn. As some of you might know, my husband has been ill for the last few years. Thus my decorations have not been out in my yard. Fred passed away this year. The yard will be dark yet again this year...BUT, hopefully, will appear once again next year. At 68, I have not given up for 2014. I will be passing out treats for…

Three days left, Sunday October 20th - Thursday October 24th,  to try out Seattle Restaurant Week, with 160 restaurants around the city offering three-course dinners for $28 and many offering three-course lunches for $15. It's billed as an opportunity to "visit the award-winning hot spots you've always wanted to try and return once again to the neighborhood eatery you've loved for years during this dining frenzy". In Wallingford, your options are Art of the Table, Cantinetta, Tilth, Eva and Tutta Bella,…

I'm always amazed at the bits of uniqueness going on almost every week at the Good Shepherd Center. For example, this Saturday: Nonsequitur's Wayward Music Series is pleased to announce Welladay! Welladay! a collection of wayward love songs for the Chapel Performance Space happening on Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 8 PM.Performed in the historic Good Shepherd Center on the wooden stairs leading to the fourth-floor and inside the Chapel itself, Welladay! Welladay! sweeps through 36 James Joyce love poems. Singing children, soprano Betsy Baeskins, and…