News from our neighbors … Local Politics: Wallingford: The North End Candidate Debate, held at Lincoln High School on October 13, is now available online. Wallingford: Wallyhood has created a handy Voter Guide Round-Up. Queen Anne: Susan Hutchison, candidate for King County Executive, speaks about Boeing’s exit from Seattle. Nearby events: Wallingford: Ivar’s Fall Cider Celebration is on November 12th. Greenwood: The “Aurora Elephant” will be raised at Aurora Rents around 8:30 or 9 on Monday morning. Greenwood: The Greenwood Wing Dome will be donating a portion of their sales today, until 9 p.m., to the Greenwood Fire Relief Fund….
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North Seattle Round-up: local politics, nearby events, new and closed businesses, bargain alerts, and crime watch
North Seattle Round-up
Wazup in nearby neighborhoods? Yep, time for our weekly round-up! A Fire Strikes Four Greenwood Businesses: Phinneywood did an amazing job covering the horrible fire that hit Greenwood early Friday morning. Their coverage began with breaking news updates and video of the fire, and they continue to cover the effects of the fire on the Taproot Theatre, Green Bean Coffeehouse, PAWS Cat City and the community as a whole, as well as to explain the cleanup and wall-stabilization processes. Information about a relief fund can be found here. What caused the blaze? Phinney Ridge Seattle speculates that arson was at…
North Seattle Roundup
Heya Green Lake. Here’s what’s been going down nearby: While the their library was closed for renovations, many Wallingford residents were heading up to the Green Lake library. The party’s over: the Wallingford library is open again. Businesses come: a new Wallingford tanning salon, a Mini dealership in Lake City, a new cafe in Fremont, a fabric boutique in Magnolia. Businesses go: Wallingford’s Winchell’s Donuts and Rancho Bravo (temporarily), Magnolia’s Go Legs Cycle Studio, Select Hair Salon in Laurelhurst, Tigertail in Phinney, the Crown Hill QFC. Businesses expand: Greenwood’s Fred Meyer and Taqueria Tequila (maybe), Phinney’s Ken’s Market. Businesses move: …
Tobey Maguire in Green Lake
Spotted today (September 8, 2009) at the Green Lake Community Center: Tobey Maguire! Spidey is in town filming The Details, an indie black comedy with a 2010 projected release. Film extra “bugzrrad” posted the following to the IMDb Boards at 3:06 p.m.: just got back from filming a few scenes during a basketball game at the greenlake rec center (i’m a benchwarmer extra). dennis haysbert and tobey maguire were there. dennis is pretty much a pimp, but tobey seems like kind of a doober; he doesn’t really talk to anyone all that much. he’s pretty damn good at basketball though!…
