The Maple Valley Creative Arts Center will have an open mic this Saturday, Jan. 14, featuring Michael Wallen.
Warrior is a film which should have never worked. It had all the cliche elements – a recovering alcoholic father, a brotherly feud, and a fight with a cash prize to solve all financial problems – wound up with the underdog theme of the Rocky film series.
But it did.
Loss of memory and other cognitive functions may start much earlier in life than previously thought, according to a clinical study from England. A modest decline of mental abilities such as reasoning and problem-solving was found in participants who were only in their forties.
This new year, Washington’s Lottery will begin offering the new $2 Powerball game Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012, taking the place of the current $1 Powerball game.
What the heck is a certified arborist? And why is the designation important to homeowner?
The Tahoma High Jazz Band and Jazz Choir concert will hold an annual benefit concert Jan. 13 at 7 p.m. in the Tahoma High Commons.
Having been a lifelong, sun-loving Californian, who spent as much time on my road bike as humanly possible on a year-round basis, moving to the Northwest was a big deal.
I made a pact with myself that I would not give up on my hobby of cycling despite the weather and decided to give a new discipline of bike riding a try. For those of you not familiar with the sport of cyclocross, let me give you a brief tutorial about this crazy form of bike racing.
If there is nothing else to take away from this film, it’s the notion that somehow legendary director Steven Spielberg is officially losing his magic touch.
College costs are out of control. Total outstanding student loans hover around $1 trillion, second only to home mortgages. Student loan repayment takes a hefty toll on starting salaries even during good economic times. But with so many recent graduates unable to find a decent job – or any job – repayment can be a nightmare.
A wise friend told me that since the Age of Reason we’ve felt we had to explain everything, and that as a result we’ve forgotten the value of mystery. Here’s a poem by Lisel Mueller that celebrates mystery. Mueller is a Pulitzer Prize winning poet from Illinois.
I have decided my New Year’s resolution this year will be focused on my daughters. For their benefit I am resolving NOT to be the perfect wife and mother.
Early January is the perfect time to reflect on the previous year and make resolutions for the new one. For those of us who take wine seriously — or at least want to — it’s smart to include wine in our New Year’s resolutions. So here are three simple resolutions that’ll heighten your wine appreciation in 2012.
Nearly 13,000 American women were diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2011, and more than 4,000 died from an advanced form of the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Allsup, a nationwide provider of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) representation, works with hundreds of cancer patients each year, and is raising awareness of the need for screening and preventive care during Cervical Health Awareness Month in January.
Olympic ice-skating champions Ilia Kulik and Ekaterina Gordeeva and current World champion Miki Ando will join Grammy Award winning artists Kenny G and Gladys Knight at 7 p.m. Jan. 26 at the ShoWare Center in Kent
Before it’s even visible, the scent of cinnamon and butter wafts through a King County Housing Authority conference room in Tukwila. Evoking the feeling of autumn and warm yummy goodness, this is the aroma of Pat Porter’s bread pudding.
Anne Coray is an Alaskan, and in this beautiful meditation on the stillness of nature she shows us how closely she’s studied something that others might simply step over.
Once a month, the Museum stays open late – and admission is free. Enjoy the Museum’s Great Gallery, Personal Courage Wing, Red Barn and more from 5 to 9 p.m., courtesy of Wells Fargo. Museum Store and Wings Café will also remain open for the extended hours on this night.
My teen daughters got cell phones for Christmas this year. I know that’s not a big deal to a lot of parents, but I’m not a big believer of cell phones for teens. My younger daughter got a cell phone last year because her school bus dropped her off in the middle of nowhere and I wanted her to be able to call someone if for some reason we weren’t there to pick her up. But it was Dad’s old, leftover cell phone.
An enjoyable, but nevertheless typical sequel – all the elements from the first film are doubled or tripled, but nothing new is introduced or explored about the character.
It is certainly well-worth seeing, but what hurts it is not so much the film itself but the fact that – as the first film demonstrated – it had the potential to be so much more.
Here’s a moving poem about parenthood, about finding one’s self to be an adult but still trying to care for the child within. Mark Jarman teaches at Vanderbilt University.
