Investigating the Living …

Investigating the Living Legend of the Quarry

Located past Lake Samish but just before Alger, the Lookout Arts Quarry (LAQ) is many things: a rural arts center, an outdoor festival venue, a campground, a community with permanent residents, and a recovering wilderness. Physically, it’s 61 acres of land that used to be an industrial rock quarry. LAQ Founder, Board Member, and Lead of the Site Committee Islando Sparks and Board Member and Lead of the Production Committee Nora Hughes answered our questions about this local legend…

A Community Cornerstone | …

A Community Cornerstone | ROAM Coffee + Beer

Jutting out at an acute angle on the corner of Broadway and Elm Street, where Bellingham’s Columbia, Lettered Streets, and Cornwall Park neighborhoods meet, is a charming, pitch-roofed black and white building. It’s an oasis in both the geographic and figurative senses: ROAM Coffee + Beer offers all comers not only excellent coffee and a range of tasty food, but also beer, cider, sake, and wine. Owners…

Radicchio Caesar Salad | Leah …

Radicchio Caesar Salad | Leah Brooks from “Genuine Skagit Cooking,” Published by Raspberry Bow Press

Leah Brooks is a cooking enthusiast, cookbook author, and former director of a children’s cooking school in San Francisco. By making cooking fun, approachable, and healthy, Leah is changing the way kids (and adults!) see…

Staff Picks: Summer Salads

Invited to a picnic or potluck and unsure what to make? Our team put together some of our top picks for crunchy, refreshing, and shareable salads that’ll win over any group of friends! Thai Chicken Salad JENN MIRANDA, OFFICE MANAGER Jenn loves showing off her cooking chops with this show-stopping main course salad! It brings the Euro-Asian fusion flair to your picnic with toothsome vermicelli and tangy green olives. Marinate 1-2 chicken breasts in your favorite Thai marinade or…

Inspiring Creativity | …

Inspiring Creativity | Elisabeth’s Cottage by the Sea

As you approach the Freeland Keystone Building at the corner of Commercial Avenue and Seventh Street in downtown Anacortes, there are signs for…

A Riverside Retreat With …

A Riverside Retreat With Contemporary Comforts

This A-frame perched on the bank of the Skagit River seamlessly merges vintage aesthetics with contemporary comforts, thanks to a renovation completed in 2023 that has breathed new life into the late 1970s-era full-time residence. The biggest transformations were realized by expanding the house by six feet to enlarge the kitchen, entryway, main floor bathroom, and laundry areas, while also improving the upstairs primary bath nestled in the eaves. Throughout the renovation, the aim was to retain the original…

15 Ways To Fall In Love With …

15 Ways To Fall In Love With Where We Live

A Family-Friendly Cabin With …

A Family-Friendly Cabin With Grown-Up Style

This stunning 1,680-SQUARE FOOT, three bedroom, two-bathroom vacation home was built in 2023 for a Snohomish County family to be able to enjoy all year round. Located in the Mount Baker Rim community in Glacier, the cabin provides access to…

A Local Legacy | Skin Rhythm …

A Local Legacy | Skin Rhythm Spa

If you were to take a look at the Skin Rhythm Spa website, you’d see there are beautiful products to add to your skincare routine: body butters, hand creams, and facial oils, all made with high-quality ingredients, beautifully photographed, and with outstanding…

So You Wanna Make a T-Shirt | …

So You Wanna Make a T-Shirt | A Visit to Liet Unlimited

Did you know that T-shirts are an American invention? And the printed T-shirt doubly so? Or that the first known example of using a printed T-shirt as an outer garment is in The Wizard of Oz? Or that the term ‘T-shirt’ comes from the novel “This Side of Paradise,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald? Screen-printed T-shirts are embedded in American culture to the extent that everyone owns at least one and many of us…

Style and Comfort | Skagit …

Style and Comfort | Skagit River Boutique

The Shop This upscale women’s clothing boutique has been in its current location in downtown La Conner for nearly 20 years, after its origins just across the street in…

Since Time Immemorial

Since Time Immemorial is a recurring series featuring community members whose families have been here since time immemorial. The ancestral knowledge carried by Lhaq’temish, Nooksack, and other Coast Salish peoples…

WWU QueerCon

I first heard about WWU QueerCon just one day before the event. It was late April, and Bellingham was just starting to really blossom with activity like it does every Spring. I was looking forward to a weekend at home when QueerCon appeared on my Instagram feed. A queer-focused fiction media convention at Western Washington University? As a fairly recent transplant to the area, I wasn’t sure if this was a…

The North Sound From the Sky |…

The North Sound From the Sky | Take your sightseeing to new heights

“Fly safe, talk to you soon,” says Jason Douglas, owner of San Juan Airlines, into his green headset as he lands his plane at the Friday Harbor Airport, passing another plane about to take off. It’s the very same airport the founder of San…

Stillness in Bloom | Meerkerk Gardens