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This year’s presidential campaign began with more characters than a Dickens’s novel. Yet, amidst all the debate, rhetoric and blather, not one aspirant so far has said a single word about the terrorism happening in our own backyard. And front…MORE

By Amanda Knox

Reality is better, certainly. At the end of the day, reality is what’s left when all enhanced realities are put away. It used to be easier to tell the difference—art, film, music, playstations—all of these enhanced realities…MORE

By Katy Wilkens

I read recently that Americans throw away about 40 percent of the food they buy, and that if wasted food was its own country, it would be the third largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions in the world! That made me sad…MORE

By Pat Cashman While recorded history stretches farther back than a yoga instructor, it does not go back far enough to tell us the name of the person who invented the yard sale. Maybe it was a Cro-Magnon man who decided to unload a bunch of…MORE

In Norway, flowers are not only given at funerals: they are a way of life for some. Each spring flowers mark end of winter and the arrival of light. Colorful and luxurious, flowers bring joy and renewed life: they are a cause for celebration.…MORE

By Peggy Sturdivant I wasn’t going to write a column this week. Then on Thursday, January 21, Ballard News-Tribune reporter Shane Harms asked if I could cover a one-hour meeting that started in two hours. He had to work his other job as bartender…MORE

By Amanda Knox

Oasis. The word conjures sunlight, water, trees, the sensation of sinking into soft, white sand. Relief. Delight. I think of weightlessness, of the release of strain that comes not from the relief of burdens, but from their…MORE

By Amanda Knox

Makaela Pollock is the director of ArtsWest’s latest production, Really Really by Paul Downs Colaizzo. It is a play that, when it was first produced in 2013, the New York Times described as “Lord of the Flies with…MORE

By Katy Wilkens

In these dark winter days, we need something to help us think of sunnier climates! Head south by cooking up some warm and filling Cajun food. Cajun is a style of cooking from the American South, and comes from the name for…MORE

By Amanda Knox

Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Really Really gnarls your viscera. It’s a psychological thriller you want to look away from, but can’t. You think you know what’s happening, but then your expectations are so utterly dashed that all you…MORE