Today we'd like to draw your attention to a small, independent coffee shop in Lower Wallingford: Palazzo Coffee. It's a cute little place almost hidden among apartment buildings and small businesses, but well worth keeping an eye out for. Palazzo serves drip coffee, espresso drinks, tortilla wraps, hot panini, other sandwiches, cookies, pasties, juice, sodas, etc. For the size of the place, I don't know how they keep so many things on the menu - so many delicious things, that is…
Green Lake Elementary's Drama Dragons presents Charlie & The Chocolate Factory at the Bathhouse Theater at Green Lake (7312 E. Green Lake Drive N.) The play is co-produced with the Seattle Public Theater and several kids from Wallingford are in the cast. Performances are tonight (Thursday, April 14) at 6:30 pm (a special preview performance), Friday, April 15 at 7pm, and then two performances on Saturday, April 16, at 2pm and 7pm. Tickets are at the door, by donation ($10 suggestion).…
Alright, show of hands: how many of you remember the original Woodsy Owl and the "Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute" campaign? It was launched by the U.S. Forest Service in honor of Earth Day, 1970--and while Woodsy has since gone through some cosmetic changes, complete with new soundbites and a Twitter feed, I can still hear the original jingle in my head. With Earth Day 2011 coming up, we've got some weekend events to share with you that not only keep…
We have to admit we were surprised at the number of people who correctly identified last week's What in the Wallingford photo as the hand of the sculpture of an angel in front of St. Benedict's Parish House on N 48th St and Wallingford Ave. Most people identified it as an angel, although Max thought it was Icarus and Mary said she thought the name of the sculpture was "Transformation". Does anyone know for sure if it's just "an angel", or…
Some years back, I woke up on a spring morning to this crazy, loud banging outside my window, and what I found was a woodpecker hammering away at our neighbors' chimney flashing. I was just as much intrigued as I was annoyed, since I'd never seen a woodpecker up close outside of a zoo, and I couldn't understand why in the world the poor bird was drilling its beak on metal. I soon discovered I wasn't the only one who's spotted…
Slow down, stay alert and get the heck off your phone! Tomorrow, beginning at 6:30 am, the Seattle Police Department, Washington State Patrol and Washington Liquor Control Board will be out in full-force on Aurora Avenue to conduct a major traffic patrol. Developed to deter aggressive and distracted driving on Aurora, the patrol will take place all day Thursday and through the evening. According to Jim Curtain of the Aurora Traffic Safety Project, "Specifically the patrol will focus on the behaviors…
Our buddies over at Green Lake Moms have a great deal on piano lessons this week with Wallingford-based Musicality (4910 Burke Ave. N): $49 for 1 introductory lesson, plus 4 group lessons, and materials. Musicality teaches the Simply Music method which they define on their website as: The largest playing-based music education institution in the world, with educators at 520 locations throughout the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It presents a revolutionary, Australian-developed piano and keyboard method for those who…