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When my daugh­ter was born, get­ting to the near­est La Leche League group involved a haul up to Fremont.

For­tu­nately, La Leche League of South Seat­tle has arrived for mother-to-mother sup­port for breast­feed­ing, with monthly meet­ings, phone and email help. All these ser­vices are free.

The group meets 10:15 a.m. the 2nd Wednes­day of every month at Neigh­bor­hood House in New Rainier Vista.

They’ve also got an infor­mal Breast­feed­ing Cafe that meets 1 – 3 p.m. the 3rd Thurs­day of every month at My Cof­fee House in Madi­son Valley.

If “Breast­feed­ing Cafe” sounds awfully tempt­ing, it’s because  Momma’s milk is still the best.

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I waited a full week to go to the Spice Room, the new, hotly-anticipated Thai restau­rant in Colum­bia City.

And guess what? I loved it.

I’m going to hold off on a full review (because… Con­tinue reading

Ema Mor­gan, 13-weeks

Jen­nifer Mor­gan, 28

Colum­bia City is reeling.

Renee Mor­gan came home yes­ter­day morn­ing, three days before Christ­mas, and found her fam­ily shot dead. Her daugh­ter, Jen­nifer Mor­gan, was 28. Her grand­daugh­ter, Ema… Con­tinue reading

Can you tell me a lit­tle more about the food you made at Villa Vic­to­ria? You were known for things like putting col­lard greens in bur­ri­tos.
Well, first of all, bur­ri­tos are not any­thing you will find in Mex­ico. Mex­i­cans are dainty eaters, they don’t want to eat big, honkin’ things. Only Amer­i­cans want to do… Con­tinue reading

4. Both Full Tilt loca­tions look like neigh­bor­hood ice cream par­lors, not would-be fran­chise oper­a­tions. The menu is hand-written in non-ironic, pre­co­cious kid-hand. And theres plenty of room inside both loca­tions to sit down and get com­fort­able; you dont have to hus­tle out the door to make room for the peo­ple wait­ing in a line that snakes out the door… Con­tinue reading

Now a local entre­pre­neur has pro­posed a 2009 ver­sion [of the North­west Book­fest]. Paul Doyle, direc­tor of Colum­bia City Cin­ema, says he’s recruit­ing authors and book­sellers for a neigh­bor­hood book fes­ti­val: If plans firm up, Colum­bia City’s 2009 Seat­tle Book­fest will be both a book fes­ti­val and a fundraiser for the cin­ema, an inde­pen­dently owned neigh­bor­hood theater.

Doyle said he was moti­vated by “a com­bi­na­tion of things: one, I missed the old fair, and two, we were look­ing for a sig­na­ture event for the com­mu­nity and a fundraiser for the cin­ema.” Con­tinue reading

SLOG’s Bethany Jean Clement says this about Gert’s: “OH MY GOODNESS Gert’s bar­be­cue is GREAT — the per­fect bal­ance of smokey/salty/sweet. They’re call­ing it Seattle-style; I’m going to go ahead and call it the best in the city.”

What can we say? I’m down with any Colum­bia City BBQ option that rolls in… Con­tinue reading

Oth­ello Part­ners recently announced that they would break ground on The Sta­tion at Oth­ello Park—the build­ing on the right side of… Con­tinue reading

Tomor­row is Link Light Rail’s inau­gural week­end. Every­one expects huge, happy throngs to con­verge. Colum­bia City is ready. Bring it on.

(Photo by rutlo, avail­able under an Attribution-NonCommercial Cre­ative Com­mons license)