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“Under the Tree,” the current production at iDiOM Theater, is no “Miracle on 34th Street” or “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

That said, writer Angela Kiser and Ian Bivins say they had the idea for the play, which has “been in gestation for about a year,” after they started discussing how the…

The game Lunar Invasion, a modern take on vintage “artillery” or “cannon” games, is now available on Google Play. Lunar Invasion was developed as a collaborative project by recent Western Washington University graduate Richard Grunert along with Chris Palmer and Noel Abbott of HappyChap Media, a…

In 2012, Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight were just two twentysomething undergrads, helplessly barreling toward graduation day with a mix of anxiety and reluctance. In an attempt to make the most of their remaining time at Western Washington University, the two Seattle natives began spending…

The Grammy Award nominations for 2016 have just been announced, and predictably, Taylor Swift’s 1989 and Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly have racked up many of the proceedings’ highest honors.

Multi-Grammy winner Alicia Keys revealed four of the biggest categories on CBS this morning…

When Clay Knight and Harrison Mills started fooling around with synthesized rock at WWU in 2012, they had no idea they would be playing festivals like Lollapalooza and Coachella. The duo performs three sold-out shows at the Paramount Theatre Saturday-Monday, Dec. 5-7.

Twenty years after Washington lawmakers passed a law requiring kids attend school, the state is still grappling with identifying students who habitually miss class. While the state pushes responsibility to each district, individual schools bear most of the weight to find the students sliding…

SNL star and comedy legend Phil Hartman is getting the biopic treatment. According to Variety, Jason Priestley is directing a biopic on the late comedian and actor called Nice Guy Phil written by Jonas Chernick, and Daran Norris has signed on to star as Hartman.

Clark County Treasurer Doug Lasher announced he has appointed Sara Lowe as Deputy Treasurer. Her first day in the Treasurer’s office was Dec. 1.

On Sept. 11, 2014, Red Light Management’s Adam Foley was sitting in his office in Virginia waiting for a weekly sales report. He knew what it was going to say, but he patiently waited anyway. His newest clients, the two Seattle men who record and perform under the name Odesza, had just released…

That he began producing as Manatee Commune on the same evergreen-furred Western Washington University campus as his friends Odesza suggests that there’s something particularly enchanting among all those trees. Whatever ineffable quality it is, Manatee Commune understands it as music.