Yearly Archives: 2011

We are often accused of bias on social and political issues here at Wallyhood, a charge to which we* delightfully plead guilty. Yes, we have opinions and we’re not afraid to share them!

We hope, however, that we are clear about when we are reporting facts and when we are reporting opinion, and that we give a respectful forum to those who hold different positions.

What would you think about expanding and formalizing this civil discourse on important issues? Here’s what we’re thinking:

Each weekend, we address some social, political or ethical issue that is important to the people …

If you’ve passed the stairwell at the bottom of 4th Ave NE leading down from NE 40th to NE 40th* over the past few weeks, you may have noticed a film crew at work. Perhaps you wondered what they were filming.

We were, too, so we asked: it’s an independent film, Ulysses 2.0, being produced by the Citizen Lebowski Project, a “a cinema-based laboratory for citizen-artists” associated with Cornish School for the Arts:

For better or for worse, one of the most visible remnants of the classical epic tradition is the reality-based competition show (MTV Road Rules, Survivor…

Nancy Leeson over at the Seattle Times wrote a wonderful piece on Christopher Kong recently, Southeast Asia an inspiration for Seattle chef Chris Kong. She followed the Roosevelt High grad from his time scampering around the kitchen of the restaurant his parents opened in to his internship with Trophy Cupcake and a Ballard fish market to the kitchens of Kuala Lumpur and, of course, back to the restaurant his family runs here in Wallingford, Perche No Past and Vino.

After you give it a read, you may want to sign up for one of Perche No’s Malaysian and Thai nights, …