If creative gift-giving is on your Christmas checklist, take note that Heidi Epstein is being featured in a solo show at i.e. gallery in Edison.

A longtime Skagit County resident, Epstein has been an educator and interior designer whose history includes a B.A. in landscape architecture from U.C. Berkeley and a masters in painting and art education from the California College of Art. Her work, influenced by Zen Buddhist meditation, has been called buoyant, light, even “shimmery… barely…

I’m not the sort of person who affixes Christmas decorations to the interior and exterior of my abode the second Halloween is over, but this year, more than ever, I understand the primordial urge to fill the long, dark nights leading up to the winter solstice with blasts of light and uplifting symbols of the season.

While I don’t plan on going as far as to place an oversized blow-up snowman on my front yard this December—like my neighbors a couple houses away are known to do—I hope to…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Everywhere I go—which, to be honest, isn’t very many places. These days, most of my travel happens between my bedroom, living room and kitchen.

However, like most folks, I log more time being logged in than I once did, and what I have gleaned from friends in my network is where we once waited until closer to Dec. 25 to deck the halls, in 2020 all the rules are out the window and we have no chill left, which means Christmas starts now.…

Raise your hand if you moved to the Evergreen State in part because of its abundance of craft breweries. While one mitt’s waving in the air, you might as well slap both hands together for a round of celebratory clapping in advance of Washington Brewers Guild’s inaugural Washington Pint Days.

The event taking place Thurs.-Fri., Dec. 3-4 at 75 breweries throughout the state aims not only to support local venues in a time of economic uncertainty, but also hopes to raise funds for the…