Southern charm, over-the-top ‘80s style and plenty of comedy are the main tools used to tell one poignant tale of love and death.
DOUBLE BLUFF — Down a country lane on a sunny, cold February morning near Useless Bay, a gorgeous gleaming ice cream machine is churning away.
Florence Hecker has her plastic bouffant cap on and bounces from task to task in the small Whidbey Island Ice Cream plant she runs with her co-owner husband Ron Hecker. Her son-in-law, Chris Johnston, whom she calls a “jack-of-all-trades plant manager,” is busy filling bright, white cardboard pints out of a machine that oozes an impossibly thick stream of “Now This Is Chocolate.” The enticingly named ice cream is just one of 45 flavors the company produces using all natural ingredients, including the 18 percent butter fat cream it gets from Lochmead Farms in Junction City, Ore.
It was the social event of the season at MUSEO’s opening of its “Steampunk” show Saturday. Artists, families, friends, neighbors and art lovers steamed up the standing-room only gallery on First Street in downtown Langley during its opening reception for 40 local artists.
It’s a long way to the Great White Way, but somehow Whidbey Island has the uncanny magnetism to pull even Broadway talent to its stages.
It’s like what happened when the chocolate bar fell in a jar of peanut butter.
Douce Ambience is a string trio with a new musical flavor that’s as tasty as a peanut butter cup.
It all started at her kitchen table 22 years ago.
Still, even after publishing her 14th book, “M’Liss Rae Hawley’s Precut Quilts,” this crafty Freeland businesswoman is humbled by the inspiration of family, friends, her beloved animals and the island that feeds her soul.
It all started at her kitchen table 22 years ago.
Still, even after publishing her 14th book, “M’Liss Rae Hawley’s Precut Quilts,” this crafty Freeland businesswoman is humbled by the inspiration of family, friends, her beloved animals and the island that feeds her soul.
FREELAND — Whidbey Island is home to hundreds of visual artists who do myriad forms of work. Recently two of those artists, Sue Taves and Jan Shannon, had an idea to create a place online for artists to communicate. Such a site would also act as a resource for non-artists to gain access to the Whidbey Island art world.
It’s that time of year when MUSEO is compelled to lend a rebel yell to the quiet winter streets of South Whidbey.
She had an exquisite eye for art. She wrote books that stirred up controversy. She was famously lesbian.
Here is a brave soul who decided to explore the very deepest parts of herself, and she does it all on camera.
Tim Leonard is home from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after suffering a serious neck injury during a tragic Christmas Day accident.
When shaking hands with a Spanish speaking person it is customary to use the proper greeting according to the time of day.
