Here at Wallyhood, we (especially the relative newbies) have learned that there are certain topics that elicit visceral community reaction.  Bike lanes, for example.  Homeless encampments.  Local implementation of the urban village concept.  Outdoor cats, songbirds, and coyotes.  The recent and upcoming changes to the Green Lake outer loop seem to fall into this category.  For those of you who do not receive updates from the city directly, here is a summary with links.  Please feel free to vent in the comments, but be nice and remember, don’t shoot the messenger (replacements are hard to find).  Substantive insights and suggestions …

With YoYo & CoCo now gracing 45th Street with taro frappes and frozen yogurt cubes, Wallingford is asserting itself as the frozen treats district of Seattle. Even as someone with no sweet tooth and a lactose-intolerant spouse, I still find this claim-to-fame far more exciting than the direction we are threatening to head of becoming the unofficial smoke shop district of Seattle, but that is a topic for another story…

Today’s 90 degree weather served as ample excuse to ruin my kids’ dinner and sample this new Wallingford wonder.

I can safely report that YoYo & CoCo passes the 3 …

After a mid-summer closure to remodel, Yoroshiku will have a soft open today, August 17th as a ramen bar specializing in Ramen, Tsukemen, Zangi (Japanese Fried Chicken), and a few other fan favorite dishes.…

The simple truth is that when it comes to non-profit service organizations in Wallingford, it is the volunteers that make it happen. None of these organizations collect enough money to let them just hire staff to provide the services that are so badly needed in our community. Today’s post continues a series of interviews with volunteers who make up the strong right arm of Wallingford service organizations.

Jeremy Mason – Boy Scouts

Jeremy learned the advantages of being a community volunteer from his father and his own Scouting experiences as a youth. He saw his father volunteer with Habitat for …

Continuing on with our Dog Days of Summer Series (a title I just made up)…today we reminisce about the storied old Food Giant that operated where the Wallingford QFC is currently located.  Someone posted a couple of old black and white pics of the previous incarnation over on Facebook, which led me to think back on the dingy but beloved Food Giant grocery store that served most of the neighborhood (and I say “most”, because remember?  We used to have a dingy old Safeway store in lower Wallingford on Stone Way across from the 7-11).

In 1996, the Seattle Times …

We are in the proverbial dog days of summer.  All of the other editors are away. They left me with the keys to the shop, thinking that it will be slow, and what harm could he possibly do?  Well, it is slow here in the post-Seafair void.  And it’s feeling like many of you are away on vacation too, maybe with the rest of the Wallyhood editors. So now I’m wondering: Gee, why didn’t I get invited?

But there does seem to be some simmering controversy related to the old Kids on 45^th location, which we recently noted was …

One of the area’s bigger summer benefit events, the Fred Hutch Obliteride, is taking place this coming weekend—Friday & Saturday, August 12^th-13^th—and will affect parts of Wallingford.  The fundraiser for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center includes just about all of Seattle’s favorite participatory activities:  walking/running, biking, and partying.  In the ten years of its existence, Obliteride has funded an impressive $36 million of research over ten years at Fred Hutch—so definitely a worthwhile and worthy activity to post on the calendar.

That’s all well and good, you might be thinking. Hooray for them.  But what about …