This month’s Meaningful Movie, Starving the Beast, will be shown as usual at the Keystone Church, 5019 Keystone Place N. on Friday, February 1 (the first Friday of the month). Doors open at 6:30. Admission is free, but donations are requested to cover costs. This showing represents a bit of a twofer as MM will also be celebrating its 16th anniversary.

Jim writes:

Meaningful Movies in Wallingford is celebrating our 16th anniversary at the Friday, February 1st screening of the documentary, “Starving The Beast,” followed by audience discussion and CAKE!

The 16TH ANNIVERSARY of the Meaningful Movies marks the year when we screened the first “meaningful movie” on …

Astute park watchers may have noticed that the Wallingford Park playground renovation seems to have stalled. Honestly, given the chain-link dismal state of things, even the somewhat dull-witted park watcher would be hard-pressed to miss it.

We originally reported the plans for the renovation back in May and then Jack posted an update back in November that the renovation was underway. At the time, we understood that the renovations would be completed in December or January, but as the above photo suggests, that timeline was … optimistic.

We reached out to Karen O’Connor in the Seattle Department of Parks and …

There’s some sort of electric thrill to enjoying a moment of world recognition, however indirect and minimal it might be. So imagine my shock and joy as I lay on the floor of the gym, headphones on, trying desperately to distract myself from the agony of ab crunches with a podcast of NPR’s Selected Shorts, when I hear:

“I just just moved into a house I had rented in Wallingford…” [What, OUR Wallingford? Or Wallingford, Connecticut, maybe?] “…a sleepy, liberal, family-oriented neighborhood in Seattle. I imagined it, in some ways, to be my dream house” [it IS us!]

Such a …

Even if you aren’t familiar with City Fruit, you’ve undoubtedly seen their handiwork. They are the ones that put the netting over apple trees in our neighborhood in order to save the fruit from insects and other pests until they can harvest it for local food banks. They’ve had a contract with the City to harvest the apples in Meridian Playground, and I think I’ve seen their nets on trees along the Burke Gilman trail.

If you’d like to help this organization out, and at the same time learn a thing or two about pruning, City Fruit is holding an …

After a few months soliciting citizen input, City Light is on the verge of installing two electric vehicle (EV) chargers at Gas Works Park. Last Thursday, January 17, an open house was held at the John Stanford School to explain the plans. I headed over there to get the scoop.

City Light plans to install 20 charging stations at 10-15 locations in Seattle according to their EV information webpage. Chargers are already installed on Beacon Hill not far from the light rail station. After signoff by Seattle Parks expected later this month, City Light will work with a contractor to …

A cherry and ebony toolbox created as a student project last Fall.

Note: Anyone who thinks they might be interested in Ebanista is invited to attend an open house on Saturday from 2 to 3 PM.

Last Fall, the Ebanista School of Fine Woodworking opened its doors with its first lineup of classes as Ben wrote about here. While the school is located by Green Lake near Gregg’s Cycles (not our usual beat), its owner, Jonathan Cohen, has been a Wallingford resident for over 40 years. The school, in Cohen’s words, was “founded to bring a school capable of offering …

We received word from a reader recently that eminent Wallingford resident Linda Waterfall has died. Linda was a singer and songwriter of some renown who passed away on January 8 after a long illness according to her website. She was 69.

Waterfall’s career spanned several decades — from the seventies until the present. While her Wikipedia page lists her as an “American folk musician,” she described her music as having jazz, blues, rock and classical influences as well. During her long career, she produced an impressive 14 albums beginning with Mary’s Garden in 1977. Her final album, Hometown Girl, was …