The Meaningful Movies @7 on Friday features money in politics, including representatives from wamend.org pushing I-735. A question will be granted to the highest bidder.

BF Day has a meet and greet on Saturday at 10:30 at the school: Meet Principal Jaskot, PTSA members, and have light refreshments. Contact [email protected] with any questions.

The Phinney District 6 debate is from 2 to 4 on Saturday at the Phinney Neighborhood Center, sponsored by the Phinney Ridge Community Council. Or you can just wait until next week when we’ll be running a District 6 Wonkathon on Wallyhood! Yes, no more flailing about …

I struggled with this post as there’s not a lot of data to back up the opinions here and I’m really not looking to hurt local small businesses by pitting one against another. On the flip side, a review that doesn’t do comparisons isn’t that helpful or interesting, and our family has eaten at most of the local places and has opinions. In the end, I wrote it as though giving somebody advice, but keep in mind it’s just the view of one cranky middle aged vegetarian with an untrained palate:

Pub foods: Elysian Brew Pub beats out Blue Star, …

You can look at a restaurant strictly in terms of things that need to be good: how stuff tastes, what it costs, how clean a place is, and whether the wait staff is nice. Moving beyond that, restaurants are like a Rorschach test for your individual personality. How fussy should the food descriptions be? How crowded should a place be? What’s the right atmosphere? Do you prefer trendy or established places? Do you like attentive wait staff that make suggestions, or would you prefer to interact with a Ziosk at an automat?

For me, Olympia Pizza hits the sweet spot. …

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Yo yo yo homies! It’s time to get down with the Wallingford Calendar.

The Meaningful Movies dwells on our whiteyness with “WHITE LIKE ME” tonight at 7 PM, a discussion of “what it means to be white in a white society, run by whites, for whites. Plus how easy it is for whites to be oblivious to all the obvious advantages and more subconscious perks and less well-known benefits that come from being part of this “normal” group.”

Expect a communal conniption as liberal whitey town dwells on its whiteyness. Hey, at least we didn’t gentrify this place (take that, …

Thanks to Jeff Lindstrom for writing the following for us after discovering that writing for Wallyhood can be like not just getting Jesse, but being Jesse:

Neighbors.  Love them or not we all have them.  Some are life-giving to our neighborhoods, like Paul down my street whose parking strip is always so beautifully planted, or the neighbors who occasionally repaint the huge ladybug in the intersection of 49^th and Burke.  Others well, let’s just say we relish the day when the For Sale sign goes up.  However, some neighbors won’t ever move, like the Post Office.

I’d been driving …