Wallingford, Seattle

Gretchen Yanover, who's gigs include Northwest Sinfonietta, Boise Philharmonic, Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, as well as Built to Spill and KD Lang's orchestra, writes: Please join me at the Chapel Performance Space [at the] Good Shepherd Center this Saturday, August 3rd for a shared show with cellist Paul Rucker. I will play selections from my upcoming EP as well as Bow and Cello favorites. Paul and I will make some music together, then he will continue the concert with his own unique…

Wallyhood welcomes our newest sponsor, Fair Trade Winds, a family-owned marketplace for meaningful, handmade goods in Wallingford Center. We asked Emily of Fair Trade Winds to introduce herself: Fair Trade Winds is a family owned fair trade retail store, and has loved calling Wallingford home since we opened in September 2011 in the Wallingford Center. We are a marketplace for meaningful, handcrafted goods made by smaller artisan cooperatives from all corners of the globe. It has been a joy to meet…

Listen, if you're one of the people who enjoyed our "Tomatoes are for snacking. Help Yourself!" sidewalk-side tomato plant in past years, I've got bad news for you. Instead of the monster bushes we've enjoyed in past years, this year there are three of the scraggliest, gawkiest lame tomato plants that you ever laid eyes on. I'm not quite sure what I did wrong, although lack of sufficient fertilizer is my best guess. You can still help yourself, but there's not…

Should someone come to your front door asking you to buy magazine subscriptions to benefit the Boys and Girls Club, the club has issued the following statement: Boys & Girls Clubs of King County (BGCKC) has discovered that recent suspicious activity has been wrongly attributed to the organization. It had come to the youth development agency’s attention that some young men have approached homes in Greenwood/North Seattle and Queen Anne using the Boys & Girls Club name in their sales pitch.…