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June is Pride month. For queer people in the Walla Walla Valley, life hasn’t always been easy. A new oral history project, “Sweeter Than the Onions: Stories of Queer Resilience in Walla Walla,” documents their experiences over the last 50 years.
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Turn on your TV, and you might spot some Northwesterners competing in cooking contests, quiz shows and traveling races.
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It’s mullet-mania across the Northwest. Kids and adults from Winthrop, Washington, to Junction City, Oregon, are showing off their style and bold haircuts to raise money for Jared Allen’s Homes for Wounded Warriors.
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The summer movie blockbuster season kicked off May 27 with the release of a long-delayed sequel to the 1980s hit "Top Gun." And Pacific Northwest moviegoers may recognize some familiar mountain scenery in the background.
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A scheme to entertain a four-year-old youngster in Spokane by playing a jazz album nearly three decades ago produced a cascade of aftereffects that culminated on stage in Olympia, Washington, this month with crescendos of horns and multiple standing ovations. During the debut of a 16-piece, all-Indigenous big band, the performers on stage hearkened even further back in history to celebrate the little-known, but long line of Native jazz musicians and big bands.
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Many levels of government, private foundations and charities are handing out economic recovery grants these days. A Native-led nonprofit serving the Pacific Northwest is carving out a niche by offering grants specifically to help Indigenous communities and artists rebound from the uneven effects of the pandemic.
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Sure, you're a good Pacific Northwesterner because you recycle your beer cans, cardboard boxes and plastic milk jugs. But what about that dust-collecting…
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We don't know if the pandemic has a happy ending, but British Columbia is delivering a surprise plot twist courtesy of its film industry. Filming of TV…
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One of the more unusual ways the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II is being marked this summer is with an exhibit of stunted trees. They’re…
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In the City of Palouse council chambers, Sharon White and Brenda Brown are trying to get their hair just right. They rattle a can of super-hold hairspray…
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Are you missing your favorite TV channel? Some over-the-air signals in Western Washington, greater Portland and the Tri-Cities region switched frequencies…
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A large public art project proposed to be built beside the now-inundated great falls of the Columbia River has been put on indefinite hold by its…