You might not spot it at first glance, but tucked away on Interlake Avenue, just above N. 45th and next to the Drum Exchange, there's a new performance space and gallery for Creative Music Adventures. Creative Music Adventures (4501 Interlake Ave N #9) is a music school for kids as young as four years-old, and also for adults. On the school's website, founder Michael Stegner writes: I want to help students respect the music of the past and present, while also…
SDOT has just announced the release of a new web based tool for looking up what sort of trees are planted throughout Seattle. After taking inventory of over 122,000 street trees, SDOT has put together this handy, dandy little web based tree map that allows users to find out what types of trees are on their street and who is responsible for maintaining them. The website also lists each tree's common and scientific name, the diameter of the trunk, the street…
Wallyhood welcomes our newest sponsor, Tangerine Spa Studio, located at 1714 N. 45th St., inside Salon Metro. Owner, Esthetician, and LMP, Katie Breitling has been keeping folks happy and healthy in Wallingford for six years. Here's her philosophy: I love educating my guests on the importance of healthy skin and a healthy, happy body. I think facials and massage should be viewed as necessary maintenance, not pampering. I use two amazing botanical skin care lines that utilize the power of nature combined w/technology…
Wallingford United Methodist Church (42nd and Bagley) invites the neighborhood to celebrate and honor Martin Luther King, Jr. this Sunday, January 15, at 11:00AM. The Total Experience Gospel Choir will be the congregation's guest choir, and the Reverend Rubye Hayden, from Ebenezer A.M.E. Zion Church, will be the guest preacher at that service. The Total Experience Gospel Choir was founded in 1973 at the Mt. Baptist Church here in Seattle, initially comprising students from Roosevelt and Franklin High Schools. Over the…
Are you bored to tears by echos of over-used and under-fulfilled New Year's Resolutions to "lose 20 pounds," "stay in touch with old friends," and "practice simple acts of kindness," etc, etc? Me too. A few years ago, I decided to make yearly resolutions that would embrace my most intense and far-out wishes for self-improvement, and lo and behold: our fair city offered classes for most of these seemingly random goals. One awesome source for courses right here in Wallinford is…
Recently, Wallingford's street murals, Bubbles the Turtle, and the Ladybug on 49th and Burke, were included in a photo essay on intersection art. The post, titled "Coloring Inside the Lines", can be found on Sightline's blog, Sightline Daily. Writer Alyse Nelson explains the origins of intersection art which started in the mid-1990s in Portland and provides some colorful examples. You really should take a moment to read the article because are are some super cute ideas for communities beyond intersection art. I won't give…