One of the treats of living in Seattle is that we share the town with many musical greats, such as Bill Frisell, Sir Mix-a-lot, Caspar Babypants and that jam-band guy who lives in Wallingford. Living here means you get to hear them play here, sometimes, too. No, not that jam band guy, sorry. But you will have the opportunity to hear the world-famous jazz musician and composer Wayne Horvitz this Saturday night at the Chapel Performance Space in the Good Shepherd…
Those of you who live near I-5 and 50th Street are likely painfully aware of how the city's Alcohol Impact Area (AIA) boundaries have impacted Wallingford. In 2006, the city voted to designate several areas around the city (most of Downtown, Belltown, the CD, the ID, Capitol Hill, and the University District) AIAs, where the sale of the type of cheap, high alcohol malt liquors favored by the alcoholic homeless would be illegal. The unfortunate side effect of this act was…
Readers may remember that the Shalom House, the Jewish home for the cognitively disabled in Wallingford, closed its doors this past January and the house was put up for sale. Unfortunately, the building had been modified over the years in a somewhat institutional fashion, with odd additions and the upstairs cut up into many tiny rooms, some with linoleum floors. It didn't sell. Instead, it's become a rental house, and the neighborhood gossip is that the residents are feisty bunch of…
Chris Witwer snapped some great photos of the guerilla art that appeared at Gas Works park yesterday: As a bonus, she also snapped a couple photos of art she found while looking for a produce sale down by 38th and Burke over the weekend: Perhaps not as splendid as the Gas Works art, but if Wallingford became known as the neighborhood of telephone pole art, we'd think wasn't such a bad thing. Update: Julie has posted a series of photos and…
The City of Seattle issued a press release yesterday announcing they are cracking down on several notorious Aurora Ave motels, several of which are along the Wallingford / Fremont border (Wallingford Inn, Fremont Inn, Italia Motel and the Isabella Motel): The city of Seattle has taken action against the operators of five Aurora Avenue motels that have been the scene of drug-use, prostitution and other illegal behavior. Last week, the City Attorney’s Office filed 152 criminal charges for various tax violations.…
Those of you who jumped with glee when you spotted the "Redimensions LLC" sign out front of the Festering Pit that sits at NE 40th St and Stone Way, where the Safeway used to be, can sit back down. We chatted with Prescott Development's Mike Derr to get the latest scoop. As a reminder, the property is owned by QFC (which, in turn, is owned by Kroger), and they developed a plan with Prescott Development four years ago to build a…
The Seattle Times reports that some guerilla art has shown up at Gas Works: In what was advertised as a gift to the citizens of Seattle, a gold-colored sculpture by an unknown artist turned up in Gas Works Park overnight. The papier-mâché guerrilla art sculpture consists of several pieces: a full-size gold-plated man standing on the waterfront surrounded by what appear to be shells, some with the heads of people emerging from them. "Anew is gifted to the citizens of Seattle…