Reminder: this Wednesday, May 6, from 6 pm - 9 pm is the first Wallingford Art Walk of 2009. There are over 30 businesses participating and Wallyhood will be Twittering along the way. There will be a shuttle to carry you between the major areas, music, happiness, joy and...art. Here's a map, so's you don't get lost in Tangletown: View Wallingford Art Walk in a larger map The Easy Street Band will be playing from 6:30 - 7:30 on the Patio…
(Fair warning: this post contains no Wallingford content. It's just stuff we think, and opinionated stuff at that. You should probably skip it.) We read this Sunday's New York Times interview with Obama (After the Great Recession) with a bit more anticipation than one ought probably read articles about politicians. Admittedly, we have our wonky side. Still, we were a bit disappointed. There were interesting topics covered and good points made, not least of which is the notion that health care…
Back in January, we ran a story on Interconnection down near Gasworks, who refurbish old computers and provide them to low income communities around the world. One bit of lameness covered was that the state law intended to encourage recycling actually required that donated computers be melted down for materials rather than refurbished unless they were in full working order when donated (howdy, hardware manufacturer lobbyists!). Well, Andrew tipped us off to a KPLU story announcing that's finally changed. So, if…
Jenny T. tipped us off that the stately grand dame of Wallingford, the Good Shepherd Center, figures prominently in a video installation now on display at the Seattle Art Museum: Young Americans Video Installation March 19 – August 30, 2009 SAM Ketcham Forum Gallery Mary Simpson and Fionn Meade, Northwest artists currently residing in New York, have collaborated on several films in recent years. Young Americans is one of their latest works, filmed primarily at the Home of the Good Shepherd,…
There's lots of activity around Wallingford this weekend: free comics and stormtroopers at the Comic Dungeon, art sale at the Melrose, Nickel and Brass Septet and Seattle Composer's Salon at the Chapel Performance Space in the Good Shepherd Center and Aqua Dears and Darlings at Green Lake, to name a few. But the biggest of all is sure to the Seattle Tilth's Edible Plant Sale: This event is ideal for beginning or longtime gardeners. Choose from over 50 varieties of tomatoes and…
Travel and Leisure Magazine has realized what we've known all along: Wallingford has some great eats. Their annual 50 Best New U.S. Restaurants list has given the nod to Wallingford's Joule: One of the city’s most disarmingly personal spots is Joule, which resembles a petite Continental café that just happens to serve both esoteric sparkling sakes and Korean kimchi. After bonding in the kitchen of Alain Ducasse in New York, Seoul-born Rachel Yang and her half-Tunisian husband Seif Chirchi moved west…
We first mentioned this a month back (It’s flooding…comic books!), but it's coming up, so it bears repeating: get your free, that's right, free comic books at Comic Dungeon (250 NE 45th Street) this Saturday, May 2nd. They'll be celebrating Free Comic Day, a nation-wide event where comic stores give-it-away: Free comics for everyone! Including first print stories on Green Lantern:Blackest Night, The Avengers and great reprinted stories from Aliens and Predator, Little Lulu, Korgi, Johnny Boo, Transformers, Sonic The Hedgehog, and…