Eleanor Oliphant is 29 years old, awkward, distant and prone to blurting out exactly what’s on her mind. She trudges through life, dutifully showing up for work then heading home each day, alone. Her weekends are ordered and completely solitary. But, as she keeps repeating to herself, she’s completely fine.

In Scottish author Gail Honeyman’s bestselling 2017 novel, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, the title character comes across as an odd duck, a quirky, melancholy character…

Wild Whatcom is proud to be working with a coalition in Whatcom County helping the community re-envision learning, child care and peer-to-peer connection. The Whatcom Coalition for Environmental Education, comprised of more than a dozen area nonprofits, businesses, agencies and tribal institutions, meets regularly to identify areas for increased collaboration and coordination among their organizations and with schools.

As an active community of professionals, WCEE focuses on expanding…

Artist Matt French has a criminal history.

When he was a wayward youth growing up in Ferndale in the early 1990s, French was arrested for malicious mischief after spray-painting graffiti on a downtown commercial building. The sentence was severe for a nonviolent offense—30 days in jail, as well as financial restitution—but he didn’t let it cramp his creativity.

Instead, French spent his time in the slammer drawing on envelopes instead of edifices. Remarkably, that jailhouse art was…

As an employee of the Pickford Film Center, the only question I have gotten more often than “When will you reopen?” has been “Can the Pickford do a drive-in while you’re closed?” That second inquiry has come both via the internet and in real life, and is typically followed by an offer of help in whatever capacity needed to make these drive-in dreams a reality.

Turns out, pretty much the minute the Pickford went dark in mid-March, we began to plot, plan and scheme about how…

I have mixed emotions about restrictions relating specifically to the self-serve buffet San Juan Cruises typically sets out every summer for its perennially popular Chuckanut Cracked Crab Dinner Cruise.

On the one hand, it’s a relief to know the crew is following COVID-19 dictates in part by putting the kibosh on the free-for-all feast, instead having staff members dish up each plate with the passenger’s request of what they would like to be served from among the numerous menu…

If it seems to you that I’m writing about the perils and pitfalls facing our music venues on a near-weekly basis these days, it’s probably because that’s what I’m doing. Yes, musicians are finding ways to harness online technologies to keep bringing music to their audiences. Sure, artists are heading into the studio to record. Those things are happening. They are inspiring. The way that music-makers have adapted to COVID-19 and the shutdown orders that have so profoundly…