Wallingford, Seattle

If you're out and about in Green Lake today (by the community center), be sure to check out the Pinwheel Wind Farm sponsored by Coolmom.org: Joggers, dog-walkers and playground players will discover a wind farm near the playground at Green Lake between noon and 3 pm on Sunday April 18th. In celebration of Earth Day, CoolMom.org and The Sierra Club will create a mini renewable energy station comprised of hundreds of colorful pinwheels, handmade by children across Seattle. Volunteers will be…

Quick reminder: the Wallingford Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring Operation Beautify Wallingford today, Saturday. Show at the Wallingford Center starting at 10 am to pick up cleaning supplies and get an assignment, spend some time beautifying the neighborhood, then return for a speech by Councilmember Mike O'Brien and neighborhood activist Cathy Tuttle, starting around 1:00 pm. The band, we understand, has been canceled, but the School of Oom Yung Doe will be high-kicking in style and there will be food and…

If we had cable TV...or any kind of TV for that matter, we imagine we'd have a better idea what this new mural on the side of the Milano Pizza / Slave to the Needle building on 45th St NE / 4th Ave NE is all about:

Back in March we reported the sudden appearance of photos pasted to the windows of the old Tweedy and Pop store.  For a month, now, all that we saw were photos of oriental rugs, with a caption that read, "Heirloom Rugs." Today, we saw two guys on ladders unrolling a large vinyl sign above the store front, and now the mystery has been solved, sort of.  Looks like the 'hood is, in fact, getting a rug store soon. We'll keep you…

According to witnesses, there were several police cars outside of Dick's tonight. One witness--who spoke with police around 9:30pm--tells us that a female bicyclist and car collided, and that an emergency crew was moving the biker onto a stretcher as he arrived at the scene of the accident.  We hope everyone's okay. Please be safe out there, bikers and drivers!