“Would you care for a butterflied shrimp?” the waiter asked as I stood at the edge of Lake Tahoe, taking in the beautiful surroundings my cousin and her fiancee had picked for their destination wedding.
Almost two years after Michael Harring took the helm as a first-time director, his lighthearted movie “The Mountain, the River and the Road” has premiered in national and Seattle film festivals. And the reactions are surprising, he said.
“People seem to enjoy the romance. For a couple of people, it nailed the feeling of falling in love,” he said.
James Hollett is known as “the blurr” to those who work at the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station Commissary. The 27-year-old earned the nickname for his quick pace while on the job. The Whidbey Island native stocks shelves, keeps the store clean and does whatever else is asked of him. And he does it with a smile.
Chief Snakelum could be rising from the dead.
The late chief of the Lower Skagit Tribe is buried near the Au Sable Institute, and he’s one of the features of a Whidbey Island-themed haunted house that is opening in time for Halloween at the Au Sable Institute, 180 Parker Rd., Coupeville.
At Halloween time, the year’s hot movies usually dictate the hottest costumes.
However, volunteers at the Whidbey Playhouse Annex don’t believe you need a department store costume to feel like you’re sitting firmly at the top of the pop culture curve.
Arty the Artichoke was designed for Oak Harbor’s two-year drive to create a regional festival named “Arts and Artichokes” in the 1990s.
Today, the 30-pound, inflatable suit is part of the Whidbey Playhouse Annex collection.
A carrot, an eggplant, a zucchini, a pumpkin and a little bunch of green onions will spend the next several weeks enjoying coffee at the end of the Coupeville pier.
The vegetable-based scarecrow display is Local Grown’s entry into the annual Scarecrow Corridor, which lines Main and Front streets throughout Coupeville during the Halloween season.
A Thomas Kemper root beer garden, savory German-fare, “oompah” music and games with names like “boozeketball” are all part of the Impaired Driving Impact Panel of Island County’s second annual OkSOBERfest, an evening celebration of responsible, alcohol-free fun.
Early mornings and evenings are brisk and the faint smell of chimney smoke lingers in the air. It’s fall. Days are getting shorter, nights colder and pumpkins are popping up on doorsteps up and down the island.
Tonight, Oak Harbor will revisit the glamour, jazz and secrecy of the Roaring ‘20s. It’s the kind of scene you might pine for after reading “The Great Gatsby” or seeing the first 10 minutes of “Some Like It Hot.”
The Boys and Girls Club is throwing a 1920s party for adults as a fundraiser to cover the group’s annual expenses. It will be modeled after a speakeasy from the roaring Prohibition era; back then, speakeasies ranged from classy restaurants to underworld dens where people sought alcohol.
With the gloom of winter setting in soon, you can always find warmth and blue skies in the pages of a new book on the market, “Whidbey Island’s Special Places … and the People Who Love Them,” which is a labor of love by its author, Langley resident Dan Pedersen.
Fashion, fur and animal awareness usually don’t mix, but that won’t be the case for tonight’s fashion show at Inferno Restaurant.
Models styled in the new Maurices fall collection will strut the runway alongside animals.
The karaoke craze has recently hit a new high in Oak Harbor. Many bars and eateries, including Element Night Club and Hot Shotz, are giving locals a chance to reinterpret songs like “Don’t Stop Believing” on a nightly basis.
