A festive party calls for a lively variety of delectable edibles. These recipes give you some sweet and savory choices that will help spread the holiday cheer.
When it comes to celebrating, few wines in the Northwest are more affordable, available and worthy than the sparklers from Domaine Ste. Michelle.
Pearl Django, one of America’s most respected and busiest Hot Club Jazz-style groups, performs Jan. 13, 7-9 p.m., at Collective Visions Gallery, 331 Pacific Ave., Bremerton.
Bainbridge Arts and Crafts hosts a series of events with noted Inupiat carver Larry “Ulaaq” Ahvakana in January. Ahvakana is a contemporary Native master artist who works in alabaster, glass, marble, wood and other materials.
Just before going to bed that night — “de Pakjesavond,” or the Evening of the Presents — the children would diligently place both a carrot and some dry hay inside their empty, but carefully-located, shoes.
Tapping into the pop culture phenomenon that is “Glee,” a new performing arts studio in Port Orchard presented its debut show Dec. 17.
On Christmas Eve, John Floyd will read to his wife from the book of Matthew in the Bible, just as he has for 53 years. Instead of reading from their home in Port Townsend, for the fourth year in a row he’ll be reading at the Messenger House Care Center on Bainbridge Island.
I have an off-beat sense humor, always finding something funny in just about everything. There are times when a remark strikes me and I just fall apart, like when a congressman recently became a little testy, saying he was getting very tired of people picking on the rich.
This New Year’s resolution is to not be as busy. Let me see, what can I quit doing?
At 18 and a senior at Kingston High School, she is absolutely passionate about her art.
Recently I learned that two friends my age passed away suddenly, with little advance warning, and I wondered how readily the surviving spouses were able to sift through financial and legal details.
The Silverdale-based Maasai Women’s Education and Empowerment Program USA was awarded the Kitsap Peninsula Global Humanitarian Award Dec. 4, at the 2011 RESULTS Benefit Luncheon.
Tree and wreath sales help empower women and children in Bolivia.
Most people’s Christmas wishes don’t include shampoo, toothbrushes or diapers. But for participants in the YWCA Adopt-a-Family holiday program, sensible items often top the list.
The dancers of InMotion Performing Arts Studio in Poulsbo are performing in the noted mini Nutcracker ballet at the Santa Breakfast hosted by the Downtown Sheraton in Seattle.
Jeff Gordon is now into his fourth decade of growing wine grapes on top of a cliff overlooking the Snake River near Pasco. He and his brother Bill began planting wine grapes in 1980.
Dear Erin, I want to show my appreciation, but I don’t want to break the bank.
[Part three] All of the new clothing (the baggy tunic and the cape) and paraphernalia (the tall hat and the walking stick) did, however, become a detriment to Sinterklaas’s “rooftop mobility” — particularly as he began to age.
For no reason or explanation ever found in Turkish archives, December was the generous man’s month of annual gifting. Some believe that Dec. 5 was his birthday.
Do-si-do back to a simpler time in this Seabeck celebration