Think you know princesses? Think again! Woodland Park Players’ production of Disenchanted delivers comic relief in a hilariously subversive, not-for-the-kiddies hit musical running Nov. 3-5, 2023.

Nominated for “Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical” (Outer Critics Circle Awards) and “Best New Off-Broadway musical” (Off Broadway Alliance), this musical is anything but Grimm. Disenchanted features a multi-cultural cast of 15 women to play these royal renegades, spanning five decades from ages 20-to-60-something. Woodland Park Players really puts the “community” in community theater, drawing on the talent of local residents from Phinney Ridge, Ballard, Greenwood and Green Lake—and of course Wallingford!

Woodland Park Players funnels …

During the month of November, Seattle Utilities will accept up to ten extra bags of yard waste from current customers. This is only for yard waste, discarded food items must still fit inside your bin. So after you have raked your leaves and let your dog or child jump in them a few times, you have the option to use your fallen leaves as compost in your garden or put out extra yard waste bags for the city to collect. But whatever you decide, please help keep fall leaves out of drains to reduce the risk of flooding. Because clearing …

In the blink of an eye summer is over and we have hurtled into fall full force. School is back in session, the air is chilly, and ghosts, goblins, and gourds are popping up everywhere!

How you partake in spooky season in Wallingford might depend on your age… Or not! Because age is arbitrary, right?

One of my personal favorite Halloween activities in our ‘hood is the family-friendly Haunted Alley up in Tangletown. This impressively thought-out charity event is put on by local highschoolers and a volunteer group with entertainment, activities, and spectacles in an immersive experience. There’s a little …

The Lincoln High School orchestras will be presenting Spooky Jams!, a Halloweenesque concert, on Thursday, October 26, at 7 pm in the LHS Auditorium.

Details:

Admission is free Food is available for purchase, including banh mi, sweets and so on Huge auditorium means lots of seating available! Music includes a Phantom of the Opera medley performed by full symphony orchestra Danse Macabre by Camille St. Saens, featuring violin soloist from Chamber Orchestra Discombobulate medley from Sherlock Holmes, featuring musicians of Concert Orchestra

Costumes are optional!

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When we at Wallyhood gathered with some of our writers, readers, and unsuspecting passers-by who were trying to mind their own business out on the patio at Murphy’s, one of the comments we received was that the person would like to see more coverage of local/neighborhood politics. We are aware that many of you probably come to Wallyhood to avoid politics. But we would be a little remiss if we didn’t mention that there is an important election coming up in a few weeks.

We are not in the business of endorsements here, but we can provide a sampling of …

Wallingford-based nonprofit Balo USA is hosting its second annual Balo Bash fundraiser tonight, Friday October 20 from 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm at OmCulture, and there are still tickets available. You can read more about Balo’s mission, working to support impoverished women and children, in last year’s Wallyhood.

Balo Bash 2022 was a hit, and now it’s time for another festive evening—including dinner, drinks, silent auction, dessert derby, wine raffle and—new this year—a boutique featuring specialty items made by Balo participants.

You can preview and bid on silent auction items here. And there are exciting new items that will be …

I’ll cut to the chase first: It looks like Wallyhood will live to see another day! Or more, if things work out.

At least some of you know that the editors here have been trying to figure out a path forward and ways to make the site both more accessible and more sustainable for the long term. We gathered at our default meeting place, Murphy’s, after contacting our stable of writers and inviting anyone else who might have an interest in Wallyhood. When the editors first began discussing this, we were a little worried that it would be just the …