Monthly Archives: April 2010

The semiannual Friends of the Seattle Public Library Book Sale takes place at Magnuson Park this weekend, April 16-18.  And while it isn’t a Wallingford-specific event, the sale does benefit the Seattle Public Libraries, including our own local branch on 45th. 

If you haven’t been to one of these sales before, it’s utter bibliophilic madness.  Show up caffeinated, and with your own boxes for hauling away your treasures.  With over 200,000 books — most of them priced at $1 — you’re gonna find a lot of stuff you wanna haul home.

Items for sale include:

It’s springtime and we all know what that means–summer’s right around the corner; and for parents, that means it’s time to start scouting out summer camps for the little’uns.

If it’s drama that they seek, you’ll want to check out the youth program at Seattle Public Theater (SPT) at the historic Bathhouse Theater on Green Lake.  This is the 10th year for SPT’s Summer Youth Drama Program, designed for elementary school kids, and as an internship program for teens.

Here’s some details from SPT:

The SPT Summer Youth Program offers high-quality summer drama workshops taught by professional theater artists for …

In addition to our wild party life as a hyperlocal blogger celebrity, we hold down a day job running an Internet start-up that provides social networking services for conferences and events. Between all that, our background in social psychology and our general love of all things on-line, we’ve learned a few things about “social media”, the catch-all term that has come to describe the relationships and content being built around Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs and the like.

We’ll be sharing a few of those things at tomorrow’s Wallingford Chamber of Commerce meeting, giving a short talk on how small businesses …

The Wallingford Chamber has been busy building up their plans for this weekend’s Operation Beautify Wallingford, where they hope the community will come out and help spruce up the ‘hood just in time for Spring (and, not coincidentally, next week’s 40th anniversary of Earth Day).

Things will kick off at Wallingford Center around 1o am, with coffee, drinks, tools and assignments for volunteers. Come by and help out!

From 1 to 3 pm, returning volunteers can enjoy music, food (courtesy of QFC, Bartell’s, Fainting Goat, Caffe Appassionato, and other), and entertainment. They’ve got some speakers lined up, a martial arts …