If you’re looking to get out and hear some music locally tonight, you might meander over to the Keystone Church (5019 Keystone Pl), where Charlie King and Rebel Voices will be performing a benefit concert to raise money for the church’s Justice Leadership Program.

Fromt their promo material:

Charlie King has been at the heart of American folk music for over 50 years. His songs have been recorded and sung by other performers such as Pete & Peggy Seeger, Holly Near, John McCutcheon, Arlo Guthrie, and Chad Mitchell. He is this year’s Phil Ochs Award recipient.

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Singing out for …

Beginning next year, SDOT will be undertaking a major repaving project in Wallingford and Green Lake, including repaving on 40th, 50th, Green Lake Way, 80th, over 500 upgraded accessible curb ramps and more.

For a full rundown on the project, see SDOT’s Green Lake and Wallingford Paving & Multi-Modal Improvements page and offer your feedback online through the paving project Online Open House. Better yet, get yourself to one of the in person, live, face-to-face (“retro”) open houses coming up at the Good Shepherd Center and

If you’d like to chat with the folks from SDOT about the many paving …

Here’s your reminder that this weekend is the Fremont Fair and Solstice Parade, and Mother Nature has blessed us with a gorgeous weekend to enjoy it with.

The Solstice Parade kicks off at NW 39th St and Leary Way NW at 1 pm on Saturday with the famous Naked Bicycle ride (captured in quirkiness by local filmmaker Dan McComb in Beyond Naked), and then tumbles, struts and thumps through Fremont to Gas Works Park. Watch for “Baby Z”, now in his seventh year stilting in the parade (and long past babyhood…that’s him at right, five years ago). Folks start …

These are desperate times for those fleeing their home countries for safety and freedom. In the face of the stunning injustices the president’s government has been inflicting on those in need, many of us are wondering what can one person do.

Despite the walls going up (literal or figurative), there are still organizations working to welcome newly arrived refugees into our community. World Relief Seattle is one such non-profit, and I’ve had the pleasure of providing temporary housing to a number of families they are re-settling from Afghanistan, Sudan and other countries here in Seattle. They’re fabulous people who provide …

Growing up, my family was not particularly religious. I learned Hebrew from a private tutor, alongside the children of a couple family friends, but only stepped foot in a synagogue once or twice throughout my childhood. My family was part of a group of similarly-minded Jewish families that would gather in a church basement on high holidays and celebrate together, sans rabbi, children chasing each other down the thinly carpeted halls and across the linoleum floors. My bar mitzvah was held in a rented hall, and the catered food was perhaps not kosher.

Nonetheless, Friday nights often found us at …

Matt from the Pacific Northwest Shop (4411 Wallingford Ave N, a Wallyhood sponsor) writes:

I’m taking advantage of my publisher privilege to invite you all to visit my yard sale today. Sunday, June 3rd only, 8 am – 3 pm, lots of good stuff, including:

Come on by today, Sunday June 3 between 8 am and 3 pm, 4065 4th Ave NE, right across from the John Stanford School.

The free pile …