Wallingford, Seattle

Ravenna Eckstein and Meadowbrook Community Centers, and Sustainable NESeattle are organizing a fun day of hands on workshops to learn the skills your grandparents knew. Sounds pretty random, until Sustainable NESeattle explains further: "What happened to the practical know-how our grandparents had? In our modern industrial age, cheap energy, factory automation and transnational economics have allowed us to out-source almost every aspect of our lives, including how we feed, clothe, and entertain ourselves. But a new wave is sweeping the country.…

All right, ladies, who are you rooting for?  Steelers?  . . . . or Packers? On the side of the Wells Fargo Building on Densmore Ave. N.  A study in shades?  Picking new paint colors? Cute, and disturbing at the same time.  At the corner of Wallingford Ave. N. and 45th. Found an abandoned shopping cart here and decided to wheel it back to QFC.  Interesting how your resemblance to a homeless person increases in proportion to your distance from a…

Elia writes: So about an hour ago at about 3:00 in the morning, I started dreaming about a woman yelling. Shortly thereafter, I realized that I was not actually dreaming--the woman was unfortunately all too real. She was hysterical and hollering bloody murder in the middle of 50th and Keystone at the top of her lungs. When I took a look outside, I saw that she had managed to stop some unfortunate lady driver and was wailing "I don't knowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!" over…

After a long wait, we recently received a new shipment of our double-walled ceramic Wallyhood travel mugs (designed by Wallingford's own Heidi Smets), so if you missed 'em the first time around, you've got another chance. Just stop in any of these fine local coffeeshops to pick up yours today: A Muddy Cup (266 NE 45th St at Latona Ave NE) Irwin's (2123 N 40th St) Solsticio (100 N Northlake Way, on the Burke Gilman) The 11 oz. mugs are $20…

We've got a new sponsor this month, Real Assets Property Services, Inc. They've got a medical building here in Wallingford at 3876 Bridge Way N that they're interested in filling with naturopaths and others in the "healing arts community" here in Wallingford. If you're looking for a place to work that's walking distance, give them a call. We'd also like to thank all our existing sponsors who help keep the lights on and the wheels turning here at Wallyhood: Lakeside Dental:…