When John Hillcoat set about adapting “The Road,” he steeled himself for one of the great challenges of his life.
Make your reservation now for a holiday tour of the Governor’s Mansion in Olympia.
It’s an enormous and sometimes painful task to prepare a multi-course meal for Thanksgiving, so it’s completely understandable why some people prefer to dine out on the holiday.
A $75,000 grant will help Mount Rainier National Park operate its shuttle bus system next year and pay for a study to improve the efficiency of the park’s fleet of vehicles.
Talk to motel keepers, restaurateurs, shop owners and convenience store clerks, and they will tell you razor clams mean money for coastal communities.
No wizards named Harry, no lords chasing rings, no hunters of national treasures, no nights at a museum. Not even Bond is showing up.
Kids will gobble up two fresh new fact-based picture books that focus on symbols of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Sharing your home over the holidays is what the season is all about, but it can also be trying, especially if you're busy and unable to be the most attentive host. Here are some easy tricks, from Woman's Day magazine, to make sure your houseguests are as comfortable in your home as you are - or even more so - without feeling like you have to go overboard.
Black women can tell hair-raising stories about their trials and tribulations with their hair.
I didn’t need Chris Rock to tell me the sodium hydroxide used in relaxers could harm my scalp.
Talk about using pain as your muse.
What: Art Slam
On defense for flu season? Doctors will tell you your best shot is to get a shot. But that won’t cut it for Sue Berman of Blue Heron Wellness in Silver Spring, Md. To keep sniffles at bay, she plans to spend a whole lot more time with needles.
You might call it moldy garbage. Or you might call it highly conceptual sculpture. You could see it as an echo of ancient ruins, or a fantastical play fort. Richard Tracy’s Art Yard in historic Centralia is all these things – the prolific 26-year outpouring of a mind that works very differently than most.
True story: In 2004, a Vietnam veteran and his daughter were discovered living in a densely wooded Portland park. They had lived there – undetected – for years. Authorities removed them from the park, and social service agencies relocated them to a farm where they were expected to readjust to society. Within a matter of weeks, the duo had vanished again.
Worried about your bag being stolen in baggage claim? You’ve got plenty of company, especially since the news broke last week about police arresting a suburban Phoenix couple on suspicion of stealing nearly 1,000 bags from carousels at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
Adult Book Groups
In John Irving’s latest novel, the main character shares the author’s profession, but that’s not the most important similarity.
Coffee or tea? Paper or plastic? Incandescent or compact fluorescent?
So you’ve scrubbed the grout with a toothbrush, bleached every speck from the vanity, wiped that mirror till your arms ache. What a way to spend a Friday night. (Though honestly, you can’t take those cleaning-supply-ravaged hands out in public anyway.)
The English are the best gardeners in the world.
If anyone knows how quickly trends come and go, it’s supermodel Cindy Crawford.
The grim economy is prompting more and more unlikely homeowners to turn their extra rooms into cash. Have you recently taken on a housemate – or moved into someone’s home – to save money? If so, how has it gone? What advice would you give others about making a housemate situation work well? Send your comments to ddemarest@theolympian.com by 10 a.m. Monday.
Dining appears to be going mobile around town. In the last few weeks, I’ve encountered two new mobile food trailers serving burgers and dogs along busy roads in South Hill and Tacoma.
The Cascade ski season is opening a month earlier this year than last, thanks to a major weekend snowstorm. That means many folks are grabbing their snowboards or skis and racing to their favorite areas.
Staff at Olympic National Park are preparing the Hurricane Ridge area for winter activities. There are several changes to note this season, in particular the closure of the Sunrise sliding area.
Washington has seen an increase in the number of fishing licenses sold this year, beating a national trend.
We asked readers to send us their favorite Thanksgiving recipes and we were rewarded with more than 50 recipes that spanned everything from no-dairy pumpkin pie to lime Jell-O salad to wild rice with chanterelles and stuffed acorn squash. We don’t have enough space to print all recipes here, so we selected a dozen to feature. Of those, we declared five to be the newsroom favorites for this year’s reader- contributed Thanksgiving recipe section. We tested those five recipes in a home kitchen and found that the recipes will be sure winners for your Thanksgiving table. The authors of those recipes will receive cookbooks for their recipes.
We entered November with a very nice, beautiful autumn day with the temperature almost reaching 60 degrees. My husband, Joe, took advantage of the weather and walked to the nearby woods where he will hunt deer this fall. Our children went with him to see where he will set up his pop-up tent. Shotgun season starts in two weeks so Joe is getting excited to try his luck again and is trying to find the perfect spot. I would have liked to have gone to take the walk with them but I am still battling sickness so I didn’t want to make it worse.
This simple, attractive cocktail from Maria C. Hunt’s “The Bubbly Bar” is called Lava Lamp because the bubbles in the wine make the pomegranate seeds rise and fall in the glass.
There’s no such thing as a free feast.
Fall always makes me want mulled cider and wine. Mulling means you flavor a hot drink with spices, fruit and sugar.
In a way, it sounds a little kinky. You’re in an orchestra, you make passionate music with your conductor. Then he steps aside, hands over the baton and off you go with someone completely different.
Kid books Kids should learn early that books are an excellent place to find passports, tickets and transportation to far-off places and times.
Soldiers in mechanic Good Adam’s squad could use laundry soap and boxer briefs.
If you don’t have plans for Veterans Day, considering digging out your snow ride gear.
What: “Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business”
HOODSPORT – About a year ago, following a routine mammogram, Barbara Gray was diagnosed with breast cancer.
There are some very strange creatures in the Museum of Glass’ back gallery. Sporting vibrant fuschias, neon blues and lime greens they’re natives of another planet, one where cats wear pizzas and fish eat molten lava. They’re the 52 pieces of art in “Kids Design Glass,” an exhibition showcasing an ongoing education program at the museum. While they’re made by adults, they’re definitely designed by kids – and the planet they come from is that wild and colorful place called childhood.
DALLAS – Airlines are cutting money-losing flights during the current travel slump, and that can cause headaches for passengers who bought tickets on those trips.
NEW YORK – Sarah Palin’s book tour is a gift for her base.
Author Appearances and Events
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played their last show at The Spectrum in Philadelphia late last month. The venue will close next week.
Sometimes I run up against books that are difficult for me. The subject matter is a tough go, or the characters make me cringe, or the tone jars my sensibilities. This might be due to literary discernment sometimes, but other times I have to chalk it up to cowardice – I can’t always summon the fortitude to be put through the emotional or psychological wringer.
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