College of Fine and Performing Arts

It should be a romantic afternoon. Sweetly comic, even.

The Bottom Line Duo, a pair who met at Port Angeles High School and went on to share their music across North America and Europe, will return home to give a free concert this Thursday. The menu of the lunchtime interlude will run…

Timothy Ely’s artist studio is a cascade of triangles. Converted from an attic bedroom and a storage space tucked into the roofline of the 1914 Craftsman he shares with his wife Ann Marra, the corners of the room come together at unpredictable angles.

As humans, we treasure the “aha!” moments in life, rare though they may be. Sometimes it’s in the people we meet — the notion that someone “gets” us — while other times it’s a song, a poem or even an artwork. It’s certainly the feeling an artist gets when he or she creates something they’re at…

Their sons Reuben, 22, and Henry, 19, are students at Western Washington University.

Marcus Walker is pretty sure Reuben will turn out OK. He’ll graduate with a major in physics and vocal performance, a natural combo.

Henry might be more of a problem. “He’s been studying theater…

At age 30, Nadia Krilanovich is still young, but she's old enough to testify to the value of patience and persistence.

A native of Santa Cruz, Calif., she moved to Bellingham a dozen years ago to study art at Western Washington University, with the hope of illustrating children'…