Apparenty, car prowlers aren't the only ones slinking around Wallingford in the pre-dawn hours. Jenny writes:Amazon Fresh now delivers to 98103! (Apparently, this has been true since November, but I have an 11-month-old and therefore live in a news vacuum, so I just learned it last week.)We got our first delivery last week. The good people at AF arrived before dawn, set two large, colorful tubs of groceries outside our door, and tiptoed away all ninjalike without disturbing us. When we…
Tomorrow (Wednesday) is Bottleworks' 10th anniversary, and they're celebrating by releasing dozens of unique, cellared beers and specials, including New Belgium Bottleworks 10th Anniversary Wild Ale (2 bottle limit per customer / day), Hair of the Dog Matt (4 bottle limit), Elysian Icarus, Far West, Rogue Issaquah, Russian River Deviation and tons more. See the Bottleworks blog for details.They recommend getting there at their 11 a.m. opening to get the good stuff. This is a beer nerd event, though, so rumors…
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Oops. We waxed all poetic about Katrina and the film Solid Ground was planning to show, Old Man and the Storm, but Robin just let us know that Solid Ground wasn't able to get the film after all, so here's what they've got:Facilitated by Indigo Klyne, we will watch and discuss The End of Days, a 13-minute video created by Shaun Scott, which explores a century of African-American community building and civil rights activism in Seattle. Then we will view several…
This past Thursday, as those who follow Wallyhood on Twitter know, we had the mixed pleasure of attending the Wallingford Chamber of Commerce lunch at Ivar's.Arriving at noon sharp, we paid our $20, piled up our buffet plate high and found a seat between Shana from Archie McPhee's (who kindly presented us with the amusing Archie McPhee's tome Who Would Buy This) and a friendly woman from the Seattle Times (we barely managed to resist grasping her plate and asking "oh,…
Diane Horswill (via the Wallingford eNews) confirms what we've all been suspecting: car prowls are way, way up in Wallyhood. In fact, the stats show a 40% jump in January from December. Some tidbits from the police reports:01/01: 4400blk Sunnyside Ave N. reported at 8:08PM, the resident was gone all day and when he returned he found his front door ajar, it appeared entry was made by prying open a side window, a large number of electronics were taken01/10: 4400blk 5th…
No frickin' way. They blew it up.Phinneywood reports:Update 11:50 a.m.: The suspicious package has been blown up. Mike Veitenhans just told us (at 9:40 a.m.) that the bomb squad has closed off part of the trail around Green Lake because of a suspicious bag found on the trail. The bomb squad has closed off the trail near the Bathhouse and the tennis courts on the west side and is using a robot to open the bag.On an unrelated note, several residents…