Sorry folks, if you're hoping for a food review, you'll be disappointed. Perhaps someone who's made it to the Pour House (2253 N 56th St) during dining hours can help us out in the comment section. This past Wednesday, Totcycle and I managed to peddle our way up to the Pour House during drinking hours, though, and officially kicked off our long-ago promised touring review of Wallingford bloody marys. The Pour House bloody mary is a good, meaty drink: the alcohol…
Here's what's happening in Wallingford this weekend. Plus a few things that might be worth venturing out for. Starting Friday, Sex in the City 2 is playing on both screens at The Guild this weekend. (Anyone else surprised by that?) If you're throwing a party, you won't have to travel as far for that last minute trip to the liquor store. The new one is opening up at 45th & 2nd ave on Friday. More on that here. Live acoustic music from…
A year ago, it was hard to imagine any other retailer in the ol' Tweedy & Popp space (unless, of course, you lived in Wallingford prior to 1956, when it was the Ernst Hardware Company store, and had been since 1936). But as it sat vacant for months on end, any sign of life was welcome. Back in March, I saw workers rolling out a vinyl sign above the door, and raced home to Google "Domo Home Collections". The only lead…
Without further ado, here is my pros-versus-cons rundown for The 13th of Paris by Mat Smart, at Greenlake's Bathhouse Theater until June 13th: Cons: A love story set in Paris? How cheesy is that? Bah, humbug. Love sucks French people, even American people pretending to be French people, get on my nerves Pros: A love story set in Paris. How romantic! I love stories about love French people are charming and if you don't think so, YOU suck A young man…
Not the stadium wave (good riddance, no offense). I mean that friendly little gesture the other motorist gives you after you courteously pull over on a narrow Wallingford street to make room for him or her to go by in the other direction. This used to be absolutely compulsory under the super-strict--Seattle-civility code. It didn't matter if it was in the middle of the night, if the other driver only had one arm, was in the middle of a raging argument,…
Surely you remember Mad Libs? You know, someone would read a sentence, you’d fill in the blank and before you knew it – you had a story! Well – if you spend ANY time at all on the Wallyhood Forums (and if you don’t, you should), you’ll know that between the posts, and the names of those posting – this is a classic case of the truth being better than fiction! Why, just this week we had these words popping up…
We met a new neighbor this weekend, Benton. "New" in the sense of "new to us", not in the sense of "new to the neighborhood": either one of us could have put a rock through the other's window from our respective front porches for over ten years. (It is a testament to the cordiality of the neighborhood that it has never occurred to either of us to do so, despite our proximity.) Earlier last week, we met another neighbor, six houses…