Dear Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board, thank you from the bottom of my tequila-loving heart for passing a temporary measure allowing restaurants to deliver booze along with food during these trying times.

But as much as I’d love to wax poetic about the variety of cocktail kits citizens can now procure from venues such as Black Sheep, 1-Up Lounge, Jalapenos, and others—not to mention the plethora of local breweries continuing to offer delivery and takeout—it would be remiss…

Of all the deferred home-improvement projects that were still on my docket when the statewide shelter-in-place order took effect, moving the obtrusive pile of beefy maple logs that’s been moldering away on my front lawn for the past year and a half to a less-obtrusive location in the backyard seemed like the most- productive quarantine-friendly project to tackle first.

Since all the labor (me) and tools required for this endeavor were already on-site, no extraneous trip to the…

Before she was the Pickford Film Center’s education outreach manager, Mikayla Nicholson worked at Film is Truth. As a former movie rental store employee, she knows her way around a movie recommendation, a skill that comes in handy under all kinds of normal circumstances, but never more so than during a global pandemic when we are seeking all of the distractions we can get.

Like nearly everyone, Nicholson is working from home these days, so it was only natural that she put together a…

An emergency room physician who spoke out against what he called a lack of protective measures against the novel coronavirus at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center, has been fired.

Dr. Ming Lin, who has worked at the Bellingham hospital for 17 years and became a community hero for his pleas for more safety equipment and more urgent measures to protect staff, was informed of his termination as he was preparing for a shift at the hospital Friday afternoon, he said.

“I got a message…

Urban Dictionary defines “cancel culture” as a “modern internet phenomenon where a person is ejected from influence or fame by questionable actions.”

In the age of the coronavirus, methinks the definition should read more like “the abrupt cancellation of a gazillion cultural events due to a global pandemic.”

While I’d much rather see Kanye West’s gigantic ego being turned off rather than face the grim reality of life without art, it’s not all bad news. Galleries and museums across…

Back on March 9, which seems like it was about 100 million-hour days ago, when King County issued its first shutdown order pertaining to large gatherings, a group of Seattle creatives led by author (and WWU alum) Ijeoma Oluo mobilized while the rest of us were still trying to comprehend what was happening.

What Oluo—as well as her co-organizers Usiku Atieno, Gabriel Teodros, and Jazmyn Scott—understood instantly was that musicians, artists and other creative folk who live on the…