
When I was a teenager, my best friend wanted to be a zookeeper. He raised snakes and frogs in his bedroom, and crickets and other critters to feed them.

When I was a teenager, my best friend wanted to be a zookeeper. He raised snakes and frogs in his bedroom, and crickets and other critters to feed them.
Head downtown Friday night for the monthly Artwalk. Some businesses are open late. We've got a list.

Mist hung low in the valley over the marshes and fields. It hovered ghost-like against a backdrop of evergreens, barns and distant mountains.
Head to downtown Anacortes this Friday evening for First Friday Artwalk. We've got a list of locations open Friday night.

Building on the remarkable legacy of Smith & Vallee’s beloved Bird Invitational, the Anacortes Arts Festival is bringing the Skagit Valley Bird Show to the Depot in Anacortes.

We're used to garden-variety frost and ice this time of year. Starry winter nights often lead to slippery winter mornings.

Sixty years ago in Seattle, when the tide pulled back on a crisp, calm winter night, my dad would round up my two brothers and me to hunt crabs at the beach below our house near North Beach in Ballard.

