Smash Wine Bar and Bistro is celebrating their 5th anniversary today! Dana says she'll have the patio open and the heaters out, so you can enjoy some early Spring outdoor happy hour (and a fine happy hour they have). Weatherman says sunny with a high in the upper 50's, which, by Seattle standards, is prime outdoor seating weather. Only five years? Doesn't it seem longer? For the life of us, we can't even remember what was there before it was Smash.…
(Wallyhood welcomes Rachel Feldstein to our writing corps! She'll be covering kids-related issues and whatever strikes her fancy.) Have you ever noticed a gaggle of little kids tethered together, exploring the neighborhood? If so, you’ve likely seen the students from Exploration Academy, a new Wallingford preschool. I had the opportunity to tour the school last week and chat with the director, longtime Wallingford resident Michelle Warren. She opened Exploration Academy in Wallingford Center last fall because it “seemed like the perfect…
Lights! Camera! Action! Here's another snapshot of one of our great Wallyhood sponsors. Jen Koogler, Marketing Coordinator at Scarecrow Video: Where are you from? - From here. I grew up in Renton. What's the secret of your success? - Our vast inventory of films and our commitment as a staff to sharing that and promoting our love of cinema to Seattle. What do you like best about Wallingford? - It's large and not as physically close-knit as some other neighborhoods but…
In order to ensure a sunny weekend, we must - each and every one of us - plan on spending our weekend indoors. You understand, yes? This week's Wallingford Weekend will feature a few indoor performances for you to consider. And hey, if you see a good play or a fantastic opera, AND we get sunshine, well, drop me a thank you note: Friday night, Stone Soup Theater kicks off their (XX) Fest, a festival of plays written exclusively by women. …
The winner of the Mighty-O contest is Abby Klingbeil! Abby and her husband will be attending Mighty-O's private screening of The Food Network Challenge this Sunday, at 8pm. When we asked readers what they liked best about Mighty-O, Abby wrote: Oh, where to start? I love that all the employees at Mighty O’s staff, especially Julie, always have been so sweet and attentive to my little toddler, who made her first trip there when she was just days old. Now 21…
Paul Dorpat, Wallingford's very own "celebrian" (celebrity historian--yeah, I made that up), has worked with the Museum of History & Indsutry (MOHAI) for a "Now and Then" exhibit, which opens this Saturday, April 9, and runs until Sunday, June 3. If you're a fan of Paul's weekly "Now and Then" column for The Seattle Times' Pacific Northwest Magazine, you'll see quite a bit of his "repeat photography" in which he uses historical and contemporary photographs to reveal the changes in our…
It looks like we've finally hit the appropriate level of stumpiness in this contest. There were many guesses where we took this photo, but only a very few correct ones. In fact, the photo taken was in the small pocket park nestled just to the west of Ivar's on the water front. It's an adorable little park flecked with bits of history and nostalgia: photos of yore (such as the one pictured) embedded in rocks, bricks with words from Seattle's earliest…