The fiber art and oil paintings of island artist Kathleen Otley are currently on display in the Bayview Cash Store’s hub.
A talking bird with Whidbey roots is the star of a new book and the model for a new African Grey parrot puppet.
Pierre is an African Grey parrot who lives part of the year in Langley with his owner, psychologist Dr. Fran Smith, her husband Dr. Bob Smith and their poodle, Cosette. The bird charmed his way so far into his owner’s heart, she decided to write a book about him.
Puget Sound experienced some of the lowest tides since the early 1900s this past week, with near-record minus tides. Extreme low tides are also expected over the Fourth of July weekend.
Whidbey Island has given a local singer her voice back.
Freeland resident Gale Dubrow has been singing for as long as she can remember.
Whidbey Island has given a local singer her voice back.
Freeland resident Gale Dubrow has been singing for as long as she can remember.
“There was always music in our house and I remember both my mother and father singing often,” Dubrow said.
And although she sang in high school musicals, in choirs and even started as a music major her first year in college, Dubrow got sidetracked for a time away from singing.
After journeying down several roads in life that included college, teaching, becoming a wife, mother, professional fine artist and a grandmother, Dubrow has finally realized one of her dreams. She has made her first record.
Photographer Rich Frishman remembers his young son being taken with the word “metamorphosis.”
The father had explained the finer points of the process a caterpillar makes on the way to becoming a butterfly.
The caterpillar has indeed made it to the butterfly stage and Frishman was there with his camera to record the eight-year “metamorphosis.”
“Metamorphosis: Portraits of Our Children,” is an exhibit of black-and-white portraits Frishman took of Gabe and his classmates every year, from first grade to the present.
Actors in “The Good Doctor” prepare for opening night in Langley.
Well, what a surprise it was to read in one of those “other” papers that Barack Obama is a smoker.
Asara Lovejoy seems able to inhale optimism right out of the Whidbey Island air.
Lovejoy is a problem solver by trade.
But this powerhouse of positivity is not just your everyday, run-of-the-mill troubleshooter. Lovejoy is so sure that she can help people turn their lives around that she wrote a book about it.
It’s just what Tinkerbell had in mind.
Children participating in the magic of the theater.
Whidbey Children’s Theater continues its educational outreach through the “Theater for Young Audiences” program.
The next production on the boards is the “Global Village Storytelling” sessions with Jill Johnson, a longtime performer and storyteller-in-residence at an island preschool.
While gardening outside our sunroom last week, I discovered two gorgeously plumed male black-headed grosbeaks dead below a window. They lay side-by-side, heads pointed toward the window.
It’s peak bloom time at Meerkerk Rhododendron Gardens in Greenbank, and the Grateful Deadheaders are out in force.
Spam is making headlines again. No, not the unwelcome flow of useless input that constantly pops into your computer; the other Spam, the pink meaty stuff that comes in a can.
How does one stage a talk about sex between a father and son?
