Wallingford, Seattle

Interested in getting a first-hand taste of the high-paced, action-packed life of a hyperlocal journalist? You may or may have the opportunity to sneak into secured compounds hanging from the undercarriage of a truck with magnetic grips, dodge rock-throwing crowds to interview the outgoing dictator of a small, North Seattle neighborhood or even join a team of wise-cracking, ghost-chasing teenagers as they careen through the streets of Tangletown, but you'll certainly have fun. Wallyhood has distinguished itself as a new model…

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…