Many Pacific Northwest artists and residents knew Eve Deisher during the years she and her husband, sculptor Lanny Bergner, lived in Anacortes. Her colleague at Skagit Valley College, Ann Chadwick Reid, called her an enigma, for her warm encouragement of students and colleagues, even as her work displayed deep psychological pain.

Deisher set out to portray war, exile and injustice combined with her own tormented response. “Indicator,” a retrospective of Deisher’s drawings and…

On Sept. 20, thousands of people took to our local streets as part of the global Youth Climate Strike.

Though activists continue to provoke thought and inspire action, the scale of the problem can feel daunting. Mt. Baker Snow School provides a local context in which climate science becomes more personal, encouraging a sense of responsibility and hopefulness. By investigating snowpack, watersheds and weather, students understand the problem in a tangible way and progress toward…

When a sextet of actors dressed in garb from the 1970s showed up at my house in late September with a photographer, costume designer and a director in tow, I wasn’t quite sure what in the hell was going on.

As a series of scenarios were set up—beginning with a solo scene featuring a bearded guy lurking outside in the herb garden, followed by enigmatic group shots in the dining room, and ending with a hair-pulling scuffle in the living room—I was filled in on the particulars. The six…

When readers are first introduced to Maeve Beaufort, her 14-month-old daughter Noelle is being rushed to the emergency room in an ambulance after the pine nuts in the pesto she was served for dinner caused her face to swell “like rapidly rising dough.”

By the end of Take Daily as Needed: A Novel in Stories, Noelle is an often-surly 14-year-old who has survived a number of allergic reactions, and many of the characters in Bellingham-based author and Western Washington University…

While many people are already compiling extensive lists of menu items they intend to serve for friends and family during Thanksgiving dinner, a number of homebound seniors in Whatcom County are wondering what will be in their larders when winter weather arrives. 

Thanks to a “Stuff the Trunk for Meals on Wheels” event taking place from 10am-2pm Sat., Nov. 16 at the Barkley, Ferndale, Fairhaven, Meridian, and Sehome Haggen stores—and at Dewey Griffin Subaru and the Bellingham Senior…

Whatcom County and the City of Bellingham are coordinating with several nonprofit, community and faith-based organizations to ensure shelter services are available this winter.

During winter months, existing shelter options may reach capacity when weather conditions make it unsafe for people to remain outdoors at night. At those times, there is a need for additional safe, warm spaces for shelter. To add capacity during the winter months, several new resources have been made available…

Last week, I touched on some of the many events taking place at the Mount Baker Theatre during the days before it becomes Bellingham’s ground zero for holiday happenings.

Not so fast, say Skagit County’s siziest venues. Because the Skagit Casino Resort, McIntyre Hall, and the Lincoln Theatre would like to lure us to points south for entertainment offerings all their own.

I suppose it says something about my age that my main point of reference for Todd Rundgren is the fact that…