If you're going to let a little rain spoil your fun, you best not live in Seattle. So, yesterday, Baby Z and I put on our best dinosaur costumes and headed down into Fremont for the Solstice Parade and Fair. We had the fine time you would imagine two dinosaurs with a modded megaphone might have at a parade and fair, carousing up and down the line, amusing ourselves in the spaces between the floats, sweet talking the stilters and generally…
Good morning folks and happy Solstice Parade day! Throw on your tie-dye, your clown costume or your leather bustier, whatever your pleasure, and get yourself on down to Fremont for the parade. Parade officially begins at noon! We noted with interest that, unlike past years, in which the painted cyclists were treated with, depending on the year, annoyance, incarceration, tolerance, and amusement, they've now got an official spot in the program: the Fremont Arts Council web site has them on the…
We recently received a reader tip from our buddy Holly (heh, "buddy Holly") over at Sock Monster. She's worried about the squirrels on Burke Ave N., between 44th & 45th. She refers to that block as "squirrel row." Holly's concern? Rat bait boxes in the squirrels' habitat on the east side of Wallingford Center, near the sidewalk. Here's what Holly had to say about the bait boxes: "They are right along the fence on Burke right by where all the squirrels…
(Wallyhood welcomes new contributor Madi Carlson, who is normally out and about schlepping kids around by bike in Seattle, but will be sleeping soundly during the Nine to Five) Want to celebrate the summer solstice on your bike, but find the Solstice Parade too naked and/or daylight-y? You're in luck because Go Means Go is hosting their third annual sunset-to-sunrise bicycle solstice scavenger hunt, the Nine to Five: The Nine to Five is a bike event unlike all others in Seattle.…
From July 21 to August 8, Northwest International Student Exchange (NWISE) is hosting a summer camp in Wallingford for teenage students from Chengdu City, in the Szechuan Provence of China. The visiting students will have a wonderful opportunity to experience American life here in the Pacific Northwest by taking English immersion classes, and participating in cultural activities. They'll be using OmCulture as a base to their camp, but the organization is seeking Wallingford families to host the teachers and students coming…
Middle school students Cyan and Darius are hosting a lemonade stand called "Hopelink Lemonade" this Sunday, June 19, from 1-4pm at Gas Works Park. The money they raise from the lemonade stand will go to Hopelink -- a foundation for low income families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities. While they won't be selling the lemonade directly, they'll have a donation box at the stand, and will dispense lemonade to those who donate. No promises, but they may even have mini…
We just received word that Chocolati Cafe on 45th (1716 N. 45th St.) was burglarized last night. The shop's morning staff found that someone had broken in through the women's bathroom window, located in the back of the store. Mark from the cafe told me that the safe had been smashed open with a hammer and chisel and the burglar made off with $1,000 in cash. Thanks for the tip, Domenic.