Tacoma’s Abby Williams Hill made the Northwest famous at the turn of the century by working on the railroad as a landscape painter. A glimpse at her remarkable, haunted life as an activist, parent and tree-hugger.
Jerkin’, the latest hip-hop dance craze, sounds like trouble. But it’s giving a growing number of South Sound teens a way to express themselves — in tight, bright jeans — while keeping them out of gangs (and baggy pants).
The pink-haired owner of Azarra Salon & Wine hasn’t been to Le Cordon Bleu — but her charming video bloopers in an audition for The Next Food Network Star recall Julia Child’s 1960s-style television vérité.