Witness: “That looked an awful lot like an execution to me.” A police officer in Madison, Wisconsin shot and killed a Black man during a struggle in the middle of the street in broad daylight yesterday afternoon. The man’s...
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Authentic love songs are rare. Much of contemporary music leans toward infatuation, sex, heartbreak, and fury, while few artists seem interested in singing unabashedly about unique expressions of tenderness and enduring devotion. In the months...
La Marea combines Pacific Northwest seafood with Mexican marisqueria culture.
Image: Amber Fouts
Magnificent seafood is as much our city’s brand as innovation, public radio, and our weird pride about not using umbrellas. But, until recently, we lacked many excellent dedicated seafood...
The strange thing is not that some people reply quickly. Most of us do, at least when the message is easy.
The strange thing is the split. A trivial text arrives and the answer comes back almost immediately: yes, fine,...
With a keen eye for gaps in the market, natural health expert Dr. Julie Durnan leveraged her 15 years of industry experience to found Ginger Desk after observing how practitioners grappled with admin tasks.
Durnan envisioned a service that could shoulder these...
British Columbia is planning to build a sizeable battery energy storage facility.
BC Hydro revealed this week that the new project, to be situated adjacent to the Vancouver Island Terminal Substation near Duncan, will deliver at least 100 megawatts of...
At most horse barns, feeding happens on a schedule designed around people. A Kelowna company has developed an automated alternative intended to prioritize horses’ natural grazing patterns and physiological needs.
As a part of a product diversification program, led by...
A drawer of unused stationery can behave less like household clutter and more like a fossil bed. Each layer records a version of a person who once stood in a bookshop aisle and believed, quite genuinely, that the leather-bound...
If I were to summarize the sensation of attending Northwest Tune-Up, Bellingham’s three-day bike and music festival, in one image, it would be watching Tomomi Nishikubo—a Japanese street trials biker—doing acrobatic acts of derring-do on his bike while Seattle...
The journey home can be one of the last relatively unstructured spaces in a working adult’s day. For some people, no colleague needs an answer, no household task has begun, and no social role requires immediate attention.
That is why...
