Shouts echo in the rafters, body heat is heavy in the air, the crowd erupts as the five-member band arrives on stage. The Old Foundry, located at 100 E. Maple St. in Bellingham, is packed. What starts as indiscriminate murmuring and sweaty anticipation turns into elation as Lamppost Revival stands above their fans and starts to tune.
A blue telephone box appears on a front lawn and a quirky man in a suit and bowtie steps out with a curious look on his face. Hair swept to one side, he grins as he notices his surroundings with excitement mirroring that of a child’s.
Twenty-five minutes north of Bellingham lives a monster. It is enormous, it is slimy and it will leave you begging for mercy (or possibly land you in the emergency room). Few have even mustered the courage to take it on. I was amongst the few. Just like everyone else before me, I failed. The legend of the monster continues.
Joanna Dallas, 22, knows what she wants when it comes to sex. Notoriously outgoing and overtly sexual, Dallas talks about her and her boyfriend’s relationship like she’s discussing the latest Cosmopolitan magazine with her friends. Dallas and her boyfriend have been together for more than a year and she joyously expresses that their sex life is extremely healthy.
“Time is of the essence”
“A Wrinkle in Time”
“Times Like These”
“Killing time”
Whether in contract law, classic literature, pop culture or everyday idiomatic expression, it cannot be denied – time is ever-present.
Commonly used as a measuring system to sequence events and to quantify rates of change, the passing of time can vary from person to person and situation to situation.
For me, with 10 days until graduation, the saying “time flies when you’re having fun” could not be more true.
It’s times like these that I can’t help but think about the different events …
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Story by Amy Holm
A bell jingles above the door as a woman walks in to Etta’s Attic on the corner of Bay and Holly streets. She takes care not to trip over a large oil painting on the floor, haphazardly leaning against a large case of jewelry.
A woman behind the counter greets her with a bright smile and says, “Are you looking for anything specific today?” The woman shakes her head and says she’s just looking around.
To the right of the counter, a light brown wooden case …
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Story by Dan Langager
The Angel Of The Winds Casino in Arlington, Wash. can’t stop you from knowing the time, but they’re going to try. A lack of clocks on the walls, piped-in fresh air and the chance of winning entice those coming in the front doors. Settling down for an afternoon of slot machines and table games, patrons become unaware of the passage of the sun.
People can kill a lot of time at Angel Of The Winds, John Cronin, the casino’s marketing manager, says. Although the average …
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Story by Amanda McIntosh
Among an eclectic, colorful array of vintage clothing and jewelry, a long, lacey black dress hangs on the wall at Black Market Boutique with a sign indicating it is from the 1920s. The clothes sold at the consignment store are from many different time periods, but they all have one thing in common: They have all come back in style, even if they used to be fashionable decades ago.
Colleen Milton, owner of Black Market Boutique, says that when she purchased the dress, she could …
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Story by Robin Turnblom
A fan of George Lucas’ Star Wars series may be in for a surprise when they pop in the DVD re-release or Blue Ray version of one of the movies.
In place of the some of the old school, stop-motion animation sequences and puppetry is computer-generated imagery, or, CGI. In “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace,” a fluid CGI character sits in for the crinkly old puppet Yoda from the theatrical version.
Though this wasn’t the only change Lucas made, entire websites and Wikipedia articles …
