Wallingford, Seattle

Janet Stillman, Executive Director of the Wallingford Neighborhood Office, writes: The Neighborhood Office is heading up Spring Clean 2009 for Wallingford. The date is the weekend after Earth Day and Arbor Day, which is April 25th. We are hoping that all the various Wallingford Groups will want to participate. There is no cost to you, just your time and energy. We are looking for several people who would like join me on the committee that makes this all happen. The possible…

The Wallingford Community Calendar is filling up nicely with all sorts of interesting happenings from around the neighborhood. Check it out to see what's going on at Wide World Books and Maps, the Chapel Performance Space, Not a Number, SeaMonster, Kate's Pub, City Cellars, Open Books, Meaningful Movies, Mosaic, the Senior Center, Comics Dungeon and more. Again, if you've got anything to add (or want to add events to it directly, please contact us. While we're at the recruiting thing, we…

Wallyhood, along with other local blogs, got an e-mail a few weeks back from a resident concerned about a homeless couple with child asking for hand-outs in front of the QFC. "What can we do to help", the writer asked? As parents to 14-week-old Baby Z, we've sometimes tried to imagine what it would feel like to hear your baby cry for hunger and simply not have the food to offer him, much less the food to sustain yourself while you…

The Seattlest reports: No Zoo Doo this spring! Woodland Park Zoo just notified us that their highly popular Fecal Fest Zoo Doo lottery--which brings that "fresh Zoo smell" to your backyards and P-Patches--has been canceled for spring because of a shortage of safely Grade-A poop. Turns out there are "unacceptable levels of the herbicide clopyralid" in the Zoo's doo--the herbicide is used on hay and wheat fields, doesn't break down easily, and now that it's stored in the animal manure, would…

OMG, we have not been this happy to hear about an event since 2001, when a friend suggested we check out something called "Burning Man". Check this out: The Seattle Edible Books Festival. According to the web site, "An Edible Book can look like a book, pun on a title, refer to a character, or just have something to do with books - whatever the inspiration, it must be edible. Think---> The Unbearable Lightness of Bean and Alice in Wonderbread and…

Tonight (Wednesday, March 4th) at 7:30 PM at the Chapel Performance Space in the Good Shepherd Center, the  Subtext Reading Series presents: Laura Moriarty's most recent books are A Semblance: Selected & New Poetry 1975-2007...and An Air Force, a chapbook from Hooke Press. Other recent books are Ultravioleta, a novel...and Self-Destruction, a book of poetry... She is findable on-line at A Tonalist Notes and related blogs. J. W. Marshall is co-owner of Open Books, the poetry-only bookstore in Seattle. He won…

According to the Stranger: Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band are always looking for creative ways to promote themselves—weird videos, handmade CD cozies, and now they've partnered with Molly Moons and created their own flavor of ice cream. Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Ice Cream is "coconut ice cream with chocolate chunks and huckleberry sauce." It sounds awesome. They'll be guest-scoopers at Molly Moon's in Wallingford on Thursday, March 5th at 6 pm. Their CD release show is at Neumo's the following…