Wallingford, Seattle

Walmart comes to Wallingford

The Walmart Corporation announced an agreement today to purchase the building and grounds of Wallingford's Good Shepherd Center (4649 Sunnyside Avenue N) along with the adjoining Meridian Park. They plan to open their 5,783rd store there, the first inside Seattle city limits. In addition to their standard electronics, music, furniture, toys and home accessories, the "supercenter" will also feature  produce, baked goods, a deli and other grocery items. Initial neighborhood reactions were mixed. Ron Waldman, head of the Meridian School, presently…

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No Fireworks at Gas Works

Sounds like Wallingford won't have to fret about porta-potty shortages and marauding crowds of patriotic partiers this Fourth of July: One Reel has announced that there will be no fireworks display over Lake Union this year. From their web site: For the past 15 months, One Reel has worked tirelessly to secure a title sponsor for the 2010 Family 4th at Lake Union but, regrettably, we were not able to secure one in time to proceed with this year’s event. For…

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Wallingford Easter Roundup

My mom's birthday is Easter Sunday -- at least that's what she's been saying since she was a kid.  She's wrong, but what the heck.  She's the kind of woman who appreciates flowers, dresses, Easter bonnets, and colorful baskets full of trinkets and bunny shaped chocolates.  So we'll give it to her.  Her birthday is on Easter.  Every year. And if she were in Wallingford this weekend, here are some of the Easter events she'd get to choose from.  Most are on Saturday rather…

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Cook the Books!

No, we're not suggesting some sort of accounting scheme. The 5th annual Edible Book Festival is coming to Wallingford Saturday, April 10th.  We're writing about it now cuz you still have time to enter your own book-themed work of art.  And if you'd just like to show up and nosh, that's ok too. What? People bring a piece of edible art related to books: a pun on a title, an interpretation of a scene or character, or just something having to do with…

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Living in the “Dying City”

Continuing with the premise that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", here is another handy pros-vs.-cons guide to Dying City, now playing at Green Lake's Bathhouse Theater (honestly! Green Lake is not that bad!). Cons: 9/11, The Iraq War, Abusive Families, Infidelity, Homophobia, Lies, Suicide - too much of a downer, man! That actor dude playing twin brothers, I don't get it Why do good women fall for bad men? Pros: The actor dude has terrific stage presence and…

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What’s up in the Neighbor-‘Hoods?

Okay, you may be asking yourself, "Did anything happen worth knowing about outside of Wallingford last week?".  To expand your horizons (a bit), here are the highlights from blogs in the surrounding 'hoods: Gertie the Hippo: Sadly, Phinneywood reports that the oldest animal in the Woodland Park Zoo, at 47 years and 5,000 pounds, was euthanized.  Let's hope that you and I fare better. Hazel Heights P-Patch: Opened on March 21st at NW 47th St. and Baker Ave. NW according to…

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Go Down, Moses

If you read last year's "Good Pesach!" post, you know how we feel about Passover: a truly bad-ass Jewish Holiday. The God of the Old Testament rains His wrath on those who enslaved His people, plagues fire from His fingertips, blood flows in the rivers, frogs pour from heaven, boils erupt on the skin of the oppressors, an avenging angel sweeps across the land in the dark of night, the very earth rises from the bottom of the sea to carry…

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