April 12, 2010

Not a Number is reaching out to the community near and beyond Wallingford’s borders to help out during tough times. Jon DeLeeuw, co-owner of the store with his wife Kara Ceriello, posted about their situation on his blog this morning: Business has taken a HUGE downturn in the last 3-4 months forcing us to give

Clock's ticking for Not a Number

April 12, 2010

This story is part of an innovative partnership announced today between the Common Language Project, University of Washington and Next Door Media.  Read about the partnership here. As zoo officials announced the closure of the popular Nocturnal Exhibit, thousands of people turned to Facebook to organize an effort to save it. Photo courtesy Ryan Hawk,

Zoo's Nocturnal Exhibit may not be closed forever

April 12, 2010

Saturday’s Edible Book Festival was emceed by Nancy Guppy, who used to perform on a local sketch-comedy TV show called “Almost Live” that was very popular when we moved to Seattle in 1992. For better or worse, we learned a lot of local stereotypes from that show (Ballard was filled with hazardous elderly Scandinavian drivers,

Flashback: 'Almost Live' and 'Cops: Wallingford'

April 11, 2010

Yesterday’s fifth annual Edible Book Festival at the Good Shepherd Center brought together a couple hundred lovers of books, puns, food, and this stuff called fondant (which barely qualifies as food) for an afternoon of culinary cleverness. Without further ado, the category and Best in Show winners: Best in Show: “The Origin of Reeses,” created

Edible Book Festival serves up tasty tomes

April 9, 2010

You may recall a few weeks ago there was an armed robbery at the 7-Eleven on Stone Way and N. 46th St. Yesterday one of the alleged robbers, Misty Cook, was in court to face charges of harming the police dog that chased her down, in addition to first-degree robbery and a weapons charge. KOMO

7-11 robber also beat police dog, prosecutors say