Wallingford, Seattle

While getting a tour of the John Stanford International School to learn about their planned playground improvements (a story for another day), we found out something we didn't know: JSIS is the entry point for foreign elementary students new to the country. When a child moves from another country to Seattle, rather than just throwing them into a public school classroom and leaving them to figure out the whole system by themselves (e.g., the days are divided into periods, the school…

This week at Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies: Mad Chickens! Witness if you will Gallus Domesticus…the backyard chicken. A mere few pounds of feather, bone, and muscle; a creature regarded by many as a rather humorous, though not so intelligent agent of food production. And yet make note of a most singular phenomenon now taking shape across suburb and city. From backyard eggs to the family’s new favorite pet, the urban chicken is forging a fresh place in the pecking…

Not a Number Gifts (1905 N. 45th St) has about a dozen free passes for two to an advanced screening of Away We Go (written by David Eggers and Vandela Vida). The showing is tonight, Thursday, at 7 pm at the Guild 45th. We watched the trailer and found it heartwarming, whimsical and all that other stuff that seems to make for good date movies. Stop in, pick 'em up and enjoy.

Ellen reminded us that the Seattle Peace Concerts ("Rockin' the Pacific Northwest since 1981") are kicking off this Sunday, June 14th with a concert from noon to 6 pm at Lower Woodland Park Shelter 1. The line-up includes (in reverse order of appearance) Tangletown String Band, Don Glenn, Sourmash Stevedores, Lost River String Band, Baxter T Bleu, and Percy Hilo. The shows are all free, but attendees are encouraged to bring donations for the Northwest Harvest food bank. If you're interested…

No, we're not talking high tech, we're talking real, crunchy sweet apples. So how do you boot an apple? We'll let Lily explain: This is Lily writing to say that we have two interesting workshops or workparties or playshops or fun times (depending on how you look at these things) with fruit trees in Wallingford, coming up! We are teaching people how to put nylon footsox (the kind one uses to try on shoes in public!) over baby apples (and possibly…

Lots of local press has picked up the "15,000 extra people expected at this year's 4th of July" story including King 5 news, who appear to have covered it twice: on the News at 11 and again with Chris Daniels). Be sure to check the videos for appearances by our local leaders, Kara Ceriello, Eimear O'Neil and resident Carol Solberg-Leon. The consensus of Wallyhood readers, however, is that this is all a blessing: the best party in town is coming to…