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Clark County Life

Hollywood's cynicism about Hollywood gets a darkly comic treatment in the 1950 classic "Sunset Boulevard," featuring Gloria Swanson and William Holden (pictured here) and Erich von Stroheim.

Kiggins Theatre screens classic film that takes on Hollywood

Hollywood's cynicism about Hollywood gets a darkly comic treatment in the 1950 classic "Sunset Boulevard," featuring Gloria Swanson and William Holden (pictured here) and Erich von Stroheim.

January 7, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life

It’s still hard to know how to feel about indoor entertainment, indoor gatherings, indoor air. Everyone’s pandemic-risk calculations are different. Read story

The works of Vancouver artist Bill Leigh are featured at Art at the CAVE this month.

Try This: ‘Trash to Treasure’; ‘Clue’; ‘The Samurai Code’

The works of Vancouver artist Bill Leigh are featured at Art at the CAVE this month.

January 6, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life

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A steaming bowl of Winter Wonder Soup is just the ticket on a cold winter's day. I served mine with warm cornbread and grated cheddar cheese.

Winter Wonder Soup fortifies the spirit as it nourishes the body

A steaming bowl of Winter Wonder Soup is just the ticket on a cold winter's day. I served mine with warm cornbread and grated cheddar cheese.

January 5, 2022, 6:03am Clark County Life

The drive home from our winter vacation in northern Washington was an exhausting daylong trek, a 4½-hour trip that took eight hours because of snow flurries and icy roads. The morning after we returned, I was enjoying a cup of coffee and a bowl of Malt-O-Meal when I heard, over… Read story

Mosaic Arts Alliance seeks members, art for gift shop

January 4, 2022, 2:42pm Clark County Life

Mosaic Arts Alliance seeks new members to join its association of artists. Read story

Everybody Has a Story: Trip of a lifetime in national park

January 2, 2022, 6:05am Clark County Life

Suzie invited me with two other girlfriends to attend a five-day wilderness survival class at Yosemite National Park. This was in 1979, when times were glorious in our national parks, not as crowded as now, and with wild animals in abundance. Read story

Fish wheels, like the one in this 1903 photo along the Washougal River, floated on deeper rivers with salmon runs from 1866 until they were banned in 1934. Today, they are used to catch salmon for research because the fish can be returned unharmed to the river. Alaska’s Copper River is the only place in the U.S. today that permits fish wheels.

Clark County History: Fish wheels

Fish wheels, like the one in this 1903 photo along the Washougal River, floated on deeper rivers with salmon runs from 1866 until they were banned in 1934. Today, they are used to catch salmon for research because the fish can be returned unharmed to the river. Alaska’s Copper River is the only place in the U.S. today that permits fish wheels.

January 2, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life

For 10,000 years, Indigenous people used stone spears, dip nets made of bark or grasses and fish weirs of brush and branches to catch and stockpile salmon and other fish for winter. Read story

Energy Adviser: Pandemic assistance program offers help

January 1, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life

Clark Public Utilities has launched a new assistance program for customers who suffered income or job loss as a result of the pandemic and have outstanding utility bills. Read story

Begonia Viking Explorer Rose (All-America Selections)

Gardening with Allen: Begonia, petunia golden for 2022

Begonia Viking Explorer Rose (All-America Selections)

January 1, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life

Four new flowers have received All-America Selections awards for 2022. Read story

The Sedgwick feels like a speakeasy and serves up shareable items like this falafel scotch egg.

2021 brings new restaurants to Clark County that treat dining as an experience

The Sedgwick feels like a speakeasy and serves up shareable items like this falafel scotch egg.

December 31, 2021, 6:02am Clark County Life

The pandemic chaos that upended restaurants settled down over the past year. Although labor shortages and supply chain disruptions continued to plague the industry in 2021, the return of indoor dining created a sense of normality. Read story

If you look carefully, you'll notice Vincent winking at you.

Immersive Van Gogh exhibition comes to Oregon Convention Center in Portland

If you look carefully, you'll notice Vincent winking at you.

December 30, 2021, 6:08am Clark County Life

If Vincent Van Gogh were alive today, this might just be how he’d want his artworks to be displayed: moving, flowing, floating, overwhelming. Read story