Wallingford, Seattle

Always on top of the Zoo Tunes news, our friends up at Phinneywood note that Zoo Tunes is offering to help parents enjoy a kid-free concert this summer: Woodland Park Zoo is offering a new Parents’ Night Out childcare service at select ZooTunes concerts this summer. Childcare is provided for kids ages 4-11 inside Zoomazium. Supervised activities include games, puppet shows, and a live animal encounter, plus pizza. Parents’ Night Out is offered at the first four ZooTunes concerts of the season: The B-52s (6/17 – sold…

Your chance to ooh and aah at the gardens of your neighbors is this Sunday at the annual Wallingford Garden Tour. It's a self-guided stroll through some of the most beautiful and unusual gardens in Wallingford. The Journal describes it all in loving detail, which we will shamelessly crib here: Spend the day wandering through passageways that lead to secret gardens and pleasant surprises. Take a look at a collection of over 140 cacti, hundreds of succulents and dozens of vines.…

In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, the hottest June 28th in New York history and one week after the death of Judy Garland, gays and lesbians took a stand against a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar. The week-long Stonewall Riots broke out and the modern gay rights movement was born. To commemorate that hot day in June, President Clinton (who has since renounced his "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy) named June the official Gay…

We finally got a list of specials being offered by Wallingford merchants to coincide with Art Walk tonight, via Weaving Wallingford, which we reproduce here in all its colorful wonderfulness: Art Walk today -  Get your program at any participating Merchant The restaurants having specials for Wallingford Wednesday are: Blue Star Cafe and Pub: 10% off bill for people with programs. Selena's Guadalajara: Margarita Special $3.75 Changes Bar and Grill: Drink Special Rain Modern Japanese  Cuisine: Happy Hour all night Meridian School…

Just saw this come across the 911 Twitter stream (which pulls data from SPD's 911 RSS feed): Fuel Spill @ Wallingford Av N / N 50th St (E16) Anyone know if it's something serious?

Wallyhood welcomes a new neighborhood blog to the club: My Green Lake, covering...well...Green Lake! We notice that in true techie Seattle style, they're still in "beta". Welcome, neighbor. We baked you a pie.