Artist, teacher, native-arts conservator, author and storyteller, Pauline Hillaire works to carry on the heritage of Washington’s Lummi Nation and is one of the most knowledgeable living resources of the Northwest Coast’s arts and culture. For her contribution to the perpetuation of cultural heritage, she will receive the Bess Lomax Hawes Fellowship, named after the NEA director of folk and traditional arts who initiated the Heritage Fellowships.

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When Pami’s Restaurant first opened its doors out in the no man’s land of west Mount Vernon, I didn’t take much notice.

Then one day at the Mount Vernon Farmers Market, a friend of ours walked by with a takeout container of something that smelled wonderful. It was saag channa from a stall run by the Pami’s crew, and our friend was raving about it. My husband and I immediately went and bought one and ate it on the boardwalk by the river. Shortly thereafter, we got takeout from Pami’s to eat on

If you happen to be on the Western Washington University campus Mon., June 17, don’t be surprised if the garbage can you just threw your used coffee cup into is suddenly the most attractive thing around.

In anticipation of the NW Weavers Conference, which will take place June 17-23 throughout WWU, members of the Seattle Weavers’ Guild will spend part of Monday “yarn storming” various educational edifices with woven, knitted and crocheted pieces that will embellish everything from the

Through song and oral tradition, the Lhaq’temish, the People of the Sea, tell the story of their long years. It is but a short distance from this to the dramatic presentation of the stage.

The Lummi Nation thrilled the audience earlier this month with a sold-out performance at Bellingham High School of “What About Those Promises?” The original historical stageplay told the story of the tribe’s way of life and connection to nature, and how both were severed by the broken promises of the

In retrospect, scarfing down a piece of pie shortly before seeing Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street probably wasn’t the best idea ever—but at least I hadn’t scheduled a haircut for that afternoon.

If you get the aforementioned references, you’re already well aware the murderous musical currently showing at the Bellingham Theatre Guild tells the story of a man named Sweeney Todd who, after getting out of jail after 15 years—where he was falsely imprisoned thanks to a

Everyone likes to take a little walk down memory lane from time to time. And, depending on your memory and the length of it, you can take your stroll at either the Silver Reef Hotel, Casino & Spa or the Skagit Valley Casino during the coming days.

Back when my mother was a teenager, American Bandstand ruled the television airwaves and heartthrob singer Fabian ruled her heart. She still gets a certain gleam in her eye when she speaks of the crooner—and her brother, my uncle, has equally fond

From the back porch of our family’s cabin on Lummi Island, it’s possible to look across the waters of Hale Passage and view many postcard-worthy geographical landmarks—Mt. Baker, Portage Island, and Bellingham Bay among them.

And in the weeks and days leading up to the annual Lummi Stommish Water Festival, there’s always a good chance that, at some point during the course of the afternoon, those perched on the deck in order to view the lovely landscape will also be gifted with the

The seemingly exhausted gross-out comedy genre gets a strange temporary reprieve with This Is the End, an unlikable but weirdly compelling apocalyptic fantasy in which a bunch of young stars and stars-by-affiliation jokingly imagine their own mortality. A sort-of The Day of the Locust centered on successful comic actors, rather than down-and-outers, facing a conflagration in Los Angeles, this is a dark farce that’s simultaneously self-deprecating, self-serving, an occasion to vent about both